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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Margot Metroland

1,585 words

Three years ago I did a semi-humorous, shaggy-dog piece about Pinocchio and the Fascisti (“Pinocchio: The Face of Fascism“). Its jumping-off point was talking about several Pinocchio films in the works, particularly a long-awaited stop-motion animation feature directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson. The film was then scheduled for release on Netflix “next year” (i.e., 2021) and was said to be very dark in theme. This darkness, we were told, lay mostly in its being set in Fascist Italy. There would be bombing and violence and cameos of Benito Mussolini.

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (for such is its full name) finally dropped in December 2022. Like the curate’s egg, it’s excellent in parts. It is truly dark in the sense that most scenes are in twilight or have an available-light look. Gustafson’s stop-motion is superb, and the set design is often breathtaking. The script is imaginative and original, though often cluttered with puzzling elements and subplots. There are two very well-done scenes of bombers flying overhead, seen from below in silhouette, but with the falling bombs themselves drawn in detailed close-up, followed by extended scenes of destruction and carnage. These seem to be inspired by old newsreels of the London blitz, though a closer model may be the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

Yet this is ostensibly Italy in the 1930s or even 1920s, and you have to ask: Why the bombing? I’ve seen it said that the first instance actually depicts Austro-Hungarian bombers in the Great War; looking this up, I find there were in fact some bombing missions, mainly around Venice. But this scene still seems a stretch, as the narrator tells us it was all an accident. I suppose these bombing scenes were beautiful in storyboard and, once filmed, too gorgeous to cut — however confusing and unlikely. All that glorious fire and destruction musn’t go to waste.

Much of the script is like this. We get brilliant little set-pieces that are there for show, not for continuity.

Unlike the 1940 Disney version, which kept most of the basic storyline of the 1883 Carlo Collodi book, this Pinocchio isn’t really based on the original source. No, it’s rather more like a vaguely remembered notion of the 1940 Disney film, passed through a game of Telephone. We start with a wooden puppet who is often naughty, and he has a woodcarver “father,” Geppetto, and they get separated but finally discover each other inside a giant fish. There’s an island where bad boys go and get punished. There is also a blue fairy who transforms Pinocchio into a “real boy” at the end. And then you have a loquacious, didactic cricket.

Those are the basic elements that remain in this Pinocchio script. They got strung together here, and then shaped and stuffed into a new story with all kinds of novel plot devices. To help hold it all together, we have a narrator in Mr. Sebastian J. Cricket, a literary insect who speaks with the voice of Ewan McGregor and sometimes sings, though he looks nothing like Jiminy. He is dark blue and grotesquely detailed, like a giant ant in a 1950s sci-fi flick. The blue fairy (Tilda Swinton) is even weirder, a shape-shifting “wood sprite” who appears variously as a lizard-like alien or monstrous blue griffin or dragon.

The script’s most extensive invention comes at the beginning, in a long backstory of how and why Pinocchio, the puppet, came to be. Now, in the book he begins as a talking log who talks back when Geppetto tries to chop him, while in the Disney version he’s a cute toy created by a merry Tyrolean craftsman who specializes in cuckoo clocks. In the del Toro film, the puppet is created as a replacement for Carlo, Geppetto’s beloved son who got killed when bombers dropped their payload on the local church, while little Carlo was standing inside, in rapt contemplation of the crucifix that Geppetto had built. Years later, in a drunken rage, Geppetto chops down the memorial tree by Carlo’s grave and makes it into an ungainly wooden puppet — you know, the kind you make when you’re drunk.

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The religious aspect is another new embellishment. There are no churches or pietistic allusions in the book. It’s set in a secular, middle-class post-Risorgimento Italy without any reference to popes or kings or nobles. But here in the del Toro film we have a grand church edifice that figures heavily in the first act. It is bombed and destroyed, yet rises again. Somehow Geppetto’s giant crucifix survived the bombs and hangs once again above the altar. Unfortunately, Geppetto’s grief and drunkenness have kept him from finishing the painting of this masterwork. The unfinished crucifix is a sore point with the grumpy, nagging, unsympathetic pastor, a recurring character in the first half of the movie. Another point of contention is the unruly and mischievous Pinocchio, who misbehaves in church. The priest comes by one day with the local Fascist official (“Podesta”) to browbeat Geppetto for this and other things.

I suppose the screenwriters’ rationale for adding all the church business was, “Hey, this is Italy. They have some fine old churches in Italy, don’t they? So let’s put one in as realistic detail. And then we can add a mean priest, too, and imply he’s pro-Fascist.” Likewise, the very pretty set of Geppetto’s mountaintop town is basically a tourist’s idea of a medieval city in Tuscany or Umbria. Not exactly wellsprings of Fascism, which was rooted mainly in the north, in places like Milan and Mussolini’s native Romagna.

The “Fascist” part of the story really begins when Pinocchio goes on tour with a puppet show. This plot arc is very nimble and satirical, and is the film’s centerpiece. For the last stop on the tour, the show’s impresario, “Count Volpe,” is staging a special production for his “good friend” Il Duce. Volpe and his company take a steamship to Catania (Sicily), where the crowds cheer when Mussolini makes his appearance, driven up in an impossibly long red parade-car while the soundtrack cues up “Giovinezza, Giovinezza.”

I must say, this is a very squat, hideously caricatured Duce — but funny. It iscirca 1936, I suppose, given that a newspaper headline has shown him announcing We Win the War! Mussolini salutes the crowd and goes straight to the puppet theater. “I like-a puppets,” he tells the fawning puppet-master Volpe.

Today’s show is supposed to be a special command performance for Il Duce. However, Pinocchio has recently learned that the greedy, foxy boss Volpe is stealing all his earnings instead of sending them home to Geppetto. So in revenge he subverts the performance into a scatalogical burlesque of “Il Dulce” (as Pinocchio calls him). He dances with a turd-puppet and sings about how he, Mussolini, is full of urine, caca, and baby poop.

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Mussolini, munching popcorn in the audience, says, “These puppets, I do not-a like,” and orders his bodyguard to shoot Pinocchio. Which the bodyguard does . . . but being a wooden puppet, Pinnochio cannot die. And as a result of this he is, logically enough, recruited into the Italian army.

This unlikely plot twist is the substitute for the famous “donkey transformation” in the original tale. Instead of traveling in a coach-and-four to Toyland (Pleasure Island in the Disney film), Pinocchio and his friend Candlewick get locked into the back of a military van and driven to an “elite” Fascist military academy, the inside of which looks rather like an avant-garde rock-climbing gym. And instead of being turned into donkeys (as naughty boys did in the original), the boys are herein being transformed into soldiers . . . ready to give their lives for the Fatherland!

Pinocchio’s friend Candlewick is accused of being a weakling by his martinet father, who apparently is this training facility’s commandant. Father hands son an automatic pistol and tells him to “Shoot the puppet!” (I detect an allusion to The Conformist, perhaps?) This crisis is quickly resolved, deus ex machina style, when enemy bombers suddenly appear overhead and bomb the school to smithereens. This second bombing scene is even more confusing than the first. Who is the enemy? Who was bombing Italy in the mid-1930s? I’ve read reviews that claim this is really supposed to be the 1939-45 war, but that doesn’t work, for a number of reasons I will forgo enumerating.

I’m obviously thinking too hard about this stuff. I understand the film is not attempting historical verisimilitude. I just wonder why certain new elements are invented and emphasized, while much of the original story and its cultural context is deprecated. I recently viewed the 1940 Disney version, which I mistakenly believed I had seen many years ago, though it turns out I hadn’t. And truly, it is quite as disjointed as this one, a concatenation of beautifully done set-pieces, even though it hews pretty closely to the (extremely uneven) original book. What it doesn’t do is treat the Collodi story as a sort of Mr. Potato Head text, where anything’s permissible so long as you’ve got a puppet in there called Pinocchio.

The promotional videos and press releases for this film keep reminding us of its renowned voice-artist cast. A particularly notable name is Cate Blanchett, who has done a couple of interviews for the film, and she also appears in an accompanying Netflix documentary in which cast and crew describe the film’s impossibly protracted development and production. As it turns out, Cate “plays” a manic monkey that mainly hisses and giggles. You wouldn’t recognize her in a million years.

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  1. DarkPlato says:
    January 31, 2023 at 8:15 am

    The spate of Pinocchio movies recently is cabalistic in nature, as is everything, I suppose.  It’s about the guys the Js have freed.  This one is about an ugly doll, who was misbehaved, lol.  It’s sad, and beautiful in a way.  Also, the Free Guy is a retelling of Pinocchio as well.  An NPC in a computer game becomes a “real guy.”   The guy seems to be a tech maven of some sort who is secretly gay.  A subtheme you note is that the main actors are guys you wouldn’t think were gay, but they signal that they are in various ways.
                Pinocchio is about the improvement of the spirit through suffering.  The guys have been tempered and made human by the tribulations the Js have put upon them.  Pinocchio alludes to or includes all those classic stories which involve that theme, viz. Jonah and the whale, and the golden ass of Apuleius, in which the main character is changed to a donkey but becomes human again.  Also golden ass contains the famous story Cupid and psyche in which the human transcends to the divine via tribulation.  Neoplatonic, I suppose.

    I wonder if the original book was also about one of the “guys.”   Note that in the Free Guy, they are somehow giving him money, I guess through crypto currency.  That’s what the whole crypto craze is really about, although obviously they are making good for themselves on it many times over.  Probably the gamestonk too.  We’re all building the hoax!

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  2. Ian Smith says:
    January 31, 2023 at 8:21 am

    I loved Pan’s Labyrinth when it came out. But I hate Del Toro’s subsequent work (and politics) so much I have retroactively downgraded what had be one of my favorite films.

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  3. Jim Goad says:
    January 31, 2023 at 10:28 am

    I knew Del Toro’s current wife about 20 years ago back when she hung out with a crew in Portland that she now aggressively disavows as fascists. I think it’s safe to allege that she didn’t marry Del Toro for his looks.

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    1. margotmetroland says:
      January 31, 2023 at 11:27 am

      Sounds like the late Adam P. Made his bones in weird and fashy circles, later on bad-mouthed all his old associates as nazis.

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      1. Uncle Semantic says:
        February 2, 2023 at 11:05 am

        I assume this movie was better than the Robert Zemeckis live-action one? Two Pinocchios in one ‘22 is odd.

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  4. Vauquelin says:
    January 31, 2023 at 7:21 pm

    Whores attack Fascism, heroes defend it. Sadly whoring is more profitable than heroism this day and age.

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  5. S. Clark says:
    February 2, 2023 at 7:37 pm

    Interestingly, in St. Louis Mo., where I live, they made “City Gardens” a kind of beautification project where prime real estate that once was useful is yet another park. There are statues here and there, with shades of whimsey. One is a statue of Pinocchio. I don’t know what exactly Pinocchio has to do with St. Louis, and it seems odd…about as odd as this film that is being reviewed.

    In the film why does Mussolini talk in a comic Italian accent? It seems silly, but I understand Del Toro is pretty left. I too, liked Pan’s Labyrinth, but it took the communist side. A lot of non-communists were killed by the reds as well, including Catholic clergy, but no one owns up to that.

    In James Howard Kunstler’s The Geography of Nowhere, he used the ferryboat ride Pinocchio and his pals take to show how  it  resembled Atlantic City, NJ, and its legalization of gambling, and by extension, America’s deification of  Las Vegas. Both cases were about people wanting something for nothing, which Kunstler defines as the prime driving goal of American life now.

    He also had some nasty things to say about the chintzy Trump Taj Mahal,

    which was financed with junk bonds and was technically bankrupt before the year was out. Junk bonds, of course, is another way to get something for nothing.

    The review describes Del Toro’s film as technically brilliant, but a semi-leftist ego trip for the usual intellectual film crowd.  Think I’ll read a book.

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    1. Margot Metroland says:
      February 3, 2023 at 2:16 pm

      Comical accent for Mussolini? That was presumably the choice of the voice-artist. That was the least of the demeaning aspects of this cartoon Duce. He’s depicted here as practically a dwarf, with no nuance of personality beyond some Arthur Szyk caricature c. 1940.

      This film was promoted by del Toro et al. as being set during “the rise of Fascism”, which to my mind means between 1917 (when British military intelligence subsidized Mussolini to research and fight Bolshevism) and 1925, by which time the Mussolini was pretty well ensconced as prime minister. Instead we get a debased version of the Jack Oakie caricature from The Great Dictator, where everything seems to be happening in the early 1940s, with an un-nuanced, dumbed-down idea of Musso: “He fascist. He bad!”  Then the 1944 carpet-bombings at a time when Musso is no longer Il Duce…

      It’s a cartoon. Made for idiots who know nothing. Nevertheless they could have taken a little more care in the chronology.

       

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  6. S. Clark says:
    February 4, 2023 at 5:47 am

    Jack Oakie as Mussolini? Don’t forget Curly in the Three Stooges (which he probably stole from Oakie).  It reminds me of the movie Jojo Rabbit (2019), which is a satire of Hitler. People like Hitler and Mussolini are always shown as evil or entirely comical. The point is never to take them seriously or show them as having any kind of legitimacy, nor their cause.  Much like Richard III is a humpbacked, cackling villain, or Cleopatra a sultry, double-dealing slut and not a leader with legitimate interests and goals (keeping Egypt from being gobbled up by Rome).

    Of course Rome, like America, argued being gobbled up is for your own good.

    Khaddafi was “Daffy Quaddafi”, Khomeini was “Ayatollah, suck my holla” and etc.

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