![]() ![]() These are characters that even if you haven’t read the story or think you know the story you can use them as a metaphor for science, for human emotions and for many, many things.” The director noted that the two films that defined his childhood and teenage years in Mexico were “Pinocchio” and “Frankenstein,” adding “this may tell you something about my relationship with my dad, but it’s this idea that you’re thrown into a world you barely understand, and you try to make sense of it as you go.” Del Toro also thought of Pinocchio as one of a handful of characters including Frankenstein, Tarzan and Sherlock Holmes that are capable of “being universal and completely adaptable to anything. That is exactly the age in which Pinocchio exists, which is curious and unruly and sort of casually cruel and casually too inquisitive.” His Pinocchio has this unruly, almost force of nature, undomesticated essence. The moment I saw Gris’ drawing of Pinocchio, which was essential, I thought this was the key to making a new version. The key to doing a new ‘Pinocchio’ is who is Pinocchio. “I’m very skeptical about a new interpretation. “I heard he was preparing a ‘Pinocchio’ book,” he said. And I think that it has a depth and a persona.ĭel Toro met Grimly, who describes himself on Instagram as “illustrator-old soul-music lover-somewhat author”-several years ago. It’s during the time of war, during the rise of Mussolini and is really a different, very lethal form of controlling paternity and so forth. is different in the fact that it is against a very different backdrop that illuminated a different type of paternal structure. ![]() Those are the things that helped us craft the tale. ![]() Ideology is something that is given to you, and you are told to obey blindly. An idea you construct from experience and compassion and understanding. I think that and the first step towards the conscience and the out for me is disobedience-the difference between ideas and ideology. “Disobedience being a primary factor in becoming human and how becoming human doesn’t mean changing yourself for others but understanding. “First of all, I would say most every other ‘Pinocchio’ story is about obedience and ours is about disobedience,” said del Toro. ![]() During a recent Netflix Zoom conversation the Oscar-winning filmmaker (“The Shape of Water”) and his co- director, Emmy Award-winning Mark Gustafson (“The PJs”), explained what made their version of “Pinocchio” different than others. ![]()
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