![]() ![]() He, his wife and the kids he neglects (Amber Scott and Charlie Korsmo) pack it all up and head to London for a stuffy function in honor of Granny Wendy (Maggie Smith, not yet 60 at the time and consequently immortal in the minds of millennials). We are introduced to Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a boring lawyer dude enslaved by 1991’s chonkiest cell phone. Barrie’s original works.Īs the Christmas-movie-by-default turns 30, I think I’m finally old enough to understand why they felt that way, even if they were and are and will always be wrong, especially when you look at the movie in context with the bafflingly numerous failed Peter Pan adaptations of the past 20 years that I’ll bet you didn’t even remember until I brought them up just now. ![]() In so doing they made a movie that began Robin Williams on his path to making the kid-friendly movies that introduced him to a young generation, inspired John Williams to make one of his most complex scores ever, and told a story that actually feels like an interesting continuation of Scottish playwright J.M. Steven Spielberg, backed up by producing pals Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, stepped up to take a swing at it with 1991’s Hook. It was inevitable that when Peter Pan entered the public domain in 1987, somebody was going to start making movies about him. Then there is the most obvious reason: When you draw from the public domain, you don’t have to pay anybody any royalties or hustle around for any movie rights to make your big blockbuster movie about a character people already know. ![]() Times change, and our assessment of popular characters or mythical constructs have to change with them, or at least fit into our hearts in a different way. There are all kinds of creative reasons one might pull an old story off the shelf, dust it off, and try to retell it. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |