Pinocchio is a Story About Art and God

Summary by Krater

Jacob Geller discusses how various film, video game, and literary adaptations of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio interpret the wooden puppet differently, focusing in particular on Disney's 1940 film and Guillermo del Toro's 2022 stop-motion film.

From the video

Answers: How do different adaptations of Pinocchio interpret the original story and its themes?

• Pinocchio adaptations in film and literature
• Carlo Collodi's original novel
• Disney's 1940 and 2022 Pinocchio films
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
• Lies of P video game
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence and robot cinema

What it concludes

• Collodi's original Pinocchio story is a morality tale where Pinocchio is almost always on the wrong side and the narrative concludes with obedience as the path to becoming a real boy.
• Disney's 1940 adaptation softens the original story's brutality and frames safety within the family, establishing a template where external encounters are dangerous.
• Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion Pinocchio embraces the story's visual flaws and uses stop-motion animation to highlight the theme of creation while subverting blind obedience.
• Lies of P translates the Pinocchio myth into a Souls-like video game where the puppet's agency to lie or tell the truth is controlled by the player.
• Guillermo del Toro's film successfully treats Pinocchio as a narrative masterpiece because it tweaks the story's moral authority figures while preserving the core relationship between father and son.