For his first animated feature, Guillermo del Toro turned to a story that had inspired him since childhood. The Mexican filmmaker and his co-director Mark Gustafson tell Screen about Pinocchio's eventful 15-year journey to the screen.
How many days did it take to make the new Pinocchio?
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, on the other hand, took a whopping 940 days to capture. That's roughly two and a half years — enough time for titular puppet performer Gregory Mann's voice to crack.
images expandDel Toro's version of Pinocchio, unlike the other two adaptations seen this year, is a stop-motion production. He says it took roughly 15 years to get made — partially due to the detail stop-motion demands.
The film begins during World War I, circa 1917/1918, in which Carlo, Geppetto's son, is killed when a rocket is dropped on the church in their small village. Though it's unclear how many years pass after that, Pinocchio's main story is set in the intervening years, likely in the late 1920s or early 1930s.
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Did Geppetto have a real son before Pinocchio?
Geppetto has a tragic backstory that's only hinted at in the remake. In the remake, we learn that Geppetto had an unnamed son who died. Though we never learn the backstory, it helps explain that Geppetto is channeling some of his grief for his dead child into his work as a woodcarver by building Pinocchio.
Collodi often used the Italian Tuscan dialect in his book. The name Pinocchio is possibly derived from the rare Tuscan form pinocchio (“pine nut”) or constructed from pino (“pine tree, pine wood”) and occhio ("eye").
Guillermo del Toro's touching connection to Pinocchio and why his version took 15 years to make. Guillermo del Toro first set out to make a dark, animated version of Pinocchio 15 years ago.
A lot of the blame for Pinocchio flatlining financially was due to World War II shutting down theaters in European markets, which was a consistent limitation for many Disney films during the wartime era.
Discusses the phenomenon of client dishonesty (the Pinocchio syndrome). By consciously negating, concealing, or reframing conflicting ideas and emotions, the client escapes the exploration and the resulting awareness of unpleasant facts, painful realities, or prescribed wishes.
A poor man named Geppetto wants to carve himself a marionette in order to make a living as a puppeteer. He is given a piece of enchanted wood, and as soon as Geppetto carves the puppet, which he names Pinocchio, it begins abusing the old man.
Pinocchio is a supporting hero in the Shrek film franchise. He is one of Shrek and Donkey's best friends who used to be owned by his wood carving owner, Geppeto but his father gave him away to the banished fairy tale creatures who were forced to live in Shrek's swamp.
In the animated Pinocchio, the Coachman states that left to their own devices, boys make “jackasses” of themselves. The children's transformations in both movies reveal that he means this literally. The children's transformations into donkeys at the end of Pinocchio are a result of their misbehavior on Pleasure Island.
How a real boy was made: Walt Disney's 1940 classic Pinocchio took two years to make and required more than 750 artists and technicians to bring the animated characters to life… as new image reveals Tom Hanks' role in new production.
And then there are the deaths, plural, of the title character. "Pinocchio dies in our film three or four times," del Toro tells BBC Culture, "and has a dialogue with Death, and Death teaches him that the only way you can really have a human existence is if you have death at the end of it.
In the new film, she's a winged woodland creature who bestows the gift of life upon Pinocchio in the hopes of healing the broken heart of grief-stricken woodcarver Geppetto (David Bradley). Death, too, is a winged creature, with a body reminiscent of a Sphinx.
In Collodi's original story, Pinocchio never gets to the part where he saves Geppetto from the shark; instead, he actually ends up dying. Yes, the real story of Pinocchio is indeed very dark and is meant to serve as a lesson for kids who are naughty.
In the 19th-century source material, The Adventures of Pinocchio, as well as Disney's 1940 adaptation, the puppet protagonist is magically resurrected and then turned into a human child after the Blue Fairy says, "Proved yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish – someday, you will be a real boy." The ending of ...
After further adventures, Pinocchio is swallowed by the Terrible Shark and finds Geppetto living in the shark's belly. Pinocchio rescues his father and thereafter takes care of him. The Fairy then turns Pinocchio into a real boy.
After the wooden boy falls into the water the coachman, voiced by Luke Evans, says: “B****cks. Wooden donkey would have been worth a bleeding fortune.” Ofcom have ruled the word as ”medium offensive".
The tale of Geppetto and his pine wood puppet, serialized in an Italian juvenile magazine under the title La Storia di un Burattino (The Story of a Marionette) in 1881, was turned into a book two years later called, "The Adventures of Pinocchio."
