Guillermo del Toro during a press conference in 2019. Photo: EFE
Mexican director Guillermo del Toro said on Friday that he had opted for a rebellious and disobedient version of Pinocchioin his new animated film about this classic character, due out in December this year.
“I was very interested in the fact that it was not in favor of the good morals and structure of most of the ‘pinocchios’, that if you are disobedient it is bad, this (the character bets) that it is good to be disobedient and not follow orders. I believe in that transformation, I believe that to be who you are you don’t have to betray your nature, “he said in a virtual chat.
Guillermo del Toro in March of this year. Photo: AP
Del Toro, winner of the Oscar for Best Director in 2018 for his award-winning film the shape of the waterheld a video talk as part of the Guadalajara International Film Festival which ended yesterday in this city, the capital of the state of Jalisco and of which he is the founder.
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Photo courtesy of Netflix showing Mexican director Guillermo del Toro holding a Pinocchio puppet. After a long wait, this Monday the first preview of what will be “Pinocchio” was unveiled, the new version in “stop motion” and for Netflix by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro on the classic for children. Photo: EFE
The director provided details of the film which was shot in the US and Mexico and assured that his new film “couldn’t be more personal” and was concerned with touching on themes like love, death and what it means. human beings.
“What matters to me is if it moves me, if it makes me laugh, if it makes me cry, if I understand it; the film couldn’t be more personal, obviously it has to do with life, death, love,) what it means to behave like a puppet and what it means to behave like a human being, “he stressed.
The film is an animated musical with the ‘stop motion’ technique, set in Mussolini’s Italy, based on the classic tale by Carlo Collodi, and was directed by Del Toro and the American Mark Gustafson.
Del Toro said it took him 15 years to finalize this project, which is a return to his origins in cinema, when he made plasticine animation shorts in Super 8 format with his friend Rigoberto Mora.
Pepe Cricket is in charge of announcing the arrival of Pinocchio, led by Guillermo del Toro. Video photo capture
The feature film involved 20 animators and more than 60 sets, some of which were based in Guadalajara, del Toro’s hometown and where he founded “El taller del Chucho”, a production space to promote local talent through international projects in ‘ stop-motion ‘.
“It is more complicated for us to have filmed in Guadalajara but for me it was worth it, because the love I have for animation is not a passing thing, Super 8 was my first love and it is defending the origin of what I believed in was cinema and for me it was a very long return, for 14 years I considered an idea that I was already able to realize “, he specified.
The Guadalajara Festival
The Guadalajara International Film Festival continued until last night with a wide selection of 166 films both in official competition and in parallel programming.
Almost a hundred films are part of the official selection in competition in the short and feature film categories and documentaries in both the Mexican and Ibero-American sections, as well as the program of animated films, sexual diversity and a new socio-environmental film section.
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