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hey i was watching Pinocchio last night on vhs tape and i have noticed somthing that is really strange i found out that they call the donkeys jackass's and they use that line alot, how often do they use profanity in a disney movie?

It's not profanity, a Jackass is a Male Donkey. Kind of like a Female Dog is called a bitch, same thing it just sounds like profanity (sorry Mods if you don't approve of my comparison )

Maybe that's why we won't see a DVD release anytime soon....

"Pinocchio" will likely get a Platinum release by 2009. We'll see it again. And as was ponted out, "ass" isn't really a swear word in that context.

i really hope that we will get to see Pinocchio Platinum in 2009 that would be very cool if if does, but all i can say now is time will tell whenever disney wants to rerelease agian.

Is "jackass" really rude? My dictionary defines it as meaning a donkey, or a "dolt or blockhead" (two fine words you don't hear enough of these days - but then, it is a 1961 dictionary ), and makes no note of it being vulgar. Maybe it's got ruder in the last 45 years...

(pedant mode on)
And anyway, surely it's only a profanity if it's actually profane i.e. blasphemous.
(pedant mode off)

It's always fun to watch pre 1950's films because you see a lot of what it was like to live in the 1800's. Since the film makers and actors in many cases grew up in the 1880's and up, and sometimes even further back than that, you get to see what the ideals of that day were. For example, fairy tales and nursery were always a big part of the Christmas season for hundreds of years. It's not so much that way today but you really get to see what these people thought nursery rhymes should be in the feature films and short cartoons made inthe 1930's. It doesn't seem to matter what studio made them, there is a cohesiveness as to what these characters and places should be.

To these people Jack Ass was a term that meant a loafer or an idiot. Since then it has been shortened to ass and lost the intended meaning. Now most people think you are calling someone a rear end but then again people today probably are. But back then you were calling them a mule.

Poody wrote:Maybe that's why we won't see a DVD release anytime soon....

With U.S. theatrical releases in 1940 (original), 1945, 1954, 1962, 1971, 1978, 1984 and 1992 - and home video releases in 1985, 1986, 1993 and 1999 ... you think they're holding it back now because somebody calls a donkey a "jackass?"

Is most moronic thread a year end award?

SpringHeelJack wrote:"Pinocchio" will likely get a Platinum release by 2009. We'll see it again. And as was ponted out, "ass" isn't really a swear word in that context.

I hope maybe 2 years from now will get the DVD of "Pinocchio". I have it on VHS back 1992. I remember seeing that film since I was a few months old since the film was re-released in 1978 along with a holiday classic "The Small One". That was the year I was born when I first saw that movie.

Mr. Toad wrote:Is most moronic thread a year end award?

Is biggest jerk a year end award?

Jasmine1022 wrote:

Mr. Toad wrote:Is most moronic thread a year end award?

Is biggest jerk a year end award?

HAHA

Jasmine1022 wrote:

Mr. Toad wrote:Is most moronic thread a year end award?

Is biggest jerk a year end award?

No but I wouldn't mind it. Frankly there are a couple of members I could not defeat although I may garner a nomination. But after my bizarre nomination as member of the year this past year who knows.

I get a little annoyed with people whose command of the english language is so pitiful they don't even know when a word is being used correctly and mistake it for a swear word.

I know...let's have a forum jackass of the year award!

Wonderlicious wrote:I know...let's have a forum jackass of the year award!

Mr Toad, in case you haven't realized, a LOT of people do use 'jackass' as a swear word. I distinctly remember when I was little my mom would call bad drives on the road jackasses. I read it in a book once (in reference to a donkey) and I was horrified. DisneyLover27 simply never got the memo that it's not a bad word. I think it's kind of a dumb question too, but you don't have to be a 'jackass' about it

Jasmine1022 wrote:

Wonderlicious wrote:I know...let's have a forum jackass of the year award!

Mr Toad, in case you haven't realized, a LOT of people do use 'jackass' as a swear word. I distinctly remember when I was little my mom would call bad drives on the road jackasses. I read it in a book once (in reference to a donkey) and I was horrified. DisneyLover27 simply never got the memo that it's not a bad word. I think it's kind of a dumb question too, but you don't have to be a 'jackass' about it

Hehe,well spoken,Jasmine!

thank you PeterPanFan,Jasmine

Mr. Toad wrote:they don't even know when a word is being used correctly and mistake it for a swear word.

Well, I guess it's hardly incorrect to consider it a swear word today - how a word is used will in some cases change over time... Either way, it's useful to try to see things in context. When you hear a word in a Disney classic that makes you think "swear word" you should also hear the "ringing of a bell": Really "bad language" in such a film is very untypical and combined with fact that the title in question is from 1940 one probably should stumble upon the idea that the use (or rather "connotations") of the word may have been slightly different back then.

i agree with you Lars Vermundsberget

Maleficent says "hell" in Sleeping Beauty. "jackass" is really not a big deal.