Treasure Planet... a treasure indeed

Well, today in the library I stumbled upon Treasure Planet... a movie I wanted to see when I was nine and ten years later I still couldn't resist the lure of checking out this once shortly longed for movie.

 As you can tell by the pattern of this blog by now I have a thing for cartoons and I must say that this version of "Treasure Island" was actually a rare find indeed.
I know Disney in its old days did often give their characters depth but this character Jim Hawkin's was different.
He was solitary... he didn't give trust easily like the other Disney characters... he was in his own pained world and his back story actually made me feel something more for the drawn character.
He was... not enchanting... but he resonated something with me.
He felt alone in the world. He always messed things up and he didn't seem to have had any lasting deep relationships of any sort with anyone beside his mother and even that was stumbling.
He did help around the house... he didn't rebel yet he was always seen as the rebel. He had something more... that the other main characters of Disney movies lacked and that was actually... hurt... loneliness and depression... I actually thought he didn't fit in more so than Quasimoto.

Anyway.
Disney did another thing in this movie which they don't do in many.

There was no real bad guy.

Yes there was John Silver... but he wasn't bad.
It was the treasure that was the bad guy and what it did to people.

John Silver, bless his Irish soul seemed like he honestly was a good person who was just trapped in the golds power.
He didn't want to hurt Jim, he even tried to bargain with him.
And the relationship that developed between the two- not being gay or anything- I knew it was supposed to be a father- son relationship but to me it was a best friend relationship... that was something Jim had never had before.
I kept hoping that at the end Jim would go with Silver in the end, leave his empty life and explore the galaxy but I still admire him for staying... even if it meant loosing the first person he had let into his inner being and mind.

And I admire the movie.
The directors must have changed after this film... for when I saw Princess and the Frog I did not have the same response or respect for that movie.
I know there is no need for a sequel for this film... but to me it was more adult than child and to me it was something... different.

I don't know if this review means anything to you but just writing it made me realise that it was good and maybe I shall enjoy it again sometime in the future.

Ta ta for now and keep watching things that

no one else will.