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.”
episode 2: Pinocchio
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Michial mentioned during our Snow White episode that listeners of the Christian Humanist will recall that he is not a Tolkien fan. Well, if you didn’t recall that – here’s the episode you need to get up to speed.
Michial Farmer’s other podcast discusses Robin Hood, including the 1973 Disney Animated version.
During the Snow White episode, I mentioned that the pacing reminded me of Japanese animation. Hayao Miyazaki is the Japanese animator Par Excellence.
Is this the only 1000+ page novel worth reading? Michial thinks so.
- Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 – November 21, 2018
- Frozen 2 – November 27, 2019
At least I was wrong and it’s not three?
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Animation_Studios_films#Upcoming
This in depth story of what was going on with Dwarfs, the Snow White Prequel, is great. But here’s the money quote:
Immediately. Thank God for John Lasseter
More at Tolkien Gateway
Source: TVtropes
Do the Dwarfs align with any of the Enneagram numbers? Is Grumpy an 8? Is Doc a 5?
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More examples of civilizing affects of women, cut from the movie.
A somewhat close retelling of the original. No dancing to death though.
The Victorians invented children and disturbing children’s novels.
I went ahead and included the annotated Martin Gardner version here as well, because as Michial rightly said – unless you’re a Victorian or Victorian scholar, there is a lot you will miss culturally just reading the Lewis Carroll text.
Civilizing affect of women in American literature exhibit C: Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom is fleeing south to get away of the choking northern cities full of women.
Civilizing affect of women in American literature exhibit B: Huck sails down the Mississippi because he doesn’t want to be civilized by Widow Douglass. But Huckleberry is also a bit of a layabout fitting into the line of noble hobos leading up to Jiminy Cricket.
Civilizing affect of women in American literature exhibit A: Rip Van Winkle goes off into the woods to get away from his horrible shrewish wife.
Michial traces the ideal of idleness that Jiminy Cricket and hobos fit into in American culture back to at least Rip Van Winkle.
This classic came out in 1937, just months before Snow White debuted. And the rivalry for who controls our imagination of Dwarfs has been raging ever since.
Sing to manage your fears, just like Sam Gamgee and Snow White.
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Josh’s conception of pre-Tolkien and Pre-Disney dwarfs comes from this series of YA books. Even if that is a wildly inaccurate and ignorant assumption to make (probably) the story is still pretty fun.
Read along with the Christian Humanists at christianhumanist.org
It’s not a hagiography. Sorry I butchered your name Mr. Neal Gabler.
If you are interested, you can read the ever expanding list of passages I’ve highlighted on my goodreads profile.
Read the whole interesting piece here.
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