Alina Cheng: Project 2 Proposal
The scene I would like to remake is from the movie “Peter Pan,� made in 2003. The specific scene I would like to remake is starting from when Pan and Hook are in the final fight scene. Hook starts to talk about how Wendy was leaving Pan, and starts to chip away at Pan’s confidence and spirit, until Pan finally falls. He can’t get up, and smiles a little at Wendy when he is about to be killed. Right before Hook stabs him, Wendy interrupts, and says her final good bye, and gives him a surprise kiss. The kiss revitalizes him, and he is happy, and gets his fighting spirit back. This scene shows Wendy and some kids crying, and also made my sister cry.
This scene makes some people cry, because of the emotions it invokes in people. It makes people cry because it shows the emotional breakdown of Pan, a final goodbye, and a remembrance of how love can solve anything (or at least it does in movies). I chose this scene because of this, and because I like how it portrays the pain of growing up in a very extreme sense, and how the kiss restores people’s faith in love and goodness.
I will film the scene outside. A problem that arises is doing an interpretation of the flying and fighting. I think I will have Pan and Hook fighting on a playground jungle, and when Pan falls, he’ll fall to the ground. The other problem, a technical one, is the lighting. The lighting in the movie is very dramatic, deliberate and noticeable. The happy scenes are pink and bright, and the sad ones are blue and gray. I’m not sure yet how to do that in the remake, but I think I will play with the settings on Final Cut Pro. As for the style and technique, I’m not sure what styles and techniques I would be able to do, so I think I will hold off on that. I could film the entire sad scene in black and white, for dramatic effect, and the other parts in color. But I just have to see if it works with the remake. The people will be wearing modern clothes, I think, but that may change. I just don’t know where I would get the costumes. I don’t know if I’ll have as many people on the “boat� aka Lost Boys and pirates, I think I would keep it to the important characters.
I’m not sure who to cast as any of the characters, but I think I will be one of the Lost Boys, or one of Wendy’s brothers. I will have to think more deeply about who will fit each character, because I want each actor to have at least some characteristics of the character they’d be playing.