Becuase the amount of Live Action remake threads are getting cluttery, I made this thread so people could discuss all of them in one neat place. For ease of catching up, I'll post all the Live action Disney movies we have and the movies that will be coming soon.
In Production:
- Beauty and the Beast
thread
- Winnie the Pooh thread
- Dumbo thread
- Mulan thread
- Pinocchio thread
- Night on Bald Mountain from "Fantasia"
- Maleficent sequel
- Prince Charming thread
- Aladdin prequel: Genies
- Sword in the Stone thread
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edited 15th Jul '17 2:12:16 PM by VeryMelon
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Looking good. I was admittedly a little taken aback by Pooh's appearance at first, but it does look like a very good "real" translation of Pooh's familiar design. I like it. Can't wait to see more.
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Pooh here kind of reminds me of Paddington. I actually hope they take lessons from Paddington in adapting a British children's series about a bear. This also gives me all sorts of Hook vibes as well.
The design is a mix of the original teddy bear, and Disney's version.
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Yeah, it's a kind of charming in a way.
edited 6th Mar '18 12:22:23 PM by firewriter
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The uncanny valley effects means I can't see Pooh as anything other then a possessed doll..it's very freaky looking to me.
I wonder if there's going to be a twist that's all in his imagination somehow..
New theme music also a box
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The park was more distracting to me than Pooh since I think I've been to that specific park.
Then again, London's got a bunch of those parks.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
Well, that's interesting. You know what would be awesome if there was crossover fan art of Paddington and Pooh.
I think I might have seen at least one such fanart on Twitter.
Anyway, is it weird that part of me thinks that Pooh might be (at least partially) a puppet?
Though I'll totally understand if he's completely CG.
edited 6th Mar '18 8:05:45 PM by TargetmasterJoe
Given Christopher Robin Milne's tumultuous relationship - ending with a sort of resigned acceptance - with his media counterpart, there's something darkly humorous about the subject matter here.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
All that success of the Pooh books had actually been a source of grief for the real Christopher Robin.
I do think maybe they will spill some of those issues into the grown media counterpart version of him. I am just glad they got British actors for this movie, because it's so fitting and goes back to the book's home origins. Of course, with Pooh I don't think they could get anyone but Jim Cummings to do him justice.
I think this movie could be on the same level of tear jerking as Pooh's Grand Adventure and the Tigger Movie. We always have heard about Christopher Robin growing up, but we never actually see it. And this movie hopefully can do it's best to capture the magic that brought many to love the franchise.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure
The extent to which Christopher Robin hated Pooh's popularity is often exaggerated (he didn't, really. It was complicated), but yeah - he didn't really like it either. A lot of his words later in life are kind of zen about it, like he'd had to over time come to terms with it rather than really embracing it. In later life, he wanted more or less to get out from under Pooh's shadow.
So I'm not sure how well he would've taken a "grown up Christopher Robin rediscovers the joy of Pooh after denying it for so long" movie if he were still alive.
edited 6th Mar '18 10:29:35 PM by KnownUnknown
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
I don't know for sure, but since this the literary fictional version there can be more liberties with how he comes to terms with Pooh.
Of course. Even if he were still alive he would've just had to take it like everything else. He wouldn't have been able to block it or anything.
edited 6th Mar '18 10:36:32 PM by KnownUnknown
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
Agreed. I do wonder what he thought of Winnie the Pooh's Disney version.
... why are Owl and Rabbit real animals???
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They looked pretty real in the cartoons instead of being toys. Don't know how it is in the books.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
In the books and in the original Disney movie, Rabbit isn't a toy but a pet Christopher Robin has. I am not sure about the Owl...it is possible that it is a bird which is just living in the woods in the books, but in the Disney movie, it is seen to be a toy when they show off the room at the beginning.
Man, Christopher Robin is a World War 2 vet, it's no wonder he's cynical of the world around him. And in the book, rabbit and owl were depicted as real life animals instead of toys. So, in that case it would be closer to the books.
oh. Didn't know that.
Aw, Pooh looks so cute here. Going by how he looks, it kind of looks as though he and the others may be keeping their usual Disney appearances?
Looking forward to the teaser.
"Pardon me, that extremely loud and extremely deep voice you may have just heard. It was me. Oh, it is such a long story..."