candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker

[kindkit]

I watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory tonight, because I adore Gene Wilder.

What a peculiar movie. I can't imagine anything like it being made today. Was the recent-ish remake awful? I'll bet it was. I'll bet they started by turning Charlie from a sweet gentle boy into a rebel with an attitude.

Anyway, I kept feeling like behind the random moralizations and the tacked-on feel-good ending, there was a dark, strange, perverse story lurking, that we see only glimpses of.

Naturally I went to the AO3 looking for fic. Oh dear. I didn't even read any of it, and I still want brain bleach. These were not the dark, strange, perverse stories I was looking for.

Comments

[lilacsigil]

I didn't like the recent remake though the kids and Grandpa Joe were completely fine - unfortunately they cast Johnny Depp as Wonka and he was doing the same act he always does now. And they gave him a pointless backstory with Christopher Lee as his dentist father.

[frayadjacent]

I have the sense of humour of a twelve year old, so I sorta liked the dentist thing even though it was weird and out of left field. And that was, what 2005, so I also liked Johnny Depp's Johnny Depp schtick back then. But I'd hate it now.

[lilacsigil]

I didn't see it in the cinema but a few years later so I'm guessing I had become sick of the Depp Thing by then!

[frayadjacent]

Haha, your taste improved more rapidly than mine then. :)