It is implied to be an illegal theme park, hinted by honest john during the meeting in the inn. Originally, this was going to be a top 6 countdown of the most frightful moments from this movie. Jun 15, 2016 pinocchios friend on pleasure island is the aforementioned lampwick, one of the boys who seems completely at home in this parentless dystopia. It was the second animated feature film produced by disney, made after the success of snow white and the seven dwarfs 1937.
Walt disneys pinocchio is based on the italian childrens novel the adventures of pinocchio by carlo collodi. Nov 23, 2018 the original story was a magazine serial, with each chapter appearing in a different issue to depict a different temptation. What disney doesnt show you is that collodi had pinocchio turn fully into a donkey. Lampwick is soon transformed into a donkey, but pinocchio manages to escape with a donkeys ears and tail. Thats where yeremyvs theory comes in, which states shreks donkey is one of these boys grown up. The plot of the film involves an old woodcarver named geppetto who carves a wooden puppet named pinocchio. Theres a scene in the movie at pleasure island which depicts child slavery and animal cruelty with the boys turned into donkeys and being locked in cages and abused by the coachman selling them into child slavery and ends on a cliffhanger which may be considered controversial by todays standard for modern audiences. Pinocchio awakens and reveals that he is alive and a real human boy and everyone celebrates. Once again, i hope you enjoy and ill have more chapters up soon. Pleasure island is a cursed island with an amusement park seen in the 1940 film pinocchio where it is shown toturn mischievous young boys into donkeys. Here the boys can have as much fun as they want, drink beer, smoke cigars and play pool. For pinocchio could see that with each minute he was with her, the more smitten he had become of her.
The carnival we saw before is now completely wrecked. Still, donkey doesnt necessarily have to be from pleasure island. May 30, 2018 pinocchio s adventure on pleasure island had taken place nearly two months ago, back when he was just a wooden puppet in search of becoming a real boy. Twisted shrek theory will forever change how you look at. The coachman is apparently the owner of the park and takes all the bad boys. Pleasure island is a theme park located on an island and is accessed there by ferry. Jiminy runs back to warn pinocchio, only to discover that lampwick has transformed into a donkey. The worst element that differs between the book and the film version is arguably the scene when pinocchio and his friend begin to turn into donkeys because of their careless adventures in toylandpleasure island. Pinocchio and many other little boys are whisked away to pleasure island where they can have all the sweets, smokes and toys that they want. Unfortunately for pinocchio, however, he was born yesterday. The scene of pinocchio and lampwick playing pool as pleasure island has now become deserted and in ruins strongly implies that the kids on the island began changing into donkeys around the time after pinocchio and lampwick went into the pool hall and both were completely oblivious to. I miss when kids movies took more risks with scary scenes like lampwick turning into a donkey, sure it was frightening, but.
Upon returning home, they find the workshop empty and soon learn from a letter by the blue fairy that geppetto, while venturing out to sea to rescue pinocchio from pleasure island, had been swallowed by a giant whale named monstro. The park was owned and operated by the coachman, who made a fortune from his crooked deeds, and is seen in the film when the coachman brings pinocchio, lampwick and a coachload of other boys to the park. Not only that, but we actually get a pretty frightening transformation sequence onscreen, as one of pinocchios pleasure island pals, lampwick, turns into a donkey right before pinocchios eyes. The adventures of pinocchio pleasure island youtube.
The nerve of that beetle having the gall to talk to people who could have squished him easily. Apr 22, 2019 pinocchio manages to escape this fate, though his friend lampwick is transformed. This portion of the story is a literary reference to apuleius the metamorphoses or golden as, a classic work studied in mystery schools such as freemasonry. Pinocchio is a 1940 american animated musical fantasy film produced by walt disney productions, distributed by rko radio pictures and based on the italian childrens novel the adventures of pinocchio by carlo collodi. In pinocchio, how did they turn boys into donkeys on. We see a building shaped like an eight ball and zoom inside. Tommy tells pinocchio he wants to turn the donkey boys. It hadnt been a pleasant time for him after all was said and done, but it was a lesson learned and a valuable one at that.
The blue fairy, however, decides that pinocchio has proven himself brave, truthful, and selfless. He fully enjoyed the events in pleasure island and gladly took part of all of it. The words shut up are used once when stromboli tries to silence pinocchio. When pinocchio is on pleasure island, jiminy cricket is behind the eight ball. Pinocchio 1940 movie simple english wikipedia, the. Youd have to be born yesterday to think that a place named pleasure island would be anything but extremely sleazy. The donkey scene from pinocchio i have said before that pinocchio is one disney movie that i have a hard time sitting through as there are quite a few things that terrify me in this film. He schemed to steal pinocchio from geppetto and make him into a star of his puppet show. Walt disneys adaptation of carlo collodis 1883 namesake childrens story, embraces the desire of a freshlycarved wooden puppet to become a real boy. Pinocchios adventure on pleasure island had taken place nearly two months ago, back when he was just a wooden puppet in search of becoming a real boy.
In pinocchio why do the boys become donkeys answers. A little while later, the coach came up to a ferry that would take them to pleasure island. Although our puppet friend hadnt heard of the place before honest john pitched it as a cureall for everything that ailed him, the coachman has apparently been. Lampwick and pinocchio are playing pool and smoking cigars, though the smoke is making pinocchio ill.
Pleasure island is a cursed island with an amusement park seen in the 1940 film pinocchio where it is shown to turn mischievous young boys into donkeys. Cartoon conspiracy s3 e29 shreks donkey is actually a human trapped in a donkey s body. Pinocchio hit theaters 80 years ago today and the pleasure island scene is still way too upsetting for a kids movie. Lampwick came to pleasure island to do things that he would never have been allowed to do at home, not to be bossed around by some measly grasshopper. Its obviously a bad idea, because we have a group of young boys smoking cigars and drinking beer like its nothing. He escapes from pleasure island and returns to geppettos house. The whole boytodonkey industry is more sinister in disney, with the roundup of the lads frankly presented as mass kidnapping for profit. Rescued once, pinocchio again falls prey to honest john again and is sold again, sent to pleasure island with other boys, said boys ultimately turning into donkeys. It is implied to be an illegal place, as hinted by j. Before jiminy storms out of the pool hall, he tells lampwick, go on, laugh, make a jackass out of yourself. Jiminy helps pinocchio, now with donkey ears and a tail, to escape and make his way back home, to find geppetto, figaro and cleo gone to search for him. Geppettos love for pinocchio, stromboli, pleasure island, and monstro. For instance i used the windup way area of pranksters paradise from kingdom hearts dream drop distance as a place on pleasure island.
Jiminy helps pinocchio, now with donkey ears and a tail, to escape and make his way back home, to find geppetto, figaro and cleo gone to. We fade in on jiminy looking for pinocchio on pleasure island. When lampwick and pinocchio get to pleasure island, its like the opening scenes of blade runner, a cacophonous nighttown of talking billboards and violent fights. Fairy tales for every child adaption of pinocchio, the land of toys is replaced with fantastic island where uninterrupted sleep turns the children that are taken there into donkeys. May 10, 2017 not only that, but we actually get a pretty frightening transformation sequence onscreen, as one of pinocchios pleasure island pals, lampwick, turns into a donkey right before pinocchios eyes. Determined to rescue his father, pinocchio jumps into the bottom of the ocean, with jiminy accompaning him. Pinocchio manages to escape this fate, though his friend lampwick is transformed. There is no mentioning of the donkey spell in this show. To reward him, the blue fairy resurrects pinocchio, reversing the pleasure island curse and turning him into a real boy. The truth of pleasure island in pinocchio 1940 movierob march 9, 2017 at 2. Jan 29, 2019 pinocchio was first released in 1940 and is a disney classic. There are no rules, and at first these little boys are loving a life without rules.
Shrek turns into a human, and donkey turns into a horse. Feb 07, 2020 pinocchio hit theaters 80 years ago today and the pleasure island scene is still way too upsetting for a kids movie. In pinocchio, how did they turn boys into donkeys on pleasure. Alexander, dickie jones is one of the boys who transformed into a donkey on pleasure island. Mar 31, 2019 the worst element that differs between the book and the film version is arguably the scene when pinocchio and his friend begin to turn into donkeys because of their careless adventures in toylandpleasure island. Pinocchio was first released in 1940 and is a disney classic. Later, while trying to get home, jiminy discovers that the island hides a horrible curse. In addition, as another redditor points out, donkey and shrek take a happily ever after potion in shrek 2. The original story of pinocchio is too scary for children. Piacere isola is a cursed amusement park on an isolated isle and the most infamous location in the 1940 animated disney film pinocchio based on the classic italian childrens novel the adventures of pinocchio by carlo collodi which it is a fictitious location in and known by its original name land of toys in italian. Sure, all 8year olds want to drink and smoke and brawl. Pleasure island appears in the twelfth episode of the sixth season of the fantasy drama once upon a time. Its so crowded in fact, that pinocchio is sitting up front by the coachman with an older boy named lampwick.
It was the second animated feature film produced by disney, made after the first animated success snow white and the seven dwarfs 1937 pinocchio tells the story of an old woodcarver named geppetto who carves a wooden puppet named pinocchio. Pinocchio has been away from home and he has been joined by lampwick. Lampwick becomes a donkey, but pinocchio only changes part way, with donkey ears and a donkey tail. Lorenzini portrayed three characters the puppet master the coachman and the terrible dogfishthe whale. Pleasure island is all heady delirium and shadowy delight, a mazelike funfair where kids sing themselves fun and fancy free. Even now, the pleasure island reveal is a deeply creepy scene, and it also reveals some of the transformed boys can still talk. Pinocchio 1940 movie simple english wikipedia, the free. In esoteric terms, he is closer to his material self, personified by this stubborn animal, than his spiritual self. Jan 07, 2017 the story of pinocchio goes that pinocchio, along with several other boys were sent to pleasure island, where they could do anything they wanted without rules.
In the 2019 italian film pinocchio, the land of toys is referred to as toyland and plays the same role as the novel version. There are fairies the blue fairy and even talking animals like honest john and jiminy cricket. It is implied to be an illegal or extremely notorious place, as hinted by j. I didnt realize as a child that disneys pinocchio has. Remember, in the world of pinocchio there is an element of magicand all the characters know it.
Extraordinarily, this fervent yearning for a full life becomes real when the angelic blue fairy hears the wish of the kindly puppetmaker, geppetto, and decides to vitalise pinocchio, his inanimate creation. Originally produced for walt disney productions unmarked. Piacere isola is a cursed amusement park on an isolated isle and the most infamous location in the 1940 animated disney film pinocchio based on the classic italian childrens novel the adventures of pinocchio by carlo collodi which it is a fictitious location. The pleasure island theme was taken up again by science fiction author cory doctorow in his short story return to pleasure island, where it is told from the perspective of cottoncandyvending golems. The adventures of pinocchio pleasure island rene garza. I havent seen pinocchio since i was probably 8 and im 37 now but its surprising how i instantly recollected the scenes you were describing. The puppet is brought to life by a blue fairy, who informs him that he can become a real boy if he proves himself to be brave, truthful, and unselfish. In pinocchio, we see the title character go to pleasure island, a place where kids can do whatever the hell they want. The story of pinocchio goes that pinocchio, along with several other boys were sent to pleasure island, where they could do anything they wanted without rules. It almost feels like its telling four different stories. Lampwick, in terms of personality, is a complete delinquent. They join a carriage full to the brim of rowdy boys pulled by eight donkeys remember that detail. And then that is when things start to get really weird, the boys turn into donkeys and no longer can speak. Pinocchio and anna last coach to pleasure island, a.
So as you might expect, pinocchio is talked into taking a little trip to pleasure island despite jiminys best efforts to stop him. Lorenzini is the main antagonist of the 1996 live action fantasy film, the adventures of pinocchio. He has no idea how right he is until he reaches the coachmans boat. It was the second animated feature film produced by disney, made after the first animated success snow white and the seven dwarfs 1937 the plot of the film involves an old. He can still talk and is hurled into a special holding pen for suchlike donkeys. Free booze, free smokes, free property destruction, free ice cream, a fight club, and any old thing a young juvenile delinquent might want, per 1940s movie standards. The island is magical, and the boys who act like jackasses turn into donkeys. I do remember feeling really disturbed by the pleasure island scene and the traumatic donkey phase. The plot of the film involves an old woodcarver named geppetto who carves a wooden. Twisted shrek theory will forever change how you look at donkey. This twisted theory will change how you look at donkey in. Pinocchio manages to escape with a donkeys ears and tail. Lets look at the scary side of disneys pinocchio bloody.
The original story was a magazine serial, with each chapter appearing in a different issue to depict a different temptation. Pinocchios friend on pleasure island is the aforementioned lampwick, one of the boys who seems completely at home in this parentless dystopia. Pinocchio is a 1940 american animated musical fantasy film produced by walt disney productions and based on the italian childrens novel the adventures of pinocchio by carlo collodi. These donkeys are sold to work in the local salt mines. Tuscaloosa childrens theatre presents my son pinocchio jr. Geppetto had been swallowed by a giant whale named monstro while out looking for pleasure island to find pinocchio. He was portrayed by udo kier, who also voiced professor pericles. Pinocchio cutlery silverware place setting original wdp.
I also used some of the donkey imagery from both the 1940 film and the disney land ride. Theres a scene in the movie at pleasure island which depicts child slavery and animal cruelty with the boys turned into donkeys and being locked in. Pleasure island was a cursed amusement park seen in pinocchio. Feb 21, 2017 pinocchio goes to pleasure island with lampwick, a place with no school, no cops and its all free.