We spoke w/ RealGDT & Mark Gustafson about making Pinocchio, their favorite scenes, future projects, and a lot more. PinocchioMovie is now streaming on netflix.
After well over a decade of exhaustive efforts, Academy Award-winner Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson are finally able to present the world with their stop-motion masterpiece, Pinocchio. The collaboration sings onscreen, with both filmmakers possessing a rich darkness to their work, from del Toro’s gothic fantasia in Pan’s Labyrinth, to Gustafson’s grim fairytale stop-motion work on Return to Oz and whimsical direction in Fantastic Mr. Fox.
GUSTAFSON: Well, there's a couple of them. I know what yours is, which I share, but there's another one. It's the whole sequence in the bedroom where Geppetto puts Pinocchio to bed, and before that he puts Carlo to bed. It's just so beautifully animated. It's so tender, and I think it reads so true, and all that stuff was done by one animator.
GUSTAFSON: It comes [with] great responsibility with owning those puppets because you have to take care of them. I think that's probably true of most undertakings. Once you have the tools, you want to push them right up to the limit. Although with Pinocchio, we weren't really trying to push the edge of this technology. It was more about the emotion and the story than the technique.
DEL TORO: No, no. There were difficult moments. We liked the sequence, the shooting squad. It was hard to let go of that one.
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