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Miss Price + the children

posted 17 years ago by thankyouforbeingafriend
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Do you think the children stayed with Miss Price forever or do you think they went back to London after the war

id like to think that they ended up staying with ms price...thats why i like this movie. it lets you think about what might have happened

[–] MrSpocksCat 17 years ago

Miss price inrolled the children into Hogwarts.

"Sir, there's a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder" - Mr. Spock

[–] wonderwall100 17 years ago

I was never sure whether the children stayed until years later when I saw the uncut anniversary edition.

The deleted scenes explained that the kids were orphans and also had a song with Miss Price singing about being single and childless. The deleted scenes also had more hints of a romance between Miss Price and Mr Brown.

I think in true Disney style they all ended up living happily together because the children had no family to go back to and Miss Price longed for a family deep down.

[–] max_demian 16 years ago

The deleted scenes explained that the kids were orphans

I was confused by that as they certainly behave as orphans in need of parents at the end, but they never say they are.

Also, if they were war orphans I don't think they would have been lumped in with the evacuees.

If, as one of the other posts says, in the book they have parents to go back to, this could be explained as hamfisted adaptation/editing.

[–] bruceybonus3002 16 years ago

They do say they're orphans in the uncut version Matey.

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[–] ClassicActress 15 years ago

There's an UNCUT VERSION? Awesome!

I also thought that they had stayed with Miss Price. :)

[–] wonderwall100 15 years ago

"There's an UNCUT VERSION? Awesome"

Yes the DVD has extra restored footage added to the movie.

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[–] film-collector 15 years ago

Maybe they grew up into religious zealots and stoned Miss Price to death because she was a witch and was threatening to eat them!

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[–] stevenscottoddballz 12 years ago

"Sir, there's a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder." Don't fall for that line, or you'll get the Vulcan Neck Pinch!

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[–] louiseculmer 9 years ago

LOL

[–] Belletrist0 17 years ago

According to the book, the children went back to London to be with their parents. In the movie, I assume Miss Price would formally adopt the trio and settle down as a proper family.

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[–] kristinaa 16 years ago

Well, in the movie version since they are orphaned, I think they stayed with Miss Price and that when Mr. Browne returned they maybe get married and are a happy family.

[–] wonderwall100 16 years ago

"Well, in the movie version since they are orphaned, I think they stayed with Miss Price and that when Mr. Browne returned they maybe get married and are a happy family."

Yes, thats what I think as well.

[–] MetFanMac 16 years ago

I love Disney movies because you can always depend on them having happy endings!

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[–] VincentioTheDuke 15 years ago

Not to put a downer on it, but Mr Browne had about five years of fighting on the front to get through. My guess is that, in the real world, there were very slim chances of him returning at all. I know none of my great-grandfathers did. I can't imagine he would have been that adept of a fighter.

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[–] edjavega 15 years ago

Oh, I think Mr. Browne would have survived. He was a real clever fellow.

And remember, if you are badly injured but not killed, they do send you back to your country. I don't think he had to spend the entire 5 years fighting in the war. Also, by 1944, most of the main fighting was really over.

At any rate, in the book, he is supposed to come from the past, and Ms. Price time travels to meet him, and STAYS there with him and marries him. That's sweet, but I prefer how this movie puts them together in the end, at least impliedly.

[–] VincentioTheDuke 15 years ago

But you would have to be severely injured to return home from World War II, and you would be looked down upon for not returning to some kind of action as soon as you were well enough again. Besides, the film is set in The Battle of Britain (hence why the children were being evacuated) period of the war, so there was still long years of fighting to go. Again, sorry to put a downer on it, but in the real world, he would almost certainly have been dead by the end of the war. Again, he wasn't a greatly trained soldier. But it's Disney, and they only kill mothers, so...

What does it mean...when she smiles?

[–] Plymouth-58 15 years ago

Mr. Brown could have changed himself into a rabbit if the fighting got too intense.

[–] clive-ihd 15 years ago

After the war the children would have gone home, but they would have stayed in touch with Miss Price.

My grandparents had an evacuee during the war and he still keeps in touch with my Dad.

[–] theoctobercountry 10 years ago

Actually, I don't believe Mr Brown saw active service. I had always thought he joined the Home Guard---these were the older fellows who took care of things at home while the younger men were overseas fighting. However, others on this board have said that he in fact did enlist.

Still---I don't know that someone his age and in his physical condition and with no previous military training whatsoever would have been sent to the battlefield. I rather think he would have served in some capacity while staying right in England---they needed a heck of a lot of people to run the war from home, remember, and not just fellows in the field.

So, in my mind he was able to stay right there and settle down and marry Miss Price and adopt those kids!