![]() Color-Coded Characters: Mopsy, Flopsy, Cottontail, and Hopsy all wear different colored scarves to tell them apart.Civilized Animal: Most notable in the adaptation of Peter Rabbit which is an unofficial sequel.Cute Kitten: The orange kitten from "Peter Rabbit".Same with Gulliver's Travels, which only focuses on the Lilliputian story.It is relatively faithful to the book in an overall way, but many of the challenges Pinocchio found in the original were omitted. Compressed Adaptation: The 45 minutes format pretty much enforces this.Canon Foreigner: Pretty much the majority of new characters in Peter Rabbit, most notable being Hopsy.Brainless Beauty: Beauty in the first "Beauty and the Beast", fittingly enough.Barbie Doll Anatomy: Shirtless males often have this.Tod captures Peter's friends with this method in "Peter Rabbit" after they leave him when they found out he lied to them, and in "The Legend of Atlantis" Belial kidnaps Princess Ilan to try to make her his bride so he can rule Atlantis. Ascended Extra: Mr McGregor's cat has a bigger presence in "Peter Rabbit" and serves as the Big Bad.Animesque: Much of their earlier films were animated with assistance from Japanese companies like KK C&D Asia, with this in effect to varying degrees.Animated Musical: Most of their movies had songs in them.Animate Inanimate Object: Many of the movies have these, obviously inspired by the ones from Disney's Beauty and the Beast.Animated Adaptation: Almost all their works.In Treasure Island, Long John Silver compares his crew to The Three Stooges.Their version of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina is supposedly set in a medieval fairy tale kingdom, yet in one song it mentions plumbers, electricians and other types of modern day construction.An Aesop: Their movies often include some kind of moral.Adaptational Species Change: For whatever reason, Tommy Brock is changed from a badger into a hedgehog in Golden Films' adaptation of Peter Rabbit.It just takes the concept of the red shoes instead of adapting the original tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Adaptation Inspiration: The Red Shoes.Peter himself becomes Reggie Rabbit in later version of the movie. Adaptational Name Change: Benjamin is called "Benny" in Peter Rabbit. ![]() ![]() Peter/Reggie Rabbit since he acts more whiny in this adaptation and has a lying issue.In the Golden Film's adaptation there are sometimes seen arguing with each other. Mainly since Peter's sisters appear to be more intelligent and wiser in the original Beatrix Potter stories. Adaptational Wimp: Mopsy, Flopsy, and Cottontail end up as ditzy sisters in the adaptation "Peter Rabbit".He is later seen letting Peter's sisters out of his mailbox. Adaptational Heroism: Surprisingly, Farmer McGregor in the Golden Films adaptation of Peter Rabbit no longer wants to eat rabbits since he mentions that he dislikes rabbit stew.The company provides examples of (in construction): Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Misfit Toys.The New Adventures of Peter Rabbit (or Reggie Rabbit, as they call it in later versions).The Emperor's Treasure (Also released as The Secret Treasure of Machu Picchu).Since 2004 the company no longer produces new content and it is currently relying on licensing the existing one to various distributors and TV stations. Many of their works were distributed by and/or co-produced with GoodTimes Entertainment. It also has adapted adult novels like The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (which also just so happened to have a Disney adaptation around the same time) and The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père and a pair of stories from The Bible. The most famous of their products are the Enchanted Tales, which most are Animated Adaptations of classical fairy tales. Most of their output, however, can best be described as Mockbuster versions of popular animated films but with very different developments. Its objective was to create non-violent, quality films. Golden Films, also known as American Film Investment Corporation, was an American animation company founded in 1989 by Diane Eskenazi.
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