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The Wood Sprite appears in the middle of the night and brings it to life, christening him Pinocchio due to the puppet being made of pine, and assigns Sebastian J. Cricket, who formerly lived inside the pine wood, to guide him morally, promising him a wish in exchange. Geppetto wakes up and is frightened by Pinocchio exploring and destroying his ...
The Fairy with Turquoise Hair (Italian: la Fata dai Capelli Turchini), often simply referred to as the Blue Fairy (La Fata Turchina), is a fictional character in the 1883 Italian book The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, [1] repeatedly appearing at critical moments in Pinocchio's wanderings to admonish the little wooden puppet to avoid bad or risky behavior.
Unlike the original story or any other versions of it, Pinocchio stays a wooden puppet at the end of the movie but was still considered at the end, by his loved ones including the Wood Sprite (the movie's counterpart to the Fairy with Turquoise Hair) (voiced by Tilda Swinton, who also voiced Death, the Sprite's sister) as already a real boy.
Geppetto (/ dʒ ə ˈ p ɛ t oʊ / jə-PET-oh; Italian: [dʒepˈpetto]) [1] is a fictional character in the 1883 Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.Geppetto is an elderly, impoverished woodcarver and the creator (and thus 'father') of Pinocchio.
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Wood Sprite / Death (voices) Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson: 2023 Problemista: Elizabeth Julio Torres: Asteroid City: Dr. Hickenlooper Wes Anderson The Killer: The Expert David Fincher 2024 A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things: Narrator Mark Cousins: Documentary The End: Mother Joshua Oppenheimer: Also producer ...
Pinocchio is always shown as a very short person with short dark hair, but other specifics of his appearance vary depending on the artist. In "A Wolf in the Fold" and "Around the Town", he is drawn as a typical prepubescent child with a slender frame and a receding chin, but most other chapters show him with thick shoulders, a square jaw and a heavy brow.
The story is told in first-person narration and recounts the narrator's experience when he was visited, at his desk, by a "hunched, gray" wood-sprite, "powdered with the pollen of the frosty, starry night." The creature tells of his own exile from Russia and the hardships he has endured as a result.
The prince thanking the Water sprite, from The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland (1884) by Andrew Lang (illustration by Richard Doyle). The belief in diminutive beings such as sprites, elves, fairies, etc. has been common in many parts of the world, and might to some extent still be found within neo-spiritual and religious movements such as "neo-druidism" and Ásatrú.