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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $14.99 You Save: $4.99 Features • AC-3 • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • Special Edition • NTSC In Theaters : 30 June, 1971 DVD Release : 21 June, 2005 |
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Full Screen Special Edition) description Having proven itself as a favorite film of children around the world, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is every bit as entertaining now as it was when originally released in 1971. There's a timeless appeal to Roald Dahl's classic children's novel, which was playfully preserved in this charming musical, from the colorful carnival-like splendor ... review details |
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| This movie is intensely uneven; 85% is the most fantastic cinematic experience ever bar none. 15% is painfully sappy musical. What is even more amazing than the unevenness is that the Depp remake is half much more literal and faithful to the book, and half completely invented new plot, with one cheap gag worthy of the Zucker brothers (the "flags of all nations" exhibit). What is it about this fantastic work that means that people get most of the way there and then go insane? Could it be that the themes touch too deeply inside us?
Although Depp's performance is also magnificent, Gene Wilder really IS Wonka in a deep (not Depp) way. And he delivers the key lines that get across the film's main lessons...perfectly. He even pulls off a song ("Land of pure imagination") in a way that is touching, dramatically balanced, and empirically justified. And the main lesson comes across: Candy is to children as dreams are to adults. And candy is all about purity--the children are weeded out because they bring greed and selfishness to the realm of candy making. The movie has more of a concession to our wishy-washy morality than Dahl's book (he was never one to shy away from the gruesome death and mutilation of those who deserved it), in that everyone is supposed to turn out all right, but the comeuppance is still a severe one: thou shalt not lie, at least within the candy factory. For a long time I was troubled by the fact that the film makers introduced this gratuitous scene in which Charlie and his grandpa broke the rules themselves. The whole point of the original was that there were two kinds of kids, bad and good. Charlie was good, so he gets the factory. End of story. If he is also bad, what's the point? Although I still think it led to cinematic weakness, on a moral level, I think that this concession to reality was important. It reminds us that even the heroes, even those who really do care about the miracle of candy, can make mistakes, they can break the rules. Unless you're going to live your life like some nerdy Oompah-Loompah, you've got to make some tough decisions. In a world in which some guy wielding crazy knives can threaten you, maybe you should at least hedge your bets and tell Slugworth you might have something for him. At least, if he promises to get the knife sharpener off your back. [16] |
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