by Flack » Wed Mar 23, 2022 8:12 pm
AArdvark wrote: Mon Mar 21, 2022 5:45 pm
Funny, as an adult there are some basic questions about parts of the movie that took away the wonder and magic that I experienced when seeing this for the first time. For instance, Wonka fired all his employees after his competitors kept sending in spies as workers to steal his secret recipes. He locked the gates and nobody goes in or out. This was explained by a street sweeper as Charlie looked in through said locked gates at the chimney with the light-up WONKA letters. Well, if Wonka fired all the local employees, what kind of tax incentives did he lose from the local government, huh? Ask yourself that! I feel like I'm going all Commander here. (verb-nouns! HA!!) Are the little orange people scabs?
Veruca Salt is a serious karen. Violet would make a good YouTube influencer. Mike Teevee is the ultimate consumer, Disney should be proud of him. Charlie's four aunts and uncles (that never get out of bed) are an economic drain on the family, they don't even get Welfare! I don't know about Britian's NHS policy regarding elder abuse but there's a good case for it here.
I loved that movie as a kid, and yeah, as an adult it falls apart under even the lightest scrutiny. I remember someone saying that it's both convenient and a little troubling that the Oompa Loompas had songs ready for each child's demise... like, either they were super good at improv, or they knew when each kid was going to "die." Of course Wonka said they didn't die, but Wonka said a lot of shit that wasn't true. I used to think Wonka had built a machine that converted children into Oompa Loompas.
In a world where baseball bats come with warnings not to hit people with them, I wonder what the court trials after that movie ended would look like. Like, there wasn't any railing or warning lines on the ground preventing ol' Mike TV from running up to the Wonkavision camera and demanding that the Oompa Loompas shrink and transmit him across the room. People have been fired for blogging about their coworkers. Can you imagine the liability involved with turning a customer into a blueberry?
The very, very first VHS tape we owned had a copy of Willy Wonka on it followed by Pete's Dragon. People use the phrase jokingly, but I literally wore that tape out watching those films as a kid. I occasionally rewatch watch them and with kid eyes they're still entertaining. With adult eyes, oof.
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Funny, as an adult there are some basic questions about parts of the movie that took away the wonder and magic that I experienced when seeing this for the first time. For instance, Wonka fired all his employees after his competitors kept sending in spies as workers to steal his secret recipes. He locked the gates and nobody goes in or out. This was explained by a street sweeper as Charlie looked in through said locked gates at the chimney with the light-up WONKA letters. Well, if Wonka fired all the local employees, what kind of tax incentives did he lose from the local government, huh? Ask yourself that! I feel like I'm going all Commander here. (verb-nouns! HA!!) Are the little orange people scabs?
Veruca Salt is a serious karen. Violet would make a good YouTube influencer. Mike Teevee is the ultimate consumer, Disney should be proud of him. Charlie's four aunts and uncles (that never get out of bed) are an economic drain on the family, they don't even get Welfare! I don't know about Britian's NHS policy regarding elder abuse but there's a good case for it here.
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I loved that movie as a kid, and yeah, as an adult it falls apart under even the lightest scrutiny. I remember someone saying that it's both convenient and a little troubling that the Oompa Loompas had songs ready for each child's demise... like, either they were super good at improv, or they knew when each kid was going to "die." Of course Wonka said they didn't die, but Wonka said a lot of shit that wasn't true. I used to think Wonka had built a machine that converted children into Oompa Loompas.
In a world where baseball bats come with warnings not to hit people with them, I wonder what the court trials after that movie ended would look like. Like, there wasn't any railing or warning lines on the ground preventing ol' Mike TV from running up to the Wonkavision camera and demanding that the Oompa Loompas shrink and transmit him across the room. People have been fired for blogging about their coworkers. Can you imagine the liability involved with turning a customer into a blueberry?
The very, very first VHS tape we owned had a copy of Willy Wonka on it followed by Pete's Dragon. People use the phrase jokingly, but I literally wore that tape out watching those films as a kid. I occasionally rewatch watch them and with kid eyes they're still entertaining. With adult eyes, oof.