Images from Willy Wonka
Images are cool. The comments, however, are yet more evidence for why I hate 99.7% of the internets.
This movie (called
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
a title that contains neither the word "Willy" nor the word "Wonka") is NOT, repeat NOT, a remake of the Gene Wilder film
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
It is (supposedly) a more faithful, non-musical (at least I think so), far more creepy-atmospheric adaptation of the BOOK. The famous book by the author Roald Dahl. Who was justfiably disappointed in the original movie, which was NOT his book, at least in feel.
I love that the kids actually are young. I think they were like 8-11 or so in the books, and the kids in the original look too old.
t bounces with Jilli over Johnny Depp goodness
And my Veruca looks so awesome!!!! I must squeeze and love her.
NOWWWWW
Ooh. Elektra looks really cool.
Jennifer Garner is pretty. And cool.
I like the original movie. Gene Wilder, pretending to be benevolent, and actually being creepy as fuck.
I love the original movie. It's a slasher flick.
Oh, random
Incredibles
comment: Anyone else catch
the license plate of the police car in the opening chase scene? KR-54.
Gene Wilder, pretending to be benevolent, and actually being creepy as fuck.
"Oh, you can't go back. You have to go forward, if you want to go back..."
I also dispute the notion that Gene Wilder's peformance is anything other than both warm and sinister. His slow, staggering, creepy entrance. His creepy little psychedelic song when they're on the boat and "there's no way of knowing / which way we're going"; his casual disregard for the well-being of the kinder, his explosive rage at Charlie to test him at the end with the gobstopper.
I also dispute the notion that Gene Wilder's peformance is anything over than both warm and sinister.
I agree that it's both, but I kept feeling that one was a cover for the other. And you aren't supposed to be able to figure out which is which.
From the freaky mammajamma front -- I liked Forever Amber. Mainly because Linda Darnell is an excellent Amber (more because of presence than acting ability). But it'd be interesting to see what could be done with the story today -- because a lot of the novel just couldn't be put on the screen in the 1940s.
