Reactions? excerpt from the LA times interview/Ot/Peter Pan

[Susan McGee]

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I loved the Peter Pan movie as a child (starring Mary Martin.
It was interesting, I accepted MM as a boy. But my son, aged 3, 
immediately identified her as a woman, as well as noticing that the 
crocodile was a person!)  One of the saddest
moments of my life was when I watched it at aged 16 and saw the wires 
helping them to fly (I had never seen them before that --only saw
this on television, even though my big brother said they were there --
 I couldn't see them)

Anyway, I saw "Hook" and had a visceral reaction both to the aerial
view of the land (Oh, my gosh, I thought, that's never never land!),
and to the pirate scene (again, felt very real to me).

So I read the book for the first time as an adult, and was very 
disturbed. It's a book that is very pessimistic and negative about 
people.

Susan