I've never seen it, but I don't like the sound of this
What was Dr. T. doing to those captured boys with his 5,000 fingers? Something filthy, no doubt.
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It's funny to see how times and imagination has changed. This is the deal:
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Dr. T. created the biggest piano in the world...of which he needed 5,000 fingers, those would be of children he taught piano to, to play music the way he wants.
I classify this film as one of the totally weiredst ever...it's Dr. Suess but it is more a lot about a little boy's imagination.
Sooner or later, everyone wants to be beautiful. - Twilight Zone
It was probably a metaphor for something too wrong.
sharelambiepie-2: "I classify this film as one of the totally weiredst ever...it's Dr. Suess but it is more a lot about a little boy's imagination."
In the official or canon sense it may be "about a little boy's imagination". But the back story, as I understand it, is that the movie was severely altered after primary completion, and the beginning and end scenes with Bart falling asleep and, at the end, waking up from a dream, were shot and added much later. It was not originally one of those it-was-all-a-dream stories.
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