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rknchan · 1 year

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as i had promised before, finally im writing a post about my thoughts on catcf

sorry it's quite messed up, i'm gonna talk about a lot of things, compare the movie to the book and their takes on the characters and their fate. also i'd like to remind that it's all entirely subjective and based on my feelings only!! also i have seen the movie and read the book in russian translation so might have missed some details lost in translation. sorry if anything offends you, i didn't intend it and im open to discussions ,,,

AUGUSTUS GLOOP he didn't seem to have much time and personality both in the book and in the movie? wasn't his only character trait and only vice that he eats a lot? (my highest kin) what did he even do wrong? he was told that everything in the room was edible so he actually started eating everything? what a crime in the movie they tried to fix him or exactly make him worse and showed him being mean to charlie; but the oompaloompas don't criticize him for that but instead for being FAT AND STUPID!!!! i don't think he was that deserving his fate especially comparing him to other kids, but at the same time his punishment seemed the lightest? sure he was scared when he was sucked into the pipe, but in the end he seemed to be happy? he didn't end up that traumatized and even managed to enjoy some chocolate

VIOLET BEAUREGARD when i watched the movie for the first time, i wondered why her song shows her as a bad person not because of her competitiveness, arrogance or obsession with victory but.... for chewing too much gum?? the book gave me the answer to this question: book violet doesn't have almost any personality aside her chewing gum addiction; it was mentioned that she holds a record for chewing gum but it wasn't really emphasized? so i liked how they developed this part of violet in the movie making her obsessed with competitions and prizes, while leaving some details showing it's the pressure of her family which forced her to be like that. she's still a grotesque caricature supposed to be annoying but she's a much more colourful (?) and memorable character there imo.

VERUCA SALT such a cute and annoying at the same time spoiled material gurrrrl both in the movie and the book i love her portrayal sm. also i like how her song showcases that her parents are responsible for spoiling her and they share the same punishment and that episode in the movie when she befriended violet with a nasty smile . such an iconic moment i adored it

MIKE TEAVEE i adored him hes such a funny little brat!!! but his song with the whole "television bad books good" message is understandable in the book but when you hear it in a MOVIE youre watching ON THE TV that makes no sense btw i like how in the book they showcase the problem of parents who ignore their children and would rather let them spend all day in front of the tv than communicate with them. that implies mike has some family issues as well too bad it wasn't shown in the movie

WILLY WONKA book and movie versions of wonka are quite different but i love them both equally willy is such an amazing character :c book wonka seems to be just an easygoing guy in a constant silly goofy mood who actually cares about the children but just lets it slide as he knows they won't be harmed? movie wonka on the other hand seems more whimsy and cursed??? he appears creepy and threatening, with some sadistic vibes even, and behind his appearance of a funny eccentric mememan making cannibalism jokes, he hides SUFFERING and deep childhood traumas i liked how they made wonka's character more deep and dramatic, but the question is - does a character like him really need this tragic backstory? what does this twist add to the whole story? i shall return to this question a bit later

CHARLIE BUCKET book charlie is sweet but looks like he was supposed to be an unpersonalized character so that every reader could associate him with themselves... so hes a bit bland and lacks some individuality imo :c sure we see his generosity (hes willing to share his chocolate with his starving family) and kindness (he's worried about what will happen to other kids - i almost cannot remember that in the movies) but through the course of the plot he does almost nothing but feeling qUeEr fEeLinGs about the wonders of the factory and not getting himself into trouble in the book there's no problem in bringing all charlie's relatives to the factory - so he doesn't face the dilemma of leaving his family to become the heir of the factory or staying with his loved ones. but in the movie that's a major problem and a whole new plotline! we can see charlie's doubts and insecurity, wonka's contradictive feelings taking him over, find out the reasons behind wonka's rejection of family - and it's charlie who helps him. this plotline is even more important for charlie's character development rather than wonka: we see charlie in action, we see how caring he is, how much he is willing to sacrifice for his family, see his sincere desire to help wonka feel happier... the final scene gives such a warm feeling it sends me to tears,,,,, finally willy wonka is not alone...

FINAL THOUGHTS speaking about the message of the story? i felt that the book told that one must be kind and generous to reach happiness? the movie sure has that idea too but it's sorta more focused on the importance of family and not being alone?" once again im unsure about the book :c tbh as the protagonist doesn't have much of a personality and actions, it seemed to me at times that the message is one must be rule-following and not getting into trouble ?? also replace tv and chewing gum with youtube and idk energy drinks - and it can easily turn into a conservative pamphlet on how the new generation is bad and amoral - but it doesn't seem like one thanks to the genius of roald dahl!! his manner of writing and sense of humour is fantastic so in conclusion i prefer the movie to the book (for the first time in my life ahhahha) but idk if they're actually worth being compared ... and of course i don't think the book is worse or anything - it's just not really my cup of tea i guess? though i still enjoyed it a lot and had a great time reading it ^^

thank you for attention!!! if you think i was wrong in some aspects feel free to correct me ,, and once again id like to remind that it's not some kind of analysis just my personal thoughts and feelings and it may differ from yours have a nice day!

#charlie and the chocolate factory #catcf #catcf 2005

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dudefrommywesterns · 2 years

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now that it's pretty late and less people are on here:

as we all know (if you've been here a minute), i prefer the 1971 adaptation of charlie and the chocolate factory to the 2005 one.

there are so many reasons for this i could write an essay. today, I'd like to focus on the characters themselves.

starting with charlie bucket, there isn't anything wrong with freddie highmore's portrayal. however, peter ostrum plays a charlie that connects better with the audience. he tends to make the audience want him to find a golden ticket, to win the prize. he comes off as a sweet kid who cares deeply for his family. he just wants something good to happen for himself and his family. i also think he and jack albertson (grandpa joe) do a grandfather-grandson in a very fun and believe way.

willy wonka: roald dahl wanted a brit for wonka. neither adaptation has that. I've never felt it was that big of a deal.

gene wilder's wonka is unnerving. however, he does it in a way that makes you question it, that makes the other characters question it. he seems outwardly to be fairly normal, if a bit eccentric. when he's really weird, it's a bit of a surprise. i will say, he's definitely a bit too sweet at the end perhaps.

depp's wonka is just weird. it's a wonder everyone didn't leave the minute they saw him. he talks like someone you should avoid like the plague. he doesn't lure anyone into a false sense of security at all. he might as well have a sign. also, his voice is uncomfortable to listen to and the dentist dad subplot is both really strange and really absurd. also, i think that there being a debate on whether charlie could take his family with him is equally strange and absurd. he's a kid. hello???

grandpa joe: i feel jack albertson does him better if only because he seems more grandfatherly to me. also, he does well with ostrum's charlie. 2005's grandpa joe is a bit forgettable. also, "I've got a golden ticket" is a lovely song and it has a slightly goofy but enjoyable scene to accompany it.

veruca salt: again, there's nothing wrong with 2005 here, as far as i can remember. however, i appreciate 1971 because while veruca is definitely bratty, she's somewhat good at faking a "sweet little girl" persona, which is highlighted in "i want it now." she loses her cool (because she is a kid) but is pretty quickly able to regain it. it explains why the salts act the way they do with her, in addition to being too spineless to discipline her. fave thing about 2005 though, the way that girl says "squirrel." I'll never forget that.

mr. salt: wh. why is 2005's like that? i don't like him. 1971's salt is at least a bit funny. "what business are you in, salt?" "nuts" is iconic. i only mentioned this parent because this one bugs me.

violet beauregarde: both are perfectly fine. i kinda dig 2005's peak 00s tracksuit. i will say, i think 1971's blueberry is better. it's more of a blueberry and less of a gigantic blue orange like 2005's. also i like practical effects.

augustus gloop: this character is a mess in general. however, i have some bones to pick with 2005 here. firstly, the fake red hair is ghastly. secondly, how come 1971 could get a real fat german kid and you couldn't? thirdly, what in the fuck is that intro scene? where are the gloops living? why does it look rat invested? jesus. i feel like he's more offensive. honestly 2005 is more offensive point blank.

mike teavee: so. this one's up to personal preference. both are good at what was being aimed for.

1971's mike is actually somewhat likable imo. he's not horrible. he's just a bit rambunctious and watches too much tv. he's very much a typical 11 year old boy. he should heed his mother but also, it's completely understandable that he'd see this cool contraption that could send people by television and want to use it. he's 11.

2005's is a very video game loving, destined to live and die in his mother's basement, calls you slurs on xbox live, little cunt. i would punt him into the sun. his vice isn't just that he watches to much tv, he's also a bigot and I'm upset because i had to hear the r slur while relooking these characters up. you know, this is the only 2000s media i ever heard that slur in. congrats burton, you've made a character that deserves the taffy puller.

oompa loompas: these characters are bad from the get go and I'm not the right person to speak on the race portion of it. the book is racist. whether this was better adapted by the 1971 one or 2005 one, if either, i have no right to say. as far as i can tell, 2005 leans more into the white savior narrative than 1971. feel free to weigh in on this portion if you'd like.

however, i think that it was better to have more than one person play the oompa loompas. 2005's one guy copypasted looks incredibly odd and takes away from the quality of the songs. it also takes away from the diversity that the 1971 oompa loompas have in height and body type and facial features. also, having more real people will always look better than editing one guy to be multiple guys.

#this is all my opinion and not statements of fact #obviously #typewriter dings

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thewickedharlot · 2 years

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LEAK: “Woke” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Reboot coming 2023

The news keep coming in today and while we’re sure there’s people that care about Sebastian Jones wondering about missing people in the United Kingdom, this is an actual big one: The cast list and concept art for a star-studded 2023 reboot of Roald Dahl’s iconic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been leaked by a trusted source.

It seems the new movie is going the typically “woke” route, changing the genders of Violet Beauregarde and Augustus Gloop, as well as featuring a nonbinary incarnation of Willy Wonka.

“They wanted to go a more mature, maybe even a little sexy way with this film. They aged up the cast and made sure to fit each of the main characters into the contemporary zeitgeist of the time we live in.”

The source continues: “Veruca Salt will be played by Essence Woods. Their incarnation of Veruca is a shallow influencer who only "does it for the gram”. Her “death” is going to be pretty gory as far as my knowledge goes, they want to play with the horror movie trope of the hand in the garbage disposal. I heard that Essence was very pleasant on set, but seemed very insistent on not showing the finished product to her daughter.“

"Violet Beauregarde is a guy named Beau Beauregarde played by Hiroki Hamada. They wanted someone who knows how to skate, because there’s going to be an Oompa Loompa chase scene on a skateboard. As far as I know they really wanted to lean into this subgroup of people online who have a fetish for the blueberry transformation scene so that one’s like ten minutes long. Hiro donated his paycheck to charity and just did this whole project for fun.”

“A really interesting casting choice was Preston Barlowe as Charlie Bucket. He’s a young drug dealer trying to make enough money to keep his grandpa, who’s in a coma, alive, so when he gets the golden ticket off a dead body in an alleyway, he sees it as this crazy jackpot moment. He’s in a love triangle with Veruca and Beau. I heard Preston only did it because Vincent thought it was too dark.”

“Cole Addams plays Mike Teevee, who, in this incarnation, is one of Charlie’s clients, which is why he’s so resentful of him. They also took that TV addiction from the original and turned it into a porn addiction. I don’t know what they’re gonna do to him once he’s shrunk down but I heard that it’s the reason the film’s getting an R rating. Cole was high off his ass all through filming, people thought he was just going method.”

“They made Augustus Gloop into a woman named Augustine Goosh, apparently a reference to Andrea Jensen’s twin sister or something? I don’t know. She doesn’t even really eat that much chocolate in the movie, her gluttony is mostly related to validation. She’s really annoying and constantly needs to be validated by everyone around her, which is why they throw her in the chocolate river, which is where she’s eaten by licorice piranhas. Candie Rose acted the shit out of her death scene, it really sounded like she was getting mauled to death.”

“And in a very interesting turn of events they decided to cast SAINT as Willy Wonka? They do a pretty good job in the role but I just know a lot of people are gonna drag the performance just because of the choice to make Wonka nonbinary. I do think they went too hard on the sexuality here and there, but it’s a solid performance and there’s a scene where they monologue for like 5 minutes washing their hair with chocolate - test audiences cried because it was so touching.”

Other roles have reportedly gone to Elsa Bergström as Augustine’s mother, Dominic Torres and Axel Parrish as Chris and Chros, two gay oompa loompas, Indie Hall as drug addict and Goosh Jensen as Scrungus, Wonka’s ex wife.

#breaking news #submission

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nalascat · 2 years

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verucastutu · 3 years

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emerald-wonka · 4 years

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I spend 100% of my day worrying about Violet Beauregarde.

#charlie and the chocolate factory #catcf #violet beauregarde #charlie and fhe chocolate factory the musical #im specifying musical violet here because shes a child who is famous on the internet so her parents can get rich #this is a real thing that happens.#IT HURTS SO MUCH AA #she's supposed to be a kid! she's supposed to grow up! but she had her competitive spirit turned against her and now shes just. an icon.#and not the good kind of icon.#anyway i worry about her a lot. the internet is horrible.

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You should dress as violet Beauregard

LOL. I've had quiet a few people suggest this one. I'm not into Blueberry inflation, but she's so iconic and it's a cute concept. More than a few times followers have called me the Violet of Donuts

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#35 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

“Everybody aboard, you’re going to love this, just love it.”

Both Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are on this list. This is the only instance that both the original and its remake are featured. These movies are based off of Roald Dahl’s novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and each change the original source material in its own way - Charlie by adding backstory to Wonka, and Willy Wonka by changing Wonka’s character into a deranged sadist that seems to take pleasure in torturing his guests. But we’re not there yet, let’s poke around in this world first before I rip into Wonka.

The Wonka Chocolate Factory is famous worldwide for their confectionary marvels. Children in Wonka’s hometown flock to Bill’s Candy Shop to check out Wonka’s latest creations, and Mr. Bill basically chucks it all at their face for free while singing a sort of creepy ditty about being a candy man.

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All I can think of when I watch this scene is how hopped up on sugar these child actors must have been.

Meanwhile, the hero of the story, Charlie Bucket (which is the best name for a character in all of literary history and gives Lazar Wolf a run for his money), comes from a poor family and can’t afford the admission to Mr. Bill’s Diabetes Deluge. If that weren’t enough disappointment, he also has to walk by Wonka’s factory, where he wistfully gazes through the gates at the building until a very ominous man with the best line delivery in the entire movie informs Charlie that “NoBoDy EvEr GoEs In AnD nObOdY eVeR cOmEs OuT”.

Charlie lives with his mother, a laundress, and his four invalid grandparents who haven’t left their iconic collective bed in twenty years. The novel itself is fairly low stakes, but does depict Charlie’s family’s position in life as wholly destitute. It describes how emaciated Charlie looked because he was a growing boy without food, and how selfless he was by refusing to eat his family’s portions when they were offered. I was thankful they decided not to translate these particular facts to film, but instead they removed the father character and forced Charlie to work to support his family, essentially robbing him of his childhood. Him and grandpa Joe even bicker because Charlie wants to step up and pay for his tobacco, which is a bizarre thing for a child to be forced to advocate for, even in the 1970s.

Charlie tells Grandpa Joe about his encounter with the weirdo in front of Wonka’s, and Grandpa Joe educates Charlie on the history of the factory. After Wonka discovered there were spies working for his competition getting intel from his factory, he fired all the workers and closed it off completely. In present day Wonka announces a competition - he has hidden 5 golden tickets in his Wonka bars, and the children who find them will win a lifetime supply of chocolate. Additionally, they will be allowed on the Wonka factory premises with Willy Wonka himself guiding them on a tour of his chocolate factory.

Charlie, of course, doesn’t have the money to purchase several chocolate bars, so he can only watch with envy as Augustus Gloop, a glutton, finds the first bar. The envious Veruca Salt, the daughter of a rich peanut factory owner, gets the second spot after her father forces his employees to deshell Wonka bars until a golden ticket appears. Golden ticket number 3 is found by the prideful and focused champion gum chewer Violet Beauregarde, and the fourth ticket is awarded to lazy and wrathful Mike TeeVee, who, as his namesake suggests, spends the majority of his time awake viewing the television and is subsequently obsessed with the firearms his favorite pictures feature.

The vignettes of people around the world trying to find the golden tickets are genuinely funny. Between a computer programmed to predict where the tickets are located telling its operator it won’t divulge that information because that would be cheating, to a woman debating if she really wanted to pay her kidnapped husband’s ransom with a case of Wonka bars, it does a great job at illustrating how Wonka-crazy the entire world was.

Charlie is despondent when the last golden ticket is found, but his luck almost immediately changes when he finds some money laying in the street. He goes to Bill’s to buy some candy, and on his way home with his new bounty, overhears the last ticket found was a fake. The concept of the forged ticket isn’t a feature of the book, but is a feature of the two movie adaptations. I’m positive its inclusion was intended to add a bit of drama into the story that has little conflict for Charlie other than his extreme level of poverty. To Charlie’s surprise, the Wonka bar he bought with his found money contains the last golden ticket.

On his way home he runs into Mr. Slugworth, the owner of another candy company, who asks Charlie to steal an everlasting gobstopper from Wonka in exchange for $10k. This is an insane amount of money for someone like Charlie, but he doesn’t seem to pay this offer much mind. When Charlie finally returns home to tell his family the good news, Grandpa Joe surprises everyone when he rallies enough to climb out of bed and waltz around the room to prove he’s fit enough to accompany Charlie on the tour.

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The morning of the tour, Charlie and the 4 other children arrive with their parent chaperones. Wonka welcomes them inside and forces them to sign a contract, which I assume absolves him of any wrongdoing in case anybody gets injured. Everybody acts as if contracts are a newfangled thing that only suckers agree to, but each of the children put ink to paper to allow themselves admittance to the factory. I’m not sure how legally binding an agreement with an underage child is, but it’s the 1970s, so who knows...

The factory itself is a maze of funhouse tricks, with each room designed to unsettle the guests a little more as they progress deeper into the building. Their discomfort is rewarded though when Wonka finally leads them into the chocolate room.

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Gene Wilder singing this song while baiting the kids with access to the room before almost hitting them with his cane is his entire character in a nutshell. Just a detached, wealthy company owner who likes to withhold joy from children under the threat of violence. For as much as I’ll quip about Wonka being kind of a terrible person, Gene Wilder is a fucking legend in this.

Also, the chocolate room looks so freaking awesome, especially considering these are practical effects paired with really good set design. While the chocolate river looks slightly... distasteful (and allegedly smelled terrible because the cream they mixed in it curdled), the rest of this is appetizing as fuck and I would have gone HAM in a room like this as a kid and ate jelly with my hands out of a bucket, too.

We’re then introduced to Wonka’s biggest secret - the Oompa Loompas, a race of people that Wonka literally upended for free labor in his factory under the guise of “rescuing” them from predators. What kind of white savior nonsense...

ANYWAY, while the guests are fascinated with Wonka’s workforce, Augustus decides to help himself to the contents of the chocolate river, falls in, and gets sucked up into a pipe that leads directly to the fudge room. The Oompa Loompas sing a song about not eating too much shit, and Wonka decides to hand wave this away and usher the rest of the group onto his boat for the next part of the tour.

The child actors apparently had no idea what was going to happen on this boat ride and their reactions of horror as Gene Wilder starts to manically sing is actually genuine. The mindfuck Willy Wonka subjects these poor people to really makes me wonder if they “won” anything.

The boat’s final destination is the invention room, where Wonka shows the kids his latest creation: the everlasting gobstopper. He makes them promise not to share it with anybody, and all the kids halfheartedly agree and take their ten thousand dollar candy. Wonka then taunts Violet with a stick of gum flavored like an entire 3 course meal, and she easily takes the bait.

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I love this Oompa Loompa song so much for the mere fact they’re rolling around a inert mannequin dressed to look like a human/blueberry hybrid.

One of the other major deviations from the book was the following scene where Charlie and his grandfather almost fucking get chopped to pieces by a ceiling fan because they sample some of Wonka’s fizzing lifting drink and float higher and higher into certain peril. They manage to escape this fate by burping their way back down and are not immediately caught by Wonka, but it makes Charlie as guilty as every other child who is on this factory tour. And what is he or any other child guilty of really? Not being able to restrain themselves from eating candy on a tour of a candy factory?

The other two children whose actual hubris get them in trouble are Veruca and Mike. Veruca tries to have her father buy a goose that lays golden eggs, which Wonka refuses to sell. Veruca throws a tantrum, and the egg quality control mechanism determines she’s a “bad egg” and drops into the garbage chute. The book has her try to buy a nut shucking squirrel, but I appreciate a good pun, so I’m fully on board with this change.

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Next, Mike TeeVee wants to be the first human to travel over television waves, and in turn gets shrunk to the size of Thumbelina. Again, can’t really fault a literal child for not having impulse control, or the critical thinking skills to understand the consequences of being disassembled and reassembled on a television screen. I mean, I can’t say I miss the violent brat, but I wouldn’t say his excessive viewing of television made him a dumb zombie who wanted to be a part of the picture.

With Charlie the only one left, he is then surprised when Wonka acts coldly toward him, decides not to give him the lifetime supply of chocolate. When pressed for a reason why he’s withholding Charlie’s bounty, Wonka gives him and Grandpa Joe an earful for drinking his fizzy lifting drink and smearing their dirty hands all over his sterilized environment. This incites Grandpa Joe, calling Wonka a crook and storming out of Wonka’s office and vowing to give Slugworth the everlasting gobstopper as revenge.

Yell at me more, candy daddy.

Charlie doesn’t feel the same way as his grandfather and gives the gobstopper back to Wonka before leaving. Wonka’s demeanor does a complete 180 and he tells Charlie he’s passed a test he didn’t know he was taking. They board the Wonkavator and thankfully don’t fulfill Wonka’s suicide pact by successfully launching the glass elevator out of the building. Once flying around outside, Wonka tells Charlie he’s won the grand prize - his entire chocolate factory. Not only that, but Wonka would also take care of Charlie’s family, lifting them out of poverty and ending their food insecurity. The end.

I know a lot of people around my age that absolutely love this movie, specifically Gene Wilder’s depiction of Willy Wonka, so it pains me to inform you that the author of the novel was less-than-pleased at this rendition of his tale, and also with Wilder’s interpretation of the titular character.

Wilder only accepted the role if the following scene of him faking out the children with a limp could be included, because it established that Willy Wonka could not be trusted. The movie’s portrayal of Wonka as a gaslighting daddy was I think where Roald took the most issue with it, and most likely why I, as a child, found it hard to connect to.

Willy Wonka is scary in this movie, like The Joker made for tater tots. He spends the entire factory tour traumatizing the children he invited there, and at the end of the movie screams at Charlie and his grandfather for drinking a beverage. When Charlie gives up the gobstopper, Wonka’s entire countenance changes, rewarding Charlie with the grand prize because he deems Charlie trustworthy. While they’re celebrating in the elevator, I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop. This happy Wonka is not the Wonka we've been witness to the last hour, so it’s hard as a viewer to let my guard down and take his offer at face value.

He hugs Charlie and offers him the world, but before then, Wonka doesn’t seem too particularly concerned with the children’s well-being. In fact, I’m not sure he even likes children? The only reason he wanted to bequeath his factory to one is because he’d easily be able to convince them to run it in a way that Wonka intended. No fully-formed brains adding new ideas or questioning processes, just unformed gray matter for Wonka to pump his influence into. And that’s not an issue with this adaptation, as the novel ends this way as well. But Slugworth and the gobstopper test are additions from the screenplay, presumably to prove the other children are unworthy of Wonka’s grand prize. Unfortunately, the side effect of this is making Wonka further look like a scheming dick.

I’m an old, curmudgeonly 30-something who feels no joy, so do not take my criticisms of the character of Willy Wonka as an indication of the quality of this movie. This is an excellent children’s story that inspires an excessive amount of imagination. It’s a world where your wildest candy dreams are a reality in Wonka’s factory. There’s also the added benefit of watching a bunch of wacky ways in which children could potentially mutilate themselves, but come out completely unscathed. Where I think it might fail is in its moral messaging on moderation - if you excessively eat chocolate, chew gum, demand things, or watch TV, bad things will happen to you. I don’t think any kid came out of this movie a better person, but I’m sure they had fun watching it.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will come later this week, god help me.

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