Disney's Pinocchio Remake Avoids 1 Live-Action Mistake
The first trailer for Disney’s live-action remake of Pinocchio indicates that the movie will manage to avoid one big mistake that has afflicted other live-action Disney movie remakes. With the movie not set to be released until September 8, 2022, there still isn’t a lot of information on it, and it could still easily fall into a lot of the same pitfalls as its contemporaries. However, there’s at least one area that Pinocchio is succeeding in that other live-action Disney movie remakes have failed in more times than not.
Among the many criticisms that have been levied at Disney’s live-action movie remakes, one that’s shared by many of them is the criticism of the remakes making things look too realistic. Beyond the simple fact that they were originally animated movies, many Disney movies would have casts comprised of characters with goofy appearances that take advantage of the medium, but when making the transition into live-action, their appearances will be changed to look more realistic, even when it ends up hurting the movie. The servants in Beauty and the Beast, for example, all lost their cartoonish looks and became realistic to the point of being unsettling, and while the realistic visuals were used as a selling point for the live-action The Lion King, that adherence to realism came at the price of robbing the movie of all of the charm and whimsy that attracted people to the original.
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The need to make everything look realistic has been nothing but a hindrance to Disney’s live-action remakes, but Pinocchio doesn’t seem to be having this problem. Based on the first trailer, not only does Pinocchio retain his exact look from the original movie, but
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