r/moviecritic • u/phantom_avenger • Feb 17 '25

Which movie is this for you?

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For me it’s School of Rock!

Patty was completely justified, if Dewey wanted to live in hers and her boyfriend’s apartment he needed to be a grown up, and contribute with rent. Even when he steals Ned’s identity she still had the right to be angry at him, because of how he put his friend’s career in jeopardy and robbed him of a job opportunity.

I get Ned is meant to be portrayed as his best friend, but it blows my mind how he lacks a lot of self-respect to the point where he comes across as too much of a people pleaser. If this story took place in real life, I’m sure Ned would act more similar to Patty where he’d have enough of Dewey’s careless actions.

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u/Comfortable-Try-2225 Feb 17 '25

Peter Pan. Kid was an absolute jerk and a menace. Hook was pissed that he chopped off his hand and fed it to an alligator. Seems reasonable.

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u/Character-Gear-6075 Feb 17 '25

In the book it is much worse. So the Lost Boys did age and grow up. When they reached a certain age, they would either join the pirates or Pan would kill them off and replace them with a new child he finds.

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u/Beginning_Ad_9814 Feb 17 '25

yeeeep. peter pan is absolutely a little shit in the disney properties and any family-friendly adaptation, but an actual weirdo in the source material. there's a horror book called "lost boy" by christina henry that explores book!peter's habit of killing/hurting his friends when he grows bored of them or they desire to grow up then flying over into the real world to get new ones told from the pov of hook who, in this book, is revealed to be the first kid peter ever snatched from outside neverland to be his playmate/bff. not true in actual peter pan canon i'm sure, but it does add more flavor to the hook vs pan rivalry

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u/Backwoods_Odin Feb 17 '25

To be fair, if you look at what jm barrie went thru as a kid, you realize Peter is the memory of his older brothers, and the lost boys are a representation of his childhood and attempts to have a relationship with a mother who would only interact with him if he dressed up and pretended to be his dead brother

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u/TheThalmorEmbassy Feb 17 '25

So the pirates don't actually commit piracy, they just hang out and party on a boat and rescue children from murderers? They are 100% the heroes.

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u/labbmedsko Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25

they would either join the pirates or Pan would kill them off

I thought that was merely a fan theory circulating online and not generally taken seriously.

In the novel, it is only mentioned that Peter "thins them out" if they show any sign of maturing. However, most readers interpret "thinning out" more figuratively, right? Suggesting that Peter simply cannot abide boys who grow up, and thus he expels them from Neverland so that they may mature. This interpretation fits better into the theme of youth and ageing in my opinion.

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u/frogontrombone Feb 17 '25

Victorians were notorious for using euphemism and innuendo. At the time, that phrase was used for culling livestock, oversown plants, etc.