Charlie
August 9th, 2005 | Published in general | 17 Comments
Why Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Is In Fact A Bollywood Movie
- There are dance sequences.
- There are as many dance sequences in the movie as a Bollywood film.
- The people (or rather, person) in the dance sequences are the same people all throughout, and they’re lip synching.
- Dr Wilbur Wonka is such a typically Indian father. “No son of mine shall be a chocolatier..” But Willy, the quiet kid with a repressed talent, chooses to follow his heart, to devastating effect.
- Even the Oompa-Loompa is Indian, played by the actor, Deep Roy. He plays all the Oompa-Loompas in the movie. (Cue for Good Gracious Me-esque: “Superman is Indian - only in India does a man have to have two jobs! Clerk and superhero!”)
Why the Chocolate Factory Visit Take Place In America
The most litigious people in the world would have a field day, what with children falling into chocolate rivers and turning into blueberries. Willy Wonka Inc. would have to settle so many suits, but all Mr Depp can say to that will be, “You’re all mumbling, I’m afraid I don’t understand you.”.
Best Line Ever In A Movie So Far
Willy Wonka: “During my semi-annual hair cut… [I realised I need].. a hair.”
August 9th, 2005 at 3:17 am (#)
CATCF…a Bollywood movie?? Oh good lord.
The movie did stay rather true to the novel, in which Wonka did tell one of the kids, particularly the tv-addict Mike Teeve a few times to ’stop mumbling’.
August 9th, 2005 at 8:31 am (#)
Goodness Gracious Me is hillarious! The jokes started to get stale towards the end, which I suppose was the reason why it lasted only 3 seasons.
August 9th, 2005 at 10:22 am (#)
I enjoy watching Johnny Depp though and the Oompa-Loompa. I can’t remember the contents of the book but everything is really pointless in the movie.
August 9th, 2005 at 2:55 pm (#)
correction: “…i need a heir!’
August 9th, 2005 at 3:30 pm (#)
Z, you really got to log out of my account on your browser… keep posting as me. Makes me seem a bit psycho, talking to myself through my comments!
August 9th, 2005 at 7:19 pm (#)
hahaha. thank you for that post. that was great. i thought the oompaloompa-deep-roy guy was the same as the one who played pondicherry, but i was wrong, in the horrible way that ang mohs think all east asians look alike, and so on.
August 9th, 2005 at 10:56 pm (#)
you are psycho wat.
;)
August 10th, 2005 at 3:31 am (#)
hell yeah the ooompa looompa guy rocked. you’ve gotta love a face like that!
August 10th, 2005 at 8:57 am (#)
i just bought the goodness gracious me dvd boxed set. hours of entertainment i say!
oh, and although i haven’t watched the movie in it’s current incarnation, the 1970s movie had a good 10 minute bit in which the kids had to sign damage waivers.
August 10th, 2005 at 4:15 pm (#)
you are SO right! i was thinking that too when the oompaa loompas were prancing around! the guy even looked somewhat indian.
maybe time burton was indian in his past life. O_O
August 10th, 2005 at 5:10 pm (#)
Q: Heh, this whole bollywood thing actually started from Z’s observation!
August 10th, 2005 at 11:43 pm (#)
I enjoyed the chocolate smell that was wafting throughout the whole cinema though…
August 11th, 2005 at 12:53 am (#)
Cinema tickets are soring like Indian coconut trees and poor students like me can’t afford to watch movies any more.
August 12th, 2005 at 2:07 pm (#)
i thought/recall a goodness gracious me episode that went something like “why is superman an indian, because he can run faster than a locomotive”
August 12th, 2005 at 5:13 pm (#)
“because only in india can a man run faster than a train!”
August 13th, 2005 at 10:25 am (#)
lol that’s it… gee you’re a fan of that series huh!
August 15th, 2005 at 9:58 pm (#)
i thought he said, “i need an heir”?