> Roger Day wrote:
> > Gene Wilder was the best Wonker. Swords at dawn to any who say otherwise.
> Agreed. The Tim Burton remake was a terrible disappointment. Interesting
> in its own way, up to a point, but in too much of a hurry to import its
> own Burton-branded weirdness into the story, and missing the
> fundamentally more subversive weirdness that was already there (and that
> the Wilder version was much more keyed into).
Yes, I think you've put your finger on it there Dominic.
*And* they screwed around with the storyline!
Besides, it's Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka that gets the reruns in our house
(kids 11 and 8). And the books, of course.
Speaking of kids programmes, has anyone seen something called
"Grisly Tales". English, pulls no punches, nasty kids get their
comeuppance in horrible ways. Highly amusing.
Janet
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Bono
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