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Bryan Denton from Newsies is beautiful

Requested by @maggs-is-a-muppet

Spot, trying to pull Denton up from the side of a cliff: I can't hold on Denton, you're too heavy!

Denton: pretend I'm a Newsie, Spot

*Spot's grip loosens*

Denton: NOT JACK, NOT JACK!

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double bonus:

i just hope rn bryan denton is hugging his adoptive daughter (katherine plumber) so tight and giving her all the reassurance she doesnt get at home

So everyone is always talking about Medda being like a mother to Jack or the newsies but what about Denton?

Dad Denton needs more recognition

I don’t think we talk enough about Mr. President Theodore Roosevelt Jr. calling Bryan Denton “Denty”

what’s that about? 🤔

BILL PULLMAN as Bryan Denton

NEWSIES (1992) dir. kenny ortega

Ok so since a few of my friends have been very passionate about Katherine lately I thought I'd also talk about her (and Denton) a bit, not specifically judging or calling out but just some thoughts I had on them personally. So who knows me knows I love 92sies and yeah I was mad at first for Disney shoving a Disney Plot twist (oh no the reporter is related to the villain, we can't trust her now) as well as a love plot for an independent working woman in and then even cut my man Denton when my ideal world would have both of them. (Additional info since seeing UKsies I am much more in favour of Jatherine but before that they had no chemistry for me almost which only made me more annoyed at the love interest thing)

Hear me out. So Denton is interested in the strike but at first definitely only a bit until Kony (or more rather the fight before where police is not stepping in but instead keeping children locked in so they can get hit and beat). In the world we have both of them working for the Sun I am imagining him seeing her drive and want to work, her aspiration and her feeling for a good story and telling her about it, saying she should maybe go to where the newsies hang out and ask about the strike as he knows she wants to get out of the social pages and probably doesn't yet know how big the strike would get. The very latest they'd both be there for the Brooklyn showing up fight (or just taking the picture before Kony, but I do like my world more with Brooklyn here early) and then both for different reasons get really involved in the strike, personally.

So not to talk more about the timeline but more about how different Denton and Katherine get into the strike and connected to the newsies. Denton has seen some things as an ace war reporter, I'm sure, especially terrible things and has most likely seen young boys fight, even if not in a strike. He's feeling for them as an older man who knows he isn't in their shoes, far from it, but he has empathy for them and sees how dependent on child labour the city is after a short while and also how unfair they are treated, admires their fight, but he doesn't get it all, which is where Katherine comes in. Katherine also has to fight, so so much, just to get acknowledged, just to work at all, and even then the newsies first and foremost react to her with misogyny, but she still knows their fight in ways Denton doesn't, knows how it is to earn almost nothing (because even if her father is rich her own money she makes is abysmally small, probably around what a newsie makes that doesn't sell 100papes per edition as as far as I read that is a Huge amount) and knows she will treat them as, in a way, people with an equal fight (at least after Kony).

Which is also fitting on the topic of "oh Denton paid their fees and food" Denton has most likely a lot of money as an older white man who was an 'ace war reporter' and is 'friends' with the governour (Denty *cough*) Katherine has almost no money she makes herself, it is unlikely that at this time she just has money from her father she can use, and she sees the newsies as people that she is sure wouldn't want charity and people just paying for their things (like food) and is therefore not only not able to pay their fees or for food but also at least wouldn't do much for food as they are both rude to her at first and she wants to treat them without thinking of them as "poor orphans where a rich socialite has to pay their food"

One last thing I do think she could see him as a father figure who actually supports her as Pulitzer doesn't seem to be fond of her working until he is bragging in front of Jack and Denton could be so supporting in the Sun, helping her with everything and even trying to get her stories. Just let them co-exist in peace

did ya'll know Snitch was grabbed during the rally next to the littles

extra because its so sweet

LIKE HOW CAN I RECOVER

I see a bowtie I go "Bryan Denton" I see a cowboy I go "Jack Kelly" I'm fundamentally broken inside but like in a good way that is very cool

Denton redraw!

I seriously gotta rewatch newsies soon. I've been so busy lately I'm lucky if I get to sit down and draw for half an hour in the morning. But the good part about coming back to something after a long time is fresh perspective, and that's what I'm after right now.

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Denton: What’s your greatest weakness?

Jack: I can be uncooperative.

Denton: Give me an example.

Jack: no.

(last time I did this it was a tie lets try again)

they canonically work together to ME

OUR MAN DENTON !!!