Pinocchio was KILLED in the original story?! 😱

[somerandomguy]

Damn that’s kinda poetic if you think about it the song “I got no strings to hold me down” and in his final moments a string held him up

[bennycaustic]

There's a pretty self explanatory reason why so many old stories have such brutal endings. And it's simply because the times they were written in were brutal and unfair themselves. Death was never far away or out of the mind.

[Nevverhrrt]

Fans: "That's a fucked up way to end a story"
Author: "Fine I'll torture the puppet for 20 more chapters

[Imamotherfreakingavocado]

The thieves are NOT very smart, they coulda just dug up the coins after Pinocchio buried them 💀

[tyrant-den]

Fans: "You can't end it there! How the heck would a puppet die from hanging?"

[L_H_Bruh]

Author: this is the canon ending


Fans: nah imma do my own thing

[queazy]

The original author hated children and delighted in ways of torturing Pinocchio, it was only because his editor forced him to create a happy ending that we got one

[idkjustleavemebeplease]

Bro went full circle with the, "ain't no strings on me"

[lovelylife-tzbe]

Let's be real. Pinocchio is just disturbing. I was terrified of the movie as a kid (and still kind of am, that donky scene is so creepy) and disneys one is supposed to be the nice version

[Robynhoodlum]

This explains why the story feels like it’s rambling with no plot. Guy made it up as he went!😂

[camionbrowne]

Well the author is said to have really hated kids and made it plain

[jeremypayne]

At first, I thought Pinocchio would survive being hanged. I mean, he is made of wood.

[leighsajo]

Why didn’t they just wait and watch then dig the gold up? 😅

[drownedtommy]

Actually it doesn't end there, it's a common misconseption due to the fact that it was the last scene of the newspaper comic section of pinocchio, but then the author decides to continue the story writing the book

[TheOtakuDisneyFan]

The original author hated children so much that any punishment that he had Pinocchio go through was because he thought kids were troublesome brats

[a.w.]

I've read the book as a child and I loved it. It was action heavy and the amount of shit Pinocchio goes through make you sympatize with him much more than in Disney version. I've also never thought the morale is not to disobey the adults... More to trust the right people and be prepared for world being harsh. At the end Pinocchio wins not because of obedience, but because of caring for his father, both in heroic and mundane yet mature way.

[danerang]

This actually makes so much sense to me because Pinocchio has always felt like a collection of different stories that teach Pinocchio morales and I felt even more strongly about that with Del Toro’s version, glad to see that his first death in the movie too was at least a nod to the original

[KyleDavid]

Pinocchio isn't the only character Disney softened for the modern audience. All the Grimm Brothers' characters they used were softened as well. The funny thing about the Grimm Brothers' is that they modified the stories for their audiences, too.

[Yaxxin]

I knew this already
i tought pinocchio was already known 100% by everyone

[georgeoldsterd]

There was a Soviet re-write of Pinocchio called "The golden key, or the adventures of Burattino", the part about the fox and cat telling the protagonist about planting the five golden coins, later planning to steal them, made it into the rewrite. They also attacked Burattino posing as masked highwaymen, torturing him for the money. Eventually they hung him, but by his ankles, because he previously swallowed the coins and they were planning for the coins to fall out of his mouth.