When Guillermo del Toro takes his shot at an animation classic, he doesn’t mess around. He and co-director Mark Gustafson took the Carlo Collodi creation Pinocchio but made a version unrecognizable…
The Pleasure Island scene from the original – naughty boys become donkeys shipped off to the salt mines – is replaced by a military training camp where children are groomed to become warriors. “The kids laughing and playing as they shoot at each other with paint guns, until the fascist father tells his son, now shoot the puppet. With a real gun,” del Toro said. “Instead of donkeys, they are transformed when given gas masks. That is one of the earlier images I had, going in.
“I thought, Pinocchio needs to be tempted by the pageantry of show business, a totalitarian step in line mentality of fascism, and he needs to rebel against both.” There is an hilarious scatological song Pinocchio sings when Mussolini shows up for a performance, and del Toro was amused by a question of whether that was inspired by his first attempt at a claymation movie in Mexico., and we created all the puppets and sets we needed. We started shooting and left for dinner, and when we came back the studio had been burglarized and vandalized, and they had defecated and peed on the floor, which, by the way Mike, fully prepared me for Hollywood.
What was worse, del Toro was asked, having vandals take a dump on his art, or later having Harvey Weinstein seize control of his filmCheck back Wednesday for the panel video.
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