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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Rest in peace, Roald

Apparently Roald Dahl's spirit was cursed to forever walk the earth until someone made a film version of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" in which a Michael-Jacksonesque Willie Wonka speaks the line "Don't touch that squirrel's nuts." Based on a recent viewing of the trailer for Tim Burton's latest offering, I see this has come to pass. It's high time someone brought a touch of class to this classic children's story, after that horrible, charmless, low-brow, cynical Gene Wilder vehicle so many of us choked down in our youth. I just hope they managed to work an "American Idol" parody in somehow.


posted at 1:15 AM

2 Comments:

Blogger syp said...

And are those fake teeth on Johnny Depp? They frighten me. I refuse to see this version. I know it makes me seem intransigent and and old fuddy duddy, but how can you beat the original? And where was the squirrel?

June 21, 2005 1:53 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm personally a huge fan of the original 1971 movie, and especially the irony that the guy who played Charlie is now a dentist. I own a copy, in fact (VHS, haven't got around to DVD on that one yet), and have watched it as an adult a few times. It's definitely campy, but I like a lot of the songs -- especially "Pure Imagination," "Cheer up Charlie," and the Oompa Loompa songs -- and Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka is perfect. I especially love the little asides that he throws out, sometimes in other languages, so quickly that even after watching the movie a few times you don't necessarily catch them all. The scene in Wonka's office near the end of the movie is a classic in my opinion, and could not be improved upon, especially the way Wilder's hand moves over and covers the everlasting gobstopper when he realizes that Charlie can in fact be trusted to run the factory. Seeing the TV ads for the new "improved" version kind of makes me sick -- you can spot the computer animation a mile away and why should Wonka be feminized to such an extreme? And can Johnny Depp do a falling summersault?

June 22, 2005 11:31 PM  

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