Goodbye Christopher Robin Page #5

This is more

than a few poems.

Mmm. It's a little world.

Like you said,

a hundred-acre paradise.

Shh.

Be very, very quiet.

ALAN:
"Vespers."

This one is for Daphne.

Look, Blue. Smoke!

ALAN:
Intruders!

To arms, gentlemen!

It's not intruders. It's Nou!

It must be. Nou!

ALAN:
Might not be.

DAPHNE:
Billy Moon.

Hello!

(AS EDWARD BEAR)

Oh, Mrs. Milne,

we've missed you terribly.

Life in the countryside

is so limited.

(IN NORMAL VOICE)

Yes, well, I did notice that.

So I brought some friends back

from the city with me to stay.

(AS KANGA) Have you seen

my little Jimmy anywhere?

Joey! Baby kangaroos

are called Joey.

Not this one.

His name is Roo.

I'm Kanga

and this is Roo.

Where's Nanny?

I don't understand.

You mean to say

it was just the two of you

this whole time?

How absurd.

Are we to know

where you've been?

Oh, good heavens no.

I mean,

what would be the point?

The great thing is

I'm back now.

(SIGHS)

Don't you think?

Yes. As a matter of fact,

I do.

You see?

Yes, I think I do see.

I sent you

a poem I wrote.

About the boy.

DAPHNE:
Yes, I read it.

It was very sweet.

Just a bit of a lark.

I sent it off

to be published.

What?

Well, it made me happy.

Thought it might make

lots of people happy.

Published by whom?

Vanity Fair.

They were

very pleased with it.

Isn't it rather wonderful?

Well.

That is rather wonderful.

It's their biggest

selling issue

for simply ages, apparently.

People are buying extra copies

to give to their friends.

Perhaps I should ask

Ernest back down.

ALAN:
Ernest and I are

putting your bear in a book.

CHRISTOPHER ROBIN:

He'll like that.

We're putting you in it too.

Will you like that?

I'm not sure.

If I'm in a book,

people might think

I'm not real.

Well, then

it will be a surprise

when they find out

you are real.

And when they find out

Winnie is real?

We can't call him

Winnie in the book,

because Winnie

is a girl's name.

No. It's a bear's name.

It's different for bears.

Nou says.

I like names with "the."

William the Conqueror,

Richard the Lionheart,

Joanna the Mad.

You made her up.

I certainly did not.

She was the queen of Spain.

Winnie the Bear.

Everyone knows

he's a bear already.

He wasn't called

Richard the King, was he?

Or Billy the Moon.

But you're not the moon.

Christopher the Robin.

I'm not a robin either.

What will you call me

in the book?

Not Billy Moon because

that's what we call you.

It'll be confusing.

But if I'm

really in the book.

Christopher Robin, then...

...because it's

your real name,

but it's not

who you really are.

(SIGHS)

You all right, old man?

Those fields in France...

...they'll look like this now,

won't they?

As though

it never happened.

CHRISTOPHER ROBIN: Blue...

...when I'm grown up,

how old will you be?

About 100, I should think.

(CHRISTOPHER ROBIN YELLS) Oh!

(ECHOES)

There's an echo!

Come and hear.

Hello!

(ALAN CHUCKLES)

Hello!

My name is Blue!

(ECHOING)

Who are you?

I'm Billy Moon!

And I'll be back soon!

(ECHOING)

Ernest...

...look.

(BOTH CHUCKLING)

Does he need a hat?

ALAN:
Certainly not.

Winnie the Pooh is

a creature of bedtime.

He's either just got up

or just going off.

He's reverie in bear form.

Winnie the Pooh.

That's rather...

Inexplicable?

Yes.

Which is a good thing.

Is it a good thing?

Yes.

Winnie the Pooh.

She's here! She's here!

She's here!

Good heavens, who is it?

Queen Mary?

DAPHNE:

It's only been two weeks.

(CHUCKLING) Nou!

Have you missed me?

CHRISTOPHER ROBIN: Yes!

OLIVE:
Sorry it was a bit longer than I said.

We put a door in a tree

using balloons.

I was terribly sorry to hear

the news about your mother.

Thank you, sir.

She's gone to a better place.

I saw the "Vespers" poem.

About his prayers.

Hanging on the wall

of a friend's living room.

They'd ripped it out of

the magazine and framed it.

Apparently, a lot of people

are doing that.

Well, that is just

the beginning.

He has been terribly,

brilliantly busy.

"And he helped

to get the others...

"His huge big waterproof...

Who's this?

STUDENTS:
Tigger!

WOMAN:
Thank you, Mr. Milne.

Thank you very much.

I say! You're most awfully

good at climbing trees.

Who are you?

Stay exactly like that.

Lovely.

Like a wood spirit.

Excuse me!

Oh, Brown. Mary Brown.

The Times.

Good heavens, you must be

Nanny. As in "Vespers."

The nanny with

the blue dressing gown.

The one that God blesses!

I'd just as soon not,

if you don't mind.

Billy, come down.

If you'd like to

speak to Mr. Milne,

please be so good as to telephone

to him and make an appointment.

But I don't want to speak

to Mr. Milne, you see.

I want to speak

to Christopher Robin.

I'm afraid that won't

be possible today.

Billy, let's go.

Why do you call him Billy?

My proper name is Milne

but when I was small,

it came out Moon.

I'm good at coming down

trees too. Did you notice?

MARY BROWN:
Oh, I did.

I also noticed that you have

cardboard tied to your legs.

In case of dragons.

You don't know where

I can get some of

that dragon-proof

cardboard, do you?

That's enough, dear.

It's such a bother when the dragons

set fire to my stockings.

Good day to you.

Did you get it?

Sorry.

DAPHNE:
From The Times?

Well, that's rather good.

Don't you think that's good?

OLIVE:
No, ma'am.

I can't say I do.

The boy is happy here and...

Sorry, ma'am.

Sorry, sir.

Yes, The Times

is very good.

(TELEPHONE RINGING)

DAPHNE:
Hello?

The Evening News wants to put

Winnie on the front page.

Yes, that'd be fine.

MAN:
Are you sure?

Yes, I think so.

That's marvelous.

Thank you so much.

BETTY:
They're

not for you, sir.

They're nearly all for

Master Christopher.

I see that.

I wonder if I might ask,

sir, if in future...

...you couldn't come to the

post office and collect them?

Only there being so many,

it's hard to keep my balance.

Of course.

Oh, thank you, sir.

WOMAN:
For Christopher Robin.

But I'm not really

Christopher Robin.

For the animals then.

But they

don't eat chocolate.

I do, though.

And so does Nou.

Who is Nou?

She's Nanny.

Nanny is real too?

Of course she's real.

I tried ever so hard

to save some for you.

You saved three.

That's very good.

Why does everyone like

Winnie the Pooh so much?

He's my bear.

Why don't they get

their own bears?

Well...

You see, after the war

there was so much sadness...

...that hardly anyone

could remember

what happiness was like.

Then Winnie the Pooh

came along

and he was like a tap.

You just turned it on

and happiness came out.

But I'm not Christopher Robin,

really. I'm Billy Moon.

That's right.

And you don't have to

share me with anybody.

Except Mummy.

Yes, but that's only

a little bit.

Uh-huh.

PHOTOGRAPHER:

Come on, Christopher Robin.

Give him a cuddle.

He is your daddy after all.

Oh, come on, Mr. Milne.

A little affection, please.

Surely he can't be expected

to answer all of these.

It's a lovely day outside

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