The legend of Pinocchio

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Movie
German title The legend of Pinocchio
Original title The Adventures of Pinocchio
Country of production United Kingdom , USA , France , Germany , Czech Republic
original language Italian , English
Publishing year 1996
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Steve Barron
script Sherry Mills
Steve Barron
Tom Benedek
Barry Berman
production Heinz Bibo
Raju Patel
music David Goldsmith
Lee Holdridge
Rachel Portman
Craig Taubman
camera Juan Ruiz Anchía
cut Sean Barton
occupation

The Legend of Pinocchio (Original title: The Adventures of Pinocchio ) is a family film from 1996 by director Steve Barron . Martin Landau as Geppetto and Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Pinocchio can first be heard in the main roles and seen at the end of the film. The film adaptation is vaguely based on excerpts from the novel by Carlo Collodi , which appeared in 1905. The film opened in German cinemas on October 3, 1996.

action

The young Geppetto carves a heart with his and Leona's initials in a pine tree because he has fallen in love with them. When he's finished and gone, this tree is struck by lightning. Years later, this piece ends up at Geppetto's feet while collecting. Back at home he wants to heat the house with this piece. But instead of igniting on the embers, the tree stump jumps out of the chimney and lands in front of Geppetto. He then spent the whole night carving the puppet , which he named Pinocchio when it was finished. When he is in the bathtub, Pinocchio comes to life and follows his father. Before Geppetto can really do this, Pinocchio runs away and walks around on the roofs of the city. Geppetto tries to catch it and can only catch it when it has fallen from the roof. As a result, Leona gives him clothes for Pinocchio. This is observed by Felinet and Volpe, who pass this information on to Lorenzini, who owns a puppet theater, in order to make money.

Back at home, Lorenzini shows up and wants to buy the doll, but Geppetto refuses and in this sales pitch Pinocchio runs away again and follows a group of boys to school. At school, Pinocchio is teased by two children and defends himself. When asked whether he had hit a classmate, Pinocchio lies to the teacher several times, causing his nose to keep growing. In the end, he is thrown out of the classroom for this. On the way home, he arrives at the bakery and tries all the cakes and causes a major mess so that he and his father Geppetto are arrested and charged. Since Geppetto cannot pay the fine, he faces prison, but Lorenzini offers to pay the money to the baker's family when he receives the living doll. Geppetto agrees with a heavy heart and Pinocchio works from then on in the puppet theater as the main role. At the first performance, however, Pinocchio caused a fire because he wanted to save his father's old dolls and fled. He and a group of boys are taken to a secret location, where the children turn into donkeys and are sold to a circus by Lorenzini. When Pinocchio notices this and wants to tell the other children, no one believes him until he pushes Lorenzini into the water that triggers the enchantment and it turns into a whale.

When the children return home, Pinocchio notices that his father is no longer there and learns that he is looking for him at sea. So Pinocchio now goes in search of his father and is swallowed up by the transformed Lorenzini. Once in the stomach he meets his father and both can escape from the mouth, as Pinocchio keeps lying and thereby creates an opening for himself and his father. Back on the bank, Pinocchio transforms into a boy.

production

The Legend of Pinocchio was produced by New Line Cinema on an estimated budget of $ 25 million . The film grossed over $ 15 million worldwide. The film was shot in Český Krumlov , Prague and in the Prague district of Troja, on the grounds of Troja Castle in the Czech Republic . The picture of the children taking a carriage ride through the waterfall was taken in County Durham , England .

Differences from the novel

  • The fairy who breathes life into the log is neither shown nor mentioned. Leona fulfills a similar function.
  • Gepetto finds the log from which Pinocchio is carved himself and it is not brought by the carpenter Antonio.
  • The puppet is not distracted from the puppet theater, but bought by the owner (similar to the Disney version).
  • The cricket doesn't die the first time it meets (though it is characterized by ghostly immunity from harm throughout the film). It is also becoming more and more of a running gag without affecting the plot.
  • Pinocchio looks for his father at the end of the film and not in the middle of the story as in the novel.
  • Pinocchio is not being resold, nor is it attempted to kill. Everything supernatural is subsequently "rationalized".
  • It is not by chance that Geppetto and Pinocchio meet in the whale's belly, as the latter was specifically looking for his father in the sea.
  • The novel's three villains - fire eater, coachman & sea monster - have been merged into the main character of the devilish, chilli-eating Lorenzini.
  • The donkeys are freed in the end and become normal children again.
  • The crook couple Volpe and Felinet stand for the fox & the cat. The roles have been reversed, now the cat is the clever plan-maker and the fox the simple-minded henchman.

continuation

In 1999, the sequel The New Adventures of Pinocchio was directed by Michael Anderson . Martin Landau and Udo Kier played their roles from the previous film in this work. Jonathan Taylor Thomas has been replaced by Gabriel Thomson in the role of Pinocchio and Gemma Gregory can be seen as the Blue Fairy .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Legend of Pinocchio (1996). MovieJones.de, accessed November 30, 2012 .