{"id":31395,"date":"2018-07-10T17:13:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T22:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=31395"},"modified":"2018-07-10T17:13:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T22:13:03","slug":"misgivings-on-christopher-robin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=31395","title":{"rendered":"Misgivings on Christopher Robin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Shore Leave over the weekend I was asked by some friends what I thought about Disney&#8217;s <i>Christopher Robin<\/i> film, which comes out next month.  They knew I&#8217;m a <i>Winnie-the-Pooh<\/i> fan, and they were sure I would have an opinion.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure it was the opinion they expected.<\/p>\n<p><i>Christopher Robin<\/i> is live action\/CGI hybrid, similiar to the <i>Paddington<\/i> movies.  Christopher Robin, played by Ewan McGregor, is a busy man in his forties with a wife and a daughter.  His family goes on holiday in the country while he has work matters to deal with, and then he&#8217;s visited by Winnie-the-Pooh in the flesh.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a trailer that Disney just released.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/anKVhZU7D1s\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"aligncenter\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have deep misgivings about Disney&#8217;s <i>Christopher Robin<\/i> movie.  It looks charming as heck, and it has a wonderful cast.  The trailers make me smile, and watching Ewan McGregor talk with Pooh is really touching.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, this isn&#8217;t at all who Christopher Robin Milne was.  The little bit I know about the real person behind the Winnie-the-Pooh stories tells me this movie is deeply, deeply wrong.  Telling myself, &#8220;Oh, it&#8217;s just a sequel to Disney&#8217;s animated <i>Pooh<\/i> stories,&#8221; reminding myself that this is fiction, doesn&#8217;t make the misgivings I have go away.  If anything, they make my misgivings deepen.  There was a real person behind the stories, a person who was troubled by his unwanted literary fame and spent his life avoiding it, who had a real family (which is not the family in the film; Hayley Atwell is not playing the real wife of Christopher Robin Milne) and difficult relationships with his parents.  That&#8217;s a story of pain and resentment, not false nostalgia and sentimental whimsy.<\/p>\n<p>I hope, when I see <i>Christopher Robin<\/i>, that I&#8217;ll be able to enjoy the film on its own terms.<\/p>\n<p>We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Shore Leave over the weekend I was asked by some friends what I thought about Disney&#8217;s Christopher Robin film, which comes out next month. They knew I&#8217;m a Winnie-the-Pooh fan, and they were sure I would have an opinion. I&#8217;m not sure it was the opinion they expected. Christopher Robin is live action\/CGI hybrid,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=31395\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Misgivings on Christopher Robin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[4683,4378,4684,4685,217],"class_list":["post-31395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-christopher-robin","tag-disney","tag-ewan-mcgregor","tag-hayley-atwell","tag-winnie-the-pooh","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}