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Pinocchio - Disney Live Action Remake

JohnC

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I don’t know why directors bother with already established stories where several versions have already been captured on screen. You can look at the recent live action adaptations, the current visual trends in cinematography, shot selection, tone, how cgi is used and get a picture in your head of what this expensive mainstream interpretation will look and feel like. Zemeckis could pass the reins on to another director hired to control the ship and the results would be 80% the same. It’s not like if he says no it won’t then exist. He can enjoy the film without all the exertion and time required to make it happen. Especially when you’re old and have few films left in you. 
 

But that’s not how a director sees it is it. He’s thinking; wow, Disney are trusting me to handle one of their classics?! I can’t wait to have fun with this. 
 

Just seems so redundant to me. That too many talented directors who have enduring original classics to their name waste their time on established stories instead of having the desire to still leave a mark on the medium and pop culture with something that if they didn’t do no one would.

 

i just wrote all that not knowing Zemeckis did Welcome to Marwen which is quirky i guess. And Allied, which is supposed to be boring, maybe so boring he thought; no other director will ever bring this to the big screen, it has to me! But then you’ve got The Walk, another pointless remake of sorts and he’s doing Roald Dahl’s The Witches, again pointless. The 90s version is still scary as fuck and near perfect unable to be improved. 

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1 hour ago, James Lyon said:

Is Tom Hanks even trying to do an Italian accent?

 

Sorry, his contract states that he's only allowed to put on an accent in one movie per year, and this year's allowance is used up by his role as Col. Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis biopic.

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I wonder if Del Toro is devastated by this, with it coming out just a couple of months before his version? Both will be chalk/cheese of course (with Disney being the cheese) with different audiences in mind but I do think there will eventually be some Pinocchio fatigue by the end of the year which will surely affect the DelToro movie.

 

This Disney one is basically a remake of the cartoon, rather than the original story. From the looks of the trailer they have nailed the color palette/lighting/set design for some of the key scenes. 

 

Wonder how they do this bit?

 

 

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7 hours ago, Nick R said:

 

Sorry, his contract states that he's only allowed to put on an accent in one movie per year, and this year's allowance is used up by his role as Col. Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis biopic.

 

Maybe he'll just say "it's-a-me, Geppetto" on his introduction.

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Yeah I really miss traditional animation. It’s sad that you just never get it anymore as it would be too expensive. 
 

I mean they pretty much ignored the bit where figaro is asked to close the window. Figaro pretty much sums up the new film, it’s weird (too small) and lifeless compared to the original.

 

like seriously, just how amazing is this animation…

 

 

 

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I don't think it has much to do with cost. Inside Out - a random example just because I happened to see the sequel topic earlier - had a $175m budget. The original Pinocchio had a budget of $2.6m which, adjusted for inflation, is maybe around $45m in 2015, when IO came out. I doubt that illustrators are better paid now than they were in the 40s, and a lot of it could easily be outsourced. Studio Ghibli are making the numbers work; Spirited Away was made for just $20m.

 

I still find it beautiful personally but I think it's just regarded as a bit unfashionable and lo-fi in comparison.

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3 hours ago, Capwn said:

Yeah I really miss traditional animation. It’s sad that you just never get it anymore as it would be too expensive. 

 

It's probably cheaper to do traditional animation than the current ultra expensive computer renders, though as they stopped doing traditional drawn animation for so long, most of the artists have retired and the skills are starting to be lost so even if tastes change back, somebody's going to have to relearn the techniques required.

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