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Kubrick always faced and never successfully resolved a tension within his story between science and myth, between a narrative of scientific orientation (humanity evolving into machines) and a narrative of fantasy and myth (a machine-boy who becomes human). | Kubrick always faced and never successfully resolved a tension within his story between science and myth, between a narrative of scientific orientation (humanity evolving into machines) and a narrative of fantasy and myth (a machine-boy who becomes human). | ||
<span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE%7CA128111697&v=2.1&it=r&sid=AONE&asid=2b7afc20 Growing nowhere: Pinocchio subverted in Spielberg's ''A.I. Artificial Intelligence'']</span | <span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE%7CA128111697&v=2.1&it=r&sid=AONE&asid=2b7afc20 Growing nowhere: Pinocchio subverted in Spielberg's ''A.I. Artificial Intelligence'']</span> | ||
What Collodi's novel celebrates is <mark>self-actualization in the context of community</mark>, a process that involves <mark>finding one's way imperfectly in a most decidedly imperfect world</mark>....<br> | What Collodi's novel celebrates is <mark>self-actualization in the context of community</mark>, a process that involves <mark>finding one's way imperfectly in a most decidedly imperfect world</mark>....<br> | ||
Collodi's puppet learns and grows until he becomes a real boy. Not so in Disney's film...<mark>Disney</mark> and his sources created a <mark>new image of Pinocchio-as-child</mark>: "In this new imagery no longer is the child's goal to grow up, mature, and transform. Rather, its <mark>goal is to be a good child, a loved and commended child, a child who enhances Family Harmony and promotes Family Solidarity</mark>. Its goal is to <mark>continue as a child!</mark>". Disney's puppet's <mark>purposeful non-growth</mark> means that he <mark>never develops individual initiative or judgment</mark>. <mark>The ideology of the film requires that the child not question received ideology</mark>. As Jack Zipes writes in ''Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children and the Culture Industry'', "Pinocchio will aim to please and will repress his desires and wishes first and foremost that his father is happy. <mark>Such a boy is easily manipulated for the good of the country, the good of the corporation, and the good of the Disney studio"</mark>....<br> | Collodi's puppet learns and grows until he becomes a real boy. Not so in Disney's film...<mark>Disney</mark> and his sources created a <mark>new image of Pinocchio-as-child</mark>: "In this new imagery no longer is the child's goal to grow up, mature, and transform. Rather, its <mark>goal is to be a good child, a loved and commended child, a child who enhances Family Harmony and promotes Family Solidarity</mark>. Its goal is to <mark>continue as a child!</mark>". Disney's puppet's <mark>purposeful non-growth</mark> means that he <mark>never develops individual initiative or judgment</mark>. <mark>The ideology of the film requires that the child not question received ideology</mark>. As Jack Zipes writes in ''Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children and the Culture Industry'', "Pinocchio will aim to please and will repress his desires and wishes first and foremost that his father is happy. <mark>Such a boy is easily manipulated for the good of the country, the good of the corporation, and the good of the Disney studio"</mark>....<br> | ||