Great new Avatar DRDANISE!!
I, too, was remiss in commenting on it, and I think it's lovely. Still, DRDanise, I miss seeing you there!
I've been out all day, first the recording office, then FINDING NEVERLAND with goddaughter Charlotte. What a beautiful film! The film's images brought to mind several things:
1. Johnny Depp and the dancing bear sequence reminded me of Frederick Ashton's ballet based on Rimbaud "Les Illuminations," interesting since the book that started the whole megillah, J.M. BARRIE AND THE LOST BOYS, promotes a latent pedophilic attachment between Barrie and the Llewelyn Davies boys.
2. Julie Christie's growing concern over Barrie brought to mind the great scene in DREAMCHILD when Mrs Liddell (Jane Asher) realizes Charles Dodson's regard for Alice may be more than she, or even he, imagined. There's a lot of Wonderland in Neverland.
3. Kate Winslet's removal to Neverland, with the fairies in attendance, recalled Titania and her court.
4. The overall approach to the story reminded me of TOPSY-TURVY, which I thought was a better film.
5. I thought Dustin Hoffman as gay producer Charles Frohman, who died on the Lusitania, looked like Stephen Sondheim!
6. So, if Mrs Llewelyn Davies, nee du Maurier, is a relative of Gerald Du Maurier, why isn't he acknowledged as the original Capatain Hook/Mr Darling?
7. The original Peter Pan, Nina Boucicault, was the daughter (?) of Dion Boucicault, the Irish playwright.
8. The string quartet playing in the living room reminded me of the original performance of Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll."
Lots of resonances, a simplified but moving version of a truly tragic story, and I loved it.
