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Fic suggestion: if gepetto sang a short reprise of my son to the dead pinocchio after the dogfish scene . about how he was already perfect the way he was.

whaddahell 🥺🥺 thanks for the suggestion!! it'll take me a while to get to it (if i ever do) just because the state of my life rn is Extremely Busy, but this has. certainly given me smth to think about

#on another note i am very glad to know that you enjoy my writing enough to give me a fic suggestion <3 #if someone else happens to tackle this before i do then all the better because i can't promise you a posting date sdfkdjlfj #BUT it is indeed Giving Me Thoughts #singing is so hard to get right in fics....but i think i could work smth out if given the time #thanks again!! <3 #i won't tag this but i hope whoever sent this in will see it anyway sfkjdsl #gushing.text

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Like the looming shadow of a housekeeper's shoe, a memory from ages past surfaces with a terrible clarity.

"One day, child," his father had said, cradling his head with both sets of forefeet, in the droning tenor of a cricket run ragged by his sole offspring, "you will know, intimately, what suffering you have caused me."

"No, I won't," he had chortled, a contrary nymph even in this, "I'm never having children!"

Oh, to be young and foolish again.

(Amidst tiresome shenanigans and half-finished contemplations, Sebastian becomes further acquainted with his new charge.)

#gdt pinocchio #guillermo del toro's pinocchio #HI LOVELIES i hope the first chapter was engaging enough to warrant attention for a second chapter #because wrow. this took me so long dsklfjslkdf we hate the trials of adulthood #had to split this chapter up again because it got too long...but i hope it's still very much enjoyable <3 #third chapter shouldn't take as long for me to finish but. who knows! defs endeavouring to get this complete though #as always please enjoy! #fic / the property of love (and being loved) #writings.text

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✨Ready for the Oscars✨

#ueueue (soung of crying).png #i love them so much your honour

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That's right you dumbasses. An Oscar for William of the Bull's Pinoke. PINOCCHIO SWEEP ENDS. ANIMATION IS NOT A GENRE IT IS A MEDIUM AND IT IS CINEMA.

GOODNIGHT

#STILL RIDING THIS HIGH FELLAS #coming back from a sudden load of work and other obligations to this rare academy win was truly healing #i'm so glad we got to see him and his papa on the red carpet again tooooo god they're so cute

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Animation is cinema.

Animation is not a genre.

Animation is ready to be taken to the next step.

Felicidades a todos los involucrados con esta pelicula! 💕

#SLKFJSLDKG OP YOU ARE SO LOVELY FOR THIS #adorable <3 #art.png

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Guillermo del Toro’s Acceptance Speech for his film of Pinocchio winning Best Animated Feature at the 95th Academy Awards.

If there is any filmmaker who could conceivably do a feature that would win Best Animated Feature and Best Picture, it is him!

#so so SO so SO deserved!! #i missed this live but i'm so glad it happened ahhh #you fucking tell them senor del toro!!

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src / src

#gdt pinocchio #guillermo del toro's pinocchio #HIS LITTLE BOWTIE!!! #SON BOY'S LITTLE BITTY BOWTIEEEEE #AND GEPPETTO LOOKING SO SNAZZY AHAOHSFSDLKG THEY'RE SO CUTEEEE #THANK YOU AMANDA THOMAS FOR YOUR WONDERFUL SERVICE [ON MY HANDS AND KNEES] #gushing.text

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PINOCCHIO SWEEP LET'S GO!!!!!!

#DESERVED DESERVED DESERVED DESERVEDDDD #WHAT OTHER OPTION WOULD THERE HAVE BEEN!! #CONGRATS ONCE AGAIN TO THE AMAZING TEAM BEHIND THIS AMAZING MOVIE <3

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i love that you use they/them pronouns for spazzatura, cause ... idk, i hc them as nonbinary so that's <3

ahhh thank you for letting me know, i'm really glad to hear that!! same hat <3 they're a genius ofc they've transcended the binary,

#gdt pinocchio #guillermo del toro's pinocchio #/j but also like. real talk slkdfjkd #i will always love non-human characters who have a lot more depth to them than they seem #and i am also of the opinion that any sentience possessed by these characters do not have to look exactly like a human's #harder to apply to this movie's non-humans because they canonically speak v human languages #but i try to keep them to their roots when i can sdlfkjdf which means when i say they've transcended the binary #it's more in the sense of #'wow another weird human thing i've been raised with but don't actually care for' slkfjdlffj #gushing.text

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the parallel of “then i will be just like carlo! i will obey and go to school, and i’ll be the very, very best at...whatever they do there. i’ll make you proud!” vs “then i will be pinocchio. and you will be my papa. will that do?” and the fact that only the latter rightly got an explicitly positive, verbal affirmation from geppetto is going to make me explode actually,

#gdt pinocchio #guillermo del toro's pinocchio #PLEASE HAS SOMEONE MADE A GIFSET OF THIS COMPARISON?? I WILL BE SO HURT BUT SO THANKFUL :SOB: #1 lines that will always wreck me: #i hate tearing up every single goddamn time i hear 'then i will be pinocchio[...]' NO MATTER THE LANGUAGE :(((( #gushing.text #i'll get to the other gushing post once i get my main all set up i promise skldfjdlg

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"Good morning," Sebastian greets, because what else is he to do in the face of his home becoming a puppet becoming a boy.

"Goood morniiing," the child greets back. Its tone— his tone is everything his own isn't, bright and exuberant and much too chipper for this early hour of dawn. The earnest glee of it all prompts another greeting from him, if only to at least attempt to match that sincerity.

“Y-yes, hello, Pinocchio!"

"'Loooo," Pinocchio titters, swaying to and fro quite precariously from where he's perched. "Hello, Pin-oc-chi-o!"

(In the dim light of daybreak following a night of pained decisions and good intentions, Sebastian becomes acquainted with his new charge.)

#gdt pinocchio #guillermo del toro's pinocchio #HELLO FOLKS i am finally living up to the fic writer title #i hope...this is received well!! #there are not nearly enough gen fics in the ao3 tag whaddahell #second chapter will be coming...whenever it's done sdkfjkdlf i am too slow a writer to be able to set a deadline #but please enjoy! i certainly did while writing this :') #fic / the property of love (and being loved) #writings.text

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i’ll flesh out this gushing in another post at some point but the writing for carlo, pinocchio, and candlewick as actual, live children through dialogue alone is so top tier that when added with their directed movements it’s such peak character writing that i have to keep foisting praise on the scriptwriter(s) every time i rewatch this goddamn movie because oh my god. they get it. THEY GET IT

#gdt pinocchio #guillermo del toro's pinocchio #the amount of times i go ‘THAT’S A REAL KID!! THAT’S A REAL KID!!’ when watching this movie man. skdkekkff #SO MANY LINES AND THINGS HAD MY HEAD IN MY HANDS BECAUSE. BABIES!!! #THE WAY YOU CAN TELL CARLO HAS LEARNT TO ADJUST HIS LANGUAGE TO BE LESS ‘IMPOSING’ AS A CHILD #BUT HE IS STILL SO V MUCH A CHILD SKWKDKF IT’S THE POLITE KID SYNDROME I GET IT I GET IT #all the things pinocchio doesn’t say but you KNOW he thinks #AND CANDLEWICK. i’m his dad now. IM HIS DAD NOW 😭😭 #i’m incoherent because i’m at work but once i’m back home and not dead tired it’s over for you folks skwkfkfk #gushing.text

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MY BOY!!! HE IS ALIVE

#OH MY GOD. ABSOLUTE BABY #😭💝 #art.png

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When fiction takes from reality: miscellaneous details in Del Toro’s Pinocchio

1.) Count Volpe is named after a real fascist count. Conte Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, a staunch member of the National Fascist Party.

[Volpi was president of the Confindustria from 1934 to 1943. He was removed from this position and expelled from the Grand Council of Fascism after he opposed the continuing of the war and Italy's alliance with Hitler. He was arrested by the SS after trying to escape to Switzerland.

Volpi who was a leading figure of the National Fascist Party, underwent a series of legal proceedings for his responsibilities during the fascist regime after the war. His illness prevented him from appearing before the judges, but, thanks to the Togliatti amnesty he was acquitted of all charges, after a life spent at the top of the Fascist Party.]

2.) Spazzatura is a vervet monkey. Specifically an albino one, which is rare and often protected as poaching of albino animals / trafficking is very high.

The more "exotic" it looks, the more worthy of high pricing. Where do these monkeys come from? Ethiopia mainly. Which country got colonized by Italy starting 1935? ETHIOPIA!

This means Spazzatura, abandoned as a baby and captured in a cage, was found by Volpe and taking from his home in Ethiopia. So... the implication is that Volpe was probably a colonizer. So not only is he a fascist, an animal abuser, child exploiter, child abuser - but he's also a colonizer.

Another sad tidbit: vervet monkeys live for 30 years, but when in captivity they live for only 15 years. Spazzatura would have lived longer if not for Volpe's abuse.

3.) More background on Podestà:

[The Fascist regime created its own version of the podestà figure. In February 1926, Mussolini's Senate issued a decree which abolished the autonomous powers and functions of comunes (municipalities), including elected town councils and mayors. Instead, all comunes except for Rome were to be headed by a "podestà", an authoritarian mayor with full executive and legislative powers. He was appointed by royal charter (in practice, by the National Fascist Party) for a renewable five-year term (which could be revoked at any time with immediate effect). In Rome, a governor was appointed to head the local government. In larger communes, the podestà was assisted by one or two vice-podestà nominated by the Ministry of Interior, in addition to a board of advisors (consulta municipale) nominated either by the local prefect or, in the major cities, by the Ministry of Interior.

The decree was in effect from 21 April 1927 until 1945, when the entire system was abandoned with the return to democracy.]

4.) The youth fascist camp? Based off a real Italian fascist youth organization program from the early ww2 days. Gioventù Italiana del Littorio.

[The Gioventù Italiana del Littorio (GIL) (English: Italian Youth of the Lictor) was the consolidated youth movement of the National Fascist Party of Italy that was established in 1937, to replace the Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB). It was created to supervise and influence the minds of all youths, that was effectively directed against the influence of the Catholic Church on youths.

The organization surpassed its purpose as a cultural institution that was intended to serve as the ideological counterpart of school, and served as a paramilitary group (training for future assignments in the Italian Army), as well as education in the career of choice, technology (including postschool courses for legal adults), or education related to home and family (solely for the girls). It carried out indoctrination with a message of Italian-ness and Fascism, training youths as "the fascists of tomorrow".

Moreover, the GIL took charge of all activities initiated by schools, and pressured teachers to enlist all students. Aside from the usual "Fascist Saturdays", children would spend their summers in camps (which included the national-level Campi Dux, reunions of Balilla and Avanguardisti).

Male children enrolled wore a uniform adapted from that of the Blackshirts: the eponymous black shirt, the fez of Arditi tradition, grey-green trousers, black fasces emblems, and azure handkerchiefs (i.e.: in the national colour of Italy). During military exercises, they were armed with scaled-down version of Royal Italian Army service rifle, Moschetto Balilla (the rifles were replaced with replica versions for the Figli della Lupa).

When Italy entered World War II, members of the GIL who were above the age of eighteen were called up to fight in the Royal Army of Italy but in 1943 after a string of defeats in The Eastern Front, Operation Torch and the Invasion of Sicily. Boys who were sixteen and over were called up to fight until the Armistice of Cassibile was signed. However, boys and girls of the GIL found themselves picking sides. Some served in the Italian Co-Belligerent Army, the National Republican Army or the Italian Resistance Movement after German troop marched into Italy and disarmed Italian troops, who refused to continue fighting and established the Italian Social Republic.]

Becomes more sinister when you see that the kids' uniforms weren't much different in film.

#v interesting tidbits!! thank you for collecting these facts! #meta.text

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i will concede that both are indeed wonderful dubs (and i’ll even give it to castilian for having the best rendition of big baby il duce) but. my brain repeats “poikani...! poikani...!” and “ja sina olet isani! :)” unprompted on a daily basis and you must understand the absolute shreds i’m always torn into,

what’s the best dub of this movie and why is it finnish

#A FELLOW DUB CONNOISSEUR OMG #you get it....you get it #i've only been around for a few days but you're always a welcome sight in my notes slfkjdl thank you for engaging with me ^^

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what’s the best dub of this movie and why is it finnish

#gdt pinocchio #guillermo del toro's pinocchio #am i biased because finnish pinocchio has my entire heart in his tiny hands? maybe #tbf i do prefer mandarin (guoyo) geppetto #and dutch candlewick ties with polish candlewick in terms of performance #and i have yet to find a sebastian i can’t vibe with (except maybe viet but that’s only because he sounds so old #and viet gets a pass from me anyway because the voiceacting isn’t super strong from anyone BUT THE TRANSLATIONS CERTAINLY ARE 💝) #but in terms of overall quality….finnish dub has an inch over the ones i’ve heard so far diekkfdj and i’ve heard. a Lot #honorary mentions go to catalan and danish because i wasn’t expecting them to be soooo so good #one day i’ll make a post with my opinions on all the dubs fkekfkgk #gushing.text

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list of things about this movie that i can’t get out of my head or scream enough about to my partner:

please look at carlo’s little scooter!! because it gets put away up in the attic after he dies :’)

carlo is a bright young artist who really likes filling in the sky! that, or his favourite colour is blue. you can see at least four of his pieces in his shared bedroom with geppetto. three of them are pinned to his wall (the last being on geppetto’s), one of which depicts a smiling sun identical to the smiling suns that become pinocchio’s signature. it’s still there, years later, right where pinocchio would be able to see it as he turns over in his bed on his first night alive.

there’s this little hop-skip-step carlo does that is just. such little kid movement. it only happens two times (once as he’s being gifted his schoolbook and another time as he’s entering the church) but it’s so consistent in how they animate it?? god. i love stop-motion!!

the way carlo’s pinecone flies out of the church and is the only thing that survives its bombing (intact) is visually echoed later by pinocchio, when he flies out of the fascist youth camp and is the only person we see that survives that bombing (intact)

LOOK AT SEBASTIAN’S CUTE WALNUT SHELL BED. now look at the framed picture by his lantern because it gets replaced in the epilogue with a lovingly crafted portrait of his joyfully smiling/laughing family...all of which is in pinocchio’s heart...[weeps]

haha, you know what else geppetto couldn’t stand to tuck away for years in his heartache despite his home being so barren of a child’s frivolity compared to how it looked in the film’s beginning? carlo’s scarf (and we know it’s his because it’s. literally the same prop)

during the i came to church scene, where the townsfolk are spitting their scorn at pinocchio after he tells his first lie, you can hear geppetto defending him as he pulls him into his side: “no no no, no, he’s harmless!”

geppetto never stopped being a parent and it’s made so clear in the little instinctive motions and things he does. the way he answers pinocchio’s questions despite being so very overwhelmed; the way his entire being softens when he sees pinocchio curled up in the storage space; the way he makes to catch him and eventually does catch him when he staggers over his own feet; and more...it doesn’t make him a real parent, not in the way pinocchio has always been a real boy, but the care and love and innate inclination for it never left...he just needed to break in those shoes again

you ever think about how much cleaning geppetto (with pinocchio’s help, i’m sure) would’ve had to do on that first night? childproofing by way of finally throwing out those empty bottles, of actually tidying up and putting away the breakables (and mementos)

the fact that nearly all the songs in this film were also leitmotifs except ciao papa, because the composer explicitly wanted to leave that melody untouched and especial. just for pinocchio and geppetto. i’m going to riot

spazzatura being so casually tactile with geppetto even after only meeting him for the second time will forever live in my head rent-free...they’ll be patting or touching or holding onto that old man (THEY GAVE HIM A LITTLE KISS ON THE HEAD!!) and that old man will just let them! what the hell! my fucking heart!! it’s probably smth carried over from being all over volpe but it’s just. so sweet to see with geppetto instead [sobs]

every single time geppetto runs his thumb over pinocchio’s cheek or the back of his head, i burst into tears (even when i don’t have tears to burst into)

the storybook we see pinocchio handle in the epilogue is the same one geppetto used to read to carlo and. the way everything is set as we see him open it. he absolutely reads these stories aloud to his papa and spazzatura and sebastian by the hearth...and his signature is so beloved that it’s even framed and placed smackdab in the middle atop the fireplace! the centrepiece!! i canNOT deal with this movie AUGHH

pinocchio gives tulips to everyone! including carlo <3

#gdt pinocchio #guillermo del toro's pinocchio #i was going to be so cruel and add pictures to every detail #but that would take a lot of time....and a lot of space ksdfjlkdf this post is already long enough #i wanted to take more smaller screencaps to bring attention to the things i noticed but it's such a beautiful film #and tumblr makes images in text posts so ugly these days :') #i'm sure these things have already been spotted or talked about before...but i want to gush about them toooo #let's take ibuprofen together.png #will there be a part 2 to this? mayhaps.....but for now...i return to weeping #repost because this isn't showing up in the tags and filthy human i am i need some form of engagement lkdsfjk #[shakes tumblr staff in a jar] why is your tags system fucked up all of a sudden #long post/ #gushing.text