☆ CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
i saw charlie and the chocolate factory today and i was a little disappointed. it just seemed a little stilted and flat. johnny depp seemed to not quite know where he was going with the film. the voice he used kinda bugged me. and his hair? what was happening there?
and this makes me sad because i thought that both burton and depp could have done better. something just wasn't quite right about depp's version of wonka and i was hoping for something a little more dark, a little more weird.
the setting was great. i liked burton's factory much more than the original. the sound track was pretty good too
the original film is playing in the background and it's helped me put my finger on what got to me about the new version.
it is all around willie wonka as a character. in the older version wilder's character is so much more diverse than depps character. wilder is fun, serious, certain, uncertain. he seems to be both in control of the factory but equally not in control of it (think the boat ride in particular)
depp is the same the whole way through the film. a seemingly bipolar prozac taker bouncing around but really cynical and cold the whole way through the film. depp is far nastier. he doesn't want to know the children, where wilder already knows all about them. depp seems disgusted by them, wilder is impartial to them.
i like burton's boat more than the original one. and for some reason it's verca's mother who attends, not her father like in the wilder one. oh and what happened to the fizzy lifting drink?
and this makes me sad because i thought that both burton and depp could have done better. something just wasn't quite right about depp's version of wonka and i was hoping for something a little more dark, a little more weird.
the setting was great. i liked burton's factory much more than the original. the sound track was pretty good too
the original film is playing in the background and it's helped me put my finger on what got to me about the new version.
it is all around willie wonka as a character. in the older version wilder's character is so much more diverse than depps character. wilder is fun, serious, certain, uncertain. he seems to be both in control of the factory but equally not in control of it (think the boat ride in particular)
depp is the same the whole way through the film. a seemingly bipolar prozac taker bouncing around but really cynical and cold the whole way through the film. depp is far nastier. he doesn't want to know the children, where wilder already knows all about them. depp seems disgusted by them, wilder is impartial to them.
i like burton's boat more than the original one. and for some reason it's verca's mother who attends, not her father like in the wilder one. oh and what happened to the fizzy lifting drink?
