[ SECRET POST #2727 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2727 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Gene Wilder, for a variety of reasons. I prefered his Wonka, the distance and more adult behaviour (for given values of 'adult', admittedly) made him more intimidating and bizarre, while Depp's Wonka was so snidely childish without the aloof veil that I just wanted to punch him. I also loved the old version's 'Slugworth' and the guy who played him, and his random quoting of William Allingham's "The Faeries" in a dark alley helped start my fascination for faerie stories. I kind of prefered the old version's Charlie, too, because he felt slightly more real? They went a bit more overtly fairy-tale for the newer version's, and I'm not sure it worked as well. Not just on Charlie, either, the old film was much more grounded in the 'real' world than the new, which went much more for Burton's 'skewed fairy tale' formula (I still remember that the odd comment about the guy in Paraguay faking his ticket in the old film made me start trying to look up places like Paraguay to figure out why they were apparently so suspicious).

Some of this is almost certainly nostalgia speaking, some of it is based on which characters grated on me more, and some of it is to do with the completely different feels they went for (real-ish world morality tale vs manic skewed fairy tale).

I don't really compare either of them to the book, mostly because with the book it was primarily the sequel, Great Glass Elevator, that stuck with me, and the grandparents' misadventures in aging while zooming around time and space with a madman in a glass elevator ... Now why does that sound familiar?