Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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do you know Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ???
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I think that it was much better than the original, it got into more detail and was quite a bit funnier
 
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I haven't seen the old one, but Johnny Depp kinda scares me. He seems so out-of-touch with reality that he can completely and totally take on the role of the person he's playing.
 
I have never seen the original film, and I hadn´t read the book before I saw this movie. But I really liked it :D
 
I liked the newer one better and the film is beautifully artistic because Tim Burton is the director!
Sophie Dahl said herself that her grandfather would have liked Tim's interpretation better because he did not like the original as they changed many, many things. Tim stuck purely to the book that Roald Dahl wrote.
Johnny Depp plays Willy Wonka perfectly he totally fits the part! :D
 
OK first of all...ALL REMAKES SUCK!
second... I am not dissing Tim burton but he and movies like that espechially a remake do not go together at all.
and thirdly...WE ALL KNOW JOHNNY DEPP IS NOT MENT TO PLAY WILLY WANKA!
 
I prefer Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, if only for Gene Wilder. He was a fantastic Wonka - Johnny Depp was merely weird and occasionally funny. It's all well and good that Sophie Dahl likes Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but I'm afraid the only thing that was better in the new one was the actor who played Charlie. The original Charlie was atrocious.
 
I liked the ORIGINAL because it stuck much closer to the book (YES the book!). But the modern new one was quite funny. One thing I dont get is, I think there are 2 Charlie books. This one and a sequel. Why did they make 2 Chocolate Factories and no sequel?
 
Personally, I can't choose a better of the two. Both had good things and both had bad things. I shall make a chart now and explain.

Original (Which was actually called 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory' for all of you who may not have known that :D )
Good
-It starred Gene Wilder. I mean, come on. He rocks!
-Personally, I think it had a cooler candy room. Everything was easier to identify as real food, instead of random bits of colorful twisty things.
- The characters we're more original. They played it near perfectly.

Bad
-The chocolate river looked red...that was pretty bad..
- They didn't have the edible grass, which I think was one of the coolest things there.
-They added the little hallway thing which ( if I remember right) wasn't in the book.

New one (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
Good
-I think Johnny Depp played Willy Wonka pretty well. I mean, yes he's very scary looking, but if you didn't go outside for almost a decade, wouldn't you be pale too? He's also much more funnier.
-The puppet show thing rocked. ^_^
-Tim Burton, though he may be a bit creepy, was a very good choice for director. He thinks outside the box of sanity and brings to life things we can only imagine.

Bad
-The kids weren't cast quite aswell as I would have hoped. I mean...Agustus was too cheerful...he's supposed to be a fat piggish kid, not a fat happy smiling all the time kid that haunts your dreams at night...
- I don't think Grandpa joe was casted well. but that's entirely my opinion.


If you look at it, the 2nd one was funnier, but The original rocked as well.
 
RazzyBekhee said:
Tim stuck purely to the book that Roald Dahl wrote.
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Um, no, he didn't.

Burton did great as far as the visuals were concerned, but he totally trashed the character of Willy Wonka. All that backstory about him being the son of a dentist who wouldn't let him have candy was completely made up for the film and it was stupid and unnecessary. In the book, Wonka is this very mysterious character who is zany and childlike and unpredictable and JOYful. In the movie he's nothing but creepy and depressing and the complete opposite of Dahl's intent. Sorry to disagree with his granddaughter, but I hate when Hollywood messes around with my favorite literature!

It's a shame because it COULD have been so great if they had just stuck with the original plot/theme instead of trying to cram in some moralistic "aren't families wonderful" thing.
 
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