Saving Tinkerbell - Chris Busch Saving Tinkerbell May 19, 2008 Do you remember the story of Peter Pan? The little fairy Tinkerbell drinks the poison intended for Peter and her light begins to dim and fade as certain death approaches. But, why is she dying? It’s not because she drank poison, oh no, it’s because not enough of us believed in fairies. Peter implores the audience to show their belief in fairies by clapping and as the live audience is worked into a frenzy, Tinkerbell is miraculously revived and averts certain death. We just needed to believe in fairies hard enough. I’ve seen a lot of people in business over the years trying to save Tinkerbell. I’ve done it myself. Made a dumb decision, or two… OK, or three, and then believed that in spite of my own bad judgment I could somehow revive Tinkerbell if I just believed hard enough. I consider myself a person of faith, but there are times if you drink the poison you die. You can’t always believe yourself out of bad decisions.

Sometimes you just have to drink the antidote, which is usually a good dose of humility followed with a generous serving of taking responsibility for your choices. And as you slowly climb out of the hole you dug for yourself, you begin to see that all the wildly clapping audiences in the world cannot really save Tinkerbell. Peter Pan lied to us. But we believed it because it was more comfortable than admitting we were wrong. Then there was Jiminy Cricket who sang about wishing upon a star and your dreams would come true. It seems that a lot of his disciples are regulars down at the Creek Nation Casino. And who could forget Old Yeller. A noble and faithful dog, he casts himself into mortal danger to shield his young master. But, the bites lead to rabies and the young boy does the humane thing for his canine friend, he puts him down with a rifle shot to the head. Man I cried when Old Yeller died. I just knew he wasn’t really dead. Maybe if we just clapped wildly and believed in dogs hard enough. It just wasn’t fair. Decisions have consequences. Faith will help us through the process of facing those consequences, but the way of escape is through the consequences, not around them.

Life isn’t going to give you or me a pass. We’re not that special. As a teenage lad I was grumbling one day to my dad about how hard life was. A man of few words, he never looked up from the big wheel bearing he was packing with heavy grease, but just said, “It’s supposed to be hard.” Hmmm. Come to think of it, I don’t remember Dad clapping for Tinkerbell. Peter Pan (1960) - Quotes - IMDb Peter Pan : [Tinkerbell tells him what's happened] The Indians have been defeated? And Wendy and the boys have been captured by the pirates? I'll rescue her! I'll rescue her! [Tinkerbell notices the poisoned medicine] Peter Pan : What? That's just my medicine. [Tinkerbell protests] Peter Pan : Poison? Nonsense, who could've poisoned it? I promised Wendy I'd take that, and I'm going to just as soon as I sharpen my dagger. [Tinkerbell drinks the medicine] Peter Pan : Tink! You drunk my medicine! [Tinkerbell flies about slowly and grows dim] Peter Pan : What's the matter with you? It was poison, wasn't it?

You drank it to save my life. Tink? Dear Tink! You're dying! Your voice is so low now I can hardly hear you. What's that? You believe that you could get well again... if children believed in fairies. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Peter Pan : [singing] I have a place where dreams are born / And time is never planned. / It's not on any chart / You must find it with your heart. / Never-Never Land. / It might be miles beyond the moon, / Or right there where you stand. / Just keep an open mind, / And then suddenly you'll find / Never-Never Land. / You'll have a treasure if you stay there / More precious far than gold. / For once you have found your way there / You can never, never grow old. / So that's my home where dreams are born / And time is never planned. / Just think of lovely things / And your heart will fly on wings / Forever... in Never-Never Land.

Reel History: Disney's Peter Pan Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Disney's Peter Pan Usually I just help my brother with information and pictures, but I love the story of Peter Pan so much, that I wanted to write this one for myself. Now, off to Neverland! In 1953 Walt Disney brought us the tale of the boy who never grew up, Peter Pan. Disney fell in love with this story at a very young age when he saw the play in 1913. Many may not know this but Peter Pan’s story first came about in a 1902 novel by J.M. Barrie called “The Little White Bird." Peter was only mentioned in a section of the book, but this little section whirl-winded into more adaptations. But let me back track a little and tell you where Barrie’s inspiration came from. If you have seen Finding Neverland with Johnny Depp, you know the gist of it, but of course movies do not always tell you the full truth. When James Barrie was little his older brother David died in a ice skating accident at the age of thirteen , leaving James saddened, but his mother a complete mess.

Barrie at times would try to comfort his mother by wearing some of his brother’s clothing making her think that her son David was still alive and would always remain a boy. I can’t imagine how hard this was on James himself , in a way always haunting him, but he would later turn it into something more, channeling his emotions into a fairytale land. When Barrie got older and starting writing he met the Davies family. Little did he know that they would soon become his great muses. The most influential was the Davies’s five sons, George, Jack, Peter, Michael, and Nicholas. Now in the movie Finding Neverland, Barrie met all four boys ranging in ages I would guess 10-4, but in real life Peter was just a baby when Barrie invented Peter Pan to entertain George and Jack. Barrie would say, amusing himself and the kids, that Peter could fly. Barrie told them babies were birds before they were born; parents put bars on nursery windows to keep the little ones from flying away. This grew into a tale of a baby who did fly away, not realizing that he was no longer a bird. From this, Peter Pan was born.

Also being a playwright, Barrie took this character of Peter Pan and on December 27, 1904 debuted the play, “Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up”. The play became such a hit that Barrie's publishers, Hodde r and Stoughton, extracted chapters 13–18 of "The Little White Bird" and republished them in 1906 under the title “Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens". Then in 1911 Barrie novelized the play and called it “Peter and Wendy”, which later would be change to simply, Peter Pan. A quick fun- fact James Barrie was supposedly the first to penned the name Wendy into literature. The source of the name was Barrie's childhood friend, Margaret Henley, 4-year- old daughter of poet William Ernest Henley, who pronounced the word "friend" as "Fweiendy",adapted by Barrie as "Wendy" in writing the play.And thus with James Barrie's creation came Walt Disney's own spin on it, giving the story his own magical touch.

Work for Peter Pan actually started back in 1940, after years of negotiating with Great Ormond Street Hospital ( a children’s hospital) in London for screen rights of the play, “Peter and Wendy." Barrie had bequeathed the rights to the play to the hospital. Peter Pan was perfect for animation because it was a fantasy and anything was possible. “The cartoon method gave us many advantages over the stage craft of barriers day which no amount of pixie dust could cure," Walt said of Peter Pan. The earlier work of Peter Pan was quite different from the final version, Nana the dog follows the children on their adventure to Neverland and there were a few darker scenes with plenty of skeletons.Walt had plenty of time to think whether he wanted this version of the film because once again as you have read from past blogs, Disney’s work during this period was interrupted by war. Once the war was over, production continued with a few changes, including a different look for Peter and a little lighter tone. “The Nine O ld Men”, the great animators of this time did have their difficulties with animating the film. Animator Milt Kahl had the challenge of creating the illusion of weightlessness of Peter.

But what fun the animators must of had, drawing mischievous mermaids that lure you in with their beauty and then try to drown you, brave Indians like Tiger Lilly, fierce Pirates like Captain Hook and his bumbling shipmate Smee, along with a crocodile that eyes bug out as the clock in his stomach tick tocks a warning he is craving Captain James Hooks other hand. But who could forget the lovable misfits of the Lost Boys, all dressed in different animal skinned pajamas and of course there are the three children who get the pleasure of exploring Neverland, Wendy, John, and Michael. And finally Tinker Bell, the envious fairy ( pixie) and the star of the show Peter Pan. There are some major differences though between Barrie's play and the Disney version. Instead of a stage light beam reflecting off of a mirror resembling Tinker Bell, an actually pixie was made. It was rumored that Tinker Bell was modeled after Marilyn Monroe, but at this time Monroe wasn’t a well-known sex symbol movie star, her career was just getting started. Instead the model for Tinker Bell was Margaret Kerry.

Tinker Bell would become so popular that she was used later on as a symbol of ‘the magic of Disney’ flying over the Magic Kingdom.Some critics believe Tinker Bell was too provocative looking, but have they seen Jessica Rabbit? Major Whore! Anyway the number one difference between the play and animated film was Peter Pan was finally turned back into a boy. The play and the 1924 silent film both had females (stage-Nina Boucicault, film- Betty Bronsen )play Peter’s part. Some of you may know a somewhat more recent stage/ tv-movie version of Peter Pan being played by Mary Martin ( this is my favorite). One reason behind this was the difficulty of casting actors even younger than the one playing Peter as the other children. In animation this wasn’t even an issue, so Peter became a real boy ( modeled and voiced by Bobby Driscoll). There were a few plot changes too when it came to the film. In the play version, the Darling children are leaving Neverland along with the Lost Boys to return to London. Peter has decided to stay claiming he will never grow up to be a man and no one can make him. Before Wendy goes she tells Peter to make sure he takes his medicine.

Peter agrees but falls asleep instead. While he is asleep Hook captures the children and sneaks into Peter's hide out to drop poison into his medicine. Peter wakes up and goes to drink his medicine when Tink comes to the rescue, seeing Hooks evil deed she drinks the poison before it can hit Peter's lips. At first Peter is upset with Tink for drinking his medicine but then he sees her light fading and she chimes it was poison. To save Tinker Bell, Peter claps his hands and asks the audience to do the same, claiming she will live if the audience truly believes in fairies and claps their hands like crazy. Man that would really suck if no one clapped their hands- awkward for the actress playing Peter. Of course everyone claps and Tinker Bell lives! I know I clapped, thank you very much. In Disney's movie though Peter receives a present from Wendy instead of medicine, but little does Peter know its a bomb that Hook has disguised as a gift. Tink still saves the day, but there is no clapping needed.

Also as I told you the Lost Boys are joining Wendy and her brothers in the return to London in hopes that they will all be adopted, in the play the Darling family adopts all the Lost Boys, while in the movie they decide to stay Lost Boys forever with Peter. One thing that Disney kept similar to the play was the using of the same actor to play Mr. Darling and Captain Hook ( in this case it was just the voice). There was a little controversy with the film, mainly the way Disney portrayed the Indians of Neverland. In the song "What Made the Red Man Red?" it has racist stereotypes of Native Americans, most glaringly in the name of the song. The lyrics and actions in sequence suggest that Indian men maintain a permanent blush due to their constant pursuit of Indian women, and that asking "How?" is a major catalyst for Indian education. One thing that I absolutely loved about this film is in the beginning. The narrator tells the viewing audience, the action about to take place "has happened before, and will all happen again. After watching the whole film I couldn't help but think of what the narrator had said. Maybe I could be visited by Peter Pan someday.

This thought was always one of my fondest memories of being a kid, imagining that I could fly. All I needed was to think happy thoughts and a little bit of pixie dust and away I go following the second star to the right then to Neverland where I could have my own adventures with Peter Pan and the rest of the gang. I just love the idea of keeping youthful spirit, I believe everyone should stay a child at heart. So I guess you can say I will always have Peter Pan Syndrome. Posted by Peter Pan (Theatre) - TV Tropes Peter Pan You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share "And that's my home where dreams are born, And time is never planned..." —-Peter Pan, "Never Never Land" Besides being a stage play in one of its original incarnations (refer to the main article), Peter Pan has been adapted as a musical twice. The first was done in 1950 and is the lesser known of the two, although it was done by Broadway legend Leonard Bernstein (of West Side Story fame). It was originally staged with only 5 songs.

Since 2000, new productions have been put on incorporating the previously Cut Songs and generally restoring the work to the original written version. The version most people think of when they think of Peter Pan: The Musical is the 1954 version originally staring Mary Martin as Peter (the musical continues the tradition of cross-casting women as young boy Peter to this day). Its notability can be attributed to the fact that NBC aired live stagings of the play several times between 1955 and 1960, to excellent ratings. The 1960 production was released on VHS tape (and DVD since), making it the canonical version of the show. This would be the final live televised musical for more than half a century, until The Sound of Music in 2013. December 4, 2014 saw NBC televise yet another live performance of Peter Pan, with Allison Williams ( Girls ) as Peter, and Christopher Walken as Captain Hook.

NBC finally finished releasing all four of their Peter Pan televisings on DVD and/or Blu-Raynote Only the 1955 and 1956 productions received a release on the latter format by September 2015, through various studios. A 2000 taping of a live stage production, with Cathy Rigby as Peter Pan, has also seen VHS and DVD releases. The 1954 play and its TV adaptations contain examples of: All Musicals Are Adaptations : While certainly not the first, this is one of the better known musicals based off Peter Pan. Anthropomorphic Animal : Nana the dog and the crocodile play a big role, and the 1960 taped version also features a kangaroo, bespectacled lion and ostrich-type bird that live in Neverland and befriend Peter and Liza. Audience Monologue : Hook goes off into one in the middle of "Hook's Waltz" as he ponders over his own immortality as a villain and what effect it has, particularly how when playing games, kids will always want to be Peter Pan instead of him. He also mentions how can't break it to Smee that children actually find him lovable.

Hook: That's where the canker g-naws ! No! By-carbonate of soda, no! Audience Participation : Clapping to save Tinker Bell. The 2014 TV adaptation accompanied this scene with a caption asking fans to Tweet #SaveTinkerbell . Badass Boast : Peter gets a few in before his big fight with Hook. "I am youth. I am joy. I am freedom!!" Berserk Button : Capt. Hook will panic everytime he hears a clock ticking since he knows that's when the crocodile is near. Peter uses this to his advantage to get his friends, himself and the real crocodile on board the Jolly Roger for the climax. Big Bad : Captain Hook. Big Damn Heroes : While in the book the Never Bird saves Peter from drowning, in the musical Tiger Lily does. Big Entrance : TV productions show Peter soaring into the Darling nursery as the shutters open themselves to let him in. Captain Hook gets this as he's preceded by a band of singing pirates (one of them playing a huge drum) while he's carried onstage on a litter. Bittersweet Ending : Peter defeats Captain Hook and the Darlings return home, taking the Lost Boys with them who are then adopted by Mr.

and Mrs. Darling. Wendy goes to the window calling out for Peter to remember to come back for her in the spring...flash forward to many years later when Peter does return only to find Wendy has grown up. They are both saddened until Peter meets her daughter, Jane, who has heard all about Peter from her mother's stories and wants to be Peter's mother. Peter is overjoyed and takes her to Neverland. Wendy begs him to take her too but they both know he can't. "You see Wendy, you're too grown up." The 2014 TV adaptation changes this to Wendy telling Peter she can't, but that Jane can go, and that she hopes Jane has a daughter who will be able to befriend Peter, and that Jane's daughter will have a daughter to befriend Peter, and so on. Broken Record : When Peter encourages the Darling children to think lovely thoughts, John talks about fishing, picnics, and sailing, while Wendy brings up hopscotch, summer, and flowers.

Michael simply exclaims, "Candy!" repeatedly until Peter tells him, "Lovelier thoughts, Michael!", to which Michael responds, "Christmas!" Call-and-Response Song : "I Won't Grow Up" Peter: I won't grow up! Lost Boys: I won't grow up! Peter: I don't want to go to school! Lost Boys: I don't want to go to school! Peter: Just to learn to be a parrot- Lost Boys: Just to learn to be a parrot- Peter: And recite a silly rule! Lost Boys: And recite a silly rule! The reprise of this, "We Will Grow Up" is the same, as are the reprises of "I Gotta Crow", the first of which doubles as a Crowd Song . Chewing the Scenery : If there's something Hook is known for other than his infamous appendage, this would be it. Clap Your Hands If You Believe : The Trope Namer . Peter begs this of the audience when it looks like Tinker Bell is dying so she can get well again. Clingy Jealous Girl : Tinker Bell.

Wendy has shades of this also, as she starts tearing up at the thought of Peter finding another little girl and bringing her to Neverland after she leaves. Clueless Chick Magnet : Peter is too immature to see that Tinker Bell and Wendy obviously have feelings for him. Cool and Unusual Punishment : In the third act it's revealed Mr. Darling has been living in Nana's doghouse as a form of self-punishment for chaining her up in the yard and allowing the children to fly away. Counterpoint Duet and Distant Duet : NBC's 2014 version changed "Distant Melody" into one of these. In the stage musical, Peter sings it to the Lost Boys as a lullaby after Wendy asks if he knows any. In Peter Pan Live, Wendy sings the first portion the song instead; the second sees Mrs. Darling, who is sitting in the window waiting for her children to come back to her, joining in. The Croc Is Ticking : The Trope Namer . Crosscast Role : Peter, who has always been played by a girl starting from Mary Martin, to Sandy Duncan , to Cathy Rigby, to Allison Williams (among others).

The only time he was ever played on stage by a man was an understudy. Crowd Song : "Ugg-a-Wugg". The 2014 TV adaptation changed it to "True Blood Brothers", replacing the nonsense "Native American" lyrics to actual those in an actual Native American dialect. They worked with a Native American representative to make sure nothing was offensive. Damsel in Distress : Poor Wendy, poor Wendy... Death Glare : In the 1960 TV version, a frustrated Hook gives an epic one to the camera after Wendy foils his poison cake plan without even knowing she did it. Dirty Coward : Tiger Lily and her Indian tribe. Exaggerated during the Indian dance where at the end the slightest noise from the last Indian scares her and the entire group away, downplayed when she tells her tribe to run when they see the "Wendy bird" flying nearby ("Ancient Indian Proverb - When in doubt, RUN!!!! ") and when she "volunteers" to keep watch for pirates after the party with the lost boys, and finally averted when she and the tribe return to save Peter and later help him fight the pirates on the ship.

Dude Looks Like a Lady : At one point Peter tricks Hook into thinking Peter is a lady ( "It's a lady! It's a BEAUTIFUL lady!" ), which would classify as Squick if it wasn't for the fact that Peter is always played by a girl , so the trope is more played with than anything else. Dying Declaration of Hate : Hook has one directed at Peter before falling to the croc. Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas : During Hook's Waltz, Hook refers to himself as "Mrs. Hook's Little Baby Boy". Evil Is Hammy : Captain Hook to a T. Exploiting the Fourth Wall : When Tinkerbell is injured, Peter and company save her life by getting the audience to chant "I do believe in fairies, I do, I do". Follow the Leader : The success of the 1950s televisings motivated the networks to air several other fantasy musicals. Among others, Cinderella became the highest-rated TV program of its time, and The Wizard of Oz (which actually made its big-screen debut 16 years before Peter Pan's first airing) became a yearly tradition across the country.

Freeze-Frame Bonus : If you pause the 2014 version during some of the nursery scenes, you can spot some of the actors rewarding Bowdie the dog with treats for performing tricks well as the first real dog to play Nana. Generation Xerox : Wendy's daughter Jane, since they're played by the same actress. Growing Up Sucks : The whole message of "I Won't Grow Up". Hook Hand : Guess who? "I Am" Song / "I Am Great!" Song : "I Gotta Crow" for Peter, as he's bragging how great he is ( Justified because he can fly and never grow old, even though it also shows how conceited he is). "Hook's Waltz" for Hook, though it's also a subversion of "The Villain Sucks" Song . Large Ham : Required for most, if not all the roles in the musical. Killed Off for Real : Captain Hook, though whether he was eaten by the crocodile or blown to bits by the bomb Peter threw overboard is anyone's guess.

Subverted for most of the pirates, as they are stabbed or shot by Captain Hook during his big musical number but a few are killed offstage by Peter when he hides aboard the Jolly Roger. We also never see what happens to them after the fight, as they are taken captive and forced to join in the reprise of I've Gotta Crow" but are led offstage promptly afterwards. Magical Land : Neverland, of course. Mobile Shrubbery :Hook and the Pirates show up in this Paper-Thin Disguise to deliver a poisoned cake to the Lost Boys. Narrator All Along : Adult Wendy in the 2014 version, as portrayed by Minnie Driver . Never Grew Up : Peter, of course. When he finally returns to take Wendy back to Neverland for spring cleaning, he is genuinely shocked and hurt to find that she grew up even after she promised she wouldn't. That all disappears however, when he finds Jane waiting for him... Noble Savage : Tiger Lily. After Peter saves her from the pirates, she returns the favor by rescuing him with the help of her tribe (that somehow got hold of scooters) and they and the Lost Boys declare a truce.

Oblivious to Love : Peter's immaturity prevents him from seeing any woman as anything more than a mother figure. When Wendy asks how he feels about her, he tells her his love is that of a devoted son. Tiger Lily and Tinkerbell fare no better. One Woman Song : "Wendy", sung by Peter and the Lost Boys as they build Wendy's house and exclaim how wonderful it is that she'll be their mother. Smug Snake : Hook. Spontaneous Choreography : The Indians' dance number starts out as them hunting the Lost Boys but becomes this. The Pirates are tricked into this by Peter while chasing him during "Oh My Mysterious Lady" and play it straight during "Hook's Waltz". Tsundere : Tinker Bell. She's not afraid to call Peter a "silly ass" but drinks poison to save him. Villain Song : Hook has several - a tango and tarantella to help him devise a plan, and a grand waltz to revel in his premature victory. "The Villain Sucks" Song : Subverted in "Hook's Waltz" as Hook and the pirates sings how despicable and unlovable he is and how much he loves it.

Villainous Breakdown : After crying out how it isn't fair that Peter beat him in their final duel, Hook brings out a bomb intending to take everyone onboard with him. Chapter 13: Do You Believe in Fairies? | Peter Pan | J.M. Barrie | Lit2Go ETC Chapter 13: Do You Believe in Fairies? Additional Information Source: Barrie, J. M. (1911)Peter and Wendy. Readability: Chicago Barrie, J. (1911). Chapter 13: Do You Believe in Fairies?. Peter Pan (Lit2Go Edition). Retrieved January 18, 2017, from Barrie, J.M.. "Chapter 13: Do You Believe in Fairies?." Peter Pan. Lit2Go Edition. 1911. Web. < January 18, 2017. J.M. Barrie, "Chapter 13: Do You Believe in Fairies?," Peter Pan, Lit2Go Edition, (1911), accessed January 18, 2017, Next The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser.

You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The more quickly this horror is disposed of the better. The first to emerge from his tree was Curly. He rose out of it into the arms of Cecco, who flung him to Smee, who flung him to Starkey, who flung him to Bill Jukes, who flung him to Noodler, and so he was tossed from one to another till he fell at the feet of the black pirate. All the boys were plucked from their trees in this ruthless manner; and several of them were in the air at a time, like bales of goods flung from hand to hand. A different treatment was accorded to Wendy, who came last. With ironical politeness Hook raised his hat to her, and, offering her his arm, escorted her to the spot where the others were being gagged. He did it with such an air, he was so frightfully DISTINGUE [imposingly distinguished], that she was too fascinated to cry out. She was only a little girl. Perhaps it is tell-tale to divulge that for a moment Hook entranced her, and we tell on her only because her slip led to strange results.

Had she haughtily unhanded him (and we should have loved to write it of her), she would have been hurled through the air like the others, and then Hook would probably not have been present at the tying of the children; and had he not been at the tying he would not have discovered Slightly's secret, and without the secret he could not presently have made his foul attempt on Peter's life. They were tied to prevent their flying away, doubled up with their knees close to their ears; and for the trussing of them the black pirate had cut a rope into nine equal pieces. All went well until Slightly's turn came, when he was found to be like those irritating parcels that use up all the string in going round and leave no tags [ends] with which to tie a knot. The pirates kicked him in their rage, just as you kick the parcel (though in fairness you should kick the string); and strange to say it was Hook who told them to belay their violence. His lip was curled with malicious triumph.

While his dogs were merely sweating because every time they tried to pack the unhappy lad tight in one part he bulged out in another, Hook's master mind had gone far beneath Slightly's surface, probing not for effects but for causes; and his exultation showed that he had found them. Slightly, white to the gills, knew that Hook had surprised [discovered] his secret, which was this, that no boy so blown out could use a tree wherein an average man need stick. Poor Slightly, most wretched of all the children now, for he was in a panic about Peter, bitterly regretted what he had done. Madly addicted to the drinking of water when he was hot, he had swelled in consequence to his present girth, and instead of reducing himself to fit his tree he had, unknown to the others, whittled his tree to make it fit him. Sufficient of this Hook guessed to persuade him that Peter at last lay at his mercy, but no word of the dark design that now formed in the subterranean caverns of his mind crossed his lips; he merely signed that the captives were to be conveyed to the ship, and that he would be alone. How to convey them?

Hunched up in their ropes they might indeed be rolled down hill like barrels, but most of the way lay through a morass. Again Hook's genius surmounted difficulties. He indicated that the little house must be used as a conveyance. The children were flung into it, four stout pirates raised it on their shoulders, the others fell in behind, and singing the hateful pirate chorus the strange procession set off through the wood. I don't know whether any of the children were crying; if so, the singing drowned the sound; but as the little house disappeared in the forest, a brave though tiny jet of smoke issued from its chimney as if defying Hook. Hook saw it, and it did Peter a bad service. It dried up any trickle of pity for him that may have remained in the pirate's infuriated breast. The first thing he did on finding himself alone in the fast falling night was to tiptoe to Slightly's tree, and make sure that it provided him with a passage. Then for long he remained brooding; his hat of ill omen on the sward, so that any gentle breeze which had arisen might play refreshingly through his hair. Dark as were his thoughts his blue eyes were as soft as the periwinkle.

Intently he listened for any sound from the nether world, but all was as silent below as above; the house under the ground seemed to be but one more empty tenement in the void. Was that boy asleep, or did he stand waiting at the foot of Slightly's tree, with his dagger in his hand? There was no way of knowing, save by going down. Hook let his cloak slip softly to the ground, and then biting his lips till a lewd blood stood on them, he stepped into the tree. He was a brave man, but for a moment he had to stop there and wipe his brow, which was dripping like a candle. Then, silently, he let himself go into the unknown. He arrived unmolested at the foot of the shaft, and stood still again, biting at his breath, which had almost left him. As his eyes became accustomed to the dim light various objects in the home under the trees took shape; but the only one on which his greedy gaze rested, long sought for and found at last, was the great bed. On the bed lay Peter fast asleep.

Unaware of the tragedy being enacted above, Peter had continued, for a little time after the children left, to play gaily on his pipes: no doubt rather a forlorn attempt to prove to himself that he did not care. Then he decided not to take his medicine, so as to grieve Wendy. Then he lay down on the bed outside the coverlet, to vex her still more; for she had always tucked them inside it, because you never know that you may not grow chilly at the turn of the night. Then he nearly cried; but it struck him how indignant she would be if he laughed instead; so he laughed a haughty laugh and fell asleep in the middle of it. Sometimes, though not often, he had dreams, and they were more painful than the dreams of other boys. For hours he could not be separated from these dreams, though he wailed piteously in them. They had to do, I think, with the riddle of his existence.

At such times it had been Wendy's custom to take him out of bed and sit with him on her lap, soothing him in dear ways of her own invention, and when he grew calmer to put him back to bed before he quite woke up, so that he should not know of the indignity to which she had subjected him. But on this occasion he had fallen at once into a dreamless sleep. One arm dropped over the edge of the bed, one leg was arched, and the unfinished part of his laugh was stranded on his mouth, which was open, showing the little pearls. Thus defenceless Hook found him. He stood silent at the foot of the tree looking across the chamber at his enemy. Did no feeling of compassion disturb his sombre breast? The man was not wholly evil; he loved flowers (I have been told) and sweet music (he was himself no mean performer on the harpsichord); and, let it be frankly admitted, the idyllic nature of the scene stirred him profoundly. Mastered by his better self he would have returned reluctantly up the tree, but for one thing. What stayed him was Peter's impertinent appearance as he slept.

The open mouth, the drooping arm, the arched knee: they were such a personification of cockiness as, taken together, will never again, one may hope, be presented to eyes so sensitive to their offensiveness. They steeled Hook's heart. If his rage had broken him into a hundred pieces every one of them would have disregarded the incident, and leapt at the sleeper. Though a light from the one lamp shone dimly on the bed, Hook stood in darkness himself, and at the first stealthy step forward he discovered an obstacle, the door of Slightly's tree. It did not entirely fill the aperture, and he had been looking over it. Feeling for the catch, he found to his fury that it was low down, beyond his reach. To his disordered brain it seemed then that the irritating quality in Peter's face and figure visibly increased, and he rattled the door and flung himself against it. Was his enemy to escape him after all? But what was that? The red in his eye had caught sight of Peter's medicine standing on a ledge within easy reach. He fathomed what it was straightaway, and immediately knew that the sleeper was in his power.

Lest he should be taken alive, Hook always carried about his person a dreadful drug, blended by himself of all the death-dealing rings that had come into his possession. These he had boiled down into a yellow liquid quite unknown to science, which was probably the most virulent poison in existence. Five drops of this he now added to Peter's cup. His hand shook, but it was in exultation rather than in shame. As he did it he avoided glancing at the sleeper, but not lest pity should unnerve him; merely to avoid spilling. Then one long gloating look he cast upon his victim, and turning, wormed his way with difficulty up the tree. As he emerged at the top he looked the very spirit of evil breaking from its hole. Donning his hat at its most rakish angle, he wound his cloak around him, holding one end in front as if to conceal his person from the night, of which it was the blackest part, and muttering strangely to himself, stole away through the trees. Peter slept on. The light guttered [burned to edges] and went out, leaving the tenement in darkness; but still he slept.

It must have been not less than ten o'clock by the crocodile, when he suddenly sat up in his bed, wakened by he knew not what. It was a soft cautious tapping on the door of his tree. Soft and cautious, but in that stillness it was sinister. Peter felt for his dagger till his hand gripped it. Then he spoke. "Who is that?" For long there was no answer: then again the knock. "Who are you?" No answer. He was thrilled, and he loved being thrilled. In two strides he reached the door. Unlike Slightly's door, it filled the aperture [opening], so that he could not see beyond it, nor could the one knocking see him. "I won't open unless you speak," Peter cried. Then at last the visitor spoke, in a lovely bell-like voice. "Let me in, Peter." It was Tink, and quickly he unbarred to her. She flew in excitedly, her face flushed and her dress stained with mud. "What is it?" "Oh, you could never guess!" she cried, and offered him three guesses.

"Out with it!" he shouted, and in one ungrammatical sentence, as long as the ribbons that conjurers [magicians] pull from their mouths, she told of the capture of Wendy and the boys. Peter's heart bobbed up and down as he listened. Wendy bound, and on the pirate ship; she who loved everything to be just so! "I'll rescue her!" he cried, leaping at his weapons. As he leapt he thought of something he could do to please her. He could take his medicine. His hand closed on the fatal draught. "No!" shrieked Tinker Bell, who had heard Hook mutter about his deed as he sped through the forest. "Why not?" "Poisoned? Who could have poisoned it?" "Hook." "Don't be silly. How could Hook have got down here?" Alas, Tinker Bell could not explain this, for even she did not know the dark secret of Slightly's tree. Nevertheless Hook's words had left no room for doubt. The cup was poisoned. "Besides," said Peter, quite believing himself "I never fell asleep." He raised the cup.

No time for words now; time for deeds; and with one of her lightning movements Tink got between his lips and the draught, and drained it to the dregs. "Why, Tink, how dare you drink my medicine?" But she did not answer. Already she was reeling in the air. "What is the matter with you?" cried Peter, suddenly afraid. "It was poisoned, Peter," she told him softly; "and now I am going to be dead." "O Tink, did you drink it to save me?" "Yes." "But why, Tink?" Her wings would scarcely carry her now, but in reply she alighted on his shoulder and gave his nose a loving bite. She whispered in his ear "You silly ass," and then, tottering to her chamber, lay down on the bed. His head almost filled the fourth wall of her little room as he knelt near her in distress. Every moment her light was growing fainter; and he knew that if it went out she would be no more. She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it. Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out.

She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies. Peter flung out his arms. There were no children there, and it was night time; but he addressed all who might be dreaming of the Neverland, and who were therefore nearer to him than you think: boys and girls in their nighties, and naked papooses in their baskets hung from trees. "Do you believe?" he cried. Tink sat up in bed almost briskly to listen to her fate. She fancied she heard answers in the affirmative, and then again she wasn't sure. "What do you think?" she asked Peter. "If you believe," he shouted to them, "clap your hands; don't let Tink die." Many clapped. Some didn't. A few beasts hissed. The clapping stopped suddenly; as if countless mothers had rushed to their nurseries to see what on earth was happening; but already Tink was saved. First her voice grew strong, then she popped out of bed, then she was flashing through the room more merry and impudent than ever. She never thought of thanking those who believed, but she would have like to get at the ones who had hissed.

"And now to rescue Wendy!" The moon was riding in a cloudy heaven when Peter rose from his tree, begirt [belted] with weapons and wearing little else, to set out upon his perilous quest. It was not such a night as he would have chosen. He had hoped to fly, keeping not far from the ground so that nothing unwonted should escape his eyes; but in that fitful light to have flown low would have meant trailing his shadow through the trees, thus disturbing birds and acquainting a watchful foe that he was astir. He regretted now that he had given the birds of the island such strange names that they are very wild and difficult of approach. There was no other course but to press forward in redskin fashion, at which happily he was an adept [expert]. But in what direction, for he could not be sure that the children had been taken to the ship? A light fall of snow had obliterated all footmarks; and a deathly silence pervaded the island, as if for a space Nature stood still in horror of the recent carnage.

He had taught the children something of the forest lore that he had himself learned from Tiger Lily and Tinker Bell, and knew that in their dire hour they were not likely to forget it. Slightly, if he had an opportunity, would blaze [cut a mark in] the trees, for instance, Curly would drop seeds, and Wendy would leave her handkerchief at some important place. The morning was needed to search for such guidance, and he could not wait. The upper world had called him, but would give no help. The crocodile passed him, but not another living thing, not a sound, not a movement; and yet he knew well that sudden death might be at the next tree, or stalking him from behind. He swore this terrible oath: "Hook or me this time." Now he crawled forward like a snake, and again erect, he darted across a space on which the moonlight played, one finger on his lip and his dagger at the ready. He was frightfully happy.

Peter Pan (film) | Disney Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia [Source] Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated fantasy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney and based on the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J.M .Barrie . It is the fourteenth film in the Disney Animated Canon , and was originally released on February 5 , 1953 by RKO Radio Pictures . Peter Pan is the final Disney animated feature released through RKO before Walt Disney's founding of his own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution , later in 1953 after the film was released. Peter Pan is also the final Disney film in which all nine members of Disney's Nine Old Men worked together as directing animators. It is also the second Disney animated film starring Kathryn Beaumont , Heather Angel , and Bill Thompson after their roles in the animated feature Alice in Wonderland . The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. A sequel titled Return to Never Land was released in 2002 , and a series of direct - to - DVD prequels focusing on Tinker Bell began in 2008 .

A preschoolers' television series featuring some of the characters, Jake and the Never Land Pirates , premiered in 2011 . The film is one of the most commercially successful Disney movies, as well as one of the most popular. Contents [ show ] Plot In the Edwardian London neighborhood of Bloomsbury, George and Mary Darling's preparations to attend a party are disrupted by the antics of the boys, John and Michael, acting out a story about Peter Pan and the pirates that were told to them by their older sister, Wendy . Their father angrily declares that Wendy has gotten too old to continue staying in the nursery with them, and it's time for her to grow up much to everyone's shock. When George Darling began to storm out the room he trips over Nana. Both Nana and George fall but the rest of the family only comforts Nana. George is shocked and this causes Nana to be put in the dog house. Nana is heartbroken as she never sleeps in the dog house. George feels sympathy for Nana but claims the children are not puppies and Nana is truly a dog.

When George and Mary leave for the party, Mary asks if the children will be okay without Nana, because Wendy mentioned about capturing Peter Pan's shadow the previous night at the window. George calls the whole thing garbage and tells his wife that she's as bad as the children are, and that it's no wonder that Wendy is getting crazy ideas. That night they are visited in the nursery by Peter Pan himself. Wendy is awakened when Peter is trying to get his shadow on. Wendy offers to sew it on for him (as he is trying to reattach it with a bar of soap). Through conversation, Wendy learns that Peter likes to hear her stories. However, when Peter learns that she is to "grow up" the next day, Peter offers to take her to Never Land where she would never grow up. There, she could be the mother of the boys who live there. Wendy tries to kiss Peter out of gratitude, but Tinker Bell, who is jealous, pulls Wendy's hair. By this time, Michael and John awaken and are allowed to go with them. Peter sprinkles the three with pixie dust, and after a few false tries, they are able to fly by thinking happy thoughts.

Peter then takes them with him to the island of Never Land. A ship of pirates is anchored off Never Land, commanded by Captain Hook with his henchman Mr. Smee . Hook boldly plots to take revenge upon Peter Pan for cutting off his hand. Captain Hook laments Peter Pan's role in causing the crocodile to follow him, due to Peter cutting off his hand and throwing it to the crocodile. Tick-Tock found it so delicious he's following him everywhere for another taste. Tick-Tock suddenly shows up next to the ship. Hook hears the clock ticking and his eyebrows and pointing mustache begin twitching in rhythm (with the music of "Never Smile at a Crocodile"). The crocodile's eyes begin popping up to the tune, sending Hook into a panic. The crocodile then emerges from the water onto a rock rubbing his belly and licking his lips, accompanied by a wide smile towards the captain. Hook then screams for Mr. Smee to save him, and Smee shoos off the crocodile. The crocodile then frowns and wiggles his tail to the ticking clock while sulking away. The crew's restlessness is interrupted by the arrival of Peter and the Darlings.

The children easily evade them, and despite a trick by jealous Tinker Bell to have Wendy killed, they meet up with the Lost Boys: six lads in animal-costume pajamas, who look to Peter as their leader. John and Michael set off with the Lost Boys to find the island's Indians, who instead capture them, believing them responsible for taking the chief's daughter Tiger Lily . Meanwhile, Peter takes Wendy to see the mermaids, where they see that Hook and Smee have captured Tiger Lily, to coerce her into revealing Peter's hideout. Peter and Wendy free her, and Peter duels Hook and has the crocodile chase him away. As Peter crows in triumph, Wendy reminds him of Tiger Lilly, and he rescues the princess. Peter is honored by the tribe. Eventually, Wendy tells her brothers and the lost boys about the real world and having a mother, at which Peter believes they are leaving to grow up, never to come back. Meanwhile, Hook plots to take advantage of Tinker Bell's jealousy of Wendy, tricking her into revealing the location of Peter's lair. The pirates lie in wait and capture the Lost Boys and the Darlings as they exit, leaving behind a time bomb to kill Peter.

Tinker Bell learns of the plot just in time to snatch the bomb from Peter as it explodes. Peter rescues Tinker Bell from the rubble and together they confront the pirates, releasing the children before they can be forced to walk the plank. Peter engages Hook in single combat as the children fight off the crew and finally succeeds in humiliating the captain. Peter fights Hook in a final showdown until the pirate begs for mercy. Peter then allows Hook to leave and never return. He crows, and Hook lunges at him from behind. Wendy warns Peter, and he ducks, while Hook falls into the water below, where the crocodile was waiting. Hook and his crew flee, with the crocodile in hot pursuit. Peter gallantly commandeers the deserted ship, and with the aid of Tinker Bell's pixie dust, flies it to London with the children aboard. Mr. and Mrs. Darling return home from the party to find Wendy, not in her bed, but sleeping at the open window; John and Michael are asleep in their beds. Wendy wakes and excitedly tells about their adventures. The parents look out the window and see what appears to be a pirate ship in the clouds. Mr.

Darling, who has softened his position about Wendy staying in the nursery, recognizes it from his own childhood, as it breaks up into clouds itself. Production However, he could not get the rights until four years later after he came to an arrangement with Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, to whom Barrie had bequeathed the rights to the play. The studio started the story development and character designs in the late-1930s and early-1940s, and intended it to be his fourth film, after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Bambi and Pinocchio ( Bambi was later put on hold for a short while for technical difficulties and ended up being his fifth film while Pinocchio became his second film). During this time Disney explored many possibilities of how the story could be interpreted. In the earliest version of the story, the film started by telling Peter Pan's back story. But on May 20, 1940, during a story meeting Disney said "We ought to get right into the story itself, where Peter Pan comes to the house to get his shadow. That's where the story picks up.

How Peter came to be is really another story." Walt also explored opening the film in Neverland and Peter Pan coming to Wendy's house to kidnap her as a mother for the Lost Boys. Eventually, Disney decided that the kidnapping was too dark and went back to Barrie's original play where Peter comes to get his shadow and Wendy is eager to see Neverland. The scene in the nursery went through many alterations. For instance, in one version it was Mrs. Darling who found Peter Pan's shadow and showed it to Mr. Darling as in the original play. In another version of the film, Nana went to Neverland with Pan and the Darling children, and the story was told through her eyes. In other interpretations of the story, John Darling was left behind for being too serious, practical and boring. The film also included Wendy taking her "Peter Pan Picture Book" and Peter and the children eating an "Imaginary Dinner." At one point there was a party in Peter's hideout where Tinker Bell got humiliated and in her rage went and deliberately told Captain Hook the location of Peter Pan's hideout at her own free will.

However, Walt felt that this was against Tinker Bell's character and that she had "gone too far" and changed it to Captain Hook kidnapping and persuading Tinker Bell to tell him. There is a point in Barrie's play where Captain Hook puts poison in Peter's dose of medicine and Tinker Bell saves Peter by drinking the poison herself only to be revived by the applause by the theater audience. After much debate Disney discarded this fearing it would be difficult to achieve in a film. In earlier scripts, there were more scenes involving the Pirates and the Mermaids that were similar to what Disney had previously done with the "Seven Dwarfs" in Snow White. Ultimately these scenes were cut for pacing reasons. The film was also a little bit darker at one point since there were scenes involving Captain Hook being killed by the crocodile, the Darling family mourning over their lost children, and Pan and the children discovering the pirates' treasure which is loaded with booby traps. Then on December 7, 1941, the United States joined the Second World War after Pearl Harbor was attacked. The following day the U.S military took control of the studio and commissioned them to produce war propaganda films.

They also forced Peter Pan as well as Alice in Wonderland , The Wind in the Willows , Song of the South , Mickey and the Beanstalk and Bongo , among others, to be put on hold. After the war ended in 1945, the studio was in debt and they could only produce package films to support themselves. It was not until 1947, as the studio's financial health started to improve again, that the actual production of Peter Pan commenced, even though Roy O. Disney did not think that Peter Pan would have much box office appeal. Rumor has it that Tinker Bell's design was based on Marilyn Monroe, but in reality, her design was based on Tinker Bell's live-action reference model, Margaret Kerry . Margaret Kerry posed for reference film shots on a sound stage; the footage was later used by supervising Tinker Bell animator Marc Davis and his team when they drew the character. Kerry also provided the voice of the redheaded mermaid in the film. Like Kerry, Bobby Driscoll was both the live-action reference model, mainly used for the close-up scenes, and the voice actor for Peter Pan.

Peter's flying and action reference shots, however, were provided by dancer and choreographer Roland Dupree. In an interview, she said she had to hold out her arms and pretend to fly for all the scenes requiring it. Kathryn Beaumont, the voice of Wendy, eldest of the Darling children, also performed for the live-action reference footage. Similarly, Hans Conried , the voice of both Captain Hook and Mr. Darling, also performed the live-action reference footage for those characters (it was one of the few elements left over from the play, that Hook and Mr. Darling were played by the same actor). In contrast to rotoscoping the animators did not merely trace the live-action footage, for this would make the animation look stiff and unnatural. Instead the animators used it as a guide for animating by studying the human movement in the situation required. For example: "How far does the head turn when a character looks over his shoulder?" Milt Kahl the supervising animator of Peter Pan and The Darling Children, claimed that the hardest thing to animate was a character floating in mid air.

Cast June Foray as Mermaids / Squaw Reception Peter Pan got mainly positive reviews from the critics, and currently holds a 75% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 28 reviews. The New York Times gave the film a mixed review, praising the animation itself, but also declaring that the film was not really true to the spirit of the original Barrie play. However, Time Magazine gave the film a highly favorable review, making no reference to the changes from the original play. Alternately the controversies over the differences between the play and the film were short lived and Peter Pan is today considered one of Disney's animated classics. There is another controversy that spawned in recent years over the portrayal of the Indians, which is considered racially stereotypical. Michael Jackson cited Peter Pan as his favorite movie of all time, from which he derived the name for his estate Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara, where he had a private amusement park. Ronald D.

Moore, one of the executive producers of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, has cited this film as the inspiration for the series' theme of the cyclical nature of time, using the film's opening line, "All of this has happened before and it will all happen again," as a key tenet of the culture's scripture. This is considered the most commercial Disney movie to date, having a theatrical sequel and five Tinker Bell spin-off films (as of 2014), as well as a popular children's programs on Disney Junior to this day, which also airs on Hamilton to this day. Crew The Disney Wiki has a collection of images and media related to Peter Pan (film) .

Release history February 5, 1953 (first theatrical release) May 14, 1958 (second theatrical release) June 18, 1969 (third theatrical release) June 18, 1976 (fourth theatrical release) December 17, 1982 (fifth theatrical release) July 14, 1989 (sixth theatrical release) September 21, 1990 (VHS - Walt Disney Classics) March 3, 1998 (VHS - Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection) July 1998 (VHS reissue - Made in Brazil - Abril Vídeo/Walt Disney Home Video) November 23, 1999 (DVD - Walt Disney Limited Issue) July 2000 (DVD - Made in Brazil - Buena Vista Home Entertainment) February 12, 2002 (VHS/DVD - Special Edition) August 2002 (VHS Reissue - Made in Brazil - Walt Disney Home Entertainment) April 5, 2003 (seventh and final theatrical release in the Philadelphia International Film

 Festival) March 6, 2007 (2-Disc DVD, Platinum Edition) February 5, 2013 (60th Anniversary Diamond Edition - Blu-ray/DVD Combo and 2-Disc DVD - U.S.

only) Worldwide release dates

Question: Who drinks poison to save Peter Pan?
Answer: Tinkerbell