Co-writer Chris Weitz agreed, adding: "Pinocchio doesn't have to turn into a 'real' flesh-and-blood boy. He is real in that he has learned his lessons and grown a conscience, but there is no need for him to end up a certain way physically for him to prove that.
Why didn t Pinocchio turn into a real boy in the new movie?
In keeping with del Toro's famous love for 'monsters' of all shapes and sizes, his Pinocchio does not become a 'real boy'. Instead, the film asserts that he was a real boy all along. “It's Pinocchio that transforms the people around him, not transforms himself to please,” del Toro told Skip Intro.
Jon Favreau's adaptation of the 1994 movie was criticized for being too realistic, the emotion sapped out of the animals and replaced with stone-faced CGI creatures. Others, like Aladdin and Beauty & the Beast, were too beholden to their source material, afraid to change something that already worked.
The first and most noticeable difference between these two versions of Pinocchio is the manner in which the story is presented visually. The new Disney film tells the story in live-action while taking a lot of visual inspiration from the look and feel of the 1940 animated film.
In this telling, the aging Italian woodcarver Geppetto has a young son who's killed by a falling missile during World War I. Many years later, Geppetto, still distraught, chops down a pine tree in a drunken rage and carves a little puppet boy out of it, as if he could somehow bring his son back.
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.
Did Geppetto have a son and wife before Pinocchio?
[Pinocchio] Geppetto had a wife and child but they died before the events of the movie. It would explain why Geppetto is so sad and also why he wants a child. We got several direct clues to this. Most of these clues are seen in his work.
Geppetto never intended to have a son; he wanted simply to carve a puppet. However, his love made him into Pinocchio's dad despite the puppet's foul antics throughout The Adventures of Pinocchio.
In “Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio,” the filmmaker and his team don't follow the plot too closely, but it's more faithful than most in retaining the darkness, tenderness and humor of Carlo Collodi's 1881 novel. The Netflix movie was written by Patrick McHale and del Toro, who shares director credit with Mark Gustafson.
While the film tries to recapture scenes from the 1940 version, there's so much cut out from it. The biggest offense has to be with Pinocchio dealing with his consequences for his lying and other bad things. It's completely cut out from this film and takes away a major theme of the 1940s version.
Estimates have the film grossing somewhere between $1.4 and $1.9 million worldwide by the end of its run, so well below its reported budget of nearly $2.3 million.
Yes, the real story of Pinocchio is indeed very dark and is meant to serve as a lesson for kids who are naughty. Collodi originally planned to show that Pinocchio, as a result of his carelessness, loses his life to the sly and evil Cat and Fox who hang him and steal his gold.
Francesca Woodworth- The late mother of Pinocchio and wife of Geppetto. Francesca was a kind woman that Geppetto loved very much. She tragically passed away after giving birth to Pinocchio. Though her death breaks Geppetto's heart, he carries on to honor her memory raising 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.
Carlo was the son of the famous inventor Geppetto. He grew up in the Monad Charity House boarding school as his father was consumed by his work. Here, a woman introduced him to a boy named Romeo and the two quickly became best friends.
Del Toro's version of Pinocchio is closest to a creature than a boy, doing justice to the mysticism surrounding the wooden boy's lore. In Disney's version, Pinocchio is left hanging between life and death after a monster attack, saved at the last minute by the Blue Fairy, who turns him into a real boy.
Tom Hanks played Gepetto in the 2022 live-action adaptation of the animated film, which was directed by Robert Zemeckis. In this film, Gepetto made Pinocchio in the memory of his late son and the clocks he carves in his shop are mementos to his late wife.
Like many Tuscan folk tales, Pinocchio has important moral lessons for children: e.g., disobedience does not pay, telling lies is seldom prudent, and boys who love and take care of their parents will be rewarded. Its pedagogical mission notwithstanding, the story remains a timeless classic.
Geppetto ordered the puppet frenzy to protect humans. Now he didn't do it out of altruism, quite the opposite in fact. The alchemists were "curing" humans turning them into monsters and the petrification disease was sweeping across Krat. This was a problem for Geppetto because he needed human souls to revive his son.
/pɪˈnəʊkiəʊ/ a character in a children's story who changes from a wooden figure into a boy. Whenever he tells a lie, his nose grows longer. Cartoons showed the Minister as a long-nosed Pinocchio.
