The Coachman is the third antagonist to appear in the 2022 live-action remake of Pinocchio. He is a sinister figure who is notorious for luring "naughty boys and girls" to Pleasure Island, where they are transformed into donkeys and sold on the black market.
Background[]
Unlike the original version, this version of the Coachman not only collects naughty little boys but also collects little girls turned into donkeys whom he can sell to, including salt mines. The Coachman also has his own musical number known as "The Coachman to Pleasure Island", a song that was created exclusively for the remake, unlike in the original film where he had no solo song. He is also depicted as a handsome, charismatic man with a moustache, rather than the elderly, obese one with the demonic face from the 1940 film.
Role in the film[]
Pinocchio[]
As Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket are wandering around the streets, Pinocchio ends up suddenly ends up getting captured onto the Coachman's carriage where he is placed next to a group of naughty children onto the carriage as he takes the children to Pleasure Island. As Pinocchio tells the Coachman that he doesn't trust him, he becomes furious of Pinocchio not believing in him and telling him that returning to Geppetto and then joining him another time doesn't work that way just as he sings the musical number "The Coachman to Pleasure Island", telling the children and Pinocchio to decide whether they join him which Pinocchio agrees for the Coachman to take them to Pleasure Island just as the Coachman then takes all the children to Pleasure Island, much to Jiminy's worry. When the children arrive at Pleasure Island, the Coachman welcomes the children to this place, just as Pinocchio and Lampwick board on a boat to see what the children do here. He then pops up next to the two serving both of them two glasses of root beer for Pinocchio and Lampwick to enjoy their experience at Pleasure Island and then during the part before the two depart from their boat serving more root beer to them.
Later, the Coachman commands his minions, large shadowy creatures, to capture the children who were turned into donkeys and then sell them to the salt mines just as Jiminy realizes that Pleasure Island is a trap for Pinocchio. The Coachman then enters a bar where Pinocchio is at where he tells his henchmen to capture Pinocchio and sell him to the salt mines which Pinocchio and Jiminy plan to escape Pleasure Island just as the Coachman commands two of his followers to go after Pinocchio which he and Jiminy end up in the sea to escape from Pleasure Island, causing the Coachman and his shadowy followers to retreat. The Coachman and his followers do not appear again throughout the rest of the film.
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