Pinocchio

On the data. This is a character page rather than a series. Nothing here is a sequel to anything else here: they are five films made from one novel, decades apart, by people with completely different ideas about it. The novel came first, in 1883, and it is the thing most adaptations quietly edit. Collodi's Pinocchio is a brat. He kills the talking cricket in chapter four by throwing a hammer at it, gets his feet burned off while asleep, and is hanged from an oak tree at the end of the original serial, which is where Collodi meant to stop. Readers complained, the editor asked for more, and the Blue Fairy was invented to cut him down. The 1940 Disney film is the one that fixed the story in most people's heads, and almost every famous part of it is Disney's: Jiminy Cricket as a conscience who survives the whole film, the song about wishing on a star, Pleasure Island, and the whale, who is a shark in the book. It cost two and a half million dollars, could not be sold in wartime Europe, and did not make its money back until a reissue in 1945. 2022 had two Pinocchio films and they could not be less alike. Disney's is a live-action remake of its own cartoon. Del Toro's is stop motion set under Mussolini, in which the puppet's refusal to obey is the point rather than the problem, and it won the Academy Award. There was also a 2021 Russian film sold in English as Pinocchio: A True Story, whose dub became a minor internet event. It is not on this list. The novel has been in the public domain for a very long time, which is why anyone can make one of these, and why there are dozens more than the five here. These are the versions people actually look for.

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