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Wendy Barrie: Peter Pan
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Like his mother, undone by the death of her son David, Barrie never fully recovered from Michael's loss, particularly since it came on the heels of losing Arthur, Sylvia, George, Gerald du Maurier, and Charles Frohman. He aged visibly, and for a long while barely had the will to go on living. But go on he did, supported by his affection for his three remaining "Lost Boys," and eventually for their children too — a brand new audience to charm with stories of pirates, Indians, and fairies. He continued to write, to socialize, to travel, to stay active in charitable and political causes, until he died in 1937, with Peter and Nico at his bedside. "To die will be an awfully big adventure," Barrie once wrote in the voice of Peter Pan. In his will, he left the
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“Gay and innocent and heartless” is how Barrie described the perennial condition of youth in the final line of Peter Pan; he saw it as a time of magic and cruelty, of unfettered imagination and boundless egotism. Whatever moved Barrie to write those words, it surely wasn’t this big-brother relationship with the decorous creatures in this film.
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Admirable Crichton ; Peter Pan ; When Wendy grew up ; What every woman knows ; Mary Rose / J.M. Barrie ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Hollindale ; general editor, Michael Cordner ; associate general editors, Peter Holland, Martin Wiggins
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The casting notes describe Wendy as a girl "imbued with rebellion", "an English rose out for adventure; an angelic girl paradoxically born to wield the sword. Adventure unleashes the animal within her, making her ever more appealing. But womanhood has a hold of her - she wants to both kiss Peter and mother him, for his boy-man quality stirs both within her".
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Alas, the script never allows Barrie to display the imaginative originality that he brought to writing Peter Pan. His games with the boys are all rather ordinary: They play pirates and Indians, but there is never an adventure or story in which someone loses his shadow, for instance, or sails to safety in a bird’s nest. Barrie never toys with the boys’ sense of the absurd by discussing how their mother tidies up their thoughts at night while they sleep, or chides them for their lack of imagination on the grounds that their unbelief will kill a fairy somewhere. Depp wears war paint and feathers to be an Indian chief and a bandana for a pirate, but his sense of whimsy is really, in a basic sense, rather prosaic.
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