Note the headless angel, the creepy succession of men, and — topping it all off — the little puppet boy. Beyond heads — hands: I like the mirrored hand gestures, the angel and Joe Biden and then Tom Cotton and Pinocchio. All the human entities frown. We can't know the expression on the angel statues head and Pinocchio is slack-jawed and woozy.
Anyway, what's up with Disney sending the live-action remake of "Pinocchio" straight to video? It was directed by Robert Zemeckis and stars Tom Hanks. That's conspicuously intended to be huge. It must stink like a bad cigar.
ADDED: I see that there is a second live-action version of Pinocchio coming out this year.
Disney's Pinocchio is a remake and update of the 1940 film.... Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio goes back to the original source material to create something new... In Collodi's serialized novel, a master carpenter is alarmed when he cuts into a piece of wood and finds it crying out in pain. He gives the wood to aged puppeteer Geppetto, who carves it into Pinocchio. Though Pinocchio misbehaves in the Disney version, he is more petulant in the original.... The original features many more digressions and complications....
The [Disney] film's teaser trailer features the soul-stirring music and imagery of the original and little else... Del Toro's movie is a different beast entirely.... The novel's talking cricket has been heavily featured in the teaser -- he is played by Ewan McGregor (the film's biggest name)....
You can see both trailers and lots more discussion of the details at the link. The del Toro "Pinocchio" is also straight to video, to Netflix.
In an interview on Marc Maron's WTF Podcast... del Toro spoke about Pinocchio, noting that he plans to subvert the story's conservative morality and examine the notion of the good little boy in order to reach different conclusions than the story's prior incarnations. Pinocchio's journey from puppet to real boy may reflect the journey from group-thinking participator in systems of oppression to individual thinker. Having described his masterpiece Pan's Labyrinth as an ode to disobedience, it's unlikely that del Toro will settle on ideas like the necessity of doing what one is told and respecting one's elders. These are bad lessons to swallow while living in a fascist state, even if they were heartwarming in the context of a Disney film.
Well, that's interesting!
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I saw that header about Pinnochio going straight to video and my first thought was that it was judged to be too offensive to those who live looking to be offended. It either ignored womyn, or there weren't enough black puppets, or no trans puppets represented. It would have been viewed as too old, white, and straight.
And it's the first day of our month-long celebration of everything gay. So...get it right, people.
Pool is The Problem!!!
Sure, i'm a billiard player. But Any Boob can shove a ball in a pocket..
And they call that sloth. The first big step on the road Degradation!
They're tryin' out Bevo, tryin' out cubebs,
Tryin' out Tailor Mades like Cigarette Feends!
And braggin' all about
TROUBLE!!!
Why is that insect so outraged? Is it upset over its missing legs? Nah...
Of course, it's so obvious! The little wooden boy was about to directly shoot the infinity ball. Real boys use the cue ball.
We benefit enormously from the bravery and genius of our artists! Who would think that anyone might have the courage to subvert conventional morality? And where do they come up with these fantastic ideas?
The direct to streaming model is here to stay. Filmed entertainment is being commoditized, genericized and devalued in the way that recorded music was 20 years ago.
Matt Drudge--now there's a name I haven't thought about in a while. A quick glance shows lots of face pictures, but not as much shameless shilling for the left--could whoever runs that show these days be waking up to the damage they've done their brand?
On the Pinocchio movies, straight to video isn't the marker of crap that it used to be. On Demand is a big market and theatres are dying. Disney already has a "watch at home while it's still in the the theatres" program, but it's so expensive that it only makes sense if you are having a movie party. It'll turn that $300 event into a $100 event.
Not much to the Del Toro trailer to go by.
This sort of reminds me of a few years ago - there were two Jungle Book movies released at about the same time. One was Disney (which did well at the box office), the other was directed by Andy Serkis (and didn't do well - might have been Netflix only). I know this type of thing happens occasionally (Armageddon/Deep Impact ; Volcano/Dante's Peak; etc) but if you go up against Disney, usually you will lose. Especially on a fairy tale.
I didn't realize Drudge was still a thing!
Now it's Drudge. Is there any left-wing site you don't follow?
“ In Collodi's serialized novel, a master carpenter is alarmed when he cuts into a piece of wood and finds it crying out in pain. He gives the wood to aged puppeteer Geppetto, who carves it into Pinocchio.”
I can only imagine the anguished cries while the carving was happening.
Another live action Pinocchio was released in 2020. It was directed by Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah, Tale of Tales) and stars Roberto Begnini as Geppetto. I watched it sometime last year on Amazon Prime. I put it on just for background while my wife and I were doing housework, but it was so engrossing it sucked us both in. I had thought it was going to be the much-maligned 2002 film starring Begnini as Pinocchio. I still haven't seen that one. Lots of live-action Pinocchio in the 21st century so far.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMNorgZw-Mo
I'm a big fan of Pinocchio and Del Toro, so I'll probably go see this in the theater. I regret not seeing Nightmare Alley on the big screen. Saw in on HBO Max and thought it was beautiful and strange. I liked it a lot, but I still rank it my fourth least favorite Del Toro movie above Crimson Peak, The Shape of Water, and Mimic, in that order.
(The live-action remake of "Pinocchio") must stink like a bad cigar.
Or Zemeckis slapped some intern's shapely ass back in 1985 or so.
The African-American, obviously.
Joe Biden has been a doddering old man far too long to ever again be thought of as a boy, and he nas never, ever, been "real." Hunter Biden is not pictured. Joe Biden's preferred son, Beau, also is not pictured. So the question is a fraud, impossible to answer.
Let's leave it at Jared Kushner, who did the Abraham Accords.
If by "interesting" you mean "boring and cliched", yes, it's interesting.
Disney's animated "Pinocchio" was notoriously creepy, and probably gave little kids more nightmares than violent fables like "Bambi." I can't imagine how harrowing these live-action versions will be, especially the one by Guillermo del Toro. (Incidentally, Zemeckis' mentor, Steven Spielberg, has already made a live-action version of Pinocchio: "A.I. Artificial Intelligence," in which the puppet boy was a high-tech robot.
Elon looks like he should be wearing an ascot.
So we'll never find out if Tom Hanks ever becomes a real, live, grown-up human man.
The virtual disappearance of DRUDGE REPORT as a media force is one of the most underreported stories of the past 5 years.
You have inspired my interest in watching the Italian Pinnochio movie which is on Amazon Prime. I'll watch the Del Toro one probably. I remember being very confused when I read a translation of the Collodi novel when I was about 9 or 10.
Disney’s Pinocchio is one of the greatest animated movies of all time. A remake of any kind by Disney is like doing a paint-by-number Mona Lisa.
The movie isn't live action, but stop action, so it's probably done with dolls or puppets, rather than with real people.
Hanks and del Toro don't seem to be a winning combination. Put them together and you may get the dark, creepy, sadistic Tom Hanks that some cynics think he really has been from the beginning.
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