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Ruining your childhood

16 Apr 2021 01:56 by Clementine
Pinocchio was Disney’s second animated feature film, and features one of the best-loved Disney songs, ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’. Disney’s version is surreal enough, with blue fairies, boys transformed into donkeys and Gepetto living in the belly of a whale, but it’s got nothing on Carlo Collodi’s dark original. The story was originally published as a serial, with Pinocchio accidentally killing a talking cricket, falling asleep on a stove and burning his feet off and being hung by a rather evil talking cat and fox duo, while poor Gepetto lives on a ship inside The Terrible Dogfish for two whole years before being rescued by his wooden son.