The Post Millennial
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On Wednesday, Disney released a trailer for its new adaptation of Scottish author J.M. Barrie’s beloved children’s classic, Peter Pan, which featured several changes to the characters and story from the book, first published in 1911, including the Lost Boys now including girls.
In the trailer, the character of Wendy lands in Neverland and is greeted by a group of children who self-identify as “Losty Boys.” “Every last one of us,” a young girl tells Wendy, to which she replies, “but you’re not all boys.” Another girl then says, “So?”
In the classic novel, Peter reveals to Wendy that he lives with the lost Lost Boys and when Wendy asks, “Who are they?” Peter replies, “They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way.”
Perambulators were baby carriages of the time.
A little later Peter tells Wendy, “we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship” and when she asks why there are no girls amongst the lost boys, Peter tells her “girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.”
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