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The classic Peter Pan, actor Bobby Driscoll and the character of the new film by Tico e Teco (Photo: Publicity and Reproduction)
The new film of the famous chipmunks Tico and Teco has caused a lot of controversy. Especially when it comes to exploiting the tragic life of a former child star with animation that has always been loved by children. Tico e Teco: Defensores da Lei, the duo’s new film, has a more anarchic “footprint” in terms of productions featuring the characters, and was tied to “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” (1988) and the use of a grownup and decaying Peter Pan as one of its characters was deemed offensive by the public.
For those who don’t like spoilers, thank you very much for coming here, but with sadness in our hearts, we ask you not to continue. For others who don’t mind learning details about the feature or have already seen it, “sit down, there’s a story.” Among the film’s many cameos which even include the first “ugly” version of the Sonic character is a Peter Pan who evolves from a boy who never grows up into an aging and decaying villain.
The character who would find inspiration in the life of Bobby Driscoll (Photo: Reproduction)
The former Lost Boys leader explains he joined the Evil team after the studio kicked him to the curb as he got older and how tired he got. And many saw this as a very bad hoax on the tragic life of actor Bobby Driscoll, the first child star to be exclusive to Disney.
Bobby worked with Disney Studios between the 1940s and 1950s and was the “model” for the character Peter Pan in the animated classic when the studio used real actors for their rotoscoping animations.
Unfortunately, years later, the boy famous for his leading roles in “A Canção do Sul” and “A Ilha do Treasure” starred in another story, this real one, very close to an urban legend that says the Actor, At 16 years old and already suffering from the effects of puberty, his contract with Disney was not renewed. Infamously, the passage states that his “firing” was due to former boss Howard Hughes’ dislike of child actors and actresses.
He then left his parents’ home and traveled to New York, where he studied acting. He subsequently began a relationship with a woman with whom he had two daughters, went to Mexico and years later returned to the Big Apple where he was subjected to drug abuse and some episodes that landed him in prison. At the age of 31, he was found dead by children in an old apartment. Buried a poor man, he was eventually found by his mother who was looking for him to spend one last moment with his father who was dying, drugs and a life of homelessness. He was even buried in an unknown pauper’s grave.
And because of this sad turn of events, Disney found itself in a great deal of controversy, since many, if they touched on such a sensitive subject, albeit inadvertently, considered it a disrespect for the life of the man who was once the most important character of the film studio.