tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130024768875427937.post4858617276587742031..comments2023-05-20T11:22:27.581-03:00Comments on Some Wonderful Kind of Noise: Disney's Pinocchio: Second thoughtsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130024768875427937.post-74516551963544642922015-02-10T05:35:36.876-04:002015-02-10T05:35:36.876-04:00Great notes on character motivation here. A lot of...Great notes on character motivation here. A lot of stuff I never even considered.<br /><br />Regarding the darkness: The movie goes pretty easy in comparison to the book, in which (spoilers) the cricket doesn't make it past Act I; the Blue Girl is explicitly a ghost; and the Fox and the Cat receive a grisly comeuppance after *hanging Pinocchio by the neck and leaving him for dead*.<br /><br />Which makes it all the more impressive that the film still ends with no resolution for Lampwick & co. For all we know, those kids remain donkeys and Pleasure Island continues to operate. I think you'll find the later films less willing to follow that road.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130024768875427937.post-26433520956138435612015-01-31T03:29:39.709-04:002015-01-31T03:29:39.709-04:00I think if nothing else, we'll hit that when w...I think if nothing else, we'll hit that when we get to the Renaissance era, that was a decade of straight classics. But we've still got Cinderella, Alice, Peter Pan, and Sleeping Beauty ahead of us, any of those could also easily be the one where it all comes together. I think it won't be any of the package features (if they even do them), even the best of them are uneven.Rachel Ghoulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04765944479141792643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130024768875427937.post-38385836713771483872015-01-30T20:15:43.025-04:002015-01-30T20:15:43.025-04:00"Cracking these out while I'm still recen..."Cracking these out while I'm still recently en-memoried about the movies in question. Lacy says she expects more of you are waiting for the later films, which means I'm building up for good stuff :D"<br /><br />Yes, I don't think you have anything to worry about there! I'm quite sure sooner or later you're going to hit one you *love*. I don't know which one it'll be, but I think it very very likely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130024768875427937.post-71111026498454506402015-01-30T17:15:33.904-04:002015-01-30T17:15:33.904-04:00Fun fact: This movie actually did, at one point ge...Fun fact: This movie actually did, at one point get re-released as a series of short subjects, so you weren't at all off the mark with that observation.<br /><br />They never get quite this heavy again, which I think is all to the good, Pinocchio is a little overwhelming in my book.<br /><br />Yeah, When You Wish Upon A Star is not only the star number of this movie, but possibly of Disney as a whole-- they've been using it as their "anthem" ever since. Curiously in several countries (including Sweden and Japan), it's become a standard Christmas carol.Rachel Ghoulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04765944479141792643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1130024768875427937.post-39332605040205369702015-01-30T03:57:05.837-04:002015-01-30T03:57:05.837-04:00Unfortunately now that you mention it, I recall a ...Unfortunately now that you mention it, I recall a lot of the classic Disney animated films have trouble with character agency, as if a protagonist is someone to whom things happen, rather than someone who makes things happen, other than saying "I don't like this very much" by the third act. I think this only starts to get better in the 1990s.<br /><br />And you've got a point about books where every chapter is a separate adventure (or long book series where every adventure matters) being turned into movies when they would fit a television format better. I do know of at least one 52-episode Pinocchio anime series... thanks to a compilation movie that really couldn't hide its being an abridged TV series.Ryan Ferneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17955330155998980272noreply@blogger.com