#GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO

[thesnadger]

Guillermo del Toro was like "I hate it when the happy ending is the monster turning human" and by God he's right (he also hates fascism.)

[paramores]

[finitevariety]

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema (2022)

[delhe-dalim]

Pinochito 💛

[asklepians]

Death in Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

[roomtemperaturesuperconductor]

It’s legitimately pretty funny that the marketing for Del Toro’s Pinocchio hides that the whole movie is a political satire about fascist Italy. Netflix is selling Del Toro’s auteurism, but is terrified you might find out the “anti-fascist fairy tale” guy made another anti-fascist fairy tale, lol.

Like there’s a couple fluff pieces about how Del Toro spent 20 years fighting to get this made, and none of them elaborate that it’s because no studios wanted to get political with a kids movie. We love praising “passion projects” but hate when artists have actual values behind them.

[janedoeremi]

Reasons to watch Del Toro's Pinocchio

Its stop motion

The stop motion was done by people who worked on The Adventures of Mark Twain

Its Guillermo Del Toro's passion project that he's been trying to have made for over a decade

It was co-written by Patrick Mchale who made Over The Garden Wall

The designs of not just Pinocchio but the Blue Fairy, the humans and the sets are incredible

The entire score was done in wood instruments

It satirizes propaganda and how it is used to manipulate impressionable minds

Its pretty fucking anti-war

It tackles themes of loss, death, war & abuse

It does not fuck around when it comes to mature subjects

We need more support for stop motion films, its a great animation style and has so much potential that we hardly ever see

[ethanmaldridge]

What happens, happens.

And then, we are gone.

[spokenitalics]

loved the biblically accurate fata turchina and her much hotter sister

[ccborrega]

Love this little guy.

(Look, if you know me, you know I make silly stuff for media that emotionally destroyed me as a coping mechanism.)

[olympain]

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)

[nikibogwater]

Woke up this morning thinking about this scene:

“He’s made of wood too. Why do they like him, and not me?”

and how it’s such a subtle and masterful callout of the Catholics who don’t even seem to realize that they’re failing one of the most basic tenets of their faith. Like yeah, speaking as an insider, one of the most common failings of people who claim to be Catholic is that they think they’re immune to or above certain human behaviors, but in actuality they’re just as capable of pride and hatred as the people who crucified Jesus were. It’s so easy to get caught up in a sense of moral superiority that it can make you entirely blind to the whole point of Christianity--humility and unconditional love. And that kind of thing is what makes outsiders think that it’s our faith that’s the problem, when it’s actually our failure to live out that faith that hurts people. And Del Toro manages to capture that entire discussion in just a few scenes and a handful of words without ever coming across as spiteful or angry and HAVE I MENTIONED THAT THIS MOVIE IS VERY GOOD? HAVE YOU PICKED UP ON THAT YET?! 

[karmathenightowl]

Posted this on my insta a while back with additional concept sketches, but it's crazy that this isn't the first time I thought of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio when listening to The Adventure Zone. First it was Steeplechase, now this. But anyway, here's my interpretation of Phileaux's new form with that film serving as inspiration.

I made sure to really differentiate this design from the movie's design/Gris Grimly's concept because those are already perfect. I researched 19th century puppets for that rough hand crafted look and played around with the idea of Phileaux having articulated joints. I also like the idea that he took the cowl and rope from his old body to wear as a substitute robe.

[vilz]

green wood pinocchio

[asklepians]

The Wood Sprite in Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio