![]() Most strikingly, he straight-up murders the Jiminy Cricket equivalent who tries to give him good advice, and is subsequently haunted by its ghost. He befriends Lampwick and sees him become a donkey, as in the film-but he also re-encounters donkey Lampwick later, just in time to watch him die of overwork. Later, she and the fox end up blind, lame, and starving, and Pinocchio-in spite of his own constant moral failings and repentances-laughs at them and tells them it serves them right. (Like a movie cop, killed by the villain one week from retirement.) Pinocchio bites off one of the cat’s paws, when she attacks him while dressed as a bandit, and she repays him by hanging him, leading to a morbid sequence where he’s menaced by black rabbit undertakers. He deliberately betrays his father and the good fairy over and over, including at one point when he’s behaved himself for a year and is literally one day away from becoming a real boy. ![]() Pinocchio is a selfish little beast, aggressive and violent and constantly defying authority. It originated as a newspaper serial, so it’s made up of short episodes, almost all of which involve death, mutilation, or some grotesque betrayal. But Collodi’s version is so much darker and more disturbing. Many of the basics we see in the movie are there-Pinocchio is carved from wood by an old man who wishes for a son, he comes to life, he runs away at the behest of a scheming fox and cat, he ends up in a puppet show, he goes to a place where boys enjoy themselves until they turn into donkeys, he rescues his creator from the belly of a giant fish, and he becomes a real boy. ![]() Tasha: So Nathan, have you read Carlo Collodi’s 1883 novel The Adventures Of Pinocchio, the basis for Disney’s animated film? It’s an incredibly disturbing book. TWO DISSOLVE WRITERS KEEP THE PINOCCHIO CONVERSATION GOING…
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