Good way to get our grandparents primed for things to come, right? And it is a wicked one. Though Pinocchio is able to escape Stromboli, he still manages to get into plenty of trouble. Pinocchio is the best example. I have a real history with Pinocchio and I love the movie dearly. The boy who was scarred from an experience was given a release from it and the movie seems set to take a tragic turn for the worst. I know its awful, but what can you do? Pinocchios case is significant, because he is the only one on Pleasure Island shown being cured and lose his donkey parts at the end of the movie. Disneys first adaptation of the story came in 1940, and was only the second animated feature Disney produced after Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1937. It's very odd. The funny thing about Pinocchio is that I didnt see it until I was in my late teens despite having been in a production of Pinocchio (not the Disney version, but an adaptation of the story. In one scene, just before the Coachman talks with a small donkey named Alexander, he stripped clothes off of another donkey? Hell even lock away people he knows arent really crazy for money (and he loves it). First of all, it has been a LOOONG time since I saw this movie because I really detested it. The ones who still speak like that poor little Alexander (the one donkey in all of fiction that probably wrenches hearts just thinking about him), are unaccounted for. Now I look at everything more skeptically than I did before and I was already a skeptic. They do not know what exactly Pleasure Island has in store for him, but they are alarmed by a menacing Coachman who persuades them to bring him disobedient boys. Multiple. Along with Pinocchio, all the 'bad' kids are lured to the island. Pedophilia does tend to scar the victim for life. The sense of tragedy/loss/exploitation in Dumbo and injustice/darkness in Pinocchio drag viewers into affects they might not have expected in a Disney film. These lines hold, from the beginning till the end as the most important and oft-spoken lines in the movie. 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. She did not do this in the first place because perhaps she knew he was gullible and foolhardy and might die before actually enjoying life. ) Maybe (its a point of view that needs to be confirmed) showing moral decay and hellish punishments was seen as a way to divert people from misbehavioring, typical of the Puritan Anglo-saxon mentality and of course very strange (I add, twisted and perverse) for the French (and Latin/Catholic) one. They just looked so gruesome to be in a family/kids movie. It's eventually revealed the boys are being turned into donkeys and sold as slave labor. The only other person I know of that made a kids theme park was Micheal Jackson, and we all know his controversy. At the island all the kids smoke and . At first he overindulges in archetypal morality myth fashion, first in one direction, then in the other. Despite his misadventures throughout the movie, Pinocchio is able to embody those characteristics by the end of the Disney remake through the selfless act of saving Geppettos life. I have always thought that many Hollywood story lines were created to make horrible things like this seem like fantasy, like it could never happen in real life. Then he gets a visit from the Blue Fairy, AKA a spirit, a demon, which is where occult power comes from. Pleasure Island was an area of the Downtown Disney shopping, dining and entertainment district at Walt Disney World Resort. Pinocchio begins to believe that he is a victim and can't resist the prospect of getting away from responsibility for a while. The good-natured humor does just about enough to balance the movie out in order for it to qualify as family-friendly, but Pinocchio will always be Disney at its most terrifying. Rather than following his fathers wishes and going to school, Pinocchio joins Strombolis puppet show with dreams of becoming famous. But his little wooden body is prone and still in the ocean, and Jiminy, Geppetto, and even the fish cry over his little waterlogged body. It's amazing that parents are still cool with showing it to their kids today, considering the seriously messed-up stuff that happens in the flick. Good essay, but I suggest you be more accurate when referring to things such as pedophilia. That was fascinating so many ties to current times I also saw recently that Pinocchio also stands for the pineal gland or consciousness and ocular Pinocchio! You could say the same of bambi..people are the villains. However, Jiminy Cricket affirms at the end of the movie that whether the puppet come to life does become human, he is real in his heart, and that is what matters the most at the end of the day. What's up with that? Think about it: he doesn't go to school, and the Blue Fairy asks him why. That part really disturbed me when I was little, I refused to watch it for years and Id run out of the room or hide under the covers whenever my siblings would put it on and that scene would come on, Id also have recurring nightmares about being turned into a donkey and being shoved into a crate sometimes along with my siblings and cousins. Animation Society. I think we can all view movies through a new lens these days. That house looks exactly like the white house? They drink, they smoke, they fight, they destroy stuff and then they become donkeys and therefore, scarred for life. I wish people could just say 'we think' and provide evidence vs. 'this is fact' without providing any solid evidence lol. There is nothing wrong with Disneys optimism and idealism in other films. If so, good job! The Fairy teaches him a lesson in the importance of being virtuous, which begins with honesty with ones self. And anyone who knows what insane asylums were like in the late 1700s into the early 1800s (the time that the film is presumably set) know that they were more like hellish prisons than they were places to seek treatment, with inmates treated like caged dying animals. I just watched it finally again: Wow, its really powerful! In fact, it is a sort of truth. Luke . I have friends who didnt see the Hunchback till later too. This is very interesting. Though Jiminy Cricket states that it is unclear if or when Pinocchio becomes a real boy, the movie shows a close-up of Pinocchios leg taking on a more human appearance, suggesting he does become a real human after all. "The Coachman to Pleasure Island" by Luke Evans - This song is the last one in Pinocchio, and is sung by the Coachman to convince the wooden boy to join his peers, including Lampwick, in Pleasure Island. Tragic enough when looked at on the surface, more so when one looks under the dark coat. In some cases, they are in the open. In Mr Potters case he was a frail old man in decline health-wise and in his power over his town. But I found it too Dated, and not entertaining enough for me. In fact, Pinocchio may have been what started it. You can hear it briefly in Tobacco Row sequence,in Pleasure Island. This story has been shared 3,335 times. The childrens transformations into donkeys at the end of Pinocchio are a result of their misbehavior on Pleasure Island. Good stuff. Holly McFarlane has been a Movie/TV Features writer for Screen Rant since June 2022. Free shipping for many products! If you think acting is a foul career, than why the heck are you reviewing movies? This creation isa puppet he names Pinocchio. Pleasure Island was a cursed amusement park seen in Pinocchio. Pinocchio's death was the first Disney death ever. Was Johns sidekick just there? Cool, yeah, this messed-up situation definitely needed to be escalated by literal demons. On the subject of his weight loss there have been many conspiracy theories, including divine intervention and liposuction. Animation Society. I am very interested. The temptations the fairy warned against seem to be affecting even our guide. Honestly, Tarzan was not really about defeating villains either and lo, Clayton still got the axe. He learns he isn't supposed to lie, but couldn't there have been a better way to teach him that? But behind the explicit meaning is yet another meaning. Her first action was giving Pinocchio life, now she meets him again for another talk, another lesson, and some last bit of magic. Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. Clearly, he's a lonely old guy. Thank you for that. So Pinocchio drowns trying to save his father (and him breathing underwater just fine when he's looking for Monstro is totally not a thing, by the way) and he proves that he is brave and unselfish. However, his is nothing compared to the exposure of violence, sexual deviation, and immorality that we daily expose our kids to through video games, television, and our educational system via sex education classes and "sensitivity" training. Insightful, super analysis taking into account phenomena in the world. Im French and in my country, everybody knows the tale of Pinocchio but quite few people have seen the Disney movie, I think its in part because of the date when the film was released (1940, a time when American films were banned in Axis-ruled countries, as France in this time), and because all that dark stuff inside the film. We dont see him in the angry mob after Maurices sanity is proved, nor in the fleeing masses from the castle, so presumably hes allowed to continue running his Asylum and persecuting/torturing crazy inmates to his hearts content. In other words, Pinocchio must complete a task which is perhaps more impossible than any protagonist has ever had to complete in a Disney movie. he got put into the world blindly and bluntly and got one too many curve balls thrown at him, such as life. The park was owned and operated by The Coachman, who made a fortune from his crooked deeds, and is seen in the film when the Coachman brings Pinocchio, Lampwick and a coachload of other boys to the park. (A spooky story for a young audience, it spooked me as a child, but in a different way). He wishesthat his puppet would come to life. A recent graduate of University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, she has a Bachelor's degree in English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. In fact, in a way none of what Pinocchio said was a lie. The Witch dies of her own accord by slipping. I think the Coachmans comeuppance is that he eventually runs out of stupid little boys for his racket. See more ideas about pinocchio, recipes, dinner and a movie. Some of us might live in completely Disney-fied nations where childhood (and life in general) is less violent on the surface than in the 19th century, but the strife and ugliness of life revealed in these so-called Childrens stories still exists under the MASK of the smiling, happy lie of our 21st century lives. Wasn't crazy about The Wizard of Oz, either; and now that I know about red shoes, I like it even less. (The 1940 Pleasure Island was awash in cigars and liquor; now Pinocchio shrinks from root beer and a pool game.) I shouldve added that. I AGREE WITH YOU COMPLETELY ON EVERYTHING, ESPECIALLY OF THE VILLIANS. But the law, suppose they. Im delighted to have found an article in which its writer agrees with my view of this movie. This, in that sense represents the very first lesson we are taught with another coming shortly. Now everything makes sense. Thank you, really! It is implied to be an illegal theme park, hinted by Honest John during the meeting in the Inn. But yours is a good analogy. Yet he goes along with his story leading him to the nightmare that is pleasure island. When Holly is not writing for Screen Rant, she enjoys listening to music, crocheting, and ranting/raving to her loved ones about the latest movies she has watched. Escaping Pleasure Island. Think about that one. 1 Pinocchio Underwent A Big Personality Change For The Final Product. In Pinocchio, it only gets harder. While Pinocchio is on Pleasure Island, it is revealed that the island's purpose is to turn the children into donkeys and sell them to the salt-mines, which is one of the more bizarre events that occur at the end of Pinocchio.It is not explicitly stated in Disney+'s Pinocchio why this is, but since this is a remake of Disney's 1940 original, it stands to reason that the explanation given . His growing nose makes it so that he cannot hide. The rest of the lies are told by Pinocchio. However, one Disney movie sets itself apart from the rest. Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based on the classic 1883 children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi . Anyway, once boys prove themselves bad enough, they magically turn into donkeys, and through some unclear trade agreement, end up working in the mines until they die from sheer exhaustion. So not only does she lie, herself, when Pinocchio isn't supposed to, she doesn't help as much as she could have. Since it was mere hours since Pinocchio gained sentience, wouldn't it have made sense to teach him some basic things about life first? I especially enjoyed reading your discussion on how the Coachman lures boys, thus representing child trafficking. Respect other views and opinions, and keep an open mind. 14. Yet again, his nose grows but depending on how it is perceived, the lie is told by the movie or the character. Here is the ending of Disney's live-action remake of Pinocchio explained. He is not just some big wealthy guy who puts kids to work in salt mines after turning them to donkeys which apparently symbolizes their stupidity. The scourge of satanist pedophilia and ritual sacrifice is on the precipice of being obliterated from our planet. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. It . "C'mon, quick," Jiminy cried, gesturing for Pinocchio to follow him out of the pool hall. If I was teaching that class, I wouldve advised them to pay more attention to Disneys other movies, because many of them have a fair share of dark content. Here's one hell of a way to remember just how strange "Pinocchio" (1940) was: watch Robert Zemeckis' hallucinatory live-action remake of it, now playing on Disney+.Some of the kooky parts here are not from the script by Simon Farnaby and Chris Weitzto their credit, they didn't invent the hedonistic sugary kid-hell of Pleasure Island, or the concept of an innocent boy whose wooden . Explore the latest videos from hashtags: #pleasureisland, #pineappleisland, #pineislandsound, #peleisland . Dies geschieht in Ihren Datenschutzeinstellungen. The very night the Blue Fairy gives life to Pinocchio, Geppetto tucks him into bed, because he has to go to school tomorrow. Only because I survived all the lies told to him by believing in the only truth available to me.. myself. COVID Conspiracy Plot With An Anti-Vaxx Rant On His Way Into . Remaking an animated film in live-action implies framing the tale in a more realistic light. Is it impossible that a street rat can trick a mad sorcerer into becoming a genie by taking advantage of his pride? Pink bonnet? As for Dumbo, I dont really remember it much but now you mention it, I forgot about Dumbo. It may not display this or other websites correctly. I remembered the movie as a kid being very dark and I didn't really like it. Whoa. The cat cries over his corpse, the fish, the cricket, Gepetto, the audience, everyone. That video is a little microcosm of pizza gate research. Jiminy Cricket is a lousy conscience. 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