About Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

There are three different versions of Peter Pan that I have, which means the same story told by different people. I like them all for different reasons. I like Hook by Steven Spielburg because it has the old lady, Wendy telling the story, played by the actress Maggie Smith. In the original story Wendy Darling goes to Neverland with Peter, where she is the most important girl who has been there. As well as maybe having feelings for Peter, she becomes his Mother, and the Mother of the lost boys, because they don't have a Mother of their own, they are orphans.

In Hook Wendy is old, but she still has the book of Peter Pan. Maggie says Jack thinks she isn't the real Wendy, but she is. In the movie Peter, their Dad, played by Robyn Williams, has forgotten that he the real Peter Pan, and has to go on an adventure to Neverland to rescue his children and find the tree where the lost boys live, the Hook is trying to burn to remember how play and look after his inner child, and to be able to play with his own children, that he forgot to play with before, and who Hook was trying to steel away. So its a bit of a modern version. They don't have any crocodiles in that movie, so we don't find out what happened to his hand, like in Peter Pan by P.J. Hogan. He's the same guy who played Crocodile Dundee. That's Dundee, not Undee.

In this version I also like the relationship between Wendy and her Mother. Wendy's Auntie is trying to force her to grow up, her Mother is kind. In the original story she was named after Marie Ansel J.M. Barrie's wife. There was a movie in 2004 called Finding Neverland, that told the story of J.M. Barrie's life and his relationship with the Llewelyn Davis family that inspired his book. When Barrie was six his brother died, and his mother comforted herself with the idea that he would never have to grow up. There is a statue of Peter Pan in Kensington gardens where, Barrie played with the Llewelyn Davis children, and there is also a copy of that statue in Perth.