His friends call him Woody.
This weeks drawing exercise was adding emotion (like worry) without adding age. I could have played with the eyebrows more, but this version is MUCH better than the other versions which had worried more than covered … for a 50 yr old.
As for the story, we can only assume that the puppet who wanted to be “real boy” grew up into a “real man.” Although Disney excluded it, the feet burning thing is part of the original story (amongst other more grisly and wonderful scraps of un-sanitized story telling.)
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Huh? Not making any sense? Although Artiste’s vignettes are non-linear, it can help to read the back story: • The Artiste Gullible back story. Of course you could just read them randomly, and trust that it will all come together at some point.
[text] Her brow furrowed and twisted in an attempt to erase the truth written there. “Wedding day jitters,” she explained, dismissing her anxiety with a false laugh. She looked to me for comfort while wringing a small white handkerchief into knots.
“It’s not as if he tried to conceal his past.” She continued. “He has been truthful from the start. Dreadfully honest about it all, if you don’t mind me putting too fine a point on it. The whale. His father. The whole story. He said that he had to tell the truth; lying made his nose itch. That’s when I started to wonder.
I mean, he laughs like a donkey. I thought it was endearing at first, but then I noticed his ears. I swear to you that when he laughs, his ears grow.
Did you know, as a boy he fell asleep next to a fire and awoke with his feet in ashes? His father carved him a new set and all was good. Carved him new feet! Well … that old man has been locked up in his workshop all week, chuckling like a debauched schoolboy. No one will say a thing. Even that incessantly opinionated cricket is mute.
It’s been 15 years, but I just can’t help but wonder, what kind of magic is yet unproved for a man once made
of wood?”
One word: Brilliant.
There are emotions that just make us look older, because (supposedly) it’s making them that creates the wrinkles we identify with old people! The opposite extreme is in the caricaturistic emoticons. It’s hard to strike the balance.
But hey, if it were easy, everyone would do it, and achieving it wouldn’t be as gratifying!
Love the shift in perspective on a well-known fairy tale. It adds another almost sinister element to the story.
Many classic Disney movies tend to exclude darker scenes and elements from the original stories. Even to the point that they’d re-write an ending. Reading older versions of well-known fairy tales can be an odd experience.