Collodi” (1900) La avventure di Pinocchio, storia di un burattino (1902) Pinocchio the adventures of a marionette (1904) Pinocchio the tale of a puppet (1911) The story of a puppet : or The adventures of Pinocchio (1892) Pinocchio, the story of a puppet, by “C. I found the following images by browsing : To put Kahl’s design in perspective, it’s interesting to look at older interpretations of Pinocchio’s character design.
Milt Kahl said that the animators were “rather obsessed with the idea of this boy being a wooden puppet” and felt that they should “forget that he was a puppet and get a cute little boy you can always draw the wooden joints and make him a wooden puppet afterwards.” Milt Kahl’s design is the one that is known and loved today. He called for an immediate halt in production. Walt Disney felt no one could sympathize with such a character. In fact, the character was so unlikable that Walt Disney almost cancelled the production.Īt first, Disney’s animators designed Pinocchio literally as a wooden puppet. There is a cricket in the story that tries to speak to Pinocchio’s conscience but our hero quickly bludgeons him to death. The wooden puppet was an evil little thing. The moral: bad things happen to bad children.
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Many people are not aware of the much less wholesome original character.Ĭarlo Collodi (real name Carlo Lorenzini) wrote Pinocchio as a series for a children’s section in a newspaper in Rome in the years 18.
He wants nothing more than to be reunited with his father, Gepetto, and to become a real boy. He is lovable and sweet but he can’t help his naughty streak.
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Most of us know Pinocchio as the adorable Disney character from the 1940 movie that debuted the song “When You Wish Upon a Star”. The story is engaging and the characters are empathetic, but how is it so easily glossed over that Pinocchio almost kills and eats his best friend? And why is it okay for the Blue Fairy to pretend that she’s dead as a punishment for Pinocchio? A further investigation was warranted.
As I was watching this version of Pinocchio with my son I began to notice disturbing patterns of cruelty in this seemingly innocent story.
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