If Peter Pan is a guy, why do women play him?- Page 3

[CapnHook]

Posted: 6/19/05 at 12:01am

TINKER BELL movie is gonna be CRAP.

They are also doing a new TV series with a working title of "DISNEY FAIRIES."

Basically, all the Disney fairies in "Fairy Land." The Blue Fairy, Fairy Godmother, Tinker Bell, Three Fairies from Sleeping Beauty, etc. Sounds like something they are pulling out of their ass.

[Justice]

Posted: 6/19/05 at 12:03am

Sounds like the next generations equivelance to the Disney Villians...oh wait, the Princesses were next, yet Cinderella or Tinker Bell were not Princesses. (Cinderella married into royalty)

[CapnHook]

Posted: 6/19/05 at 12:12am

Personally, I would much rather see a Disney Villains series.

For Disney's 50th animated feature film, the plot is the Mickey Mouse gets kidnapped as a group of Disney Villains. Basil from The Great Mouse Detective is hired to find Mickey.

The film will feature at least one character from each of its animated feature films - from Snow White to whatever the 49th film will be.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 6/19/05 at 12:22am

I always root for the villains - cause the good guy are always too good or too b*tchy.

[morebroadwayplease]

Posted: 6/19/05 at 7:03am

Also, there's something creepy about a male Peter Pan saying "Oh, I know lots of fairies. But most of them are dead now".

I never noticed what that meant! My gosh, I must have been out of it when I watched the movie. (I was forced to because of my little sister who I was babysitting and I was bored and she was watching Peter Pan and I reluctantly sat down and watched too... long story)

That line would be a little bit strange if a man said that.

I think that it started out as a tradition that women played younger boys parts (because of labor laws and whatever) and the tradition has just been carried through to now.

Personally, I would much rather see a Disney Villains series.

Oh my gosh! So do I! I thought that I was the only person in the world who did that! The villians are so much smarter and the good guys just want justice or whatever and- this is soooooo untrue to real life -the good guy always wins! Argh! It's annoying!

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 6/19/05 at 9:25am

The more Cruella deVil and Malificent, the better.

The best-ever description of Cruella was written by Richard Shinckel in TIME : "Auntie Mame as drawn by Charles Addams".

The problem with SONG OF THE SOUTH isn't the supposed racism, it's the mind-numbing-tooth-decaying-IV filled with Karo Syrup- sentimentality. Bobby Driscoll and Luanna Patten makes one see how REALLY great Shirley Temple, Roddy MacDowell and Margaret O'Brian were.

I'd be amused to know what Disney thought of the Mary Martin PETER PAN. Walt liked Mary a lot - she narrated and sang on a childhood LP of SLEEPING BEAUTY I had, and appearantly she was Disney's initial choice to play Mary Poppins.

Updated On: 6/19/05 at 09:25 AM

[kim1061]

Posted: 6/19/05 at 12:36pm

It takes a real woman to fill Peter Pans' shoes.

I agree with the villians thing..it reminds me of the Assassins though. Cruela, Gaston, Mufasa, Ursula, Captain hook, etc..all on one stage lol.
It would be a good spoof though.

[Justice]

Posted: 6/19/05 at 12:38pm

Sondheim should write the show to Villians, all telling their side of the story...

[alterego]

Posted: 6/20/05 at 8:37am

Another Disney remake coming up is The Swiss Family Robinson. This starts filming later this year.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 6/20/05 at 8:52am

The reason Peter is played by a woman is simple. Barrie wanted the show to be for adults and not a pantomime, which were performed in the afternoon. At that time , children could not appear in shows in the evening. He had a choice, to do the show as a pantomome with real boys, or do the show in the evening, with all the boys parts played by women (icluding the lost boys). He chose the latter. Its interesting to note that England still has very strict laws regarding children in theatre,. This is why, even now , all roles played by kids have three or four casts playing on seperate evenings.


Nowadays, if the lost boys are played by boys then Peter should be too. But its such a good part, actresses don't want to give it up.