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Siamese? What's that? And okay
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The Adventures of Pinocchio is a story about an animated marionette, boys who turn into donkeys and other fairy tale devices. The setting of the story is the Tuscan area of Italy. It was a unique literary melding of genres for its time. The story's Italian language is peppered with Florentine dialect features, such as the protagonist's Florentine name.
In the 1850s, Collodi began to have a variety of both fiction and non-fiction books published. Once, he translated some French fairy-tales so well that he was asked whether he would like to write some of his own. In 1881, he sent a short episode in the life of a wooden puppet to a friend who edited a newspaper in Rome, wondering whether the editor would be interested in publishing this "bit of foolishness" in his children's section. The editor did, and the children loved it. The Adventures of Pinocchio were serialized in the paper in 18812, and then published in 1883 with huge success.[3]
In the original, serialized version, Pinocchio dies a gruesome death: hanged for his innumerable faults, at the end of Chapter 15. At the request of his editor, Collodi added chapters 1636, in which the Fairy with Turquoise Hair (or "Blue Fairy", as the Disney version names her) rescues Pinocchio and eventually transforms him into a real boy, when he acquires a deeper understanding of himself, making the story more suitable for children. In the second half of the book, the maternal figure of the Blue-haired Fairy is the dominant character, versus the paternal figure of Geppetto in the first part.
Children's literature was a new idea in Collodi's time, an innovation in the 19th century. Thus in content and style it was new and modern, opening the way to many writers of the following century. -
It's from lady and the tramp and they're an annoying tyoe of cat
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Pinocchio was an ass in the book.
He murders an unnamed cricket.
It returns as a ghost.
A cat and fox lynch Pinocchio from a tree.
Pinocchio, in donkey form, has his flesh torn by fish. -
Okie dokie. Wow. Siamese?
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You probably already knew that Disney has a habit of taking dark, twisted childrens fairy tales and turning them into sickeningly sweet happily-ever-afters. Take Sleeping Beauty for example: its based on a story where a married king finds a girl asleep, and cant wake her so rapes her instead.
The 1940 version of Pinocchio is no exception. The movie is based on a story that appeared as a serial in a newspaper called The Adventures of Pinocchio, written in 1881 and 1882 by Carlo Collodi. Jiminy Cricket appears as the Talking Cricket in the book, and does not play as prominent of a role.
He first appears in chapter 4 in which the truism that children do not like to have their behaviour corrected by people who know much more than they do is illustrated. Apropos, when the Talking Cricket tells Pinocchio to go back home:
At these last words, Pinocchio jumped up in a fury, took a hammer from the bench, and threw it with all his strength at the Talking Cricket.
Perhaps he did not think he would strike it. But, sad to relate, my dear children, he did hit the Cricket, straight on its head.
With a last weak cri-cri-cri the poor Cricket fell from the wall, dead!
You might be happy to know that Pinocchio did learn his lesson quite soon after thator seemed to. While he didnt seem to feel bad about killing the cricket (in fact, he later tells Gepetto, It was his own fault, for I didnt want to kill him.), he did seem to regret not taking the crickets advice as he runs into more and more trouble. At last, karma catches up to Pinocchio and he gets his feet burned off.
As he no longer had any strength left with which to stand, he sat down on a little stool and put his two feet on the stove to dry them. There he fell asleep, and while he slept, his wooden feet began to burn. Slowly, very slowly, they blackened and turned to ashes.
Dont worryGepetto forgives him and builds him new feet, which is really more than Pinocchio deserves. You see, when Pinocchio first became alive and learned to walk, the first thing he did was run off. Whats worse is that Pinocchio leads people to believe that Gepetto has abused him, which lands Gepetto squarely in prison.
You would think by this time that Pinocchio would learn to be a good, obedient little boy, but that simply is not the case. The Talking Cricket returns as a ghost to tell Pinocchio not to get involved with some people who claim planting gold coins will result in a tree of gold. Rather than apologizing for throwing a hammer at the poor bug, Pinocchio scoffs at the advice once again.
Pinocchios decision to continue to ignore the Cricket resulted in him finding more grief in the way of being hanged by the very people who had told him about planting gold coins:
And they ran after me and I ran and ran, till at last they caught me and tied my neck with a rope and hanged me to a tree, saying, `Tomorrow well come back for you and youll be dead and your mouth will be open, and then well take the gold pieces that you have hidden under your tongue.
The hanging scene was actually where the story was meant to end. Basically, Collodi wanted to convey the message that children could face grave consequences for being disobedient. However, the editor of the paper requested that Collodi continue writingperhaps wishing for a bit more of a happily ever after himselfand thats where the blue fairy came in to save the puppet.
In the additional chapters, Collodi made it so that Pinocchio learned his lesson and decided to take care of his father rather than spend his time playing and running amok.
In the end, Talking Cricket had a chance at revenge, but didnt take it:
Father and son looked up to the ceiling, and there on a beam sat the Talking Cricket.
Oh, my dear Cricket, said Pinocchio, bowing politely.
Oh, now you call me your dear Cricket, but do you remember when you threw your hammer at me to kill me?
You are right, dear Cricket. Throw a hammer at me now. I deserve it! But spare my poor old father.
I am going to spare both the father and the son. I have only wanted to remind you of the trick you long ago played upon me, to teach you that in this world of ours we must be kind and courteous to others, if we want to find kindness and courtesy in our own days of trouble.
You are right, little Cricket, you are more than right, and I shall remember the lesson you have taught me -
You probably already knew that Disney has a habit of taking dark, twisted childrens fairy tales and turning them into sickeningly sweet happily-ever-afters. Take Sleeping Beauty for example: its based on a story where a married king finds a girl asleep, and cant wake her so rapes her instead.
The 1940 version of Pinocchio is no exception. The movie is based on a story that appeared as a serial in a newspaper called The Adventures of Pinocchio, written in 1881 and 1882 by Carlo Collodi. Jiminy Cricket appears as the Talking Cricket in the book, and does not play as prominent of a role.
He first appears in chapter 4 in which the truism that children do not like to have their behaviour corrected by people who know much more than they do is illustrated. Apropos, when the Talking Cricket tells Pinocchio to go back home:
At these last words, Pinocchio jumped up in a fury, took a hammer from the bench, and threw it with all his strength at the Talking Cricket.
Perhaps he did not think he would strike it. But, sad to relate, my dear children, he did hit the Cricket, straight on its head.
With a last weak cri-cri-cri the poor Cricket fell from the wall, dead!
You might be happy to know that Pinocchio did learn his lesson quite soon after thator seemed to. While he didnt seem to feel bad about killing the cricket (in fact, he later tells Gepetto, It was his own fault, for I didnt want to kill him.), he did seem to regret not taking the crickets advice as he runs into more and more trouble. At last, karma catches up to Pinocchio and he gets his feet burned off.
As he no longer had any strength left with which to stand, he sat down on a little stool and put his two feet on the stove to dry them. There he fell asleep, and while he slept, his wooden feet began to burn. Slowly, very slowly, they blackened and turned to ashes.
Dont worryGepetto forgives him and builds him new feet, which is really more than Pinocchio deserves. You see, when Pinocchio first became alive and learned to walk, the first thing he did was run off. Whats worse is that Pinocchio leads people to believe that Gepetto has abused him, which lands Gepetto squarely in prison.
You would think by this time that Pinocchio would learn to be a good, obedient little boy, but that simply is not the case. The Talking Cricket returns as a ghost to tell Pinocchio not to get involved with some people who claim planting gold coins will result in a tree of gold. Rather than apologizing for throwing a hammer at the poor bug, Pinocchio scoffs at the advice once again.
Pinocchios decision to continue to ignore the Cricket resulted in him finding more grief in the way of being hanged by the very people who had told him about planting gold coins:
And they ran after me and I ran and ran, till at last they caught me and tied my neck with a rope and hanged me to a tree, saying, `Tomorrow well come back for you and youll be dead and your mouth will be open, and then well take the gold pieces that you have hidden under your tongue.
The hanging scene was actually where the story was meant to end. Basically, Collodi wanted to convey the message that children could face grave consequences for being disobedient. However, the editor of the paper requested that Collodi continue writingperhaps wishing for a bit more of a happily ever after himselfand thats where the blue fairy came in to save the puppet.
In the additional chapters, Collodi made it so that Pinocchio learned his lesson and decided to take care of his father rather than spend his time playing and running amok.
In the end, Talking Cricket had a chance at revenge, but didnt take it:
Father and son looked up to the ceiling, and there on a beam sat the Talking Cricket.
Oh, my dear Cricket, said Pinocchio, bowing politely.
Oh, now you call me your dear Cricket, but do you remember when you threw your hammer at me to kill me?
You are right, dear Cricket. Throw a hammer at me now. I deserve it! But spare my poor old father.
I am going to spare both the father and the son. I have only wanted to remind you of the trick you long ago played upon me, to teach you that in this world of ours we must be kind and courteous to others, if we want to find kindness and courtesy in our own days of trouble.
You are right, little Cricket, you are more than right, and I shall remember the lesson you have taught me -
You probably already knew that Disney has a habit of taking dark, twisted childrens fairy tales and turning them into sickeningly sweet happily-ever-afters. Take Sleeping Beauty for example: its based on a story where a married king finds a girl asleep, and cant wake her so rapes her instead.
The 1940 version of Pinocchio is no exception. The movie is based on a story that appeared as a serial in a newspaper called The Adventures of Pinocchio, written in 1881 and 1882 by Carlo Collodi. Jiminy Cricket appears as the Talking Cricket in the book, and does not play as prominent of a role.
He first appears in chapter 4 in which the truism that children do not like to have their behaviour corrected by people who know much more than they do is illustrated. Apropos, when the Talking Cricket tells Pinocchio to go back home:
At these last words, Pinocchio jumped up in a fury, took a hammer from the bench, and threw it with all his strength at the Talking Cricket.
Perhaps he did not think he would strike it. But, sad to relate, my dear children, he did hit the Cricket, straight on its head.
With a last weak cri-cri-cri the poor Cricket fell from the wall, dead!
You might be happy to know that Pinocchio did learn his lesson quite soon after thator seemed to. While he didnt seem to feel bad about killing the cricket (in fact, he later tells Gepetto, It was his own fault, for I didnt want to kill him.), he did seem to regret not taking the crickets advice as he runs into more and more trouble. At last, karma catches up to Pinocchio and he gets his feet burned off.
As he no longer had any strength left with which to stand, he sat down on a little stool and put his two feet on the stove to dry them. There he fell asleep, and while he slept, his wooden feet began to burn. Slowly, very slowly, they blackened and turned to ashes.
Dont worryGepetto forgives him and builds him new feet, which is really more than Pinocchio deserves. You see, when Pinocchio first became alive and learned to walk, the first thing he did was run off. Whats worse is that Pinocchio leads people to believe that Gepetto has abused him, which lands Gepetto squarely in prison.
You would think by this time that Pinocchio would learn to be a good, obedient little boy, but that simply is not the case. The Talking Cricket returns as a ghost to tell Pinocchio not to get involved with some people who claim planting gold coins will result in a tree of gold. Rather than apologizing for throwing a hammer at the poor bug, Pinocchio scoffs at the advice once again.
Pinocchios decision to continue to ignore the Cricket resulted in him finding more grief in the way of being hanged by the very people who had told him about planting gold coins:
And they ran after me and I ran and ran, till at last they caught me and tied my neck with a rope and hanged me to a tree, saying, `Tomorrow well come back for you and youll be dead and your mouth will be open, and then well take the gold pieces that you have hidden under your tongue.
The hanging scene was actually where the story was meant to end. Basically, Collodi wanted to convey the message that children could face grave consequences for being disobedient. However, the editor of the paper requested that Collodi continue writingperhaps wishing for a bit more of a happily ever after himselfand thats where the blue fairy came in to save the puppet.
In the additional chapters, Collodi made it so that Pinocchio learned his lesson and decided to take care of his father rather than spend his time playing and running amok.
In the end, Talking Cricket had a chance at revenge, but didnt take it:
Father and son looked up to the ceiling, and there on a beam sat the Talking Cricket.
Oh, my dear Cricket, said Pinocchio, bowing politely.
Oh, now you call me your dear Cricket, but do you remember when you threw your hammer at me to kill me?
You are right, dear Cricket. Throw a hammer at me now. I deserve it! But spare my poor old father.
I am going to spare both the father and the son. I have only wanted to remind you of the trick you long ago played upon me, to teach you that in this world of ours we must be kind and courteous to others, if we want to find kindness and courtesy in our own days of trouble.
You are right, little Cricket, you are more than right, and I shall remember the lesson you have taught me -
society isn't so certain it wants him back. The village Mowgli tries to return to in the short story re-banishes him to the wilderness, and the family that was kind enough to take him in gets tortured as sorcerers.
In response, Mowgli recruits Hathi the Elephant for help. But the thing is, the book's Hathi isn't the cuddly, forgetful old Major of the film.
No, he's a bloodthirsty, scarred old elephant who likes nothing more than seeking revenge on humans for an old wound he received in a spike pit. The "help" Mowgli gets from his old friend is in destroying the entire goddamned village. That's right. The lovable kid protagonist whose goofy antics you grew up laughing at recruits his elephant friend to, along with Bagheera and a bunch of wolves, storm in and raze the freaking village to the ground.
"LEAVE NONE ALIVE!"
All the houses get stomped into dust, supplies are destroyed, the wolves chase away the cattle and good old Bagheera kills the horses. Damn, we're thinking this franchise is due for a gritty reboot. -
Why the triple post? ~_~
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Daniel P. Mannix, the author of the original story, probably hadn't met a child before writing The Fox and the Hound. In his version, the Hound is a bloodthirsty killer out for revenge against the Fox for the accidental death of another hound on a previous hunt. Once he discovers the Fox's lair, his master proceeds to gas the hell out of it, killing both the vixen and her cubs. At this point, the author obviously didn't think the book was depressing enough, so he threw some rabies into the mix, and then a child dies from an infected bite.
Not the obvious choice for a children's film.
The story reaches its climax with a chase longer than the one in The Matrix Reloaded in which Todd the Fox collapses and dies of exhaustion. The Hound and the Master go home to celebrate, a term which here means "the master shoots the hound in the face and then gets sent to a rest home." -
My iPads a douche
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The Original Ending:
First of all, the Greeks depicted Hercules as a rampant sexual beast, taking whatever woman he liked before hitting a mid life crisis and being told to settle down. He got married to Megara, but without the help of Hades, a Cyclops or a Motown-inspired soundtrack. They do live happily ever after, right up until he gets driven insane by the goddess Hera and heroically murders the s--- out of Megara and all his children.
"Do you see this arm? They didn't stand a goddamn chance."
After regaining his senses, Heracles is consumed by guilt, which is understandable after killing your entire family for absolutely no reason. To try and make amends, he engages in 12 trials that include defeating powerful monsters and shoveling s--- out of some horse stables, until he eventually gets killed by a blanket. Maybe they're saving all of that for one of those direct-to-DVD sequels they do. -
D: Wow. Just wow. I like the last part though! If you had a chance to be in one of these awful stories which wpuld it be?
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aren't hulking ape men, yet she still falls for Tarzan. Before she can admit it to herself, though, she leaves for America and considers marrying another man to pay off her father's debts.
Meanwhile, Tarzan suits up and follows her across an entire continent to rescue her from a forest fire that was presumably waiting around until the plot required it. Afterwards, he confesses his undying love for her, and Jane admits she feels the same way. But by this time she's engaged to Clayton, and because this is the 19th century there is absolutely nothing she can do about it.
Left on his own, Tarzan receives a telegram that reveals him as the rightful heir to Clayton's estate and all the property that comes with it (which includes Jane, because women are things). Instead of saying the word, kicking Clayton out of his own house and claiming Jane for tax purposes, he chooses to stay silent, thinking that Jane is happy being with Clayton. And... that's it. He simply sacrifices his happiness for Jane's misery.
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