Despite Jiminy's warnings, Pinocchio resolves to find and rescue Geppetto. They are still alive, inside his belly at the bottom of the sea. Monstro is first mentioned in the film when Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket receive a message from the Blue Fairy in the form of a dove that he has swallowed Geppetto, Figaro, and Cleo when they went to sea to search for Pinocchio. He has a reputation as being a "whale of a whale" and is feared by all the creatures of the sea, and apparently on land, as even Jiminy had heard of him when he tried to warn Pinocchio of the danger involved in saving Geppetto, though he was willing to help. He later swallows Pinocchio, who comes searching for Geppetto. Taken to sea, Geppetto, Figaro, and Cleo are swallowed whole (complete with a boat) by Monstro. While Pinocchio spends the night in Stromboli's troupe and later, Pleasure Island, Geppetto searches for him. Ultimately, however, his obsession with revenge toward Pinocchio and Geppetto was the cause of his downfall, as he smashes his head against a rocky cliff while trying to recapture them. Indeed, he relentlessly pursued and attempted to kill them over it in addition to reconsuming them. He also has a vicious temper, as Geppetto told Pinocchio that his plan to make him sneeze would make him furious. He also shows to be treacherous and cunning during the final chase as he uses surprise attacks in order to kill Pinocchio and Geppetto.
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He does have a degree of intelligence though, as he pretended to be asleep upon seeing a school of tuna in order to lure them closer before attacking, and had the sense to use water to put out the fire making him sneeze, and upon noticing Geppetto and Pinocchio's raft, instantly knew they were responsible for the fire. He also shows to have a quite treacherous attitude.Īround the seabed where he was sleeping after swallowing Geppetto's boat, there was a collection of sunken ships, though it is unknown if they were caused by him.īecause of his indifference to his prey, he is not very intelligent, which Pinocchio exploits by lighting a fire inside him to escape. He is even said to have swallowed ships whole, or at least destroyed them with his tail. He will eat anything foolish enough to wander into his territory and does not seem to care what he consumes, whether it would be fish or humans like Geppetto.
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Reitherman drew a set of sketches for a discarded sequence showing Monstro consuming Geppetto's boat he was to emerge suddenly on the otherwise serene sea scene, first looking like a large mound before revealing his teeth and swallowing the boat in one movement before disappearing underwater once more.Īs implied by his name, Monstro is a monstrous, mean, ferocious, wrathful, vengeful, destructive (all unless when he's asleep), and massive toothed whale with a fearsome reputation among sailors and sea creatures alike, and he isn't like the conventional whale, which is a gentle and harmless animal toward humans and most of the other sea creatures. To Reitherman can also be attributed, to an extent, the timing and staging of Monstro's chase sequences, which were timed to suggest his great weight and power. He animated Monstro as a cunning creature with a brain, making his pursuit of his prey all the more frightening. The animation of Monstro was originally to be assigned to Vladimir Tytla (animator of Doc, Grumpy, Stromboli, and, later, Yen Sid, Chernabog, and Dumbo), but, perhaps out of worry that Tytla might get carried away, Disney eventually assigned Wolfgang Reitherman to the task. In addition, inspirational sketch artist Gustaf Tenggren created a watercolor image of Geppetto in Monstro's belly. Models were constructed both of Monstro himself and the inside of his stomach, complete with a skeleton.
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Joe Grant's Character Model Department was responsible for the design of Monstro.