Modern Wonka Doesn't Work
WONKA Official Trailer (2023)
and this is how I learned there's a new willy Wonka movie
Ash!!1
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Ash!!1
Jack saints essay is real good
unlawful rping
I saw the trailer when I saw Barbie and I was just kinda
Ash!!1
Watching the trailer now I don't think I have ever seen such a sanitization of a character in a long ass time lmao
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:|
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like this is just not unsettling enough to be Wonka???
Ash!!1
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: they really just made Wonka the most bland and generic as possible
unlawful rping
too much whimsy not enough DANGER
Ash!!1
That said I guess I can't be made at making the oompa loompas....magical British hugh grant faes.
Ash!!1
That's certainly a Choice
cabbage?
Same abt not knowing until I saw jacks vid too
Autumn Vasch
i did not know until i saw this plurk
Autumn Vasch
but this immediately reminds me of that uh
Autumn Vasch
wizard of oz movie that was like. waht if the wizard was a beautiful specialist fuckboy whomst everyone loves
Ash!!1
Lmao yea he mentions that
Ash!!1
I like his take that movies need to stop using magical vague old timey English/Victorian settings and stop being cowards and make willy Wonka an influencer --
multiverse🌱dad
ARE YOU READY FOR WILLY WONKA TO BE TUMBLR'S NEXT SEXYMAN?????
whee whoo
someone said his performance feels like he's doing the first read at the table and I can't get it out of my head
unlawful rping
he's sexier when he's coated in a layer of discomfort thoooooo
unlawful rping
both Depp and Wilder's Wonkas had that
Ash!!1
whee whoo
: yea it doesn't even feel whimsical to me lol. I get local small theater play for an elementary school field trip vibes,
Ash!!1
It's just a trailer but it's like damn, you ain't giving nothing huh
Ash!!1
The costume design is also so generic,,
Wayward Haze
yeeeeeeah hard same
Wayward Haze
The Burton one was truer to the books and I adored it for that (and Danny Elfman voicing all the Oompa Loompas with a vocoder) ... but Gene Wilder is The Wonka
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Yeah this feels like the actor is going for "whimsical" but landing on "kinda awkward"
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I had no idea there was a new Wonka movie.... this looks so dull
Asidian
Gene Wilder is always going to be The Wonka for me
Asidian
I was talking with someone the other day about how he gives the vibes of like. A fae creature
Asidian
Whimsical and offering the impossible on a platter, but also very much not playing by your rules and a little amoral and dangerous
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ughhhhhh
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as I've said in every plurk about this: Gene Wilder refused to play Wonka unless he could introduce himself with the limp and cane and then do the somersault - why? because Wonka is someone you have no idea what to expect from
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by giving him the bland, generic backstory, you take that away
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like even though Gene Wilder's Wonka reigns supreme, Johnny Depp at least brought an eccentricity to him
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this guy looks boring as fuck
𝖑𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝕮𝖆𝖗𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖆
instead of capitalism critique this is capitalism porn
𝖑𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝕮𝖆𝖗𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖆
I hate it lmao
THRILLHOUSE
it looks sooo pointless
THRILLHOUSE
why must everything get an origin story. why willy wonka.
needlemancer
man I just watched the original recently, and gene wilder's performance and delivery was so like..... timelessly hilarious, no matter how dated and lmao the whole movie is, he's still amazing to watch
needlemancer
and I think if it was anyone else it would've been just a weird forgettable movie like all of these new ones
Nin is Tired
I think it looks cute, but generic and definitely not Wonka. would I watch it? no.
Wayward Haze
honestly in the Before Times when no one knew how awful JKR was, I entertained the thought that he was just A Wizard
unlawful rping
An origin story wouldn’t even be a problem angle to me (although the tacked on daddy issues WAS my only problem with Depp movie) if it didn’t feel so sanitized and devoid of the more creepy/snarky side of the character.
𝖑𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝕮𝖆𝖗𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖆
yeah. it's not just a cash grab for people coming in for the nostalgia factor/name recognition, it's a soulless one
Wayward Haze
/nods emphatically and points
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right. it looks to have the same copy/paste formula of every other cheap origin story
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oh. oh no oh no this is so dire
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also yeah this is a good unpacking of the Optimal Wonka Vibes