FILM REVIEW: Wonka - thread
1964, Tokyo hosted the 18th Summer Olympics, we were nearly entering space, The Beatles were taking the US by storm, while race riots were ripping the US apart. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law, and a little book called Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryThe book discusses the power of imagination, innocence, greed, poverty vs wealth and the cautionary tale of unchecked desires.
Chocolate. Quaker Oats had the rights to make the film because they wanted to get into the chocolate business. It is such a good idea to change the film’s name, because of branding.Fast forward to 2005 and they re-adapted the book for the Tim Burton version ofwhich had Johnny Depp in the Wonka role. It received very mixed reviews and Deep was seen as being very strange.which is a prequel to one, some, or all of those stories. Timothee Chalamet is playing the titular Wonka role.
This is not one of those films, Wonka doesn’t change but he helps change those people around him who ultimately grow and succeed or don’t change, and fail.