PINOCCHIO STORY POEM MOVIE
PINOCCHIO STORY POEM SERIES

PINOCCHIO STORY POEM MOVIE

Gustafson and Del Toro watched the movie for the first time with an audience when it premiered at the London Film Festival last month. He wants order and into this order comes this anarchic thing creating nothing but chaos.' My father could not recognize the shadow he cast over me.'Īdds Gustafson: 'The thing about Geppetto too is that he's older, and you get to a certain point in your life, you just crave comfort. And the words that you want are not there in the order that you think they should be. 'Kids are a Scrabble piece of poetry of who we are as parents,' the director says, 'like you wrote a poem and then you shook it like a board of Scrabble. Although he does come to love Pinocchio, Geppetto can't quite accept him, comparing Pinocchio with the romanticized memory of his late son, an attitude that Del Toro says illustrates a fundamental question about the nature of parenthood. When Geppetto discovers the next morning that his wooden creation has improbably sprung to life, he's understandably confused - and a little terrified. He's missing his beloved son, Carlo, who had been tragically killed years earlier. In the film, Geppetto's evening of intoxication is fueled by grief. 'And he said, 'I think Geppetto was drunk.' And I thought, 'Done! That's it!'' 'I said to Gris, 'Why does he look like that?'' Del Toro says, remembering a conversation he had with the artist when he began developing the film in 2008. Even Pinocchio's crude and unfinished appearance, inspired by the illustrations of artist Gris Grimly, offers a startling contrast to the adorable puppet boy seen in the Disney movie. The movie hews closer to the more grotesque elements found in Carlo Collodi’s 19th century folk tale, adding its own eccentric ideas about parenting, mortality and authority.

PINOCCHIO STORY POEM SERIES

Fox'), and wrote it with Patrick McHale, a creative force on Cartoon Network's beloved animated series 'Adventure Time.'

(Don't confuse it with Robert Zemeckis' live-action version, reviled by critics when it premiered on Disney+ in September.) Del Toro directed this stop-motion animated version with a veteran of the form, Mark Gustafson (animation director of Wes Anderson's 'Fantastic Mr.

9, might be darker, weirder and, in many ways, more wonderful than the Disney movie you remember watching as a child. Given this lifelong rumination, it's no surprise that 'Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio,' currently playing in select theaters before landing on Netflix on Dec. Defiance in the face of conformity should be the virtue that's revered. He's a living piece of wood with a heart as big as a forest! Shouldn't that be enough? Forget all the talk of obedience. And as he thought about 'Pinocchio' over the years - and he thought about it a lot - he wondered why Pinocchio couldn't be loved on his own terms.

Which, frankly, always irked the Oscar-winning director. 'Yes, Mom, I love Tarzan!'ĭel Toro usually went to the movies with his older brother, but there was one that he caught with his mother, a film that bonded the two for the rest of their lives - a re-release of Walt Disney's 1940 animated classic, 'Pinocchio.' Watching the tale of a wooden puppet yearning to become a real boy, the young Del Toro lost himself in a story that contained con men and villains, wild children turning into donkeys and a desperate hero trying to rescue his father from the bowels of a whale. My mom used to say, 'You really like Tarzan!'' Del Toro laughs at the memory. 'All the kids around the age of 12 were very taken with that movie. 'Parents wouldn't stay, which was very auspicious for 'Tarzan and His Mate,'' Del Toro says of the 1934 film that starred Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan wearing what was then considered a revealing loincloth. After breakfast, Del Toro's parents would drop him at a small theater three blocks from home where he'd absorb a more morally ambiguous world filled with, on any given Sunday, vampires and monsters and an ape man swinging through the jungle. The day began with Mass at 8, where Del Toro learned about creeds and saints and the strict rules dictating order and obedience. Growing up in Guadalajara, Guillermo del Toro had two Sunday rituals - church and movies. 'I really think this 'Pinocchio' represents all of our life together,' Guillermo del Toro says of his mother, who recently died.

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