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*** After watching [[spoiler: Lampwick]] and Pinocchio react to their frightening transformations into donkeys, one can only imagine the mass panic that broke out all over Pleasure Island once all the boys begun transforming into donkeys against their will and in the middle of all the fun they were having.
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** This also follows to Pinocchio's case of AngstWhatAngst. Despite all the horrible things he goes through, he still manages to retain a positive attitude, [[spoiler:even after literally dying and be revived]]. Pinocchio doesn't know how emotions truly work yet as [[ReallyWasBornYesterday he was literally born yesterday]].
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*** Perhaps Disney went too over the top. In the book, Pleasure Island was the Land of Toys, a place of innocent games, not "bad" stuff -- it was just all play and no work or school.[[note]] The key thing to note is that in Italian culture, donkeys represent stupidity, ignorance, and laziness. The point of the Land of Toys story in the book is that if you just spend all your time playing and never work or study, you’ll end up a stupid good-for-nothing who has to do hard manual labour to make a living.[[/note]] In the 1940s when ''Pinocchio'' was released, society had begun to fret about "juvenile delinquency", the idea that kids were lazy, spoiled, disrespectful, and undisciplined.[[note]]The same as [[http://www.bartleby.com/73/195.html every generation]] before and after them, in other words.[[/note]] J. Edgar Hoover warned about "truants", who were routinely arrested and thrown in jail. Bad/naughty kids were considered a serious matter, so Disney decided to be as {{Anvilicious}} as possible in an attempt to ScareEmStraight.
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*** Perhaps Disney went too over the top. In the book, Pleasure Island was the Land of Toys, a place of innocent games, not "bad" stuff -- it was just all play and no work or school.[[note]] The key thing to note is that in Italian culture, donkeys represent stupidity, ignorance, and laziness. The point of the Land of Toys story in the book is that if you just spend all your time playing and never work or study, you’ll end up a stupid good-for-nothing who has to do hard manual labour to make a living.[[/note]] In the 1940s when ''Pinocchio'' was released, society had begun to fret about "juvenile delinquency", the idea that kids were lazy, spoiled, disrespectful, and undisciplined.[[note]]The same as [[http://www.bartleby.com/73/195.html every generation]] before and after them, in other words.[[/note]] J. Edgar Hoover warned about "truants", who were routinely arrested and thrown in jail. Bad/naughty kids were considered a serious matter, so Disney decided to be as {{Anvilicious}} as possible in an attempt to ScareEmStraight.ScareEmStraight.
**** About the book version: the key thing to note is that Collodi was writing for an Italian audience, and in Italian culture, donkeys represent stupidity, ignorance, and laziness (in fact, the word “asino”, which means donkey, is also used to call someone stupid). The point of the Land of Toys story in the book is that if you just spend all your time playing and never work or study, you’ll end up an ignorant good-for-nothing who has to do hard manual labour to make a living.
**** About the book version: the key thing to note is that Collodi was writing for an Italian audience, and in Italian culture, donkeys represent stupidity, ignorance, and laziness (in fact, the word “asino”, which means donkey, is also used to call someone stupid). The point of the Land of Toys story in the book is that if you just spend all your time playing and never work or study, you’ll end up an ignorant good-for-nothing who has to do hard manual labour to make a living.
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*** Perhaps Disney went too over the top. In the book, Pleasure Island was the Land of Toys, a place of innocent games, not "bad" stuff -- it was just all play and no work or school. In the 1940s when ''Pinocchio'' was released, society had begun to fret about "juvenile delinquency", the idea that kids were lazy, spoiled, disrespectful, and undisciplined.[[note]]The same as [[http://www.bartleby.com/73/195.html every generation]] before and after them, in other words.[[/note]] J. Edgar Hoover warned about "truants", who were routinely arrested and thrown in jail. Bad/naughty kids were considered a serious matter, so Disney decided to be as {{Anvilicious}} as possible in an attempt to ScareEmStraight.
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*** Perhaps Disney went too over the top. In the book, Pleasure Island was the Land of Toys, a place of innocent games, not "bad" stuff -- it was just all play and no work or school. [[note]] The key thing to note is that in Italian culture, donkeys represent stupidity, ignorance, and laziness. The point of the Land of Toys story in the book is that if you just spend all your time playing and never work or study, you’ll end up a stupid good-for-nothing who has to do hard manual labour to make a living.[[/note]] In the 1940s when ''Pinocchio'' was released, society had begun to fret about "juvenile delinquency", the idea that kids were lazy, spoiled, disrespectful, and undisciplined.[[note]]The same as [[http://www.bartleby.com/73/195.html every generation]] before and after them, in other words.[[/note]] J. Edgar Hoover warned about "truants", who were routinely arrested and thrown in jail. Bad/naughty kids were considered a serious matter, so Disney decided to be as {{Anvilicious}} as possible in an attempt to ScareEmStraight.
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** While Gideon is trying to hit Jiminy with his hammer, a background conversation between Pinocchio and Honest John has the former describe Jiminy (Whom John doesn't know is a real being) as his conscience, and Honest John responds by reassuring him that "there's nothing to be afraid of". This might seem bizarre, especially since Pinocchio wasn't startled at all, but it makes sense that someone as amoral as Honest John would see a conscience as something to fear and avoid.
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* If one remembers the scene where Pinocchio's revived as a real boy when Jiminy steps out, it's already night. By the time that Pinocchio had died it was around morning, maybe an early afternoon...that means that Geppetto was mourning his son for almost a whole day. No wonder he thought his son was dead even when he was speaking to him.
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* If one remembers the scene where Pinocchio's revived as a real boy when Jiminy steps out, it's already night. By the time that Pinocchio had died it was around morning, maybe an early afternoon...that afternoon. That means that Geppetto was and the others were mourning his son Pinocchio for almost a whole day. No wonder he Geppetto thought his son was dead even when he was speaking to him.him. And one wonders how guilt-ridden Geppetto was after his son gave his life for him rather than save himself?
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*** the problem is that many of those on that welfare CAN’T or are capable of work but are unable to ACQUIRE it due to a lack of required resources and qualifications and more over back then as it is now greedy capitalists like the Coachman prefer to pick and choose who gets access to what. My mother frequently said that if they could charge you for NOT going to work they WOULD! This movie came out in the aftermath of the 2nd world war when many national economies were in shambles and young men (on both sides) were still returning from the front lines many missing arms or legs or were to spend the rest of their lives in a wheelchair. If those capitalists had their way every person who suffered due to the war would’ve been treated like any animal who they could no longer exploit due to age, deformity, or malnourishment: they’d be told to just D.I.E. as they no longer had any monetary value to THEM!!!
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** It may also explain why the Coachman took the time to test if each donkey was capable of talking or not. Their ability to talk possibly hinged on how much of the alcohol they drank, so he couldn't take chances on selling a donkey that didn't drink enough of it.
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** It may also explain why the Coachman took processes the time donkeys to test if each donkey was capable of talking see which ones can still talk or not. Their ability to talk possibly hinged on how much of the alcohol they drank, so he couldn't take chances on selling a donkey that didn't drink enough of it.
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** It may also explain why the Coachman took the time to test if each donkey was capable of talking or not. Their ability to talk possibly hinged on how much of the alcohol they drank, so he couldn't take chances on selling a donkey that didn't drink enough of it.
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* Maybe a bit of a Fridge TearJerker but if one remembers the scene where Pinocchio's revived as a real boy when Jiminy steps out, it's already night. By the time that Pinocchio had died it was around morning, maybe an early afternoon...that means that Geppetto was mourning his son for almost a whole day. No wonder he thought his son was dead even when he was speaking to him.
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* If one remembers the scene where Pinocchio's revived as a real boy when Jiminy steps out, it's already night. By the time that Pinocchio had died it was around morning, maybe an early afternoon...that means that Geppetto was mourning his son for almost a whole day. No wonder he thought his son was dead even when he was speaking to him.
