Geppetto and the newly-human Pinocchio keep the marionette around. Much like the Disney version, the moral of the story is to work hard to get what you want, but even The Adventures of Pinocchio's end is decidedly dark. They only manage to escape because it has heart troubles and asthma, so sleeps with its mouth open. Instead of being swallowed by a whale, Geppetto and Pinocchio end up in the stomach of shark – after all, sharks are scarier. Pinocchio later encounters a dying Candlewick, who is still a donkey and expires from exhaustion before he can be saved.
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Pinocchio and his pal Candlewick are both turned into donkeys, and although Pinocchio changes back, it's only after a fisherman tries to drown him and fish eat the skin off his donkey carcass to reveal his puppet form. Pinocchio meets a snake that dies from a burst artery for mocking his misfortune, while he's also haunted by the ghost of the Talking Cricket. Making Bambi look like Winnie the Pooh, death is pretty much everywhere. This was where Collodi wanted the story to end – as a message to naughty children – but his publishers demanded it to continue. The Fairy arrives after the Fox and Cat have hung Pinocchio from a tree and he's declared "dead". Originally called the Talking Cricket, OG Jiminy has a minor role in The Adventures of Pinocchio and is killed when he's mushed against the wall with a hammer while trying to give Pinocchio advice. The Cat gets its comeuppance and has its paw bitten off by the vengeful Pinocchio.īut it's favourites like Jiminy Cricket and the Blue Fairy that really get the short end of the stick in The Adventures of Pinocchio. There's still the cunning Fox and Cat, but here the latter eats a blackbird who is trying to warn Pinocchio they are bandits. While there, an evil puppet master wants to use Pinocchio as firewood to cook his lamb supper.
Pinocchio repays this favour by selling the book to visit a marionette show. When Geppetto is released from prison and builds Pinocchio a new pair of feet, he sells his only coat so his ungrateful 'son' can have a book to go to school with. He wakes up to find his feet have been burned off like some sort of A Nightmare on Elm Street horror. Pinocchio takes up residence in Geppetto's empty home and dries his feet by the fire after a neighbour dumps a bucket of water on him. When the police catch up with Pinocchio, Geppetto is accused of assaulting him and the hapless puppet maker is carted off to prison in front of the villagers.
As soon as the log takes on his Pinocchio persona, he kicks Geppetto in the face and runs off.
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