Peter Pan Comparison

Peter Pan is a classic children’s story. It is all about a place called Neverland where children can stay young forever. There have been movies made about this book. The first movie is from 1953, which was an animated film. This movie captured the hearts of many. However, this movie left out some important things from the original book. There was a remake of this movie, using real people, in 2003. This remake is spectacular because of its trueness to the original book, how real the actors make the characters, and the amount of special effects. The author of the book, Peter Pan, is J. M. Barrie. The first story of Peter Pan is from the book The Little White Bird, published in 1902. According to IMDb (2003), “In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling, and the fearsome Captain Hook.” Some of the …show more content…
In the first film, this is mostly what the movie entails. However, this movie does not touch on many topics which are in the original book.. In the 2003 remake, they stay extremely true to original story. According to critic Ebert (2003), “Here he stays closer to the J.M. Barrie book, which is about to celebrate its centenary, and also closer to the book's buried themes, which are sidestepped by most versions of ‘Peter Pan.’” One of the buried themes in the book is love. In this movie remake, Peter and Wendy fall in love, which is what happens in the book. The older movie never once mentions a relationship between the two beyond friendship. The 2003 version also talks more about the pressures of Wendy’s family for her to receive her first kiss, so she can become a woman. This is an extremely big deal during this era, which Wendy wants no part of, hence the running away to a land where she never has to grow up. The director of this movie, P. J. Hogan, stayed true to the story and made the characters truly