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Peter Pan / Re: Official Peter Pan and Wendy Trailer!
« Last post by Dani1923 on March 04, 2023, 05:50:03 PM »
An additional thing I want to add that I noticed after I wrote this is that how Wendy gets thrown into Neverland is because the pirates shot a cannon ball at Wendy and her brothers and Peter and she falls on to the island. So I’m guessing Tinkerbell doesn’t try to get Wendy killed in this version.
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Peter Pan / Re: Official Peter Pan and Wendy Trailer!
« Last post by Dani1923 on March 04, 2023, 03:10:07 AM »
Peter Pan and Wendy Trailer Notes:
Here are some things I noticed by carefully looking at the trailer:
* At the beginning of the trailer, I noticed Wendy does not have the acorn around her neck. So I’m guessing the “kiss” part will not be included in this version. Also it doesn’t look like the Lost Boys shoot her down in this version either.
* The Peter and the Lost Boys hideout is not in a tree like in original story or in the animated version. It looks like a ruined building of some sort. I’m not sure how there could be a building in Neverland, but okay. Maybe they’ll explain it.
* I’m glad the mermaids will appear in the movie, though we’ll find out when the movie comes out how much screen time they’ll actually have.
* Mary Darling is seen in the trailer talking to Wendy, but I noticed George Darling only appears in the trailer in what looks like a flashback or memory scene, and I’m hoping they didn’t kill George off in this version! I don’t think any version has ever done that. Disney is famous for killing off at least one parent of the protagonist to make them more sympathetic, but of course Wendy doesn’t need that at all!
* In the trailer, Peter is riding on a horse with Tiger Lily to the Jolly Roger, so this must be the scene after he’s been saved from being poisoned, or blown up if they’re copying from the animated version and not the original story, and going to the ship to save Wendy and the Lost Boys. So it seems in this version, Tiger Lily brings Peter to the ship instead of him going on his own. Also Wendy seems to have been rescued before Peter shows up and Tinkerbell is with Wendy on the ship, so I guess Tinkerbell rescues Wendy from being tied up on the ship, then Wendy fights some of the pirates, then Peter shows up.
* There’s a ton of, maybe a bit too much, focus on Wendy in this trailer. I can’t give my opinion on how I think Peter or Hook is portrayed so far because they only say a few lines. But I’ll find out next month…
* On the ship, Wendy is wearing a string necklace with a feather on it probably given by Tiger Lily or possibly the Native American chief.

I already know the movie probably won’t be totally accurate to the source material when it comes to all of the story’s themes, but hopefully it gets at least some of them right and that the characters are relatively accurate! Personally, the accuracy of themes and characters are the main things I want done right in this movie way more than accuracy of the plot.
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Peter Pan / Re: Official Peter Pan and Wendy Trailer!
« Last post by EHuhn on March 03, 2023, 04:01:33 PM »
Yes! I'm cautiously excited about this.
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Peter Pan / Official Peter Pan and Wendy Trailer!
« Last post by Dani1923 on February 28, 2023, 05:22:40 PM »
The official trailer for the Disney+ Peter Pan remake Peter Pan and Wendy just dropped a few minutes ago.
My initial reaction is that it looks pretty good. The lighting choices don’t really do it for me, but I guess that’s a nitpick.
Obviously I really won’t have a real opinion on the whole movie until it comes out.
It comes out on April 28th.

https://youtu.be/9Ji5U2sTlLU
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Peter Pan / Re: Peter Pan Day
« Last post by Dani1923 on December 27, 2022, 04:48:05 PM »
Happy Peter Pan Day 2022!

I hope everyone had a happy holiday and will have a happy 2023!
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General topic / Re: Movies About Children Inspiring Children’s Books
« Last post by Dani1923 on September 08, 2022, 09:49:44 PM »
Someone recently uploaded the rest of The Tale of Beatrix Potter on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/WXSCzY014a4
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Davies Family / Re: Michael at Eton
« Last post by Brutus on August 01, 2022, 05:14:07 PM »
You're right, it is confusing! I've had to look at different sources to piece it together. What happened was that Michael left Eton at the end of the summer, intending to enjoy a last summer holiday before joining the Scots Guards in the autumn. However, he changed his mind and went back to Eton for the Michaelmas Half while waiting to join the guards. Hugh Macnaghten wrote that "subsequently he  [Michael] wrote in the quiet of the holidays asking if he might return. He was welcomed back, and the record of his last Half is 'A wonderful Captain: he worries, but his judgment is unerring and his actions swift as lightning: the most admirable boy who has ever been in the house.'

The war ended in November, and Michael was finally persuaded to go to Oxford in January 1919.

Hope that helps!
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Davies Family / Re: Michael at Eton
« Last post by E.N on August 01, 2022, 01:49:19 PM »
Thank you!But I'm a bit confused, when you read J.M Barrie and the Lost Boys, it says that Michael began his first half at Eton at the end of April 1913, and then on page 279 there is a letter from Barrie to Mrs Hugh Lewis where he writes about the war ending, and how Michael marched at Eton with bath-tubs as drums and that the night ended with Michael getting 500 lines. Barrie also wrote that he would be going down to Eton to discuss Michael's future. This means that Michael was still at Eton in November 1918, and so he can't have ended his secondary schooling at Eton at the end of the summer term in 1918?
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Davies Family / Re: Michael at Eton
« Last post by Brutus on July 29, 2022, 08:44:57 AM »
Michael ended his secondary schooling at Eton at the end of the summer term in 1918, fully intending to join the Scots Guards after a summer holiday but the Armistice in November 18 ended the war.  He then went to Oxford. (By the way, you don't graduate from Eton, or from any British school, only from university or tertiary education.)
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Davies Family / Michael at Eton
« Last post by E.N on July 28, 2022, 12:53:27 PM »
Michael matriculated at Christ Church in January 1919, but when did he graduate from Eton?
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