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62. Pinocchio (1940) Pleasure Island sequences (17.5 points)
Nominated by: wallmasterz (4/5 remaining)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGxvnroYgt4

Importance: 5.5
Fear: 6
Snake: 6

Imagine your most cherished fantastical place as a child. It has everything you ever wanted, full of entertainment and wonder, treats & sweets galore, a total dream where nothing bad or painful ever happens to you. Now imagine if that place was actually a total alcohol-fueled smoke den which feeds & preys on your untapped & unchecked desires, transforming you into a shadow of your former self, a monster even. Wait a minute, that's not very subtle is it? In one of Disney's earliest and darkest strokes, Pinocchio introduced countless generations of children to the terrors of alcoholism and tobacco addiction, turning the children who spend too much time with these vices into literal jackasses. There's your god damn PSA right there. Hell if that's not even the darkest part though, as the Coachman participates in literal child human trafficking bringing children to the island in the first place to sell them into slavery. Jeesus. EXTREMELY in spite-of this, the Pleasure Island sequences are impeccably animated with tons of bright detail and centerpieces such as a gigantic clown, and the sequences are framed with some comedic integrity too, as boys scramble into the rought fighting pit or climb over each other World War Z style to literally chomp at the bit for cigars, before an Animal House rager becomes the party to end all parties. I guess much like the island itself, it really makes you forget the darker elements behind it all. But can someone explain to me why they chose to name a nightclub after this?!

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And it's gonna be a long October, and I don't have reasons to believe, in much of anything, alright
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