Oh, Nose!  Miramax sabotages Pinocchio with a lousy dub.
Francis Ford Coppola dreamed of doing an accurate Pinocchio
film, but legal battles took that away from him. Walt Disney's
version is a classic, but it omits a huge amount of material
from the original book and Disneyfies what remains. And although
others have tried over the years, each tended to depart from
Carlo Collodi's original narrative at least as much as Disney,
and usually in less interesting ways -- though perhaps we should
briefly mention the puppet's reinvention as homicidal killer
(Pinocchio's Revenge, 1996) and loverboy (1971's The Erotic
Adventures of Pinocchioboasted, "It's not his nose that
grows!").  Collodi's narrative is admittedly a challenge:
Initially serialized in a children's magazine, the story is
extremely episodic, full of minor characters who are generally
amalgamated in filmic adaptations and starring a cast mostly
consisting of animated puppets and giant talking animals, often
wearing clothes. And many filmmakers shrink f