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◎ Translated Name: Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro / Pinocchio / Pinocchio / Pinocchio by Gina Domain Pinocchio (Port) / Pinocchio by Gillomo Detoro (Taiwan) / Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
◎片名 Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio / Pinocchio
◎ Generation 2022
◎Origin: USA/Mexico
◎ Genre Animation/Fantasy
◎ Language English
◎ Character curtain Chinese and English double characters
◎Release date 2022-10-15 (London Film Festival) / 2022-12-09 (US network)
IMDb rating 8.0/10 from 5826 users
◎Tablets 116 minutes long
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Mark Gustafson
Screenwriter Guillermo del Toro
Carlo Collodi
Patrick McHale
Matthew Robbins
Cast by Gregory Mann
David Bradley
Ewan McGregor
Ron Perlman
Finn Wolfhard
Cate Blanchett
Christoph Waltz
Tilda Swinton
Burn Gorman
Tim Blake Nelson
John Turturro
◎ Introduction
Oscar-winning ® filmmaker Guillermo del Toro reimagines the classic story of Carlo Collodi with the classic story of wooden puppets, which were magically brought to life in order to mend the heart of a sad wood carver named Geppetto. Directed by Guillermo del Toro and Marc Gustafson, this whimsical stop-motion animated musical follows Pinocchio's mischievous and disobedient adventures in his quest for a place in the world.
Interesting things about the movie and behind the scenes
The first animated film directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Mark Gustafson's directorial debut.
The longest stop-motion animated film
The film begins and ends with pine cones falling from trees.
At the beginning of the film, Jeppetto's sculpture of Jesus Christ loses his left arm. When Pinocchio was resurrected at the end, he also lost a left arm.
Jepetto's deceased son was revealed as Carlo. This is most likely a tribute to Carlo Collodi, who wrote the original Pinocchio story.
The entire plot of Toy Land is removed from this version of the story, and the coachman character is reimagined as Podsta, a fascist government official who wants to turn Pinocchio and the other young boys into soldiers of the regime. As a result, Kanderwick and the other boys never turned into donkeys, but fell into uncertain doom as the military training camp was bombed.
This isn't the first time Pinocchio has adapted it, expanding on Geppetto's backstory by adding the loss of his own family. The 1972 Italian miniseries The Adventures of Pinocchio did something similar, leaving Geppetto a widower and Blue Fairy the ghost of his late wife.
The wood elves have four wings covering the eyes, which match the description of cherubim in Ezekiel in the Bible.
When Pinocchio arrived at the military training camp. A short montage of a boy climbing a rope echoes the Happy Island scene in the 1940 version, in which many boys climb onto the roof and jump out of the window. This subtly tells the audience that the bootcamp will be the equivalent of the happy island of this story. The difference is that in a Disney movie, it's a place where boys misbehave and run wildly, whereas here they're all doing what they're told, and there's implicit misery throughout.
In this book — and most previous adaptations — Lampwick/Candlewick is simply seen as a bad boy who pays the price for disobedience — an unsympathetic anti-character role model. On the other hand, this film version of Kanderwick is given a Freudian legal excuse, and his capacity for disobedience is seen as a more noble quality.
In February 2011, Grice Grimley was invited to co-direct the film with Mark Gustafson. However, in 2012, del Toro officially replaced Grimli.
Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson initially worked as a director before dropping out.
John Hurt
While the film was still in production, Guillermo initially wanted John Hurt to voice Jeppetto, and this was their third collaboration on a film. But sadly, John passed away on January 25, 2017, before starting voice work. He was then replaced by his Harry Potter co-star David Bradley, who also replaced John in the role of Abraham Setrakian in another of Guillermo del Toro's productions, Strains (2014), after John called Guillermo and told him he was sick and too busy to take on the role.
David Bradley
On November 10, 2017, Guillermo del Toro announced that the project had been canceled. However, on October 22, 2018, Netflix announced that Del Toro had been invited to direct a stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio, and Del Toro himself tweeted concept art that shared the same character design as his original Pinocchio project.
Unlike most versions of Pinocchio that took place in Italy in the 1800s, Guillermo del Toro decided to set this version in the 1930s under Benito Mussolini and the National Fascist Party. This is the third time del Toro has made a film in a real-life political conflict, following The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth, which took place during and after the Spanish Civil War, respectively.
In a 2018 Syfy interview, Guillermo del Toro confirmed that the film will be more political (set in fascist Italy) than family-friendly. Del Toro also revealed that the film blends the story of Pinocchio and Frankenstein.
Unlike the original story and many of his adaptations, the titular character in this version is not born of love, but by the grief of Geppetto losing his child Carlo during the First World War, whose body is highly distorted by the fact that Geppetto molded him in drunken rage. Not only was he ostracized by the townspeople for being a living puppet (they considered it "the work of the devil" or "witchcraft"), but Geppetto constantly demanded that he act like Carlo instead of making him his own, forcing Pinocchio to join the circus to earn some money for his father.
According to Guillermo del Toro, Count Volpe was the honest John the Fox, Gideon the Cat and the puppet master Mangiafooco (aka. Fire Eater) from the original story. To drive it home, Volpe, whose hair resembles fox ears, carries a cane with a fox's head decoration, and his name means "fox" in Italian.
Long noses are associated with lies, which is why Pinocchio's nose grows when doing so. Count Vulpe's long nose indicates that he was a major liar throughout.
Alexander Despratt
Composer Alexandre Desplat has previously worked on two films directed by Matteo Garrone, who directed the 2019 live-action version of Pinocchio.
Four versions of Pinocchio
A major criticism of the film is that it was not made for kids as a dark retelling of the original, but at the same time it still retains some juvenile elements and song numbers, which is an antipathy for older viewers.
Pinocchio