Tinker Bell Talks -- Shame on Disney!
Filed under: Animation, Casting, Disney, Family Films, Home Entertainment
Last fall Disney unveiled a line of merchandise called Fairies, which follows the company's successful Princesses franchise. As part of the series of products and licensing deals, Disney will release straight-to-video animated films featuring Tinker Bell (since when is her name two words?), the tiny pixie duster from Peter Pan, and her fairy friends. As if J.M. Barrie isn't rolling around in his grave enough after the video sequel Return to Neverland or from the fact that Disney has created a clique of friends for Tink (unlike with the Princesses line, Disney doesn't already have a bunch of fairy characters to mine from), Disney is further ruining the playwright's iconic characters by having Tinker Bell speak. And providing her voice is Brittany Murphy.
Maybe some people are okay with a talking Tink, but if I'm not one of them. If I remember correctly, a lot of the plot points in Peter Pan have to do with her inability to communicate by any other means than pantomime. Maybe she just is so small that her voice doesn't project to humans, and she can speak perfectly with other fairies, but it still ruins part of her character to hear her voice, especially if it is the same as Murphy's voice. What next? Pooh loses weight? Donald buys pants? Oh, I know! Make another Bambi sequel that claims Bambi's mother wasn't actually killed by the hunters.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-21-2006 @ 8:05PM
JTA said...
The Disney version of the film had Tinker Bell (Barrie used the 2 words) doing a lot of pantomiming, but in the book she speaks. Only Peter can really hear and understand her through most of it, although occasionally she does say things - like calling Peter a "Silly Ass".
This also won't be the first time she has spoken on film. I am, of course, referring to the awful (except for a classic performance by Dustin Hoffman) Spielberg film, Hook. From what I remember, Roberts had a lot of lines in that one.
As for Brittany Murphy, her voice can be violently irritating and I have yet to see a film where I can stand her as an actress (maybe Clueless - you can say the same about her acting in it that Bush does about Evolution - the jury is still out). However, she does some good work in King of the Hill when she isn't actually on screen.
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6-22-2006 @ 12:46AM
RC of strangeculture said...
What a travesty!
--RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com
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8-23-2006 @ 3:00PM
Waddles said...
I know you might think that tinkerbell talking will ruin her character, but i think alot of children will like that. I personally think it will be neat to see a movie staring tinkerbell. I also like Brittny Murphy, so i will be happy to see it. Of coarse i do agree with you on some cases because i don't think they should change any of the disney characters at all. I like them as is.
Thanks for your time~
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8-23-2006 @ 3:06PM
Star said...
being a HUGE! tinker bell fan myself i am really excited to see tink in another movie with the other faries . i find all together they are so cute. Hearing tinkerbell speak will be very cool. Also being a fan of brittny murphy, i'm excited to see how she takes to the role of tinkerbell. I'm looking forward to the movie.
~A fellow friend of a fairy.
Star*
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