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Perfect Captain Hook & Mr. Smee
Every Disney picture tells a Disney story, don't it, and today our perfect picture comes from Disney Lori, who wisely didn't get too close to this diabolical pair, caught standing in the shade at the Magic Kingdom, plotting.
Mr. Smee is an odd pirate.
He seems decent but bumbling, a humane counterpoint to the horrific Hook and his crew of cutthroats - who, if you've read J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, you know really are cutthroats. One of them, for instance, Barrie describes as having cut his name in blood on the back of a colonial governor.
And Hook himself once killed a crewmember merely because the man bumped into him.
But then there's Mr. Smee, who wants the children to like him, and who offers to save Wendy from the plank if only she'll become his mother. (She refuses.)
Once, in Disney World, a rather know-it-all guest asked Smee why he wanted Wendy to be his mother. The poor Cast Member inside Smee wasn't prepared for that question, and just shook its head slowly back and forth while rubbing its stomach. That was one of the weirdest replies I've yet seen. It seemed to put off the know-it-all guest, too. Smee has spooked me ever since.
Look closely at Mr. Smee's feet. The Cast Member portraying Smee is standing IN those feet. It's amazing how closely the skin tone of the Cast Member's legs matches the fake skin tone of Mr. Smee's fake feet. I betcha Disney matches skin tones...
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This perfect pic courtesy of Disney Lori, and used with her permission.
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