Peter Pan
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Short description
In Edwardian London, Wendy Darling entertains her younger brothers with nightly tales of pirates and swordfights, stories that also draw the attention of a boy who has no intention of growing up. When Peter Pan arrives in the nursery with the fairy Tinker Bell, he takes Wendy, John and Michael away from the world of adults, flying them across the night sky to Neverland. There they meet the Lost Boys and find themselves caught up in Peter's long-running conflict with the pirate Captain Hook, who is determined to settle their feud.
The film is an adaptation of J. M. Barrie's story, directed by P.J. Hogan from a screenplay he wrote with Michael Goldenberg, and produced by Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher and Patrick McCormick. It followed Hogan's earlier comedies Muriel's Wedding and My Best Friend's Wedding, and came before Dark Shadows, Confessions of a Shopaholic and Mental. Jeremy Sumpter plays Peter Pan, with Rachel Hurd-Wood as Wendy, Jason Isaacs in the dual role of Hook and George Darling, and Ludivine Sagnier as Tinker Bell. The production, mounted by Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Red Wagon Entertainment and Revolution Studios, cost about 100 million US dollars and returned roughly 122 million worldwide, a modest result against its budget.
Audiences have received the film with moderate warmth: it holds a 6.8 rating on IMDb from some 85,000 votes and a 7.1 on TMDB from a much smaller base, while a film critics' rating of 6.9 from 141 reviews places professional opinion close to the audience response.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film proved relatively successful, but Walt Disney (1901-1966) was still disappointed with it, believing that Peter Pan turned out cold and unappealing. Scholars of the work of Peter Pan's author, Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie (1860-1937), insisted that Disney had done a magnificent job, because Barrie himself originally depicted Pan as a heartless sociopath.
- When Captain Hook is dressing in his cabin, a tattoo of the Eton College cross can be seen on his left shoulder, which Jason Isaacs, himself an Eton alumnus, has.
- During the filming of the flying scene, Jason Isaacs fell out of the harness supporting him and hung in the air, held by his ankles, upside down and almost completely naked.
- Initially, Barrie planned to write that Nana would go with the children to Neverland, and the end of the story would be much darker.
- Three dogs were used as Nana during filming, and all three were male. In the film, Nana is a St. Bernard, not a Newfoundland, as she was in the book.
- During filming, Jeremy Sumpter grew more than eight inches. Because of this, the window of the children's room was rebuilt four times so that the actor wouldn't hit his head on it.
- With the exception of the 1987 Soviet television version, this film was the first live-action movie in which the role of Peter Pan was played by a boy (Jeremy Sumpter).
- In search of the right sound for Tinkerbell, the filmmakers eventually realized that bells wouldn't work and used thin pieces of aluminum fastened together.
- Both Jeremy Sumpter and Rachel Hurd-Wood were hospitalized at different times during filming due to injuries and exhaustion.
- The role of Peter Pan could have gone to Zac Efron, who had played it repeatedly in school productions before this.
- Following a long tradition in both film and theater, the roles of Captain Hook and Mr. Darling are played by the same actor. In this case, it is Jason Isaacs.
- The first sketches of the characters for "Peter Pan" appeared at the Disney studio in 1940. At that time, Disney studio artists often traced live actors as prototypes for their animated characters. The prototype for the little fairy Tinker Bell was a typical "calendar girl," Margaret Kerry, who also posed for one of the mermaids.
- The final budget for the film was never announced, as the initially planned amount was exceeded several times, mainly due to the expensive sets.
- According to Carson Gray (Tiger Lily), what she says to Captain Hook in the Iroquois language roughly translates as, "You are evil. You smell bad. You stink of bear urine. You are old and ugly."
- Based on the work by J.M. Barrie.
- The song sung by Mrs. Darling and the children is 'When I Was a Lad' from the popular comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan, dating back to 1878.
- The book Aunt Millicent is reading is 'The War of the Worlds' by H.G. Wells.
- An alternative ending was filmed, matching the ending of the book, in which Peter meets grown-up Wendy (played by Saffron Burrows) with her young daughter Jane. It was included in the DVD release of the film.
- The film is dedicated to the memory of Dodi Fayed, who died on August 31, 1997, in a car crash along with Princess Diana. Dodi Fayed was one of the producers of Steven Spielberg's film 'Hook' (1991) and had serious plans to stage a new live-action version of 'Peter Pan'. His father, Mohamed Al-Fayed, became an executive producer of the film.
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