honestly, considering the fact that Charlie is supposed to be the dark horse victor of the competition (pardon the pun) due to his lower-class upbringing, IMO it actually would have made the story more powerful and progressive for its time, even if in retrospect there'd been a bit of a white savior thing going on with Wonka if that were included
also can I just say that I feel like I'm kind of what Mike Teavee would have been if he weren't a brat (at least, hopefully)
tbh in the 70's movie version I didn't even think he was that much of a jerk, he was just kind of oblivious (though I'd have to watch it again to verify that)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
honestly, considering the fact that Charlie is supposed to be the dark horse victor of the competition (pardon the pun) due to his lower-class upbringing, IMO it actually would have made the story more powerful and progressive for its time, even if in retrospect there'd been a bit of a white savior thing going on with Wonka if that were included
This! Especially in 1964, when the book was first published. That would have been a really powerful message.
I suppose, given the social context of that era, it's no surprise Dahl's agent talked him out of it, but what a story that would have been.
Re: '70s Mike Teavee: His major moment of awfulness is that he all but outright states he intends to sell Wonka's secrets to Slugworth.
Mike Teavee in general seems like a character that's difficult to adapt to the screen, because the whole point of his character was to let Dahl rant about how kids should stop watching TV and read books instead, and that...well, kinda doesn't work in a freakin' movie.
It's actually quite funny, because his actual behavior in the book is limited to getting mouthy with Wonka a couple times, but he gets easily the angriest Oompa-Loompa song, with Dahl allcapsing about why children need to read more.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Depressing thought of the night
Heart of the City launched in 1997
If Heart aged in real time, she'd be a disillusioned Millennial in her 20s now
Probably dwelling on the fact that her child-self's dream of becoming a Hollywood star never came true
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
It started when I was browsing the SBIH page on TvTropes for...whatever reason, and it turned out that people were using it to find a serial killer in real life (???). I then clicked on the blue link and it took me to a Twitter account. For some reason I also had a Twitter account, and I started responding, and my tweet was liked by David Hasselhoff. I was shocked and awed that the guy from Knight Rider liked my tweet.
I was soon transported into a weird room, like the Batcave mixed with the Power Rangers mission control. It displayed a poem by some kid from an indigenous tribe that probably doesn't make any sense. The Hoff then showed up in person and talked about how it was kind of pretentious. We then agreed that Gene Roddenberry was kind of preachy about all the "imagine no religion" stuff in Star Trek and he carried me torso first. It was vaguely homoerotic.
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I am in pain
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
tbh in the 70's movie version I didn't even think he was that much of a jerk, he was just kind of oblivious (though I'd have to watch it again to verify that)
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Except Elmyra, maybe