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Post by javierocker on Dec 8, 2011 20:35:39 GMT 2
This dawned me on today but when exactly did Tootles become the overweight member of the lost boys? In the book Tootles is not overweight, he's laid back and the kindest of the lost boys. The overweight member of the group is Slightly. I would say Disney but I don't remember the Disney movie referring to any of the lost boys by their names. I think the first time I saw the overweight lost boy being Tootles was the 1988 Australian animated movie. And Hook also had an elder Tootles being overweight, but he was an old man, being slightly overweight wouldn't be shocking for his age.
I mean its the one thing that Neverland did get right that even the 2003 movie didn't get right. Tootles is not the overweight one Slightly is. Tootles is just the nicest member of the group.
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Post by Kieran on Dec 8, 2011 21:03:58 GMT 2
I guess those people think someone who's nice and laid-back would easily be the over-weighted one and for some reason that it would be better that way. I personally consider the irony of Slightly's physical condition and his name, much more entertaining.
Yeah, I don't think the Disney cartoon mentiones their names. But going by appearence, it is possible they meant the over-weighted to be Tootles. The kid in the fox costume has a lot of hair so might have been meant as Curly, the bunny-costume kid could be Nibs as the tiny kid in the skunk-costume might have been indicated as Slilghtly. But these are of course just assumptions by appearence designs and the fact that the Disney cartoon craps on the novel's details and characters anyway.
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Post by truepeterpan on Mar 21, 2012 3:31:05 GMT 2
Yes, he is portrayed that way. Like in the 2003 live action movie, Tootles is slightly pudgier then the others. Maybe it's his name. Tootles sounds like its a pudgy name lol.
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Post by javierocker on Jul 5, 2012 7:10:56 GMT 2
It's implied in the original novel that Slightly is the pudgy lost boy, esp. with the reference of Slightly's door being much bigger then the other lost boys due to his size. I don't remember anything being mentioned about Tootles size in the original novel, just his personality.
The 2003 movie captured the mood and tone of the original story, but it also took a lot of things that had just become popular notion or common elements from Peter Pan adaptations such as Tootles weight. Most would say it started with Disney which is interesting since none of the lost boys are mentioned by name in the Disney version. If any of the lost boys were Tootles it was likely the one in the skunk outfit who mostly slept and kept himself (Return to Neverland actually identified that one as Tootles). Hook also depicted an overweight Tootles, but he's an old man so being slightly over weight isn't shocking at all. But either way I think the image stuck and the 2003 movie pretty much ran with it.
I would also like to note that in the original novel the lost boys are capable of flying. Yet in no version beyond the animated series Peter Pan and the Pirates do The Lost Boys ever fly. This includes the 2003 movie which also kept them completely ground bound and only implies that they can fly when they all originally going to leave Neverland.
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