Luckily, I somehow conflated the best of both PP's. I can now read Barrie and see it illustrated with Disney stills, or occasionally animations. As Lewis almost said about Snow White, the Wicked Queen looks like we always knew she'd look, but never hoped to see her so well portrayed.
In defense of abridgements and adaptations in general, how many people want their young children taking at face value the end of the chapter where Peter kills Hook then later has "one of his bad dreams" so Wendy has to sit up and hold him? Early Disney did the two-level thing better: simple stereotypes for the young, better irony for the old.
Neither Barrie nor Disney invented those colorful archetypes -- mermaids, pirates, etc. Both authors were copying from the same neo-Platonic originals, for their different audiences.
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Date: 2013-12-17 08:52 pm (UTC)In defense of abridgements and adaptations in general, how many people want their young children taking at face value the end of the chapter where Peter kills Hook then later has "one of his bad dreams" so Wendy has to sit up and hold him? Early Disney did the two-level thing better: simple stereotypes for the young, better irony for the old.
Neither Barrie nor Disney invented those colorful archetypes -- mermaids, pirates, etc. Both authors were copying from the same neo-Platonic originals, for their different audiences.