[HN Gopher] The real story of Pinocchio
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       The real story of Pinocchio
        
       Author : Digit-Al
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2022-05-28 08:42 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | layer8 wrote:
       | I would have liked to see a discussion of the 1976 Japanese anime
       | version.
        
       | flashfaffe2 wrote:
       | Without the arrogance to provide an expert view of the book, but
       | it seems that the author did follow up the path of Victor Hugo
       | and Charles Dickens to describe the dark side of Italian society
       | at that time. I would definitely consider drilling down and
       | understand the part of the Italian story
        
       | drekipus wrote:
       | Pretty cool, I didn't know it was a series in Italy. From what
       | they said in the article it doesn't seem too far from the Disney
       | version. (Any more than the expected, condensed, Disney way).
       | 
       | Jordan Peterson actually really opened up the Disney story of
       | Pinocchio for me, all of it is really quite apt. I could imagine
       | the original is quite amazing.
       | 
       | https://youtu.be/Us979jCjHu8
        
         | aasasd wrote:
         | Reader beware: watching one clip of Jordan Peterson will infect
         | your Youtube recommendations with 'woke' videos for teens, and
         | they will sit there for years to come.
        
           | mistrial9 wrote:
           | as someone from "before the Internet" I find this tiny (real)
           | anecdote about watching a single YouTube video "ruining
           | recommendations" very powerful in all the wrong ways
        
           | Stevvo wrote:
           | Yeah, there is something going on there with the
           | recommendations for controversial figures like Jordan. I just
           | watched some of the lectures, the 3 to 4 hour ones on
           | Pinocchio and the Bible. Now my recommendations are infected
           | with "Jordan Peterson DESTROYS feminists"
        
             | aasasd wrote:
             | My condolences. I'm pretty sure it may now take YouTube a
             | full year to learn that you're not gonna watch that. Might
             | be easier to remove the lectures from the 'watch history'
             | and then methodically mark these recommendations as not
             | interesting to you. Of course, idk if that doesn't also
             | catch some properly good content by association.
        
       | peoplefromibiza wrote:
       | Not wanting to sound dismissal, but as Italian the real story of
       | Pinocchio is the original story of Collodi's Pinocchio, that we
       | are told and we read since we are little kids.
       | 
       | We have old sayings like "the land of toys (il paese dei
       | balocchi) does not exists' or "if you do not study you'll end up
       | like Pinocchio and Lucifer transformed into a donkey" that are
       | directly taken from the book.
       | 
       | Also, a very popular adaptation of Pinocchio made for television
       | [1], directed by one of the greatest Italian directors of the
       | renown Italian comedy genre of the time and which is probably the
       | most popular adaptation here in Italy, surely the most accurate,
       | is very blatant about the need for education.
       | 
       | p.s. the tv show musical theme was popularized in the 90s by a
       | dance remix [2] that was then remixed in all sort of styles,
       | including techno and gaber
       | 
       | When my father was very young he was friend with Nino Manfredi,
       | who plays Geppetto. they were born in two houses two kms apart
       | from each other.
       | 
       | [1]
       | https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_avventure_di_Pinocchio_(m...
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       | [2] https://youtu.be/97IYO-P1V18
        
         | pvg wrote:
         | You're gonna love this guy
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buratino
        
           | aasasd wrote:
           | Aleksey Tolstoy not only localized the story quite freely,
           | but sneaked in jabs at other contemporary authors and poets.
        
       | davidw wrote:
       | John Hooper is also the Italian correspondent for The Economist.
       | 
       | Now I feel a bit nostalgic for life in Italy after reading that.
       | So many beautiful places, and a lot of very interesting people.
        
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