I haven't read the book, but I'm pretty sure that the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remake of the older movie is nothing what Roald Dahl thought up of..
if you're referring to the johnny depp movie, it was actually almost a word-for-word adaptation of the book, the narrator in that film was basically quoting the book throughout the entire movie, and the oompa-loompa musical numbers were pulled directly from the book as well
the only difference took place at the end when they started talking about willy-wonka and his father, but other then that it was MUCH more faithful to the book than the older musical ever was (musical was HORRIBLE when compared to the book btw)
as for my most hated movie adaptation of a book, I don't hesitate in saying that The Wizard of Oz was the most vile, overraited movie ever...
Imagine that they took the book, ripped it up, trew it on the ground, mixed upp all the pages, then removed half of the pages and burned them, and the remaining half of the story was left behind... that is what the wizard of oz is... every part o the plot is either put into the wrong place, or warped entirely to a point where it's almost unrecognizable... and they dropped half the book from the movie which is inexcusible because it's a short book to begin with
the dropped parts are some of the best parts, some segments dropped were, the field mice, the river, the color scheme of oz, the dainty china country, the hammer-heads, the good witch of the north, most of the journey to the wicked witch of the west's castle and most of their adventure there, most of the encounter with the wizard, jellia lamb, and the entire backstory of the winged monkeys...
finally, to end my critique, Oz was a REAL place in the books, in fact, in book 6 of the series (it's a 40 book series) dorothy and her aunt and uncle go to live in oz permenently... the one, single reason i despise the movie so adamantly was because of how it ended... they acted as if oz was not a real place and that it was all just a dream... this was the ultimate betrayal towards an Oz fan, the fact that it was just waved off as a dream and crushedthe hopes and dreams of the child watching... historically this film was targeted towards an audience of children during the depression and they didn't want to "fill their heads with fantasy and nonsense" but it just kills me that, when children really needed an escape, when they really needed to have some fantasy, it was wrenched away with the line "and you were there, and you were there"
xDD sorry if i rambled too much... it's just one of my favorite subjects =D
Comments
if you're referring to the johnny depp movie, it was actually almost a word-for-word adaptation of the book, the narrator in that film was basically quoting the book throughout the entire movie, and the oompa-loompa musical numbers were pulled directly from the book as well
book: http://www.roalddahlfans.com/books/charsongs.php#Augustus
movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiMpTzd0Gqo
(they pass over some of the versus because it's a fairly long poem)
the only difference took place at the end when they started talking about willy-wonka and his father, but other then that it was MUCH more faithful to the book than the older musical ever was (musical was HORRIBLE when compared to the book btw)
as for my most hated movie adaptation of a book, I don't hesitate in saying that The Wizard of Oz was the most vile, overraited movie ever...
Imagine that they took the book, ripped it up, trew it on the ground, mixed upp all the pages, then removed half of the pages and burned them, and the remaining half of the story was left behind... that is what the wizard of oz is... every part o the plot is either put into the wrong place, or warped entirely to a point where it's almost unrecognizable... and they dropped half the book from the movie which is inexcusible because it's a short book to begin with
the dropped parts are some of the best parts, some segments dropped were, the field mice, the river, the color scheme of oz, the dainty china country, the hammer-heads, the good witch of the north, most of the journey to the wicked witch of the west's castle and most of their adventure there, most of the encounter with the wizard, jellia lamb, and the entire backstory of the winged monkeys...
finally, to end my critique, Oz was a REAL place in the books, in fact, in book 6 of the series (it's a 40 book series) dorothy and her aunt and uncle go to live in oz permenently... the one, single reason i despise the movie so adamantly was because of how it ended... they acted as if oz was not a real place and that it was all just a dream... this was the ultimate betrayal towards an Oz fan, the fact that it was just waved off as a dream and crushedthe hopes and dreams of the child watching... historically this film was targeted towards an audience of children during the depression and they didn't want to "fill their heads with fantasy and nonsense" but it just kills me that, when children really needed an escape, when they really needed to have some fantasy, it was wrenched away with the line "and you were there, and you were there"
xDD sorry if i rambled too much... it's just one of my favorite subjects =D