There are a whole bunch of non genre Galatea films: Pygmalion, My Fair Lady, Annie Hall, Educating Rita, etc.
It could easily be said that Pinocchio (1883) is a take on Galatea/Pygmalion myth, from which it borrows, at least, the initial premise. But Pinocchio in itself has been extremely influential in Science Fiction and other genre films, sometimes obscurely, as in Close Encounters of the Third Kind other times so obvious to the point of ludicrousness: A.I. It's hard to belive that Kubrick would have taken such a saccharine, Disneyfied direction in developing the movie. Spielberg uses mainly the Disney Pinocchio, not the Collodi, for inspiration; Collodi's Pinocchio is the original Bart Simpson, not a blank canvas where others paint, and see, the image of what they think he should be.)
But also Pinocchio (1940), Astro-Boy, Pinocchio in Outer Space, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Pinocchio (2002), A Tree of Palme, Pinocchio 3000, Hellboy II: The Golden Army (which visually and thematically acknowleges both Pinocchio/Pygmalion sources, a viewing of Howdy Doody segues into a dream of puppets,), etc.
Even in a classic like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) we can see some Pinocchio-like traces in the Scarecrow and the Tin Man wanting to become human (or, more human,) although it is only the Scarecrow who is the true Pinocchio construct. The Tin Man was human at one point.
I started watching A Tree of Palme last night and I can't really recommend it, too bizarre, although visually interesting and attractive, we get to see dancing cacti (or is it phalluses?) from The Three Caballeros, mutant underground dwellers from Beneath the Planet of the Apes, an underground forest from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, and 'exploding' being as in Akira and a human Tatara Gami demon from Princess Mononoke. The character Palme is barely human or functional. It is hard to identify with the character, but the story of Pinocchio is well loved by Japanese filmmakers (also see Robot Carnival,) and is the clear source for this story. The ending is better than expected, but the story remains disjointed and weird.
Other genre films that use Pygmalion as inspiration (but not necessarily Pinocchio): Metropolis, Mannequin, Mighty Aphodite, S1mOne, Mad Love (tangentially), Weird Science and The Stepford Wives.
It could easily be said that Pinocchio (1883) is a take on Galatea/Pygmalion myth, from which it borrows, at least, the initial premise. But Pinocchio in itself has been extremely influential in Science Fiction and other genre films, sometimes obscurely, as in Close Encounters of the Third Kind other times so obvious to the point of ludicrousness: A.I. It's hard to belive that Kubrick would have taken such a saccharine, Disneyfied direction in developing the movie. Spielberg uses mainly the Disney Pinocchio, not the Collodi, for inspiration; Collodi's Pinocchio is the original Bart Simpson, not a blank canvas where others paint, and see, the image of what they think he should be.)
But also Pinocchio (1940), Astro-Boy, Pinocchio in Outer Space, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Pinocchio (2002), A Tree of Palme, Pinocchio 3000, Hellboy II: The Golden Army (which visually and thematically acknowleges both Pinocchio/Pygmalion sources, a viewing of Howdy Doody segues into a dream of puppets,), etc.
Even in a classic like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) we can see some Pinocchio-like traces in the Scarecrow and the Tin Man wanting to become human (or, more human,) although it is only the Scarecrow who is the true Pinocchio construct. The Tin Man was human at one point.
I started watching A Tree of Palme last night and I can't really recommend it, too bizarre, although visually interesting and attractive, we get to see dancing cacti (or is it phalluses?) from The Three Caballeros, mutant underground dwellers from Beneath the Planet of the Apes, an underground forest from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, and 'exploding' being as in Akira and a human Tatara Gami demon from Princess Mononoke. The character Palme is barely human or functional. It is hard to identify with the character, but the story of Pinocchio is well loved by Japanese filmmakers (also see Robot Carnival,) and is the clear source for this story. The ending is better than expected, but the story remains disjointed and weird.
Other genre films that use Pygmalion as inspiration (but not necessarily Pinocchio): Metropolis, Mannequin, Mighty Aphodite, S1mOne, Mad Love (tangentially), Weird Science and The Stepford Wives.
