Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2020 20:11:44 GMT
I just watched this film for the first time today.
I loved it up until the part where Christopher Robin pretended to fight a Heffalump and left the Hundred Acre Woods. Up until that point it was a wonderful film about forgetting your innocence, childhood, and imagination. Forgetting what’s important in life etc...
I didn’t like that Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Eyeore etc were real. The daughter and wife and everyone else could see them and the hundred acre wood was like Alice in Wonderland behind a tree.
If they had done one more re-write. Have it just the way it was, it was almost there. Instead of having his family go away, and he stays behind in London. They all still go as planned together, but he’s busy with paperwork. His
Daughter wants to play. His wife is complaining. He goes to his old bedroom to work and have quiet. He sees the stuffed animals. Pooh begins taking. Then it’s just like it was in the original movie. He sees his daughter explains who she and his wife are... then they go to the hundred acre wood (because it’s in his mind, not real). Then he loses Pooh. Just like the movie. But, instead of seeing all of them at once and stopping the Heffalump, he visits them one by one, each with their own problem, and he helps them solve them. As he helps them, they remember him as Christopher Robin and follow him to help Pooh. Until the gang is all together and they find Pooh waiting at that tree. He has that heartfelt talk about being their hero.
Then he leaves and goes to find his daughter working. He tells her they need to do nothing and play. He and his wife and daughter spend time together. Then we see them all go to the hundred acre woods to see all of the gang together. He introduces his wife and kid (again, this is playtime imagination, not real. It’s symbolic). It ends with the camera panning out. It turns from the fantasy hundred acre woods to the real world. Christopher Robin, his wife and daughter playing with the stuffed animals.
That would have been perfect. Drop the whole subplot about the job, the crappy coworker/boss etc.. and the animals shouldn’t be real.
Still, because the first 2/3 were so good until he leaves to go back to London I give it a 7/10. Had so much potential to be a 9/10. Still so much better than most of their live action remake crap.
I loved it up until the part where Christopher Robin pretended to fight a Heffalump and left the Hundred Acre Woods. Up until that point it was a wonderful film about forgetting your innocence, childhood, and imagination. Forgetting what’s important in life etc...
I didn’t like that Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Eyeore etc were real. The daughter and wife and everyone else could see them and the hundred acre wood was like Alice in Wonderland behind a tree.
If they had done one more re-write. Have it just the way it was, it was almost there. Instead of having his family go away, and he stays behind in London. They all still go as planned together, but he’s busy with paperwork. His
Daughter wants to play. His wife is complaining. He goes to his old bedroom to work and have quiet. He sees the stuffed animals. Pooh begins taking. Then it’s just like it was in the original movie. He sees his daughter explains who she and his wife are... then they go to the hundred acre wood (because it’s in his mind, not real). Then he loses Pooh. Just like the movie. But, instead of seeing all of them at once and stopping the Heffalump, he visits them one by one, each with their own problem, and he helps them solve them. As he helps them, they remember him as Christopher Robin and follow him to help Pooh. Until the gang is all together and they find Pooh waiting at that tree. He has that heartfelt talk about being their hero.
Then he leaves and goes to find his daughter working. He tells her they need to do nothing and play. He and his wife and daughter spend time together. Then we see them all go to the hundred acre woods to see all of the gang together. He introduces his wife and kid (again, this is playtime imagination, not real. It’s symbolic). It ends with the camera panning out. It turns from the fantasy hundred acre woods to the real world. Christopher Robin, his wife and daughter playing with the stuffed animals.
That would have been perfect. Drop the whole subplot about the job, the crappy coworker/boss etc.. and the animals shouldn’t be real.
Still, because the first 2/3 were so good until he leaves to go back to London I give it a 7/10. Had so much potential to be a 9/10. Still so much better than most of their live action remake crap.
