How well do you know the movie "Peter Pan"?

January 18, 2021 7:55 PM

Not as well as SungWon "ProZD" Cho

Pt 2

ProZD, previously

posted by Gorgik (27 comments total)

So weird but I'd never even heard of this channel until yesterday when youtube randomly recommended a video. And now today there is this post! Is the universe telling me something?

That (bored) recounting of nearly every detail in that Peter Pan scene in the first link is impressive and delightful!
posted by NotTheRedBaron at 8:08 PM on January 18, 2021

I don't love everything on ProZD's channel, but when he does make me laugh I laugh hard. The Chairem anime stuff still cracks me up.
I too have a lot of Disney etched into my brain, if not in quite the granular detail demonstrated here. When will ProZD get the Disney VA gig we all want to hear?
posted by Wretch729 at 8:29 PM on January 18, 2021

All I know about Disney's Peter Pan is that Hans Conried was the voice of both Captain Hook AND Mr. Darling, as well as the voices of Snidely Whiplash on Dudley DoRight and Waldo Wigglesworth on Hoppity Hooper, as well as the host on Jay Ward's Fractured Flickers, Danny Thomas' Uncle Toonoose on Make Room for Daddy and the semi-title character in The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T.

Is that enough?
posted by someothercraig at 8:48 PM on January 18, 2021 [8 favorites]

He is a genius. I'm actually reading the book Peter Pan to my kids right now (doing sooo much on-the-fly editing, book is racist af) and thinking of the movie and therefore this video often.
posted by potrzebie at 8:51 PM on January 18, 2021

I was once like this with Star Wars. Seen it something like 1000 times. But then the years pass and you don't watch it as much and soon large parts of it are slipping out of mind.... Advancing years, lack of practice... *drinks beer* Like you know... life happens.

I can still annoy the FUCK out of people when The Music Man is on Turner Classic Movies, however. I know that movie way too well, and I haven't seen it nearly as much as Star Wars!
posted by hippybear at 8:58 PM on January 18, 2021 [5 favorites]

I'm like that with Monty Python's Holy Grail - to absolutely noone's surprise or delight - and a few classic Bugs Bunny cartoons, especially the "duck season/wabbit season" ones.

It's been at least 20 years since I last watch Peter Pan, and after having looked up a couple of snippets on YouTube as a result of this post I realize I'd forgotten just how well-animated and well-acted it was.
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:21 PM on January 18, 2021 [4 favorites]

There's a whole raft of D movies from that era that are truly remarkable in various ways. Robin Hood, Pinocchio... They were grasping for art above what they were able to be recognized as creating at the time. Perhaps now it's being seen more clearly.
posted by hippybear at 9:24 PM on January 18, 2021 [3 favorites]

All I know about Disney's Peter Pan is that Hans Conried was the voice of both Captain Hook AND Mr. Darling

It's actually fairly routine (traditional?) for the same actor to play Hook and Mr. Darling in productions of Peter Pan, as they don't ever appear on stage together, Mr. Darling is otherwise a very small role, and it adds a wonderful subtext.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 9:26 PM on January 18, 2021 [14 favorites]

Double casting is very common and is, yes, used for subtext effect quite often. Eddie and Dr. Scott are usually double-cast for The Rocky Horror Show.
posted by hippybear at 9:31 PM on January 18, 2021 [4 favorites]

Perhaps now it's being seen more clearly.

Speaking as a parent, being subjected to a movie over and over again until your brains run out your ears, due to the repetitive viewing habits of young children, tends to leaves you unable to appreciate a work's finer details. It's only when reviewing it after many years' respite (and a lot of counseling and therapy) that it's possible to regain such an appreciation. :)
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:03 PM on January 18, 2021 [1 favorite]

All I know about Disney's Peter Pan is that Hans Conried was the voice of both Captain Hook AND Mr. Darling, as well as the voices of Snidely Whiplash on Dudley DoRight and Waldo Wigglesworth on Hoppity Hooper, as well as the host on Jay Ward's Fractured Flickers, Danny Thomas' Uncle Toonoose on Make Room for Daddy and the semi-title character in The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T.

Is that enough?

You left out his Academy-Award level starring role in the immortal Hollywood-Terrified-of-TV paranoia flic "The Twonky" of 1953.
posted by Chitownfats at 12:12 AM on January 19, 2021

I used to be able to recite several of the shorter kid's books in our household from memory, having three kids hooked on the same books over a period of years. For some reason it used to annoy the smaller two if I were to stop scanning the page while reading for them: "You have to read it, daddy!" Reciting it from memory was for some reason Not Good Enough!
posted by Harald74 at 12:30 AM on January 19, 2021 [4 favorites]

From Peter Pan, "Think of Batman pooping snakes" is the most fascinating misheard lyric I've ever stumbled across.
posted by LSK at 1:31 AM on January 19, 2021 [9 favorites]

I'm pretty sure I can do this with Jurassic Park
posted by ToddBurson at 4:43 AM on January 19, 2021

I think I'm already like this with The Rise of Skywalker.
posted by Chronorin at 5:31 AM on January 19, 2021

I used to be able to do this with "Repo Man" and "Buckaroo Banzai."
posted by chavenet at 5:48 AM on January 19, 2021 [4 favorites]

I had a friend who had the entire Transformers animated movie memorized and would perform it - including imitating the voices - upon request. It would damage his vocal cords to the point where he would bleed. That’s really loving a movie.
posted by vorpal bunny at 6:14 AM on January 19, 2021

A YouTube comment I can't really fathom

my sister has seen revenge of the sith so many times that she knows when they blink
posted by little onion at 6:20 AM on January 19, 2021 [5 favorites]

Peter Pan ought to be named Introductory Peril Bondage for Children and if my parents did not want to raise a kinky weirdboy they probably should not have shown it to me quite so often.

Also, the crocodile’s theme is maybe the most earwormy piece of music in any Disney movie.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 6:51 AM on January 19, 2021 [6 favorites]

As a child of the pre-VCR/DVD era, I've never seen most of Disney movies of that period more than once or twice. (I've seen Fantasia most of all, due to its appeal to film retrospectives.) But the Peter Pan Big Golden Book is burned into my memories and I will always think of him as, basically, an alien leprechaun. I'm pretty sure that Peter Pan, The Jolly Green Giant, and The Great Gazoo all occupy overlapping spaces in my brain. The Little Golden Book version is on YouTube (and it's less, uh, problematic, than I thought it might be, tbh).

This page interestingly notes that Al Dempster, the chief—I think—animator of Peter Pan, was also instrumental in the design and illustration of the Disney Little Golden Books.
posted by a Rrose by any other name at 8:21 AM on January 19, 2021

I used to be able to do this with all the tauntaun utterances in The Empire Strikes Back.

Semi-related: this baby sounds like a tauntaun.
posted by HeroZero at 9:16 AM on January 19, 2021

This reminds me of years ago when my son used to recite large chunks of dialog from certain Sponge Bob episodes complete with vocal inflections and volume dynamics, except at about twice the original speed. Pure comedy gold.
posted by BigHeartedGuy at 10:10 AM on January 19, 2021

It's been at least 20 years since I last watch Peter Pan, and after having looked up a couple of snippets on YouTube as a result of this post I realize I'd forgotten just how well-animated and well-acted it was.

I mean it is, but: having rewatched it for the first time since childhood recently, oooof. It's weirdly and sourly misogynist: like everyone has it in for Wendy all the time; Tinkerbell straight-up tries to murder her, ha-ha funny. And yes, it's jaw-droppingly racist in a holy-shit-what-the-hell-am-I-watching way.

It has not aged well.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 11:30 AM on January 19, 2021 [6 favorites]

I guess while we're sharing stupid human memorization tricks, for about as long as I can remember I've been able to recite large portions of Emo Phillips' standup album E=MO², including Emo's, uh, unique vocal inflections.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 12:13 PM on January 19, 2021 [1 favorite]

So in one of my world literature classes, there was a discussion of Dostoyevsky's "letters from the underground," and in between one of my classmates saying that he WAS the main character of the book was another classmate who was reciting ALL of episode 4 of Star Wars. You can tell which way the popularity went in that group. Group discussions were reduced after that incident, so no chance of her reciting that dark jewel, The Empire Strikes Back. Pity.
posted by jadepearl at 1:11 PM on January 19, 2021

Re : Hans Contend, he's a favorite at MST Club, and i always appreciate when he shows up in a movie.
posted by JHarris at 5:50 PM on January 19, 2021

Conreid, dammit
posted by JHarris at 5:50 PM on January 19, 2021