Guillermo del Toro points to Disney: My ‘Pinocchio’ is not a ‘babysitter movie’

The Mexican director seemed to be leaving hints against Disney Guillermo del Toro. Disney recently made a new film starring Pinocchio, and Tom Hanks as the carpenter Geppetto, but it was described as “sweet” and “lifeless” compared to Disney’s first version with the wooden boy in 1940.

“People ask us if it’s for kids [και] we say, “It’s not made for kids, but kids can watch it if their parents talk to them… It’s not a babysitter movie, it’s a movie that will make kids ask questions,” said the Oscar-winning director. to Page Six at the New York premiere of his film earlier this week.

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The “Mimic” director explained that his version of the boy – a puppet whose nose grows when he lies and has always longed to be a real boy – is nowhere near as dark as the original, but not so… sugary as much as the Disney transfer.

“The important thing for me is that it can stand thematically next to Pan’s Labyrinth or The Devil’s Backbone, that was the idea,” explained the Mexican director, recalling his other films. “It took us so long to make it, among other things, because we wanted it to be thematically relevant,” he added.

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Del Toro clarified that the themes he wanted to explore in the film were obedience, integrity and being true to yourself, which is why he set the film in the period of Mussolini’s Fascist Italy.

“Obedience for me is when you are told to follow something, either religiously or socially, that you do not understand, and that is a big mistake. Disobedience with conscience is always the beginning of thought, soul and self” he said characteristically.

“When I was a practicing Catholic, not as I am now, I thought about where the human soul is — and it is in the freedom of choice. The choice is to be human,” Del Toro noted.

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