Captain Hook
Captain Hook is a fictional character from Peter Pan , the play and book by James M. Barrie . He is the antagonist of Peter Pan .
Surname
The captain's full name is Captain James Hook . His first name is abbreviated as JAS . The book says, "he was Blackbeard's boatswain" and "the only person the famous barbeque cook ever feared" ( ie Long John Silver , the one-legged cook from RL Stevenson's novel Treasure Island ). The name Hook is based on the fact that he lost his hand during the first confrontation with Peter Pan: Peter threw it into the throat of a giant crocodile . Instead of his left hand - in the novel it is the right one - he has since been wearing the eponymous hook, which, depending on the illustrator or film prop owner, is depicted differently as a simple hook , an iron claw, a double hook or a sophisticated murder tool. In most versions, the captain has several hooks that he can switch out, including one made of gold for festive occasions.
Appearance
Hook is the undisputed captain of the pirate ship Jolly Roger . In films and illustrations, the ship is usually depicted as a red and gold galleon . He is the leader of the Pirates of Neverland and always wears only clothes and feather hats of the utmost exclusivity according to the fashion of the 17th and 18th centuries. In most books and films he wears a red and gold or a blue captain's skirt , tricorne hat , breeches, silk stockings, buckled shoes or high boots, and is armed with a sword and various pistols. His very long, curly black hair is twisted into strict corkscrew curls that look like black candles from a distance. His face with "eyes as blue as forget-me-not flowers" is of a corpse-like pallor, his eyes lie deep in dark sockets; they turn red when he's angry. Its appearance is considered attractive and at the same time repulsive. You rarely see him without his double cigar holder, which he invented himself, with which he can smoke two cigars at once. Hook's exact age is unknown.
The crocodile that ate his hand follows Hook day and night, eager for the rest. Fortunately, the crocodile swallowed an alarm clock, which is why Hook can hear the crocodile from afar and always escape. That is why he easily panics when he hears a ticking: He suffers from "chronetrophobia".
characterization
Captain Hook is the darkest and most serious character in Barrie's Peter Pan tales. Here it symbolizes the "adult" par excellence: it is dark, brutal, unscrupulous, often melancholy and lonely. He despises the Indians, who are also to be found on Neverland, as well as his own team, but they stand by him unconditionally. However, Barrie also describes him as a good storyteller, a man who likes flowers and who is very good at playing the harpsichord with one hand . He has never been able to completely shed his gentleman nature as a burden of the past. He kept “good style” all his life.
In the course of the story it turns out that he detests Peter not only because of the lost hand - he finds his hook "better than a dozen hands" - but because of his insolence and childish cheek, which torments him like a thorn in the flesh. Unlike Hook, Peter never seems to know doubt or fear. Hook comes to an end when, pushed by Peter Pan, he falls into the jaws of the crocodile waiting next to the Jolly Roger. Peter Pan himself soon no longer remembers his archenemy.
Incarnations
In most of the stage versions he and Mr. Darling, the children's father, are portrayed by the same actor, because according to Peter "all adults are somehow pirates and spoilsport".
The following actors have embodied Captain Hook in films and TV series:
- Ernest Torrence in Peter Pan , 1924
- Dustin Hoffman in Hook , 1991
- Jason Isaacs in Peter Pan , 2003
- Rhys Ifans in the 2011 British-American TV miniseries Neverland - Journey to the Land of Adventure
- Corey Burton in Jake and the Never Land Pirates , 2011
- Colin O'Donoghue in the US series Once Upon a Time , 2012
- Garrett Hedlund in Pan , 2015
- Stanley Tucci in Peter and Wendy , British TV movie, 2015
swell
- M'Connachie, James Matthew Barrie: Speeches by JM Barrie . [London], P. Davies 1938. Books for Libraries Press ( Reprint )
- A collection of lectures that Barrie in Eton , where he studied on Peter Pan has kept
literature
- JM Barrie: Peter Hollindale . Introduction and Notes. Ed .: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy . Oxford Univ. Press. 1991. S. XIX. ISBN 0-19-283929-2 .
- Brian Till: The Secret History of Captain Hook . In: The Atlantic , December 23, 2010. [1]