Guillermo del Toro said it will take “a few years” for people in Hollywood to accept that animation is cinema.
Three-time Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro came together at the “Three Amigos” event held by Netflix at the Academy Museum. Moderated by Cuarón, del Toro talked about his new Netflix adaptation of Pinocchio.
Talk about the Pinocchio movie, del Toro said it would take “a few years” for people in Hollywood to accept that animation is cinema. When asked about the animation debate going on in Hollywood lately, he said, “It’s a battle I’ll continue to fight.”
The director, a longtime advocate of the medium of animation, previously stated, “Animation is a medium, not a genre, nor an interest for children and families.” The hard decisions of companies like Warner Bros. Discovery and Netflix regarding their animation divisions have sparked new controversies over the importance of the art of animation. Seek attention Pinocchio during one such period, del Toro spoke of the film:
“This is the only Pinocchio movie I know of that teaches Geppetto. It is not Pinocchio learning to be a real boy, but Geppetto learning to be a real father. And that was very important to me.”
‘I don’t make a film for children’
The shape of water director said that for many people in the film industry, animation is a genre made for children. Del Toro explained:
It’s incredibly, incredibly ingrained in the minds of many people in the movie business that animation is a genre for kids and not, as a medium, for creating beauty and film and art. I think it’s a struggle that will last for years, but when you see things like that as perfect as any Miyazaki movie or “The Red Turtle,” which is an absolute masterpiece, or “I Lost My Body,” and you know that this medium is not fully exploited”
Del Toro said the idea ofPinocchio was rejected for 10 years: “I don’t make a movie for kids, but kids can watch it,” he said.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio depicts the classic story of a wooden puppet who comes to life as the son of his sculptor Geppetto. It is a story of love and disobedience as Pinocchio struggles to live up to his father’s expectations and learn the true meaning of life. It is set in Benito Mussolini’s fascist Italy during the brutal Second World War. The director considers Pinocchio as part of a thematic, stylistic, unofficial trilogy The backbone of the devil and Pan’s labyrinth.
Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro now streaming on Netflix.