Pinocchio from the producers of Walt Disney (1940) and by director Ben Sharpsteen is a fantastic movie, when I was a little girl I would always be frightened by the movie, especially the part when Pinocchio becomes a donkey, that part was the most terrifying thing I could think of back then, in addition to beauty in the beasts wolf attack. Those two moments where the most terrifying, pee in my pants, want to run and hide and never look, nothing could have been scarier.
The main characters in the movie are Pinocchio (voiceover by Dickie Jones) a wooden boy doll that wants to be a good boy and a real boy, Geppetto (Christian Rub) Pinocchio’s creator/ father like figure, jiminy cricket (Cliff Edwards) the cricket that can sing. The setting of this film is olden time Italy. Throughout the movie Pinocchio runs away because he was a bad boy and is now on a quest to become a real boy running into all sorts of hurdles and problems, like his nose growing every time he tells a lie, or being trapped inside of a whales belly, and the classic point where he becomes a donkey.
In this film there aren’t any special effects or special animation they literally used scissors and glue for editing, and had to draw each and every frame to perfection, for every little move the characters made it was a whole bunch of different frames to make it look smooth. As you can imagine this probably took an ungodly amount of time but their hard work paid off because their movie came out beautifully, one that they can be extremely proud of.
The colors are amazing and vibrant in this movie; they are really bold and done beautifully. This movie would be a cartoon so I would say it would be highly unlikely, well structured, and unbelievable, but when you are a little girl or boy nothing is more believable than movies like this and others that Walt Disney has created. When you are a small child you are so involved with the movie every little thing jumps out at you and you want to see the movie over and over again. When you are little I fell you are always analyzing movies subconsciously, at least I did, and your squirrels in your brain are working over time for you to understand what is going on in the movie and all the different effects. When I was little I loved watching movies, and especially Walt Disney’s classics they let me be in a different world where magic did exist and miracles do happen, and all my dreams can come true, cause all the characters in my movies dreams were. These movies gave me hope for the future and told me I can do whatever I set my mind to, even though I was scared to death of watching Pinocchio when I was younger it has become one of my all time favorite childhood movies that I can still enjoy today.