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Following more closely to a book means crap to me.
I was having this discussion with someone the other day. Why not? It was originally a book. It wasn't originally a movie starring Gene Wilder. Following more closely to the book means following more closely to the original message, means being more faithful to original intent, which in my eyes usually means better. The book is far superior to either of these movies, but as a representation of the novel (and imo as a film,) the Buron version is better.
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Gene Wilder is Willy Wonka, the curly hair, the boyish grin, the madness sitting behind the eyes.
No, I'm afraid Gene Wilder is not Willy Wonka. Willy Wonka is Willy Wonka, and only Roald Dahl knows what or who he really was, and maybe he himself didn't really know. Gene Wilder poisoned your mind into thinking that he was Willy Wonka, but he was really just Gene Wilder. He didn't even do that much acting, he just played the kind of part that I think Gene Wilder kind of plays. "The curly hair?" I'm not sure what it says in the book about Wonka's hair, but curly hair does not a character make. And the boyish grin? Does Depp never grin in his incarnation? Or is it not boyish enough for you? What is the problem exactly?
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The sets actually seemed cooler and more creative in the original.
I can't see how you think that's possible. The chocolate river in the older film does not look like chocolate. It looks orange. They flew around in an glass elevator in this one and passed by a lot of really cool stuff in this one. And the sets were real. There were no green screens, it was all real.
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The addition of back stories detracted from the focus. I don't want to know why Wonka's a madman but i do want him to be a madman and not just a cook with weird hair. It was already a creepy movie, and even more so because of the time it was made... this one just feels forced, uncreative and dated.
The addition of the back story was something I thought I'd have a big problem with going into it, but I just found it really funny when Depp floated off into a flashback and forgot where he was and just started thinking about Daddy. I enjoyed that a lot more than Wilder's "curly hair."