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Sep 10, 2023 · Pinocchio’s nose grows longer in the presence of the wicked puppet master, Stromboli. When Pinocchio joins a puppet theater run by the devious Stromboli, his nose grows longer as a visual representation of his lies and deceit in being manipulated by the puppet master.
The 1940 Walt Disney cartoon has ensured that the character of Pinocchio remains familiar: but the book is far richer in the details of the adventures of the naughty puppet in search of boyhood. Carlo Collodi (Lorenzini) The story of Pinocchio - A short biography telling how he came to write Pinocchio. Includes a couple of Pinocchio photos.
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.
- Gary Susman
- Freelance Writer
- Carlo Collodi wrote the original novel in installments in an Italian magazine in 1881. It was published as a book two years later.
- The name "Pinocchio" literally means "little wooden head."
- The hardest part of the production was making Pinocchio a sympathetic character. Collodi's story was rewritten to remove the wooden boy's mischievous (even malicious) streak and make him more passive.
- According to a 1938 New York Times article, Walt Disney tossed 2,300 feet of footage, representing five months work, "because it missed the feeling he had in mind."
Jun 6, 2022 · The film’s dark side reflects some of the book’s outlandish cruelty, but in many other ways Disney transformed the original. For instance, Pinocchio’s desire to be a “real boy,” so ...
The Real Story of Pinocchio Tells No Lies. Forget what you know from the cartoon. The 19th-century story, now in a new translation, was a rallying cry for universal education and...
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Aug 19, 2020 · When Pinocchio *spoiler alert* finally becomes a real boy, it’s not because of a conscientious cricket (killed by the precocious puppet by the end of chapter four in Collodi’s book) but due to the suffering he has to go through.
