Taika Waititi to Tackle 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' for Netflix - Example #8092 on how creatively bankrupt the entertainment industry is

[Alex Krycek]

It's a sad world we live in when the Tim Burton version becomes the second best version of the Charlie and the chocolate factory story. I'll take creepy daddy issues bordering on pedo Willy Wonka over whatever the hell Hollyweird is gonna do to butcher this story AGAIN.

Just wait until they make Friday the 13th about a bunch of Genderqueer faggots and we find out Jason’s mom was like a Nazi or something and he doesn’t manage to kill any of them, only like rural townspeople and the sheriff and they beat Jason through the power of love and friendship.

In all seriousness the one with Gene Wilder was my absolute favorite film as a child and I still really enjoy it for its music and the story isn’t terrible. “A World of Pure Imagination” was a great song when I was a kid. The gags in the movie are classic, the visuals on that ferry ride are still beautiful and haunting. I watched the Tim Burton version and while I didn’t hate it, and it’s closer to the book in some ways, I think I was just too set on the early Willie Wonka stuff. I don’t even care if this isn’t like a super woke remake. I’m not going to like it simply because nothing about it will match what I remember from childhood or even come close even if it’s just a light hearted retelling or reimagining of the characters.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

But that nigga Grandpa Joe, he's fucking sick only until Charlie gets that Golden Ticket. That freeloader!

There was also four old people sharing a bed together an no implied hanky panky going on. This movie takes place in a world run by kid logic. Of course the old man can will himself out of bed magically for Charlie's sake. Of course Charlie gets the Golden Ticket and just so happens to live in the same town as the Wonka factory. Of course Wonka can have a tribe of little orange men who can reproduce without females. It's not until you get older that you start to go "Hmmmmm...."

 

[AnOminous]

I've always found that phenomenon of authors disliking great film adaptations of their works odd, same deal with Stephen King and The Shining.

I think with King it was personal. How Kubrick treated his self insert character was closer to King than his idealized version of himself and I don't think he liked what Kubrick teased out of his book.

I think Dahl would just have hated nearly anything done with his work in the same way that other misanthropic oddball genius creators like Alan Moore would. His opinion was he'd done it perfectly already and anything other than that was going to fall short of his standards.

 

[Fluoxetine Man]

Or make them white kids painted blue like this

Christ almighty, I remember seeing this in highschool around 2003...fuck I'm old.

I've always found that phenomenon of authors disliking great film adaptations of their works odd, same deal with Stephen King and The Shining.

Jealously perhaps? I heard the guy who wrote The Prestige prefers the movie to his book.

 

[Doug_S1]

Usually Hollywood directors/producers are arrogant enough to think they are smarter than the source material. Time after time they've been proven wrong. Hopefully Waititi realizes this.

 

[Munchingonfish]

I hope Wilma performs Soundcloud emo rap.

 

[spencer reid]

Don't think anyone asked for this, the previous move is fine and doesn't need a remake. He does better on independent, niche work.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I think with King it was personal. How Kubrick treated his self insert character was closer to King than his idealized version of himself and I don't think he liked what Kubrick teased out of his book.

That is what he says, but I wonder how much of it is simply ego.

The Shining movie is a masterpiece, one of the best horror movies of all time and easily tops the original novel, which very few King adaptations do, and on top of this Stephen King himself would not be quite as much of a household name as he is today if his name was not attached to it which elevated his overall profile, if people over time didn't have such an accessible "in" to his work with The Shining movie, which kept him in the spotlight after his initial 70s and 80s heyday.

I could be wrong of course, but I feel like it might sting to have one of your works topped so well and know a big part of your profile is due to it.

 

[Inventor of the Telephone]

Jewish director Taika Waititi adapting anti-Semite Roald Dahl’s work is perfect

Netflix just announced that the Academy Award-winning Maori-Jewish filmmaker Taika Waititi will write, direct and executive produce two series based on the work of author Roald Dahl for the streaming platform. The first is a series based on “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” and another...

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Netflix just announced that the Academy Award-winning Maori-Jewish filmmaker Taika Waititi will write, direct and executive produce two series based on the work of author Roald Dahl for the streaming platform. The first is a series based on “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” and another focusing specifically on the Oompa-Loompas.

This was easily the best news of the week. It’s not just that Taika Waititi is an incredibly talented filmmaker. It’s not just that his trademark dark, quirky humor makes him a perfect fit for this project. It’s not just that Waititi’s work always manages to be moving and delightful.

No, what really makes this project exciting is that it would totally have pissed off Roald Dahl.

In case you weren’t aware, Roald Dahl was an anti-Semite. And not a subtle one. In a 1983 interview with the New Statesman, Dahl stated, and I quote, “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”

Oh, and in case you thought this was a one-time oops, he did clarify again with the Independent, just before his death in 1990, that he really, really hated Jews. In the interview, he describes himself as anti-Semitic, and states, “There aren’t any non-Jewish publishers anywhere, they control the media – jolly clever thing to do – that’s why the president of the United States has to sell all this stuff to Israel.”

Just so we’re clear: He was proud of it. He never apologized. He went to his grave believing that Jews control the media and that Hitler “didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”

 

[Big Bad Wart]

another focusing specifically on the Oompa-Loompas.

Why tho?

 

[Inventor of the Telephone]

Here's hoping the Ooompa-Loompa show will be about them overcoming white supremacy to free themselves from the shackles of a Hitleresque Willy Wonka.

Also Charlie must be short for Charlene, who will be an obese black transsexual of about 40 years of age.

 

[Minister Burroughs]

Well Dahl was right. Whaddya know, another titan of industry being debauched postmortem for disliking God's chosen.

 

[Preferred Penne]

Here's hoping the Ooompa-Loompa show will be about them overcoming white supremacy to free themselves from the shackles of a Hitleresque Willy Wonka.

Also Charlie must be short for Charlene, who will be an obese black transsexual of about 40 years of age.

Orange Men Good?!

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Chocolate is for BLACK KIDS ONLY!!!!

 

[Inventor of the Telephone]

Sorry, there is already thread for this, I didnt even notice the 'similar threads' feature:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/taika-...-and-the-chocolate-factory-for-netflix.66980/

I cannot delete it, so now there is only suffering.

 

[A Pox]

Nothing says "the jews don't control pedoweird and the hate against them is unjustified" like assigning a member of the tribe to defile a dead man's work for something he said 30 years ago

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

So I read article linked in the main post...the one about Roald Dahl's supposed antisemtitism. Suffice it to say, I'm going to check myself into the nearest hospital for chemotherapy for my newly acquired stage 4 cancer.

Here's just a snippet of some of the cringe...

And at the bottom of the page we're delighted to this little gem...

I didn't bother reading that Beyonce article, since there's only so much cancer I can tolerate in a day.

Here's the article's author: look her up on social media at your own risk...

 

[Richard Harrow]

Is this kinda like when Jordan Peele does Lovecraft shit? Lovecraft wasn't exactly known for his love and affection for the Sons of Ham.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Where's the lie in either of his comments though?

I don't think one can really deny a "kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews" in the modern world.

That said I feel like Taika Waititi will probably do something better with Charlie and The Chocolate Factory than Tim Burton.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Do we really need a third live action version?