The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996 film)

The Adventures of Pinocchio ( Original title: The Adventures of Pinocchio ) is a family movie from 1996, directed by Steve Barron. The main roles are to hear and see only at the end of the film Martin Landau as Geppetto and Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Pinocchio. The film loosely based on excerpts from the novel by Carlo Collodi, which appeared in 1905.

Action

The young Geppetto carves in a pine tree into a heart with his initials and Leonas, as he has fallen in love with her. When he's done and gone, this tree is hit by lightning. Years later, this piece of land in collecting before Geppetto's feet. He wants Returning home heat with this piece of the house. But instead to ignite on the embers, the stump jump out from the chimney and lands in front of Geppetto. He then carves all night long the puppet, which he renamed after completion Pinocchio. When he is in the bathtub, Pinocchio comes to life and follows his father. Even before Geppetto can implement this properly, skin from Pinocchio and running around on the rooftops of the city. Geppetto tries to capture these and can capture her only when he fell from the roof. Then he gets paid for Pinocchio clothes of Leona. This is observed by Felinet and Volpe, which carry on that information to Lorenzini, who has a puppet theater to make money.

Back home immersed Lorenzini up and wants to buy the doll, but from Geppetto and tears into this sales pitch Pinocchio leans back and follows a group of boys in the school. In school, Pinocchio is annoyed by two children and defends himself. When asked whether he had struck a classmate, Pinocchio lies to the teacher several times, whereupon his nose continues to grow. In the end he is sure thrown out of the classroom. On the way home he comes at the bakery and tried on all the cakes and causes a larger size mess, so be he and his father Geppetto arrested and charged. Since Geppetto the punishment can not pay, he faces prison, but Lorenzini has to pay to the baker family to the money if he gets the living doll. With a heavy heart Geppetto and Pinocchio agrees then has worked in the puppet theater as the main role. At the first performance Pinocchio but caused a fire because he wants to save the old puppets of his father and flees. With a group of boys he is taken to a secret location, where they transformed the children into donkeys and are sold by Lorenzini of a circus. As Pinocchio realizes this and is trying to tell this to the other children, no one believes him until he in the water, which triggers the enchantment comes Lorenzini and turned into a whale.

When the children come back home, Pinocchio noticed that his father is no longer there, and learn that this looks for him on the sea. So now Pinocchio embarks on a search for his father and is thereby transformed swallowed by Lorenzini. In the stomach arrived he met his father and both can escape from the mouth, as Pinocchio always weiterlügt, thereby creating an opening for himself and his father. Back at the shore, Pinocchio is transformed to a boy.

Production

The Adventures of Pinocchio was produced with an estimated budget of 25 million U.S. dollars from New Line Cinema. The film grossed over 15 million dollars. The film images were taken in Český Krumlov, Prague and the Prague district of Troy, on the grounds of the castle Troja in the Teschechischen Republic. The recording by England, the children were go by coach through the waterfall in County Durham, recorded.

Differences from the novel

  • The fairy who breathes life of a tree trunk is not shown or mentioned. Fulfills a similar function Leona.
  • The log is cut from the Pinocchio, Gepetto is himself and he is not brought by the master carpenter Antonio.
  • The doll is not distracted by the puppet theater, but bought by the owner (similar to the Disney version ).
  • The cricket does not die at the first meeting ( distinguished in the whole movie, however, by ghostly immunity from harm from ). Also, it is more and more a running joke with no impact on the plot.
  • Pinocchio examined at the end of the film after his father and not as in the novel in the middle of the story.
  • Pinocchio is not resold and does not attempt to kill. All supernatural is subsequently " rationalized ".
  • In the whale's belly is Geppetto and Pinocchio meet not by chance, since the latter has been specifically looking for his father in the sea.
  • The three villains of the novel - fire eaters, coachman & sea monsters - were merged into the main character of the diabolical, chili -eating Lorenzini.
  • The donkeys are freed at the end and return to their normal children.
  • The crooks couple Volpe and Felinet are the cat for the fox &. The roles were reversed, now is the cat and the fox, the crafty Pläneschmiederin the Simple henchmen.

Continuation

In 1999 appeared under the direction of Michael Anderson continued The New Adventures of Pinocchio. Martin Landau and Udo Kier played in this work, their roles from the previous film. Jonathan Taylor Thomas was replaced by Gabriel Thomson in the role of Pinocchio and the Blue Fairy is Gemma Gregory to see.

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