Well, both films are going to be very different, so I don't think it's a problem they're released on the same year. I agree del Toro's will most likely be the better one. Well, I actually don't have any doubts about it. I read the whole Variety article the news I posted was taken from and his take on the story sounds very interesting, plus it seems it'll have a strong message. Now I agree with Farerb it's likely it'll win the Oscar next year. By the way, this is the first time he directs an animated film, right? If he wins, he'll join other live-action directors who have done the same like George Miller or Gore Verbinski.Disney's Divinity wrote:Personally, I'm looking forward to both the Disney remake and the Del Toro film. It's a shame they're happening at the same time, but the world has room for many adaptations of these classic stories, imo. I've always expected the Del Toro to be the better film, just because the remakes aren't the greatest films in the world (they're more for nostalgia--which makes the attempts at extreme changes in some of them, like Mulan, TLM, and SW, a really absurd decision).
I didn't know it would be a musical, I wonder why they didn't mention it in the article.Rumpelstiltskin wrote:Del Toro's movie is also set in Mussolini's Italy. He has a strange obsession with fascism. But it is also a musical, and it will be stop motion.
Well, it's quite common for directors to be obsessed with certain topics and feature them repeatedly in their films. He also likes to direct stories about protagonists who are seen as monsters by people. Apparently, Pinocchio will be like that too, since he compares the character to Frankenstein in the Variety article.Rumpelstiltskin wrote:I think it is more of a historical interest than an attempt to describe the world today, and he would probably have made the movie the way it is no matter what's going is happening right now.
By the way, I've noticed in both Disney's and Guillermo del Toro's versions there's a portrait of a child in Geppetto's studio. According to the article, in del Toro's film Geppetto lost his son, Carlo, when he was still a child and Pinocchio is carved from a tree that grew over his grave. So, most likely, the boy in the picture is Carlo. In the Disney film, the portrait is next to Geppetto's bed. I wonder if both versions have come up with the same backstory for Geppetto and the reason he longs to have a child in Disney's version is also because he misses one he had lost. Although, the truth is that Disney's portrait is a more general shot of a boy dressed in Tyrolean clothes, so maybe the reason he has that photo is that he would like to have a son that looks like that boy or something like that.
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