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Droolingly awaiting this.
Oct. 29th, 2003 02:31 pmSince it's all about the Jason, I'm of the opinion that it's not off-topic to the fandom to talk about the forthcoming Peter Pan film.
Just watched the new trailer--god, it looks so fabulous! Go look: http://www.peterpanmovie.net/
(Oh, this IS an off-topic rant: I am supremely annoyed by trailers for films that use music that is not in the film. By the time you see the flick, you associate the film with that music and are left feeling bereft when it is absent from the film. This is my response to those opening strains of U2's "Beautiful Day" in this trailer. Ticks me off, because it sounds quite perfect for this and you just know it's not actually in the movie. What was that one that used Loreena McKennitt's "The Mummer's Dance," which was so obviously absent from the film? Can't remember. It'll come to me. Wait: Ever After. That was it.)
The idea behind this version of the Peter Pan story-- I'm paraphrasing from a Jason Isaacs interview (see, told you it was on topic)--is that the most famous adaptations have focused on Peter Pan, but he's not the story's main focus at all. The focus is on Wendy. Neverland and Peter Pan are her reaction to being told she's not a child anymore and is expected to grow up. The idea of adolescence is a very recent concept, y'see. This is why stage versions typically, with accuracy, have Captain Hook and Mr. Darling played by the same actor, though the reasons for that often escape the audience.
D'you know what I think would be a fabulous twist ending for this version? And no, this isn't a spoiler, I know nothing but what's in the trailers. I'd love to see a moment of realization at the end where Wendy realizes she IS Peter Pan. Not in any figment-of-imagination way, except in the way that there's always this concept that it could have been a fantasy in the kid's heads, but when she suddenly realizes that it's she, Wendy, who has been leading the lost boys and flying circles about Hook and his men and rescuing Tiger Lily...that she's imagined there was another person doing that because she just thinks it's so not her to do that sort of thing, see. I know that's very like the twist ending of another famous film in the not-too-distant past (I won't spoil that here either), but I think it would work terrifically here.
Just watched the new trailer--god, it looks so fabulous! Go look: http://www.peterpanmovie.net/
(Oh, this IS an off-topic rant: I am supremely annoyed by trailers for films that use music that is not in the film. By the time you see the flick, you associate the film with that music and are left feeling bereft when it is absent from the film. This is my response to those opening strains of U2's "Beautiful Day" in this trailer. Ticks me off, because it sounds quite perfect for this and you just know it's not actually in the movie. What was that one that used Loreena McKennitt's "The Mummer's Dance," which was so obviously absent from the film? Can't remember. It'll come to me. Wait: Ever After. That was it.)
The idea behind this version of the Peter Pan story-- I'm paraphrasing from a Jason Isaacs interview (see, told you it was on topic)--is that the most famous adaptations have focused on Peter Pan, but he's not the story's main focus at all. The focus is on Wendy. Neverland and Peter Pan are her reaction to being told she's not a child anymore and is expected to grow up. The idea of adolescence is a very recent concept, y'see. This is why stage versions typically, with accuracy, have Captain Hook and Mr. Darling played by the same actor, though the reasons for that often escape the audience.
D'you know what I think would be a fabulous twist ending for this version? And no, this isn't a spoiler, I know nothing but what's in the trailers. I'd love to see a moment of realization at the end where Wendy realizes she IS Peter Pan. Not in any figment-of-imagination way, except in the way that there's always this concept that it could have been a fantasy in the kid's heads, but when she suddenly realizes that it's she, Wendy, who has been leading the lost boys and flying circles about Hook and his men and rescuing Tiger Lily...that she's imagined there was another person doing that because she just thinks it's so not her to do that sort of thing, see. I know that's very like the twist ending of another famous film in the not-too-distant past (I won't spoil that here either), but I think it would work terrifically here.
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