Much like Tinker Bell, Peter is just too small for big, complex feelings - or, rather, too young. However, Peter’s meanness also shouldn’t be construed as a sign of evil. Though Captain Hook remains the villain of the story, you kind of feel bad for the guy because he basically lost his hand because a group of children thought it would be fun. His reason for fighting Hook ( Hans Conried) and eventually chopping off his hand is nothing noble nor related to self-defense: the Lost Boys simply dare him to take down the pirate captain, and he agrees. He doesn’t care much for John ( Paul Collins) and Michael ( Tommy Luske), and treats them only as a collateral of having Wendy around. Peter, on the other hand, is a lot meaner and more selfish in Barrie’s novel than in the 1953 film. However, she can also be extremely happy or extremely sad, just never two things at the same time. This means that, when Tink is angry, she is nothing but angry. In the author’s words, “Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they, unfortunately, have room for one feeling only at a time”.

Barrie, she’s just too tiny to fit more than one emotion at a time. But even though her actions are questionable, Tinker Bell isn’t a bad person (or fairy). Over the course of the movie, she’s constantly mean to Wendy out of pure jealousy, and eventually even betrays Peter ( Bobby Driscoll) and the Lost Boys just to get rid of her. In a scene that would definitely not have flown nowadays, she’s bitter because her hips are too large to pass through the keyhole in Wendy’s ( Kathryn Beaumont) drawer. In the 1953 Disney film, Tink is shown to be a really sour and mean-spirited fairy. This isn’t exactly a difference between the book and the movie, but more of an explanation as to why Tinker Bell is the way she is. Before checking out Disney's latest update of this classic character, in Peter Pan & Wendy, here are all the ways in which Peter Pan and Wendy differs from the Disney film. However, there are many differences between the Disney version of Peter’s story and Barrie’s original novel. Released in 1953, Disney’s Peter Pan has virtually become every child’s introduction to the world created by J.M. However, the most well-known and well-regarded cinematic version of Barrie’s book is definitely a little animated feature made by another creator of children’s classics: the Walt Disney Studios. The most faithful retelling of the story is probably 2003’s Peter Pan, directed by P.J. Beloved by generations, the story of the boy that refused to grow up and his adventures in Neverland alongside Wendy and the Lost Boys was adapted many times into movies. Barrie began his classic 1911 children’s novel, Peter Pan and Wendy, an adaptation of his 1904 stage play, Peter Pan or, the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. “All children, except one, grow up.” With these words, British author J.M.

Turns out Disney's Peter Pan is quite different from the book it's based on.

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