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Monday, December 13, 2004
Chewing gum is really gross, chewing gum I hate the most.
I am glad that I was involved in one of those insane OB chats today. I guess it wasn't too insane, but no matter -- I was directed to Yahoo Movies, which I never visit. But oh, it was so worthwhile.
If you go there, you'll find the trailer for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Yum.
At this point I should probably mention a few important points.
1) Roald Dahl is my favourite children's author. J.K. Rowling, while still good in her own right, is nonetheless a pale imitation of Mr. Dahl.
2) Tim Burton is one of my all-time favourite directors. It's very difficult to find anything produced by him that I haven't adored.
3) Did I mention that Roald Dahl is a brilliant author, with an incredible imagination?
Charlie and the Chocolate factory is one of my favourite novels; I must have read it dozens of times as a child (and I read its sequel a few times too - Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator).
So, I'm very excited to see that Tim Burton is making a film based on this novel. I have known about the existence of this film for some time, but to finally see a trailer...it's pretty exciting.
I noticed that a couple of people had seen the original movie and were somewhat disappointed by the trailer. But I think it's best not to judge this new film in relation to the original (which itself was fantastic). It's probably better to judge this new film based on the novel. The novel is, of course, even better than the original movie (and will probably be better than the new movie). I can only hope that the new film does it some justice.
It would also be very cool if someone (Burton or otherwise) would make a film from the sequel. Remember the glass elevator that Charlie and Wonka fly around in at the end of the movie/book? In the second novel, they go on an entire adventure through space, in that little elevator. It's fantastic. There is a sense of adventure and wonder about those novels that can be tough to find.
I thought the trailer was so funky that I even made a new wallpaper. It's under Original Anime, which is probably the closest thing we have to "movies" at the moment. Or something. The original version is a 16:10 ratio image, for my own computer...so I've had to cut the sides off a bit, to accommodate the resolution requirement. Still, I think it comes out okay. I pretty much just did everything except Wonka himself (the background is a combination of different photographs, with brush effects and so on). So, if you're in need of a little craziness on your desktop, look no further. ~_^
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