When I was little, my dad took me and my family to go watch Hook at the cinema. We must have gone to a preview or special screening, because we got a Hook poster (the famous one from Dawson's Creek :P). I was able to convince my dad to give to me instead of any of my three brothers. My dad, a pilot, had a crazy resemblance to Robin Williams, and so the movie made me think maybe my dad was Peter Pan. I hung the poster in my room, and it took a lot of damage over the years. My dad continuously quoted the movie as the years went on. In the morning as he left for work, he'd say "Have to fly, have to fight, have to CROW" and would then crow like a rooster before leaving to fly helicopters for the day.
It was hanging on my bedroom wall when my dad died when I was 16 when he was getting ready for church one Sunday. It was... traumatic for me to say the least.
I still have the poster. It's torn and crumbled from moving with me to college, and on to many apartments after but I can't bring myself to throw it away.
I can't watch Hook without crying because it reminds me of how lucky I was to have a dad like that, especially in the scene where you meet your end and tell him your happy thought. It's bittersweet, because I know what that feels like at that age.
I just wanted to say thanks for being a part of something that reminds me of my dad and the great times I had with him.
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When I was little, my dad took me and my family to go watch Hook at the cinema. We must have gone to a preview or special screening, because we got a Hook poster (the famous one from Dawson's Creek :P). I was able to convince my dad to give to me instead of any of my three brothers. My dad, a pilot, had a crazy resemblance to Robin Williams, and so the movie made me think maybe my dad was Peter Pan. I hung the poster in my room, and it took a lot of damage over the years. My dad continuously quoted the movie as the years went on. In the morning as he left for work, he'd say "Have to fly, have to fight, have to CROW" and would then crow like a rooster before leaving to fly helicopters for the day.
It was hanging on my bedroom wall when my dad died when I was 16 when he was getting ready for church one Sunday. It was... traumatic for me to say the least.
I still have the poster. It's torn and crumbled from moving with me to college, and on to many apartments after but I can't bring myself to throw it away.
I can't watch Hook without crying because it reminds me of how lucky I was to have a dad like that, especially in the scene where you meet your end and tell him your happy thought. It's bittersweet, because I know what that feels like at that age.
I just wanted to say thanks for being a part of something that reminds me of my dad and the great times I had with him.
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