...this hardly ever comes up. Damn Tim Burton for making a new version of the most traumatic movie I watched as a child.
True Confessions: I am frightened of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
In the past year as more and more hype has been building and more and more people have been talking about the movie. I haven't been able to avoid it.
When I was a kid I watched Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and it terrified me. I have been able to deduce the reason why (apart from the fact that Gene Wilder is a sinister man and the music is all freaky-deaky): I watched it at a tender age when I didn't really understand live action movies. I watched it believing that all the kids were good and were being punished by evil adults after eating candy.
I liked eating candy. I didn't want freaky shit to happen to me after eating candy. I didn't like the idea that the kids were going to be dumped in the rubbish. It freaked me out!
Now obviously, everyone chants to me "But those kids were BAD!"
When I originally watched it I didn't get that. I simply didn't have the faculties to understand that some of the kids were good and some bad. I was looking at it with cartoon based understanding of: all kids good, all adults bad.
So, to this day when I watch any part of that original movie I get queasy sick feelings in my stomach. I get a disturbed/uncomfortable feeling like I'm watching innocent, defenseless kids being bullied and I don't like it.
Amphigori actually made the new version sound good to me and maybe someday I'll watch it. I don't think I can bear to see it at the movies though. I need a safer environment.
Point of Fashion: back in my new boots
Current Obsession: everyone wants me to see Wille Wonka for some reason.