I've been cobbling together an essay about artificially created entities. While the focus is mainly modern sci-fi, I thought it an interesting experiment to do a family tree of sorts - tracing back to certain ideas genesis. From Zeus' Nephele to Weyland's David from the latest Alien movies -- all characters I touch on have a purpose to their design, and a moment when the life-force is gifted/transferred.
When the shem is stuffed into the Golem's mouth, or when Frankenstein gets the lightning bolt he desires -- the moment can be magic, scientific, plausible, but it is always there and with purpose. If you take Disney's watered down version, the precise moment of what I'm looking for it there in the Blue Fairy bringing the wooden marionette to life with magic.
This does not happen in Collodi's version. A piece of wood is found. It is scraped and immediately begins screaming. The life force is there. While it's plausible the fairy's presence in the woods somehow gifted this wood life, I (admittedly in a skim read) did not find it directly mentioned, let alone with any point or purpose. Indeed, Geppetto is referred to as Pinocchio's father, but the Fairy merely as his sister -- denoting less of an influence in his creation.
As Pinocchio is a key anchor for many other works I'm talking about (A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Astro Boy, etc) I'd kind of like to get to the bottom of this.
tl;dr - WHY IS PINOCCHIO ALIVE? HOW AND WHY? IF THIS IS A MYSTERY ARE THERE OTHER WORKS THAT SHARE THIS ... DISCOVERY OF LIFE THAT COLLODI MAY HAVE BORROWED FROM?
And oh God is it a terrible movie. It wasnt raunchy in any way, but watching it made me feel very gross. Cant wait to hear what June, John, and Jason have to say about it.
I'm thinking about something and I need someone to tell me if it's a bad idea, or it is good.
My players will face the BBEG who is using a powerfull mask to accomplish a necromantic ritual. When the players will face him he will throw the mask in a big bag of devouring, so the players can't take it. I know my players want that mask and I think some of them will try to reach into the bag. So I was thinking about giving them an adventure into the body of a gigantic creature connected to the bag of devouring. Is it too stupid?
When I was a kid I used to play this game on PC, it had a pretty cool artstyle, the color mood of the game was in greenish/bluish colors. I can't remember that much details, however for some reason I remember one of the items you could pick up very clear which was a red onion that was cut in half. I'm not sure about this, but I think the main character (which was Pinocchio) didn't talk. I must have played it somewhere in between the years 2005 to 2008. I really tried finding it, but whenever I try to google it all that comes up is various Disney games. But this game wasn't Disney, it was a completely different artstyle.
I hope someone remembers this, I know this isn't a lot of info. Something I also should point out is, that my main language is german, so I played the game in german when I was a kid, so I can't tell if it even is a game that is known in other countrys.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, and Peter Pan. what are the prospects and strategy for Disney when it comes to these films?
On the one hand Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent(Sleeping Beauty), The Jungle Book, and Cinderella did really well; but Mary Poppins Returns and Dumbo have either been underwhelming or a disaster.
Hell even the other lesser known renaissance films like Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, and Tarzan might not get theatrical releases. Even the rumored remake of Lilo and Stitch?
We know that Mulan, Cruella de Vill and The Little Mermaid will get theatrical releases, but after that?
In the original story of pinocchio, he is born a sociopathic nightmare demon beast. Upon gaining limbs the first thing he does is kick the dogshit out of gepeto (sp? fuck you leave me alone). He was always alive, btw. He was a screaming log that bellowed so many un-utterable blasphemies of such great volume the person who found the proto-pinocchio-devil-log basically forced Gepeto to take it.
Pinocchio is then taught to walk and then he's like FUCK YOU DAD and immediately bails.
He then gets captured by some fuckin' guy who assumed Pinocchio has been abused by gepeto who IS THEN THROWN INTO PRISON. then Pinochhio is like ah shit cock I guess I'll go back home there's nothing else to do. On the way he meets an un-named talking cricket who says stuff like "don't be a gigantic cockfuck or people won't like you. being greedy is bad and shit and please get a job" PINOCCHIO THEN IMMEDIATELY AND WITHOUT HESITATION CRUSHES HIM WITH A FUCKING HAMMER.
Pinocchio, now free of all authority either by murder or by prison, takes a nice long nap by the fireplace and burns his fucking feet off because he's a dumbass moron who doesn't even realize he's made of wood and satan.
Gepeto, freed from prison, comes home to find his unholy spawn screaming in endless agony because of the leg loss, and says "I am a good man, I will make you new legs but can you please go the fuck to school"
Pinocchio, warming up to his dad, says ok sure thing pops. Gepeto then goes, sells his one and only winter coat because Gepeto is poor af, and buys Pinocchio a school book because 1800.
THE NEXT DAY PINOCCHIO SELLS HIS NEW SCHOOL BOOK FOR A FUCKIN' NICKLE TO GO SEE A PUPPET SHOW.
As he's sitting in the audience, his mere demonic presence seemingly terroizes the other puppets into sentience, and they start freaking the fuck out that a puppet is out there walking around doing shit when they're all strung up and can't ruin anyones lives at all.
So the puppet master is like Im gonna kill this cocksuckin shit ass and turn him into firewood, but then has a change of heart when he realizes pinocchio has ruined gepeto's life forever. He gives pinocchio some gold to take to gepeto.
Pinocchio then goes on a series of misadventures where anyone who tries to help him is murdered eaten or has their lives ruined. a couple of foxes tell him to go plant his money and grow a money tree, which pinocchio believes because he's a fucking puppet idiot demon baby.
the crickets ghost even comes back and is like
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And (seems to me) inspired AI artificial intelligence
I'd like to share with all of you the last "step" on Pinocchio's project from Passione Playing Cards.
In addition to Sapphire and Vermilion there will be also a special double tuck case in a limited edition, Collodi's Pinocchio!
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