Identity and Individuality of Derivative Fictions -- continued

　In addition, the film adds another narration that was not introduced in the novel. It’s about Aunt Millicent, another character who doesn’t appear in the original story.

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One of the characters who appeared in the original story but was omitted from the film is Liza, the babysitter of the Darling family. It is also possible to interpret the coordinate axis transformation of the movie Peter Pan, as an exchange description of Aunt Millicent for of Liza.

And sometimes there was Aunt Millicent, who felt a dog for a nurse lowered the whole tone of the neighborhood.

The film shows Aunt Millicent and each member of the Darling family performing a play in front of her. However, when it comes to Wendy’s turn, it is her brothers who speak first before she can open her mouth.

Wendy’s turn. / Wendy must tell a story. / Cecco, who carved his name on the governor at Goa. / Noodler, with his hands on backwards. / Hook, whose eyes turn red as he guts you.

The younger brothers begin to talk insensitively about immoral topics that will make the serious and honest Aunt Millicent faint, they have already memorized the contents of the story she is supposed to tell because they are told Wendy’s story repeatedly on a regular basis. The meta-structure of the narration of the story, in which the content of the story to be told is told in advance by one of the audience members, may be another twist on the reflexive characteristic of the story, which was the main theme of the original work. Encouraged by her brothers’ cheers, Wendy tells Aunt Millicent about her dreams for the future, which she has been hiding until now.

My unfulfilled ambition is to write a great novel in three parts, about my adventures.

Naturally, Aunt Millicent begins her boring lecture and tries to discourage Wendy's dreams by explaining the importance of finding a marriage partner. However, not only is there this annoying aunt who is fixated on the norms of society and tries to interfere in the education of her children, but also, the adventurous and energetic nature of Wendy, which is an important subject unique to this film that was not mentioned in the original story. The aunt doesn’t understand Wendy’s dream at all.

But, child, novelists are not highly-thought-of in good society. And there is nothing so difficult to marry as a novelist.

Interestingly, however, it is Aunt Millicent who detects Wendy’s growth and attractiveness as a girl that no one in her family has ever noticed.

Wendy possesses a woman’s chin. Have you not noticed? Observe her mouth. There, hidden in the right-hand corner. Is that a kiss?

As Aunt Millicent pointed out, Wendy in the movie also shares a kiss on the mouth, which was given to her mother only in the original novel, as allusion to the selective attributes of hers. In addition to the presence of the author as the narrator, Mrs. Darling and Wendy are also altered in a way that is quite different from the original, which is a feature of this film that cannot be overlooked. The younger brothers also react quickly to Aunt Millicent’s words.

A kiss? / Like Mother’s kiss. / A hidden kiss.

Wendy asks Aunt Millicent about it. Aunt Millicent replies confidently.

But what is it for? /It is for the greatest adventure of all. They that find it have slipped in and out of heaven. / Find what? / The one the kiss belongs to.

Aunt Millicent’s words bring a new notion to the family that no one ever thought of before. And Mr. Darling is deeply moved by Aunt Millicent’s point.

My Wendy,… a woman.

The mysterious kiss that was allowed to belong only to Mrs. Darling in the original story, because of the narrator’s predilection, is thus acknowledged in her daughter Wendy in the movie, and the spiritual intuition connected to the source of the universe this mysterious word originally signified is transformed into the sexual attraction of an adult woman. And the defector from motherhood who resisted the charm of this kiss was Peter, depicted in the original story. The film Peter Pan seems to follow the original textual description in detail, but in fact it attempts to fundamentally change the basic axis of the original story as a fictional world.
Aunt Millicent makes a proposal to her parents that is very annoying for Wendy and her brothers. It meant an unbearable change in life for Wendy, who enjoyed sharing a children’s room with her two younger brothers and weaving a world of dreams and adventures every day.

Almost a woman. She must spend less time with her brothers and more time with me. She must have her own room. A young lady’s room. Leave the ….

Thus, Wendy and her brothers listen with more than a little agitation in the passage outside the door as Aunt Millicent advises her parents to make more use of the social circle with Wendy’s marriage in mind.

The daughter of a clerk cannot hope to marry as well as that of a manager. You must attend more parties… make small talk with your superiors at the bank. Wit is very fashionable at the moment.

This creates the conditions for Wendy’s desire to abandon the real world and escape to the dream world of Neverland of her own volition. The main character of the film, which was named Peter Pan, has been replaced by Wendy instead of Peter. Instead of Peter Pan, a child who doesn’t grow up, the film is going to be described its course based on Wendy’s coming-of-age story. This is not only a major change in the basic setting of the original story, but also a brilliant adaptation of the twisted conceptual theme that is actually the characteristic peculiarity of the original work as an ideational novel.

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The true theme of the original Peter and Wendy was the sterile conflict between the protagonist Hook and his alter ego, Peter. The film Peter Pan takes the dimensional axis even further, forming a version that gives a glimpse of their strife from Wendy’s point of view, with this girl at the center.

It is after this development that the scene of Peter’s invasion into the children’s room is finally depicted. Noticing Peter floating in the air right above her bed, Wendy gets up and goes outside, worried about the boy who has quickly disappeared through the window, but there is no sign of him anymore. The voice of the narrator tells the situation.

But there was no sign of a body. For none had fallen. Certainly, she had been dreaming.