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- Upon being born, Pinocchio immediately laughs derisively in his creator's face, whereupon he steals the old man's wig. Pinocchio's bad behavior, rather than being charming or endearing, is meant to serve as a warning.
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Nov 3, 2023 · Whenever the Blue Fairy finds Pinocchio in a cage, Pinocchio feels humiliated, and his growing nose might symbolize the self-loathing that people struggling with addiction sometimes feel.
Feb 6, 2015 · Pinocchio is naughty, he lies, he breaks (well-intentioned, sincerely meant) promises, he gets into all sorts of difficulties—through hastiness, inexperience, and misjudgment. (Sound...
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Dec 10, 2022 · Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio takes the story back to its original version, but that version is actually even darker than you think you know.
- The sea monster is not a whale. In the original story, the sea monster is not a whale as we know it from the Disney cartoon, but a giant shark that is “taller than a five-story house and in whose mouth fits a train.”
- Pinocchio kills the cricket. Pinocchio actually had no intention of actually killing the cricket. When the cricket first appears in the kitchen and tries to give him wise advice, Pinocchio gets angry and throws a hammer at it, killing it in the process.
- Geppetto is a very poor man. At the beginning of the story, Geppetto goes to a friend, the carpenter Mastro Ciliegia, to ask him for a piece of wood for a puppet.
- Thousand adventures. Pinocchio really has countless adventures: he follows the cat and the fox to the Field of Miracles, where he thinks he can sow a money plant, is almost killed, ends up in prison, is chained to a doghouse and has to work as a guard dog, flies on a pigeon, ends up in Playland where he turns into a donkey, ends up in the belly of the shark to save his father, and much more.
Sep 14, 2021 · The result was to forge a link between Pinocchio and lying that has since become indissoluble. The emoji for a lie is a face with an absurdly long nose, and when the Washington Post ’s fact-checkers scrutinize politicians’ assertions, they rate them on a scale from no Pinocchios to four.
Pinocchio is a wooden marionette (a puppet that is manipulated with wires or strings) and not a hand puppet (directly controlled from inside by the puppeteer's hand). However, the piece of wood from which he is derived is animated, and so Pinocchio moves independently.
Oct 24, 2011 · Every boy in Pinocchio is imbecilic, disobedient, greedy, and filthy. But none is worse than Pinocchio himself. Collodi describes him as a “rascal,” “imp,” “scapegrace,” “disgrace ...
