Winnie-the-Pooh
The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday.
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- > self-esteem issues, as if Eeyore did the RLHF inputs
You need to reread Winnie-the-Pooh <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67098/pg67098-images.ht...> and The House at Pooh Corner <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73011/pg73011-images.ht...>. Eeyore is gloomy, yes, but he has a biting wit and gloriously sarcastic personality.
If you want just one section to look at, observe Eeyore as he floats upside-down in a river in Chapter VI of The House at Pooh Corner: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73011/pg73011-images.ht...
(I have no idea what film adaptations may have made of Eeyore, but I bet they ruined him.)
- Winnie-the-Pooh
- Our kids love reading Andersen's tales same as: Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis | The Little Prince by A. de Saint-Exupéry | Six Bullerby Children by A. Lindgren (and many more form Lindgren) | Pettson and Findus by S. Nordqvist | Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne | few local authors (Petr Horáček, Jiří Karafiát, Daisy Mrázková...)
- > What would happen if a Chinese company made a movie where Martin Luther King is an Albanian immigrant who came to Italy with the Vlora ship in 1991 to become a supporter of immigrants rights and got killed by a mobster in a fight over a pool game?
You're not very good at arguing your case. I see where you're trying to go with this, but that analogy sucks.
Look, Disney just ruins everything. I grew up with the A.A. Milne books for Winnie the Pooh. As a child, I had a picture in my mind for all of the characters, appearance, voice, manner. Disney's Winnie the Pooh is not it, and they have such cultural dominance that their vision can seem to overwrite the original.
I've had to just learn to not sweat it. Blade Runner 2049? Excellent movie, but I do not consider it canon. The original had a sense of humor and hopefulness that 2049 just absolutely lacked.
My Disney+ shows that I'll have access to Pinocchio on September 8th. Not sure if you have already seen it, but if not, give it a watch with an open mind. You might like it.
- That’s old school. My favourite source where you can clearly see it in use is Winnie the Pooh; Milne rather liked the style.
- I put Calvin and Hobbes up on the pedestal next to Winnie the Pooh (the first two books by AA Milne). It’s a weird connection between being an adult and being a child. Like a bolt of lightning... that somehow repeats itself strip after strip or chapter after chapter. I just count myself lucky for being exposed to it.
