PAN IS BACK!!!
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This holiday is a reunion of sorts for me. As fate would have it, and quite unplanned.........we ended up watching the movie "Hook" last night..............and went to "Peter Pan" today................a much younger, fresher version........(not better, just different)............
The central point of NOT GROWING UP is more
present now, in this version.........as the Robin Williams one had
Peter Banning (he changed his name) already married, with kids of
his own. You might say that one was "post-death" for
Peter.................who had become a lawyer, and was totally hooked in
to the stifling corporate slime dance!
The Wendy/Peter Dilemma in this newer version is
front and center, and the tension over it nearly killed Peter at one
point. I am speaking of Wendy's insistence that Peter leave
Never-Never Land (never!!).............and come back and marry and raise
kids in 3D, and all that sort of stuff.
It was only when Wendy was willing to give her
"hidden kiss" to him, despite the fact that he wasn't about
to "grow up" to please her (and come back to Earth and
go to a job and go to school)0...........that Peter was able
to recover himself, and to rise up from certain death.... and go
back to fighting Captain Hook.
Years ago, there was a "head" book
out, called "The Peter Pan Syndrome," wherein some
psychologist explored the tendency of some men to avoid
"commitment"..........and there was a companion book called
"The Wendy Syndrome"...............which dealt with women who
loved men who are "magical," and always get left, without
a committed lover.
I loved that Robin Williams thing, because it
was so involved in getting an older, fatter, lazier Peter to
"remember who you are, boy"..............and that was
very stimulating, indeed!
The search for the "boy" in us guys...........and
the appeal of that "boy" to the ladies is back up in
our face........especially in the Star Child Work. (uh.....second
star to the right, straight on till morning, I believe...........)!!!
DJ.
12/24/03
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