Blue Fairy
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The Fairy With Turquoise Hair is a fictional character
in Carlo Collodi
's book The Adventures of Pinocchio. She repeatedly appears at critical moments in Pinocchio
's wanderings to admonish the little wooden puppet to avoid bad or risky behavior. Although the naïvely willful marionette initially resists her good advice, he somehow finds it within himself at last to follow her rightful instruction, albeit a bit reluctantly at first. She in turn eventually rewards him for his well-acquired and genuine goodness by enabling his transformation into a real, flesh-and-blood human boy and becomes a mother figure to him. The character is the inspiration for the Blue Fairy in Disney's adaptation of the story
.
(Il Grillo Parlante), the Fairy attempts to give Pinocchio some medicine in order to heal his injuries. Pinocchio refuses to take the medicine on account of its sour taste, prompting the Fairy to summon a group of coffin-bearing black rabbits. Frightened by this display, Pinocchio drinks the medicine, and later tells the Fairy of his previous adventures in a less than honest manner. His nose begins to lengthen, which the Fairy explains is due to his lies. She summons a group of woodpeckers to shorten the disproportionate nose, and after forgiving Pinocchio, informs him that he is free to consider her an elder sister, and that his father Mister Geppetto
is on his way to fetch him. In his impatience, Pinocchio leaves the house in an attempt to meet his father on the way.
In chapter XXIII, set four months later, Pinocchio returns to the site of the Fairy's house, only to find a tombstone with writing declaring that the Fairy died from a broken heart, believing that Pinocchio had abandoned her. In the following chapter, Pinocchio is transported to the Island of Busy Bees (Isola delle Api Industriose), where he meets the Fairy, now older, disguised as an ordinary woman. Unaware of the deception, Pinocchio offers to help her carry buckets of water to her house in exchange for a meal. After eating, Pinocchio recognises the Fairy's turquoise hair. The Fairy agrees to adopt him as her son, and promises to turn him into a real boy, provided he earns it through hard study and obedience. Later on, she reveals to Pinocchio that his days of puppethood are almost over, and that she will organise a celebration in his honour. Unfortunately, Pinocchio is led astray by Lampwick (Lucignolo), who coaxes him to go to the Land of Toys (Paese dei Balocchi).
Five months later, Pinocchio is transformed into a donkey, and is thrown into the sea by a man wanting to skin him. The Fairy sends a shoal of fish to eat away at his body, until he is returned to his puppet form. Taking the form of a blue furred mountain goat, the Fairy warns Pinocchio of the impending arrival of The Terrible Dogfish
, but is unsuccessful. It is revealed in chapter XXXVI that she gives a house to The Talking Cricket, who offers to accommodate both Pinocchio and the sickly Gepetto. The Fairy eventually appears to Pinocchio in a dream, and commends him for having taking care of his ailing father in his time of need. Upon awakening, Pinocchio is revealed to have been transformed into a real boy, and all his copper coins have turned to gold, accompanied by a note from the Fairy professing her responsibility.
's Pinocchio
, the Fairy (voiced by Evelyn Venable
) is referred to as The Blue Fairy, and she differs dramatically from her counterpart in the book. She is one of the four leading protagonists in the film. It is she who brings Pinocchio to life, and she is much less involved in his upbringing than she is in the book, having appointed Jiminy Cricket
as Pinocchio's official conscience. She is also shown to be blonde, rather than having the turquoise hair of her book counterpart.
In Giuliano Cencis' 1972 adaptation Un burattino di nome Pinocchio
, the Fairy (voiced by Vittoria Febbi) is portrayed much more accurately to the book than she is in the Disney adaptation. She has no role in creating Pinocchio, though she does offer him guidance and support. Though she is accurately portrayed as sporting blue hair, she does not physically age as she does in the book.
In Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
the Blue Fairy voiced by Rickie Lee Jones
appears as Pinocchio's guide. In the beginning she arrives at his birthday party and brings to life his glowworm, which he names Gee Willickers. Later she brings him back to life after he has been turned back into a puppet by Puppettino and tells him to make the right choices. After the defeat of the Emperor she restores Pinocchio, brings back Geppetto's jewel box which had been stolen earlier, and brings Twinkle, a girl who had been turned into a puppet, back to life.
In Steven Spielberg
's 2001 movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001), the Blue Fairy (voiced by Meryl Streep
) appears as a plot MacGuffin
. The main character, David, a robotic child played by Haley Joel Osment
, believes that the Blue Fairy has the power to turn him into a real boy. It also appears in the form of the Coney Island
statue of the Blue Fairy, which David mistakes for a real blue fairy.
In Buratino
, the Russian adaptation of Pinocchio, there is a female character with blue hair named Malvina
. She is a child puppet who one of the other puppets is in love with.
Angelica, the Blue Fairy, is the antagonist
in the Japanese/Australian stage show Once Upon a Midnight
.
The Blue Fairy was a 1950s children's program on WGN-TV
in Chicago
, hosted by Brigid Bazlen
as the fairy.
Miami's Homeless children, cope with their situation believing a modern synchronistic urban legend invoking many Latino legends the image of "the pale blue lady" fairy. Derived from the Catholic legend of St Senora leading a spritual army of angels tasked with protecting the children from poverty related terrors, against the minions of a vengeful La Llorona
as Mother Mary, driven insane from grief the brutal excution of her son Jesus
.
Actress Keegan Connor Tracy
plays the Blue Fairy in ABC
's Once Upon a Time
.
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
in Carlo Collodi
Carlo Collodi
Carlo Lorenzini , better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was an Italian children's writer known for the world-renowned fairy tale novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio.-Biography:...
's book The Adventures of Pinocchio. She repeatedly appears at critical moments in Pinocchio
Pinocchio
The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Florence. The first half was originally a serial between 1881 and 1883, and then later completed as a book for children in February 1883. It is about the mischievous adventures of Pinocchio , an...
's wanderings to admonish the little wooden puppet to avoid bad or risky behavior. Although the naïvely willful marionette initially resists her good advice, he somehow finds it within himself at last to follow her rightful instruction, albeit a bit reluctantly at first. She in turn eventually rewards him for his well-acquired and genuine goodness by enabling his transformation into a real, flesh-and-blood human boy and becomes a mother figure to him. The character is the inspiration for the Blue Fairy in Disney's adaptation of the story
Pinocchio (1940 film)
Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the story The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. It is the second film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, and it was made after the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and was released to theaters by...
.
Role
The Fairy makes her first appearance in chapter XV, where she is portrayed as a young girl living in a house in the middle of a forest. Pinocchio, who is being chased by The Fox and the Cat (Il Gatto e la Volpe), pleads with the Fairy to allow him entrance. The Fairy cryptically responds that all inhabitants of the house, including herself, are dead, and that she is waiting for her coffin to arrive. The pair catches and hangs Pinocchio from a tree. In the following chapter, it is established that the girl is in fact a fairy who has lived in the forest for more than a thousand years. She takes pity on Pinocchio, and sends a hawk to take him down from the tree. After a visit from three doctors, including The Talking CricketThe Talking Cricket
The Talking Cricket is a fictional character who appears in Carlo Collodi's 1883 book The Adventures of Pinocchio .-Role:...
(Il Grillo Parlante), the Fairy attempts to give Pinocchio some medicine in order to heal his injuries. Pinocchio refuses to take the medicine on account of its sour taste, prompting the Fairy to summon a group of coffin-bearing black rabbits. Frightened by this display, Pinocchio drinks the medicine, and later tells the Fairy of his previous adventures in a less than honest manner. His nose begins to lengthen, which the Fairy explains is due to his lies. She summons a group of woodpeckers to shorten the disproportionate nose, and after forgiving Pinocchio, informs him that he is free to consider her an elder sister, and that his father Mister Geppetto
Mister Geppetto
Mister Geppetto is a fictional character in the novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. Geppetto is an elderly, impoverished woodcarver and the creator of Pinocchio...
is on his way to fetch him. In his impatience, Pinocchio leaves the house in an attempt to meet his father on the way.
In chapter XXIII, set four months later, Pinocchio returns to the site of the Fairy's house, only to find a tombstone with writing declaring that the Fairy died from a broken heart, believing that Pinocchio had abandoned her. In the following chapter, Pinocchio is transported to the Island of Busy Bees (Isola delle Api Industriose), where he meets the Fairy, now older, disguised as an ordinary woman. Unaware of the deception, Pinocchio offers to help her carry buckets of water to her house in exchange for a meal. After eating, Pinocchio recognises the Fairy's turquoise hair. The Fairy agrees to adopt him as her son, and promises to turn him into a real boy, provided he earns it through hard study and obedience. Later on, she reveals to Pinocchio that his days of puppethood are almost over, and that she will organise a celebration in his honour. Unfortunately, Pinocchio is led astray by Lampwick (Lucignolo), who coaxes him to go to the Land of Toys (Paese dei Balocchi).
Five months later, Pinocchio is transformed into a donkey, and is thrown into the sea by a man wanting to skin him. The Fairy sends a shoal of fish to eat away at his body, until he is returned to his puppet form. Taking the form of a blue furred mountain goat, the Fairy warns Pinocchio of the impending arrival of The Terrible Dogfish
The Terrible Dogfish
The Terrible Dogfish is a fictional sea monster which appears in Carlo Collodi's book The Adventures of Pinocchio . It is described as being larger than a five story building, a kilometre long and sporting a mouth with three rows of teeth that can easily accommodate a whole train...
, but is unsuccessful. It is revealed in chapter XXXVI that she gives a house to The Talking Cricket, who offers to accommodate both Pinocchio and the sickly Gepetto. The Fairy eventually appears to Pinocchio in a dream, and commends him for having taking care of his ailing father in his time of need. Upon awakening, Pinocchio is revealed to have been transformed into a real boy, and all his copper coins have turned to gold, accompanied by a note from the Fairy professing her responsibility.
Media portrayals
In Walt DisneyWalt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...
's Pinocchio
Pinocchio (1940 film)
Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the story The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. It is the second film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, and it was made after the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and was released to theaters by...
, the Fairy (voiced by Evelyn Venable
Evelyn Venable
Evelyn Venable was an American actress. In addition to starring in several films in the 1930s and 1940s, she is notable as the voice and model for the Blue Fairy in the Walt Disney's Pinocchio....
) is referred to as The Blue Fairy, and she differs dramatically from her counterpart in the book. She is one of the four leading protagonists in the film. It is she who brings Pinocchio to life, and she is much less involved in his upbringing than she is in the book, having appointed Jiminy Cricket
Jiminy Cricket
Jiminy Cricket is the Walt Disney version of "The Talking Cricket" , a fictional character created by Carlo Collodi for his children's book Pinocchio, which was adapted into an animated film by Disney in 1940...
as Pinocchio's official conscience. She is also shown to be blonde, rather than having the turquoise hair of her book counterpart.
Un burattino di nome Pinocchio
Pinocchio is a 1972 Italian animated film adaptation of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio.-Production:...
, the Fairy (voiced by Vittoria Febbi) is portrayed much more accurately to the book than she is in the Disney adaptation. She has no role in creating Pinocchio, though she does offer him guidance and support. Though she is accurately portrayed as sporting blue hair, she does not physically age as she does in the book.
In Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
Pinocchio and the Emperor of The Night is a 1987 animated film that was released on December 25, 1987 by New World Pictures. and is a unofficial sequel to Pinocchio . Created by the now defunct Filmation Studios, the movie underperformed at the box office, having a cost of $10 million but making...
the Blue Fairy voiced by Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones is an American vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards.-Childhood:...
appears as Pinocchio's guide. In the beginning she arrives at his birthday party and brings to life his glowworm, which he names Gee Willickers. Later she brings him back to life after he has been turned back into a puppet by Puppettino and tells him to make the right choices. After the defeat of the Emperor she restores Pinocchio, brings back Geppetto's jewel box which had been stolen earlier, and brings Twinkle, a girl who had been turned into a puppet, back to life.
In Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
's 2001 movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001), the Blue Fairy (voiced by Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television and film.Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season in 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut with...
) appears as a plot MacGuffin
MacGuffin
A MacGuffin is "a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction". The defining aspect of a MacGuffin is that the major players in the story are willing to do and sacrifice almost anything to obtain it, regardless of what the MacGuffin actually is...
. The main character, David, a robotic child played by Haley Joel Osment
Haley Joel Osment
Haley Joel Osment is an American actor. After a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s, including a small part in Forrest Gump playing Tom Hanks' title character’s son, Osment rose to fame with his performance as Cole Sear in M...
, believes that the Blue Fairy has the power to turn him into a real boy. It also appears in the form of the Coney Island
Coney Island
Coney Island is a peninsula and beach on the Atlantic Ocean in southern Brooklyn, New York, United States. The site was formerly an outer barrier island, but became partially connected to the mainland by landfill....
statue of the Blue Fairy, which David mistakes for a real blue fairy.
In Buratino
Buratino
Buratino is the main character of the book The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. Based on the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, Buratino originated as a character in the commedia dell'arte. The name Buratino is derived from the...
, the Russian adaptation of Pinocchio, there is a female character with blue hair named Malvina
Malvina
Malvina is a female given name that has many variants such as Malvine, Malwine, Malwina, Malwida, Malve, and Mal.-Etymology:The name Malvina comes from Celtic or German origin and is often translated as "breathing sweetness from her eyes". It may come from the Scots Gaelic words maol mhìn, meaning...
. She is a child puppet who one of the other puppets is in love with.
Angelica, the Blue Fairy, is the antagonist
Antagonist
An antagonist is a character, group of characters, or institution, that represents the opposition against which the protagonist must contend...
in the Japanese/Australian stage show Once Upon a Midnight
Once Upon a Midnight
-Production history:Once Upon a Midnight is a Japanese/Australian rock musical. The script is bilingual, featuring seven Japanese performers and seven Australian performers...
.
The Blue Fairy was a 1950s children's program on WGN-TV
WGN-TV
WGN-TV, virtual channel 9 , is the CW-affiliated television station in Chicago, Illinois built, signed on, and owned by the Tribune Company. WGN-TV's studios and offices are located at 2501 W...
in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, hosted by Brigid Bazlen
Brigid Bazlen
Brigid Mary Bazlen was an American actress. Although she made only three Hollywood films, The Honeymoon Machine, King of Kings, and How the West Was Won, because all three remain popular films from the early 1960s, she is still remembered...
as the fairy.
Miami's Homeless children, cope with their situation believing a modern synchronistic urban legend invoking many Latino legends the image of "the pale blue lady" fairy. Derived from the Catholic legend of St Senora leading a spritual army of angels tasked with protecting the children from poverty related terrors, against the minions of a vengeful La Llorona
La Llorona
La Llorona is a widespread legend in Mexico, Puerto Rico and Central America. Although several variations exist, the basic story tells of a beautiful woman by the name of Maria killing her children by drowning them, in order to be with the man that she loved. When the man rejects her, she kills...
as Mother Mary, driven insane from grief the brutal excution of her son Jesus
Jesus
Jesus of Nazareth , commonly referred to as Jesus Christ or simply as Jesus or Christ, is the central figure of Christianity...
.
Actress Keegan Connor Tracy
Keegan Connor Tracy
Keegan Connor Tracy is a Canadian actress known for her roles as the ill-fated Kat Jennings in Final Destination 2 and Dawn/Molly in Blackwoods .She was born in Sarnia, Ontario...
plays the Blue Fairy in ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
's Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time (TV series)
Once Upon a Time is an American fairy tale drama television series that premiered on Sunday October 23, 2011, on ABC. New episodes air Sunday nights at 8:00 pm ET/7:00 pm CT....
.