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universaldebateclub:timemachineyeah:universaldebateclub:timemachineyeah:an-gremlin:inbetweenthelineart:thebossbaby-official:All currently announced Disney live action adaptations/sequels/re-imaginings, as of July 20, 2015.I read this list with a sense of impending dread and I was not wrongLIVE ACTION WINNIE THE POOH?blerghh nooodanisnotonfire plays christopher robinWait so Christopher Robin is going to be an adult?Oh gosh that gives me even MORE mixed an anxious feelings. It’ll be like Saving Mr. Banks all over again with whitewashing real people’s lives to make the Disney corporation look all feel-good. Because people often forget, but Christopher Robin Milne was a real person. And I love the Winnie the Pooh stories, but I love them even more knowing about Christopher Robin and who he grew up to be. Who was an atheist mathematician and English major who hated what Winnie the Pooh had done to his life, walked away from his inheritance to be in a marriage with his cousin that his parents didn’t approve of (not because it was his cousin, the minor incest was fine, but because they’d had a falling out with her father), was sick most of his life (he was initially not allowed to join the military for WWII, and had to pull strings to be allowed to serve). And who never saw a single cent of Winnie the Pooh royalties. Pretty much the cute wholesome moral tales that Winnie the Pooh were? Christopher felt they were exploitative. That his father was distant and honestly not a great father and took advantage of his childhood to sell himself as some kindly man and sell stories that had nothing to do with Christopher Robin himself. He felt taken advantage of. A prop for his father’s image and career.And he and his wife were super cool people who both pretty much said “Fuck you” to their parents and went on to be better more moral people than any of them.Christopher Robin Milne didn’t particularly appreciate the commercial aspect of the Winnie the Pooh stories or Disney’s involvement, and Disney including the child character - fine. That’s in the books. But in the same way Disney retooled the life of an actual woman to make them look like the heroes in Saving Mr. Banks, they’re going to continue to take advantage of, yet again, the actual Christopher Robin. This time his adult image? What uplifting, exploitative story are they going to tell about this man now that he is dead an unable to speak out against it? It’s a good thing neither Christopher Robin nor I believed in an afterlife, because if he were in one he’d be so exhausted by this.I hope they give at least some of the profits to the Clare Milne foundation for cerebral palsy. Holy shit man i just said that because of all the fanart lmaoYeah, but it prompted me to google the project and it is a project about an adult Christopher Robin. (Dan Howell is not currently cast, however). That’s what prompted the rant. Because I actually really do feel an affinity for Christopher Robin Milne. -- source link
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