Hook is described as "cadaverous" and "blackavised", with "eyes which were of the blue of the forget-me-not" ("save when he was plunging his hook into you, at which time two red spots appeared in them and lit them up horribly") and long dark curls resembling "black candles".
After getting a taste of Hook, the crocodile pursues him relentlessly, but the ticking clock it has also swallowed warns Hook of its presence. The book relates that Peter Pan began the ongoing rivalry between them by feeding the pirate's hand to a crocodile. In the novel, Hook's last words are a similarly upper-class "bad form", in disapproval of the way Peter Pan beats him by throwing him overboard. In the play, it is implied that Hook attended Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, and his final words are "Floreat Etona", Eton's motto. (In Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, one of the names Long John Silver goes by is Barbecue.) He is said to be " Blackbeard's bo'sun" and "the only man of whom Barbecue was afraid". To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze". Biography of the character īarrie states in the novel that "Hook was not his true name. Wilson, Barrie "openly acknowledged Hook and his obsession with the crocodile was an English version of Ahab", and there are other borrowings from Melville. The character was originally cast to be played by Dorothea Baird, the actress playing Mary Darling, but Gerald du Maurier, already playing George Darling (and the brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies), persuaded Barrie to let him take the additional role instead, a casting tradition since replicated in many stage and film productions of the Peter Pan story.Īccording to A. Later, Barrie expanded the scene, on the premise that children were fascinated by pirates, and expanded the role of the captain as the play developed. Hook did not appear in early drafts of the play, wherein the capricious and coercive Peter Pan was closest to a "villain", but was created for a front-cloth scene (a cloth flown well downstage in front of which short scenes are played while big scene changes are 'silently' carried out upstage ) depicting the children's journey home. 3.8.11 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.
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Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth
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