PEL Presents PMP#143: Pinocchio the Unfilmable (Yet Frequently Filmed)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al discuss the original 1883 freaky children's story and consider the recent rush of film versions, from a new Disney/Robert Zemikis CGI take to Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion passion project to a heavily costumed Italian version by Matteo Garrone. Why do people keep remaking this story, and how has the original moral of "be a good boy and obey" changed over the years?

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0:00.0	This is pretty much pop a culture podcast giving nightmares to intelligent children since 2019.
0:13.1	Oh my gosh, wow!
0:15.0	Today we're talking about Pinocchio, the 1883 story by Carlo Holodi and its many film versions by Disney Giro di Toro, Roberto Bignini and others.
0:24.8	I'm Mark Linton-Miron, I'll know I'm a real boy when I suddenly like sports.
0:28.6	You're like sports? Wait no, no, no, no! You're like sports sports? No, no, no, no, no.
0:33.9	Particularly. Wow! I'm the same. I'm Albeca speaking to you.
0:38.3	Wow! You're like sports now? You're like soccer?
0:42.1	No, no, not really. I'm a nerd, I only played Dungeons Dragons.
0:47.2	I'm Albeca speaking to you from the belly of a giant whale or possibly a giant dogfish, it's not entirely clear.
0:53.0	My name is Sarah Lombard, I'm a writer and a writing professor and I've got no strings on me.
0:59.8	Very nice adventures, I call it back. My name is Lawrence Weir and I'm a professor, I'm also now a director of the African Studies.
1:09.1	And a writer? Yeah, no, professor. And I have nothing clever to say because I didn't think of anything.
1:15.6	You've got to save all your brain energy for those fancy new academic positions you've got.
1:19.6	Yeah, holy moly. Lawrence, color me impressed.
1:23.8	It's not that impressive, it's not.
1:25.5	So we had this planned a while back because of the confluence of movies coming out.
1:30.6	When the holidays rolled around, I didn't actually feel like using them just watching Pinocchio movies.
1:35.5	So I pushed this off yet another week with the proviso of, you guys got to read the original story.
1:41.9	The original story is the trippiest children story. It's so weird.
1:45.6	It is so weird. I had such a good time with that.
1:48.1	It is. So strange.
1:50.6	Sarah Lynn as a writing professor, do you have any notes for Mr.
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