When you were a kid, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was closer to ___ for you
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Fantasy. *Charlie* and the Chocolate Factory on the other hand, where WW is a psychopath played by Johnny Depp... more like a comedy. Def the better version.
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The beauty of Dahl’s stories is that the were at the same time and almost in equal parts horror and fantasy
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My mom (a 1st grade teacher) worshiped Dahl; read me the books before I saw any films; took the time to explain to little me how movies & books could be very different. The book is more of a horrorshow than the Gene Wilder film, but the latter is still horrific in its own right.
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Horror until the beautiful redemption at the end. To this day I can't watch that film or Wizard of Oz, but I tear up at the end of Willy Wonka.
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legit took me a second to figure out why anyone would find the movie scary
kid me was easily frightened, but *i* wasn't about to enter heaven and then immediately start *breaking clearly stated rules* so it didn't seem scary
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