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Sunday 13 November 2011

Lessons from Pinocchio

Film: Pinocchio
Year: 1940
Where I Saw It: DVD

This week I saw Pinocchio, another childhood standard.  This was Walt Disney's second feature length film and even though it was created so long ago, it still holds up as one of the best animated films of all time.  Let's take a look back and review some of the life long lessons it taught us.

1.  Smoking will turn you into a donkey.

2.  If you get a bunch of kids to smoke, after they turn into donkeys, they will provide an excellent cheap labour force.

3.  A favourite snack of whales is people.

4.  If you do get eaten by a whale, you can live quite comfortably inside it providing you have a raft of some sort.

5.  When you wish upon a star, a strange woman claiming to be the "Blue Fairy" will appear in your room.

6.  The preferred choice of clothes for crickets is upper class Victorian wear.

7.  Making fun of other cultures is OK providing you do it with marionettes.

8.  It is easier to build a wooden puppet, pray for him to come to life and chase him around on a series of whacky adventures instead of adopting a real child.

9.  Gepetto is a greedy jerk.  He's got a cat AND a fish and he STILL wants company?  Bastard.

10.  The Blue Fairy can change a wooden boy to a real boy but refuses to end world hunger.

One Last Point: Disney is pretty good at drawing animals but I feel they dropped the ball on Jiminy Cricket.  He looks nothing like a cricket.  He has a closer resemblance to ET.

Thanks for reading! - Scott Scene

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