Michial and I sometimes talk about package films, parts of the movies that were cut up and repackaged by Disney. This must have been one of the first, and one that Michial was familiar with, 1958’s From All Of Us To All Of You. It features Jimmy Cricket in the segue sequences, as well as the snow and ice scene from Bambi.
Category: Pinocchio
“One Pinocchio
Some shading of the facts. Selective telling of the truth. Some omissions and exaggerations, but no outright falsehoods. (You could view this as “mostly true.”)
Two Pinocchios
Significant omissions and/or exaggerations. Some factual error may be involved but not necessarily. A politician can create a false, misleading impression by playing with words and using legalistic language that means little to ordinary people. (Similar to “half true.”)
Three Pinocchios
Significant factual error and/or obvious contradictions. This gets into the realm of “mostly false.” But it could include statements which are technically correct (such as based on official government data) but are so taken out of context as to be very misleading. The line between Two and Three can be bit fuzzy and we do not award half-Pinocchios. So we strive to explain the factors that tipped us toward a Three.
Four Pinocchios
Whoppers.”
Pinocchio gets a bad wrap for being a liar considering this is only one small (although iconic) part of the movie.
“Early animation tended to stay within the frame. In “Fantasia” and especially “Pinocchio,” Disney broke out of the frame, for example in the exciting sequence where Pinocchio and his father are expelled by the whale’s sneeze, then drawn back again, then expelled again. There is the palpable sense of Monstro the Whale, offscreen to the right.”
Read the full review. It’s very good.
“But if the roof carvings cannot be seen, to whom are their stories being told? Why was such craftsmanship expended on them, and such planning given to their content and narrative? Rose writes: “The most lofty work is as carefully carved and skillfully finished as any at a lower level.”
The best he offers by way of an answer to this mystery is to propose that this care and skill reflect “not just a feeling of self-respect on the part of the sculptor, but a belief that his work was an essential part of the whole building of the church which was for the worship and praise of God.” It seems that communication was not the primary purpose.”
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
See also: Art History Timeline 14-Gothic Architecture, a short lecture with lots of beautiful images from Dr. Jeanne Willette of Otis College of Art and Design on iTunesU. She makes mention at the end of the art made to be seen only by God.
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You could read this book critically, but if you really want it to shape your desires and imagination – read it for fun!
Around the network: The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode #50: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
During the Pinocchio episode, I mentioned that my children watch a lot of My Little Pony. Here’s a good introduction for the unfamiliar.
“As of May 2017, Sam Mendes is in talks to direct the movie from Chris Weitz’s script.”
Magic that trains toward a Christian metaphysics.
The Professor is the happy ending to Alice’s story. The adult who experiences the magic of childhood, and then encourages it in the next generation of children.
“Logic!” said the Professor half to himself. “Why don’t they teach logic at these schools? There are only three possibilities. Either your sister is telling lies, or she is mad, or she is telling the truth. You know she doesn’t tell lies and it is obvious that she is not mad. For the moment then and unless any further evidence turns up, we must assume that she is telling the truth.”
But how could it be true, sir?” said Peter.
“Why do you say that?” asked the Professor.
“Well, for one thing,” said Peter, “if it was real why doesn’t everyone find this country every time they go to the wardrobe? I mean, there was nothing there when we looked; even Lucy didn’t pretend there was.”
“What has that to do with it?” said the Professor.
“Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time.”
“Are they?” said the Professor; and Peter did not know quite what to say.
“But there was no time,” said Susan. “Lucy had had no time to have gone anywhere, even if there was such a place. She came running after us the very moment we were out of the room. It was less than a minute, and she pretended to have been away for hours.”
“That is the very thing that makes her story so likely to be true,” said the Professor. “If there really is a door in this house that leads to some other world (and I should warn you that this is a very strange house, and even I know very little about it)—if, I say, she had got into another world, I should not be at all surprised to find that the other world had a separate time of its own; so that however long you stayed there it would never take up any of our time. On the other hand, I don’t think many girls of her age would invent that idea for themselves. If she had been pretending, she would have hidden for a reasonable time before coming out and telling her story.”
“But do you really mean, sir,” said Peter, “that there could be other worlds—all over the place, just round the corner—like that?”
“Nothing is more probable,” said the Professor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, “I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.”
Is stubbornness a more accurate representation of childhood than naïveté? Does stubbornness provide more interesting moral quandaries?
Christianity Today subscribers can read an excerpt from Guroian’s chapter on Pinocchio here.
Read this, and then write that paper on how Jiminy Cricket as both conscience and narrator embodies Alasdair’s ideas of needing to know your place within a story to know the right way to behave.
One of the worst novels Michial has ever read. Get it for free and judge for yourself.
“The fox knows just when to to throw a knowing glance, and the cat is a malicious dolt with an instinct for mischief. Neither is subject to the eruptions of sheer evil that determine Stromboli’s personality; they are self made villains, he’s a force of nature.”
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It’s not a hagiography. Sorry I butchered your name Mr. Neal Gabler.
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