Peter Pan Research Paper

When a recreation of a movie comes out, most people think of them as being completely dreadful compared to the first movie. This was exactly how I felt as I watched the two movies. As I started watching them, I found out that Pan is a prequel to Peter Pan. This did not stop me though! When watching the two movies, there was still many differences and similarities between the two. I will be talking about the characters, how the film was set up, the changes in music, and the things that were missing, and kept, from the first movie to the second. First off, the cast of the movies were extremely different. Both of the movies had already famous actors, like Hugh Jackman who played Blackbeard in Pan. A large majority of the cast in Peter Pan had also been featured in other Disney movies. As for the cast size, it seemed that Pan’s cast was a lot bigger than Peter Pan. This was
It might've been set before the original, but there was still a lot of changes between the two. One change, and in my opinion the biggest, is that in Pan, everyone grows up. When the pirates take the boys, they're children, but they're forced to stay there and become old there. Most of the extras seemed to be adults instead of young children. I think that this slightly took away from the movie. In Neverland, kids are supposed to stay what they are, kids. Another change between the two movies is that there isn't a fairy kingdom in Peter Pan, in fact only one fairy exists, and thats Tinkerbell. I think that this made a drastic change in the movie because of how it was added into the story. There was only one thing in the movie that I felt like had it not been included in Pan, it would've completely ruined the movie. That is Peter Pan’s pipe. In the original movie, there is something that is extremely symbolic about the pipe, and because they added its significance in the new version added to why it was so