Hello, Internet people. Today I want to talk to you about this movie, I must admit that I started watching it with panic, not fear, but panic 😂🤣 and of Dahl's books, this and Matilda are my favourites, plus Burton's film co-starring Johnny Deep is my favourite (also in fact the author of the book) and with the poor quality of the last films I've seen I was terrified that they would ruin my favourite character from the book 😥😂 so let's break this film down to see if I considered it a failure or not.

Hola, gente de Internet. Hoy quiero hablarles de esta película, debo admitir que empecé a verla con pánico, no miedo, sino pánico 😂🤣 y es que de los libros de Dahl, este y Matilda son mis preferidos, además la cinta de Burton coprotagonizada por Johnny Deep es mi preferida (también de hecho la del autor del libro) y con la calidad pobre de las últimas películas que he visto estaba aterrada de que arruinaran a mi personaje preferido del libro 😥😂 así que desglosemos este film a ver si la consideré un fracaso o no.

The cinematography is beautiful, with a colour palette that is quite striking and colourful (due to the candy theme, which is logical), and we also have the dull palette that represents the oppression of the workers, that is, the one seen when Wonka and his companions are working in the laundry. In the film there is a set of quite nice shots, most of them are wide and with little movement, there is one that includes lights and shadows at the same time in a quite artistic result of counter light.

Don't get me wrong, the story of the film is not bad and I don't mind musicals either, but there are details. The film starts with a young Wonka (we don't know if he is a teenager or a young adult) who is travelling around the world in search of exotic flavours and arrives in a city where the costs are quite high, which in a series of events, Willy runs out of money, Therefore somehow (you know I don't like spoilers so I won't give details) he ends up signing a contract to work, under exploitative labour conditions, trying to get out of this problem, Wonka discovers a network of corruption in the city, therefore he plans to destroy it with his friends while at the same time trying to succeed as a chocolate maker.

I like the clear criticism of the system and the corruption that exists in almost every country in the world, what we see in the film is a reflection of reality and I like the way of implementing it in the film as it is very clear but they give it a slight comic tinge to make it family friendly as it is a film aimed at all audiences, Also each of the hardships that poor Wonka goes through to achieve his dream, gives a little more realism to the final result of his story (an eccentric millionaire owner of the best candy factory) but that's where the details I told you about are:

When the film explores Willy's childhood... I feel it's very mediocre, let's say it's typical, he inherits the qualities of a relative (in this case his mother) he also inherits the dream, then the relative dies and that reinforces the idea, so as an adult, the protagonist struggles to achieve that dream until he does (it's something we already saw for example in The Princess and The Frog) it's an overused and very mediocre resource at this point.

In my favourite adaptation "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Willy's childhood is more significant, he is a boy whose father was a dentist and very strict who forbade him to eat sweets, however as time went by Willy revealed himself to his father and decided to forge his own path, So as a child he decided to leave home and start learning the trade until he perfected it and set up his own company, this Willy had a sad past, a childhood trauma and deprivation, besides being the eccentric chocolate maker, happy and retains the same sense of humour as in the book, he had nuances that made him more credible for a film adaptation. I know this is a separate film that has nothing to do with Burton's, but at least they should have given nuances to this Willy, it is a little more faithful to the book, yes, but the book is a fantasy story for children, it could only be done as it is if it were an animation, if you are going to make a live action, at least give it nuances to make the protagonist more realistic, otherwise it will feel strange or at least mediocre (which is what ended up happening).

With the above said, I am not saying that the actor did a bad job, it is more a script problem, Timothée was asked to do so and that is how he played it, he did not do it badly, he did what he was asked to do, when the character is not well developed in the script, the actor does what he can with what he has and that's it, but you can tell that he is a very good actor because he made Willy a lovable and noble character, and you could see the enthusiasm with which he did it.

Overall the performances are very good. The villains are good, especially Slugworth who is actually Willy's rival in the previous adaptations and sought to steal his recipes, I liked that this adaptation explores more of this character and makes him relevant.

I won't go on too much about this feature, the soundtrack is quite good (although in general I like it better in the 2006 film because the songs were funnier) the problem I have with this aspect is that it was practically a Hollywood rip-off because in the trailer nowhere does it show that the film is really a musical, and considering that musicals are not the favourites of the majority of the public, selling a film in that way would make people who don't like musicals spend their money to finally find out in the cinema that it is a musical and then get angry (it happened when I went to the cinema).

In my case I didn't care, but there were people who were annoyed watching the film to justify the money spent more than for any other reason.

And well, people, that's all for today's post, I hope you liked it. Thank you very much as always for supporting my work, I welcome new readers, I love you all very much, I send you a hug and I'll see you in another post.

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