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The wave of live-action adaptations of Disney animation continues, this time with the puppet "Pinocchio".
Not long ago, the live-action version of "Pinocchio" directed by " Forrest Gump " Robert Zemeckis released its first plot version trailer and announced that it will be launched on its own streaming media on September 4 platform.
In the trailer, the previously animated version of the episode "When You Wish Upon a Star" was paired with highly realistic CG animation, which evoked many viewers' childhood memories.
This live-action version of "Pinocchio" is adapted from the 1940 Disney classic animation "Pinocchio":
A wooden sculpture named Pinocchio was accidentally given life by a fairy. It has no body and no spirit. It will hurt, and even the nose will grow longer when lying, so in order to become a real boy, it decided to embark on a journey...
As a childhood cartoon memory for many people, the 1940 version of "Pinocchio" can be said It represented the peak of Disney's animation imagination at the time.
The film not only contains wonderful adventure elements, but also teaches many children the principles of life through its unrestrained stories and human nature.
To this day, the animated version of "Pinocchio" still maintains a 100% freshness index on the Rotten Tomatoes website.
In order to live up to the good reputation retained by the animation, the behind-the-scenes team used in the live-action version of "Pinocchio" is very luxurious:
Robert Zemeckis, the director of "Back to the Future" and "Forrest Gump", is directed by Oscar winner Tom Hanks plays Pinocchio's father, the old carpenter, Luke Evans ("The Hobbit") plays the villain coachman, and the fully CG Pinocchio will be played by child actor Benjamin Evan. Voiced by Ainsworth.
With such an "all-star" lineup, we can see that Disney hopes to replicate the box office success of previous "Aladdin" and "The Lion King" through this film.
In fact, whether it is the latest live-action "Pinocchio" or the earlier 1940 version of Disney's "Pinocchio", they are all adaptations. Its parent book is the 19th-century Italian writer Carlo Collodi The fairy tale of .
Therefore, the adaptation of "Pinocchio" is naturally not the only style of Disney.
This year there will be a dark Pinocchio movie of the same name that will be released to the audience.
It is the stop-motion animated version of "Pinocchio" directed by eccentric director Guillermo del Toro .
The film is tentatively scheduled to be released on Netflix in December
Speaking of Guillermo del Toro, many viewers must be familiar with it.
This Mexican director who has directed such masterpieces as "The Shape of Water", "Pacific Rim " and "Pan's Labyrinth" is best at integrating his unconstrained imagination and weird taste into his works and bringing them to the audience. A unique visual and spiritual experience.
This time he will adapt the classic fairy tale for the first time, and interpret the little puppet in a weird and scary style.
The story background of "Pinocchio" is set in Italy in the 1930s, when people were suffering from fascist rule.
By chance, the old toymaker Gebitt made a cute little puppet Pinocchio, and he hoped all day long that it would turn into a real little boy.
Day after day, the little puppet Pinocchio awakened his consciousness and fulfilled the toymaker's wish through lies, deception and other means.
According to the news currently exposed, the adventure of Pinocchio in this animated version is actually just a fantasy, and the Blue Fairy is the ghost of a dead girl, and the overall atmosphere will be more terrifying and weird. Director
used stop-motion animation to make Pinocchio look very "naughty" and at the same time subvert the fairy tale in our perception. It is a quite bold adaptation.
On the other hand, in view of the appeal of the top, the stop-motion animated version of "Pinocchio" has attracted many celebrities to help out.
"Magneto" Ewan McGregor , "Old Man" Cate Blanchett , "The Ancient One" Tilda Swinton , and Ron from "Fantastic Beasts" Perlman also lends his voice to the film, adding a unique texture to the film.
But such a dark and adult adaptation of Pinocchio is not Guillermo del Toro’s original creation.
In fact, as early as the origin of this character, it was a moral fable full of betrayal and death.
In 1883, when the Italian writer Carlo Collodi (Carlo Collodi) created the original novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio", he for the first time portrayed Pinocchio as a man who told lies and used any means to achieve his goals. Bad boy" image.
In this version, the story ends with the tragedy of Pinocchio being hanged, and the carpenter Geppetto, the creator of Pinocchio, (Geppetto) even evaluated it as "no one loves, he is a pitiful person" little boy".
Even if Disney later adapted it into "Pinocchio" in a romantic style, we can still feel Pinocchio's lies and the weird puppet image.
Therefore, rather than saying that "Pinocchio" is a warm fairy tale cloaked in growth, it is better to say that this story is originally a visual curiosity of "artificial monsters".
If you look at it from this perspective, then the 2019 live-action version of "Pinocchio", which was once rated as a "horror film", is not so weird.
This movie, directed by Italian directors Matteo Garroni and Massimo Ceccolini, and starring Oscar-winning actor Roberto Benigni , is neither as good as Disney animation. Like sunshine, it is not as "dark and dark" as the original work.
With a budget of only 11 million US dollars, it tried its best to restore the devastated but interesting and emotional core of the story in the work.
The movie retains the dangerous environment and harsh suffering in the Pinocchio story, and uses a very weird puppet character and bizarre encounters to make the movie look more like a fairy tale full of realism.
Even though many viewers were frightened by the "real-life Pinocchio" covered with wood grain in the film, it has to be said that this version of Pinocchio is the one that best meets the description in the original work of "running and jumping" , a human image that can cry and talk.
The film’s first male protagonist, Oscar winner Roberto Benigni, also has a close relationship with Pinocchio.
He once wrote and directed a live-action version of "Pinocchio" with an alternative style in 2002. This film, which was a sensation in Italy, was completely wiped out in the North American market and was considered a bad film.
Pinocchio in the film has the appearance and appearance of an adult. He does things carelessly and makes people feel uncomfortable. The overall style of the film is also quite weird.
However, this version of "Pinocchio" still won the 47th Italian David Award for Best Costume Design and Best Production Design.
Perhaps in the eyes of Italians, the weird appearance and changeable personality are the essence of Pinocchio.
Today, there are more than 30 movies depicting the character of Pinocchio, and every time this little puppet appears on the screen, it can bring us a different feeling.
I hope that this year's two "Pinocchio" movies will allow us to appreciate two different styles of the same character, and perhaps their success will once again set off a wave of fairy tale adaptations.
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