But this degradation seems to me aimed at a more infantile sensibility than the original.
The original didn't hide the darker side of life/
Or the nature of rabbits
Posted on 09/25/2017 3:53:46 PM PDT by dynachrome
But there’s something genuinely harrowing about the sight of Peter Rabbit – gentle, Edwardian Peter Rabbit – thoughtlessly injuring some birds, or grabbing a pile of lettuce leaves and making it rain like a banker in a stripclub, or literally twerking. No joke, all of these things happen in the trailer. There’s even a moment where a badger hurls a hedgehog at a dartboard, and it’s so much like the dwarf-throwing scene from The Wolf of Wall Street that you’re left with the incontrovertible feeling that this entire venture was put together by people who genuinely hate Peter Rabbit.
Just look at Mr McGregor. In all previous versions he’s been a villain – his primary objective has always been to cook Peter Rabbit in a pie – but in this trailer he’s the only sympathetic figure. He’s the guy who comes home to find his house trashed by Peter Rabbit, and his despair is palpable. “Not again,” he’d say if he hadn’t been so utterly numbed by trauma. That’s how much of a dick this Peter Rabbit is. He actually makes you side for the baddie. For shame.
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But this degradation seems to me aimed at a more infantile sensibility than the original.
The original didn't hide the darker side of life/
Or the nature of rabbits
Our culture has definitely devolved.
100 years ago, accidents were more likely to be fatal. Families without a bread (or carrot) winner had to fend for themselves. Working children were commonplace.
Today, single mothers also fend. Fatherless rabbits must still feed their families. Context changes, realities remain similar.
It’s early and I’m not caffeinated, yet don’t both versions speak to surviving in their own culture and time? Our era is not as charming as the vision Potter painted/wrote. Likely, her era wasn’t, either. The truly dark aspects were simply not popularized. Still, Peter Rabbit _is_ her creation and it remains, regardless of what new interpretations are offered.
Did “West Side Story” somehow obviate “Romeo and Juliet”? Were either more than a gloss on the reality? It’s all entertainment.
Another weak white man. McGregor
Nor did the sequel.
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