Pinocchio

Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen · 1940 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A woodcarver wishes on a star for the marionette he has just finished, a blue fairy grants it on condition the boy prove himself, and a cricket is appointed to do the work of a conscience he does not yet have. A fox and a cat sell him to a puppet showman and then to a coachman running excursions to Pleasure Island. The multiplane camera work and the underwater sequences remain the studio's most technically ambitious animation.

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Lineage

• adapts ↑ The Adventures of Pinocchio
  Carlo Collodi · 1883 CE · Novel
• ↓ Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  Steven Spielberg · 1977 CE · Film — alludes to this

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Closest analogues

• The Adventures of Pinocchio
  Carlo Collodi · 1883 CE · Novel

  90% · 16 shared
  FantasyComing-of-AgeAllegoryTemptationComing of AgeGuilt & ConscienceInnocentCreatorTricksterEpisodicRebirthThe SeaThe BeastMetamorphosisvs SelfAllegorical
• The Jātaka Tales
  Buddhist tradition · c. 300 BCE · Folktale

  49% · 11 shared
  FantasyAllegoryInnocentTricksterEpisodicRebirthThe Beastvs Selfvs SupernaturalAllegoricalMythic
• Where the Wild Things Are
  Maurice Sendak · 1963 CE · Short Story

  48% · 11 shared
  FantasyAllegoryComing of AgeContemporaryInnocentTricksterThe Beastvs SelfAllegoricalMythicModern / American
• Ti-Jean and His Brothers
  Derek Walcott · 1958 CE · Play

  48% · 10 shared
  FantasyAllegoryTemptationComing of AgeContemporaryInnocentTrickstervs SupernaturalAllegoricalMythic
• Children's and Household Tales
  Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm · c. 1812 CE · Folktale

  47% · 9 shared
  FantasyComing-of-AgeComing of AgeInnocentTricksterEpisodicMetamorphosisvs SupernaturalMythic
• Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki · 2001 CE · Film

  45% · 11 shared
  FilmFantasyComing-of-AgeComing of AgeContemporaryRebirthThe SeaMetamorphosisvs Selfvs SupernaturalMythic