#pinocchio 1940

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𝙳𝚒𝚜𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚝Ｉᴛʜᴇ ɢᴏʟᴅᴇɴ ᴀɢᴇ (1937 - 1942)

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Pinocchio (1940)

Directed by: Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, and Bill Roberts

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A bunch of sketches for the protag!kairi au! These are ideas and sketches that have been sitting on my computer that I’ve finally gotten an opportunity to clean up :) Tarzan is an interesting first world in KH and in terms of the AU I think perhaps Kairi could relate to Tarzan in someways. And I still like the idea that Kairi would still be working on the lucky charm or something happens to it that she needs to use materials from other worlds to fix/finish it. The others are more brainstorming for Riku and now Sora. I just can’t see Sora sitting doing nothing after he wakes up and so I think he would pester Leon into teaching him or, if he’s stuck in Traverse Town after the crew goes to Hollow Bastion, he’d take it upon himself to learn something about gummi ships and travel! He’d want to do as much as he can to help Kairi and save Riku! So, some sketches of him hanging out at the accessory shop and with Geppetto :)

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So, the Disney version of Pinocchio camed out in 1940, second year of World War Two, eighteenth year of Mussolini's rule over Italy.

It was a movie made when war and fascism was very close to home, and didn't intend to be about those topics.

The set was the distant Italy of the 19th century, when the book that inspired it was written, and the focus was a dream like adventure.

Yet... you can say that the somber times of World War Two, regardless of being escapist fantasy, indirectly influenced in the atosmphere of the movie.

It had severel dark moments: Stromboli locking Pinocchio and promissing to use him as wood for the fire when he wasn't longer usefull, the Coachman who takes children to be turned into donkeys in Pleasure Island and never be seen again, Honest John and Gideon walking around and manipulating children to kidnapp and exploit them for financial gain, the whale Monstro.

And all those are villains who never get punished by the narrative. Its left implied they will be around doing evil deeds in the world.

The audiences biggest hope is that at least Pinocchio and his family escape and reunite to live a peacefull life back at hope.

That was probably the biggest hope people could have back in 1940: the evil may not be vanquished, but at least we are together, alive and safe at home.

(At least until 1942...)

And them comes the 2022 Guillermo del Toro version of Pinocchio, 83 years after World War Two, 100 years after Mussolini's coup in Italy.

And instead of the 19th century setting, it chooses to set the story in the Italy of the 20th century, during Mussolini's dictatorship and World War Two.

It takes advantage of the temporal distance to tackle the brutality of the War and the Fascist Regime that would be either too unconfortable, or downright censored, in 1940.

Instead of escaping that harsh reality, the fantasy is used to confront it.

It becamed explicitly politicized. A call to resist autoritarianism and blind obedience.

And it showed how dangerous that could be: is a world where you can be beaten, shot or burned for speaking up.

Wich even to this day is a more palpable treat than being cursed into a donkey.

There is something that it shared with the more escapist 1940 film: a sense of hope in togetherness.

Pinocchio, Gepeto and the Cricket are still loving and loyal to each other, and they hold to this love and hope to be reunited to keep going.

And they do get reunited.

But whereas the original book and the 1940 Disney movie ended with the happy reunion itself, the 2022 film ended with Pinocchio walking alone to a new journey, after Gepetto, Cricket and Spazzatura slowly age and pass away.

We can presume he will keep fighting new evils he finds in the world. Specially because we know that the War will go until 1945, and Italy will need help to be reconstructed.

The 1940 movie ended with the domestic happiness while the outside world was in the dark.

The 2022 movie ended by showing that the journey to happiness must go on, and the world is a large, dark and beautifull place that still has many things to teach us.

And that is why this two movies are the perfect complement to each other.

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I like to think these two movies were set in the same universe

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Geppetto and Pinocchio just being the adorable father and son that they are ❤️🥰😭

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love imagining how Disney films would look like in the cars universe. Especially the old ones. Like how would they have animated Pinocchio or Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? How would they work since they’re now cars? Would Pinnochio’s friend in pleasure island turn into a tractor or something? Would the evil queen try to poison snow with like some type of poisonous gas? How the hell would dumbo work? Would Cinderella in the cars universe have glass tires instead? How would she even drive on that??? The possibilities are endless and make this already confusing universe even weirder and I love it.

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Pinocchio, disney 1940s

Pinocchio from Pinocchio (1940) is Christian!

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Disney Descendants : Tiger Lily x Lampwick at an old diner near Auradon Prep

art by @korkocartoons

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No I will not shut up about this headcanon

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tiger lily (peter pan 1953) x lampwick (pinocchio 1940) romantic moodboard

requested by: @casinotrio1965

- mod merida

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I finally got to meet my husband Jiminy Cricket, and I dressed up as my OC Tallulah!

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