Most important, though, del Toro said his goal was to treat the animators as actors (they're credited as such) and to show animation isn't just a genre for kids, but an art form.
Del Toro said over 60 crews working simultaneously on the production. And there are 24 frames per second in this nearly 2-hour movie.
The puppets need to be moved and positioned, frame by frame. Stop-motion animation is a labor-intensive process. The innovation, though, isn't it in the story, but in how del Toro presents it. (Del Toro helped write some of the lyrics.) Credit is due to the young actor Gregory Mann, who voices Carlo and Pinocchio and also sings the original songs featured in the film. But the real journey of the film is an emotional one, as both Pinocchio and Geppetto learn to accept, and love, each other. The film takes us far and wide – from the pair's mountain village to a traveling carnival to a fascist training camp to, of course, the belly of a giant sea monster. Even when he adjusts to the fact that his puppet has a life of its own, Geppetto expresses frustration and disappointment rather than love and acceptance. Pinocchio's energy and enthusiasm overwhelm the bewildered woodcarver, and the marionette is more of a liability than a gift. In this version of the story, Pinocchio's arrival is far from the happily-ever-after wish granted to Geppetto. Pinocchio actually makes several visits to the afterlife and it becomes a running joke – though it's admittedly a bit macabre the first time it happens. The fascist dictator orders his henchmen to "shoot the puppet," which sends Pinocchio into the afterlife to meet with Death. "I wanted him to land in the church, like a complete anomaly," del Toro said.Ī short, squat menacing Benito Mussolini also makes an appearance, arriving on screen, del Toro noted, in a Tex Avery-inspired super-stretch limo. When Pinocchio is introduced to the local townspeople at Sunday mass, del Toro presents a scene fittingly as bizarre as a wooden puppet coming to life would be – a counter to the Disney version where Pinocchio waltzes into town. Cricket (voiced charmingly by Ewan McGregor), to be his guide and conscience.Įven with its moments of humor and charm, this is definitely not a kid's animated flick. She assigns the disgruntled insect, Sebastian J. One night, in a wine-fueled flurry of grief and rage, Geppetto chops down a large pine tree – which happens to be the newly adopted home of a world-traveling cricket with literary aspirations – and carves it into a marionette of a young boy.Īn otherworldly spirit (Tilda Swinton) takes pity on the poor old man, and, after Geppetto has fallen into bed, magically grants the puppet life.
We meet Geppetto (voiced by David Bradley) as he mourns the accidental death of his cherished son, Carlo. It's among the Top 10 most watched shows on Netflix. I find that interesting."Īs for Pinocchio, this version takes inspiration from the original 1883 story by Italian writer Carlo Collodi, with the setting transposed to the 1930s against the backdrop of the rise of Italian fascism.
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So that is an argument for me – many films and series that wouldn't have been greenlit are being greenlit on streamers, whether it's Disney Plus or HBO Max. "This film went over 10, 15 years unproduced because every major studio said no. "When we use Netflix as our authority for distribution, we ignore Netflix as an alternative for production," del Toro told me in an interview.
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Del Toro said the movie simply wouldn't have been made without Netflix. That is, until Netflix decided to greenlight del Toro's vision for Pinocchio, which airs now on the streaming service and which on Monday won the 2023 Golden Globe award for best animated film. And they would validate my parking and send me on my merry way." "I would come in and I would say it's about death and life and the rise of Mussolini. It took more than a decade to get funding because every major studio turned him down. "I said, 'That's how it feels to be a kid.'"ĭecades later, the Oscar-winning director of imaginative films including Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water decided to pitch a new version of the story. "It was the first time I saw somebody understand how scary childhood was to me," del Toro said in November at a San Francisco showing of his version of Pinocchio at the nonprofit SFFilm's event to honor the director's work. And he must rescue his "father," the woodcarver Geppetto, from the belly of an evil whale named Monstro. He's forced to perform in a traveling show. He found the story compelling because of the frightening situations the wooden puppet, who comes to life but yearns to be a real boy, gets caught up in. Guillermo del Toro remembers seeing Walt Disney's animated version of Pinocchio with his mom as a kid.
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