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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
May. 3rd, 2020 08:18 pmAlthough as a small child I was devoted to the Disney channel Winnie the Pooh TV show (to the point that I found the original E. H. Shepard illustrations quite disorienting the first time I saw them: where was Winnie's shirt? why were his arms and legs so stubby? he was shaped all wrong and I did not approve), I never actually saw the 1977 movie The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh till a few years ago... and then I found it rather dull.
Well, we came up to it in the Disney rewatch, and I watched it full of hope that I would find new joys in it, and... well, honestly, I still found it rather dull. The conceit that the narrator is reading the story allows for some fun visual effects, like the scene where the water overflows and illustration and washes the words right off the page, but mostly it just prevented me from immersing myself in the story, because whenever an adventure really properly got going, there was the narrator reminding us that it's all just a story in a book again.
Also, the Disney Winnie the Pooh properties gave me a very misleading idea about the properties of honey.
Well, we came up to it in the Disney rewatch, and I watched it full of hope that I would find new joys in it, and... well, honestly, I still found it rather dull. The conceit that the narrator is reading the story allows for some fun visual effects, like the scene where the water overflows and illustration and washes the words right off the page, but mostly it just prevented me from immersing myself in the story, because whenever an adventure really properly got going, there was the narrator reminding us that it's all just a story in a book again.
Also, the Disney Winnie the Pooh properties gave me a very misleading idea about the properties of honey.
