Okay, blogging every Monday is turning out to be difficult! Okay, here we go. Today's movie is a double feature.
In 1964 Roald Dahl wrote a little book called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, about a boy named Charlie Bucket and his adventures in the fantastic candy factory of the strange and mysterious Willy Wonka. I'm sure you've heard of it. Lots of other movies have been made from Mr. Dahl's books--but I'll save those for other blog entries.
So far, there have been 2 movies based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. And there seems to be a lot of controversy about which is better/more scary. My favorite is the original movie that came out in 1971 starring Gene Wilder called Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Other people prefer the new movie starring Johnny Depp Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Personally I think Depp (though I love him) is a creepier Willy Wonka. Also, he doesn't sing. I have a problem with that. But that's just my opinion...
As with all movies based on books, both of these films deviate from many parts of the original text. Willy Wonka doesn't go into detail about the fates of the bad children, the geese and golden eggs don't exist in the book, and Charlie doesn't misbehave in the book. In Johnny Depp's version, we learn a lot more about Willy Wonka's history, and many things are updated to be more modern (Tommy Teavee is also obsessed with video games and the internet, when such things didn't exist yet when the book was written). However, as usually happens, they are still great movies on their own.
Also, my month without desserts/sweets is almost at an end*, thus the candy themed blog post. Thanks for reading! Let me know which Chocolate Factory movie is your favorite in the comments!
DFTBA,
Sti
*I gave up desserts for the month of July, I'm not quite sure why. So if you want to bring me sweets in August I will thank you most profusely :)
In 1964 Roald Dahl wrote a little book called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, about a boy named Charlie Bucket and his adventures in the fantastic candy factory of the strange and mysterious Willy Wonka. I'm sure you've heard of it. Lots of other movies have been made from Mr. Dahl's books--but I'll save those for other blog entries.
So far, there have been 2 movies based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. And there seems to be a lot of controversy about which is better/more scary. My favorite is the original movie that came out in 1971 starring Gene Wilder called Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Other people prefer the new movie starring Johnny Depp Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Personally I think Depp (though I love him) is a creepier Willy Wonka. Also, he doesn't sing. I have a problem with that. But that's just my opinion...
As with all movies based on books, both of these films deviate from many parts of the original text. Willy Wonka doesn't go into detail about the fates of the bad children, the geese and golden eggs don't exist in the book, and Charlie doesn't misbehave in the book. In Johnny Depp's version, we learn a lot more about Willy Wonka's history, and many things are updated to be more modern (Tommy Teavee is also obsessed with video games and the internet, when such things didn't exist yet when the book was written). However, as usually happens, they are still great movies on their own.
Also, my month without desserts/sweets is almost at an end*, thus the candy themed blog post. Thanks for reading! Let me know which Chocolate Factory movie is your favorite in the comments!
DFTBA,
Sti
*I gave up desserts for the month of July, I'm not quite sure why. So if you want to bring me sweets in August I will thank you most profusely :)
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