![]() ![]() Two, was that he wanted Ward to become the lead supervising animator for the character of Jiminy. One, would be that he wasn’t going to use Ward’s musical soup eating scene in Snow White. ![]() Walt approached Ward Kimball, one of his most prized animators, and gave him two pieces of news. He then became the comedic relief and the essence of love in the story. When they decided to make Jiminy the narrator, it saved the film entirely. Before adding Jiminy to the film, the writers were having a hard time finding the underlying love and magic in the story - on the surface it was just a puppet who kept giving into temptation when he was tricked. ![]() Jiminy’s role in the film was meant to be small at first just as it was in the book, but they realized they could do so much more with a cute, meaningful side character. That is not the story of the cricket Walt wanted to tell. Pinocchio becomes annoyed with him, and smashes him with a mallet. Our beloved Jiminy Cricket is featured in the original tale, but only for a small section, when he tries to teach Pinocchio about doing the right thing. Pinocchio was a puppet who wouldn’t listen to those around him who tried to help him, and always gave into temptation. The original tale is much darker than the Disney version, with large story elements of mischief, disrespect, and deviousness. The Adventures of Pinocchio was written by Carlo Collodi, an Italian author in 1883.
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