Talk:Pleasure Island (Pinocchio)/@comment-5203359-20150801171346

Pinocchio, Lampwick and all the boys might have been naughty, but, for the Coachman to turn them into donkeys just for that? There's the saying 'two wrongs don't make a right'. It actually makes the Coachman worse than all the boys who go to Pleasure Island, rather than as bad as them. No wonder do people who've seen the movie not like the Coachman.

You do have to sympathise with those boys, and Lampwick, when they turn into donkeys. The Coachman's the one you should say is in the wrong. As bad as they (and, of course, Pinocchio) might have been, they didn't deserve to be turned into donkeys.

Yes, I'm aware it was literally 'making jackasses of themselves', but, although the word jackass might be rude, one of the reasons it was used in the movie, rather than just 'donkeys', is, the point of the transformation is - the Coachman didn't want the boys who go to Pleasure Island to know about it, until it was too late.

Moreover, Honest John and Gideon aren't the true villains of the movie. The former, even for a villain, did have a level of kindness; he (and even Gideon) were horrified at what the Coachman does to the boys who go to Pleasure Island. Even Honest John and Gideon would have been devastated, at the donkey transformations.