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Jul 19, 2005 17:16

Brazil trip confirmed- I should be leaving on August 12th and returning on August 29th which Means Kaveh has plenty of time to bring his ass back to NY for a glassjaw show on the 30th, so K what is good? Are you too fly or too shy for this show ( Read more... )

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anonymous July 19 2005, 23:11:00 UTC

Ok yo, you know i don't mean this as gloating but man, i told you so! (regarding Willy Wonka) shit - how could you not tell from the commercial that it was gonna be f-ed up. Johnny Depp acting like some weird ass socially phobic pervert with a 5 year old's voice??? This is the same Willy Wonka that braves jungles and saves Oompa Loompas from Vermicious Knids while running a successful and secretive business? Your points about the first one were excellent though - things I didn't even realize about it that were implicit in my loving the movie.

From what I saw from the trailers, I really thought that Depp's portrayal (and I'm not sure how much of it was Burton's influence) was going to be the main thing to muck up the movie. I guess I won't know for a while until I somehow get to see it for free.

I can't make it to the GJ show - no loot + would probably die from travelling again - and what sucks even more is that i'll be missing the one in CA too cuz i'll be heading to france during that time.

anonymous July 20 2005, 13:27:42 UTC

I feel I must weigh in on this Willy Wonka discussion. First, I completely agree Johnny Depp cannot touch Gene Wilder, and in fact, Depp's performance (a strange Michael Jackson hybrid) was one of the main disappointments for me in this movie but, I was able to look past that and really enjoy the flick. I thought the Oompa Loompa's were awesome as were their songs, which were reminscent of 1930's musicals and you know you can't go wrong there. As for the emotional content, Charlie Bucket and his entire family are the emotional center of this movie and while he does win the factory by default, he does not accept it by default. In the end it is his love and loyalty to his family and theirs for him that allows him to join Wonka in the Chocolate Factory. I agree that the moral lessons taught visa-a-vie the "bad" children in the first film are diluted in this version however, it seems that the true lesson Burton wants to convey is the importance of family. That theme leads us to Wonka's reconciliation with his father and also explains why ( ... )