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Very happy, that Ben (Whishaw) decided to do this project because it is a film for the entire family. Also, I should mention that Ben’s (18 month old) niece will get to see the movie. As well as my (9 month old ) grand-daughter and her big brother during the holidays which makes this season extra special.
Also, it was just announced the (Paddington Movie) will be released in the U.S. during the
Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend.
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Although Paddington now lives in London, England, he originally came from Darkest Peru where he was brought up by his Aunt Lucy after he was orphaned following an earthquake when he was just a few weeks old.
When Aunt Lucy went to live in the Home for Retired Bears in Lima, she decided to send him to England to live. After teaching him to speak perfect English, Aunt Lucy arranged for him to stow away in a ship’s lifeboat.
Eventually, Paddington arrived on Paddington Station in London where he was found by Mr. and Mrs. Brown. He was sitting on a small suitcase near the lost property office wearing nothing but an old bush hat and a label round his neck with the words
“Please Look After This Bear. Thank You.”
Unable to resist such a simple request, Mr. and Mrs. Brown took Paddington home to live with them at 32 Windsor Gardens in London, along with their two children, Jonathan and Judy and their housekeeper, Mrs. Bird.
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The Browns decided to name the new member of their family Paddington, after the place where he was found, although we later learn that in Peru Paddington was called Pastuso, after his uncle.
When he was found, Paddington wasn’t too sure how old he was so the Browns decided to start again at one. They also decided that he should have two birthdays a year (just like the Queen!) and so he celebrates these on 25th June and 25th December.
Paddington has a close friend, Mr. Gruber who owns an antiques shop in the nearby Portobello Road and most days Paddington and Mr. Gruber share their elevenses of buns and cocoa. If Paddington ever has a problem he will almost always turn to
Mr. Gruber for help and advice.
The Browns have a very unpleasant next-door-neighbor, Mr. Curry. He is very mean and is always trying to
take advantage of Paddington’s good nature.
More about Paddington
Paddington wears an old bush hat which was handed down to him by his uncle in Peru and he is hardly ever seen without it.
When Paddington first went to live with the Browns they bought him a blue duffle coat which he wears most of the time. It has a hood and is fastened with wooden toggles.
Paddington sometimes completes his outfit with a pair of Wellington boots.
Paddington is rarely parted from his battered, brown, leather suitcase. It has his initials P.B. written on the side and a secret compartment in which he keeps all his important papers.
Paddington is famous for his love of marmalade and he is particularly fond of it in marmalade sandwiches. He always carries a jar of it in his suitcase and he usually has a marmalade sandwich tucked under his hat ‘in case of emergencies’.
When Paddington goes shopping in the market he often takes along his shopping basket on wheels.
One of Paddington’s most important possessions is his scrapbook where he likes to write about all his adventures. It is also full of mementoes and the regular postcards which he receives from his Aunt Lucy in Peru.
Paddington is a very polite bear. He is very well-meaning and full of good intentions but his trusting nature can often get him into trouble. If people upset Paddington then they may get treated to one of his famous hard stares!
Fortunately for Paddington, whatever scrapes he gets into, things always turn out alright for him in the end.
Charity Mascot
Paddington is, by nature, a very helpful bear and so he does a lot of work for charities.
In the UK Paddington has given his exclusive support to Action Medical Research ever since Michael Bond had a chance meeting with the charity’s founder Duncan Guthrie in 1976. Over the years Paddington’s involvement with Action Medical Research has helped to raise awareness and vital funds for research into a very wide range of medical conditions with particular emphasis on those
affecting babies and children.
In other parts of the world Paddington has been involved with a number of other projects including work for the
American Red Cross and UNICEF.
“Paddington is famous for his love of marmalade and he is particularly fond of it in marmalade sandwiches. He always carries a jar of it in his suitcase and he usually has a marmalade sandwich tucked under his hat ‘in case of emergencies’.”
Book Design by Michael Bond
Peru’s Manu is one of the most biologically diverse places on earth. Home to over 1,000 species of birds, 300 species of trees, and countless other life forms, Manu showcases life at its most prolific. But deep within Manu’s rain forest also lie stories and histories of Indians and foreign explorers of centuries past.
Though their footprints have disappeared over time, these inhabitants and travelers have made deep impressions that have
shaped Manu into what it is today.
Home to numerous indigenous Indian tribes, the Peruvian rain forest’s most recognized Indian inhabitants were the Incas whose capital was in the Andes but whose empire extended into the cloud forest. With their large empire, the Incas had many contacts with the jungle Indians of Manu. At its height, the Inca empire spanned 3,000 miles (4,800 km) across South America. Inca territory was divided into quarters, with Cuzco, the city where the Inca Sun King resided, at the center. Communication between cities was facilitated by “chaskis,” couriers who ran between locations to send information.
During the 1500s, the Inca’s hold on the region began to wane. Spurred by discoveries in the new world, Spanish conquistadors began exploring South America and claiming these newly-found areas for Spain. By 1532, Peru was conquered by Spaniard Francisco Pizarro, and in 1567, Alvarez Maldonado claimed the Manu river and surrounding regions for Spain.
Even though the Spanish ruled the territory, they knew little of the rain forest’s natural resources and waterways. Renewed interest in exploring Manu developed after the rubber boom. In 1839, Charles Goodyear heated rubber sap with sulfur, producing the first commercially viable, heat-resistant rubber. After this discovery, demand for rubber trees ran high, and Manu, with its rich bounty of rubber trees, became the perfect source for satisfying this need.
Also crucial to Manu’s rubber trade was baron Carlos Fitzgerald’s (“Fitzcarraldo”) crossing of a divide between the Upper Mishagua and Upper Manu. This divide, eventually called the “Fitzgerald Pass,” provided an accessible travel route to the Madre de Dios River. In 1880, approximately 8,000 tons of rubber were exported from Peru, but by 1900, the number of exports climbed to an amazing 27,000 tons of rubber. In 1914, Manu’s rubber trade collapsed, suffering from competition from Southeast Asian rubber suppliers and deforestation.
Manu’s landscape has changed since its pristine early years, and several animal and plant species have become endangered since the rubber boom. In 1967, the Peruvian government signed an agreement with other American countries to establish national parks to promote conservation of regional flora and fauna. This agreement specified that the park “covered more than half the country… contained the greatest number of Peru’s wide range of animals and birds…be in a virgin state, uninhabited and unaffected by the operations of hunters, lumbers, or colonists…[and] included every biotope from the riverside forests of the Amazon’s main tributaries.” In 1968, Manu was declared a National Reserve, and five years later, it was upgraded to a National Park.
Today, the entire region of Manu — a total size of 7200 square miles (1,881,200 hectares) — is considered a Biosphere Reserve. The Manu Biosphere Reserve is composed of three parts: the Manu National Park, a region protecting the natural flora and fauna; the Manu Reserved Zone, an area reserved for research and tourism; and the Manu Cultural Zone, a place used for human settlement. With these recent conservation efforts, life in Manu flourishes. Presently, scientists and researchers are learning more about the indigenous Indians that still inhabit Manu, as well as of the regional flora and fauna.
Ben Whishaw cast as new Paddington Bear
James Bond star Ben Whishaw has been cast as the new voice of Paddington in the upcoming film about the Peruvian bear.
The 33-year-old has replaced Oscar-winner Colin Firth, who left the film in June after saying he did not have the
right voice for the character.
Producer David Heyman told, the Daily Mail Paddington needed “a slightly more open, and younger, voice”.
The film is due to be released in the UK on 28 November (and U.S. Theaters on Christmas Day)
(From BBC News)
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