(In the book, when the cricket scolds Pinocchio for rebelling against his father, Pinocchio bashes the insect’s brains out with a hammer.) And Disney turned a single scene-in which Pinocchio’s nose grows when he tells a lie-into a central motif.

Similarly the “Talking-Cricket,” a minor nameless character, became Jiminy Cricket, a tiny bald-headed man who serves as the puppet’s voice of conscience. He would not be depicted as a puppet after all but as a real boy, and a gentle, winsome one at that. Pinocchio’s wish would be fulfilled from the start. It was unsuitable for children, Disney concluded: Pinocchio was too cocky, too much of a wiseguy, and too puppetlike to be sympathetic. It’s hard to blame Disney-Pinocchio is a rotten kid.Įarly in the project, in fact, Disney became so frustrated with Collodi’s story that he halted production. That is the Pinocchio depicted in Walt Disney’s adaptation, which whitewashed Collodi’s tale when it was released in 1940. I always imagined him as a cheerful little puppet who desires nothing more than to be transformed into a real live boy. He still manages to prove he is still worthy of becomeing a real boy, by rescueing his father ,Geppetto, who had been swallowed by the whale, Monstro, and Pinnocchio gets turned into a real boy by the Blue Fairy.Is that not how you remember Pinocchio? Me neither. Pinocchio only just manages to escape Pleasure Island, with the help of Jimminy Cricket, but not before he starts to change. So the night after he makes the puppet Pinocchio, he wishes upon a star that actually turns out to be the Blue Fairy, who brings the Pinocchio to life and tells him that if he proves himself worthy by listening to his concience (the cricket Jimminy Cricket) she will turn him into a real boy.Īt first Pinocchio does great at listening to Jimminy Cricket, until he meets the evil Honest John, and Gideon who turn him over to the evil puppeteer, Stromboli, who puts Pinocchio on show as a stringless puppet, after he escapes he gets sent to Pleasure Island, a place where wicked boys are turned into donkeys In the begining of the story we see Geppetto a master puppet maker who desperatly wants children but has none. I know that just about every one that is reading this blog probably already knows the story of Pinocchio, but for those of you that haven't this is the basic story line/plot of the story (Atleast the populare version). Ever since then Disney's version of 'Pinocchio' has been huge in America, and later passed to other countries. In Febuary of that year 'Pinocchio's Advetures' was published as an entire book.īy 1891 it had been relesed in Britan as a childrens book, and by 1898 it made its first appearence in America, but it wasn't until 1904 that it was writen and translated by americans, then published. The installments kept on coming at a steady rate after they picked up again, until the ending was published January,1883. There was a grate outrage at this until the installments picked back up where they left off ,on Febuary, 16, 1882, but under the name 'Pinocchio's Adventures'. These installments started in July, 7, 1881 and abruptly broke off months later on Ch. Like I said in the last blog, Most of the people reading this have heard the story of Pinocchio, But most people only know the disney version of the story wich was only based off of the original version ,'The Story of a Puppet', wich was just a weekly installment in 'Childrens Magazine' in Italy, and was writen by Carlo Collodi.

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