Whether or not these movies were necessary was besides the point. (A majority of them, this one included, are overwhelmingly made using CGI animation.) Nostalgia is like a sourdough starter: It needs to be fed to stay alive. I suppose, at one point, there was a thrill to watching Disney’s so-called “live-action” remakes of its classic cartoons. Did watching a lion’s brother murder him while his son wailed in horror as he fell to the ground not scar-heh-you enough? Maybe watching Baby Quasimodo be tossed into a well will do it. And this is meant to be for children.īeing traumatized for the rest of your life by a Disney cartoon is a rite of passage, for which the Mouse House has, with a morbid glee, provided its service for generations. #Pinocchio story snl movie#To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up for it here.ĭisney’s 1940 animated film Pinocchio is a movie in which a pile of wood comes to life, is tragically separated from his father figure, has his face painfully modified as punishment for innocently telling a lie, is conned into becoming a child actor, is kidnapped, meets a human trafficker that delights in turning boys into screaming donkeys that are then sold into forced labor, is swallowed by a whale, and is stalked by an insect throughout the entire ordeal. This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Disney/Getty
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