The Fate of Modern Wonka

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  @LackingSaint · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned

  hey I forgot to mention Zoe Bee also did a great wonka video and you should watch it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jbGyLayKjE">https://youtu.be/0jbGyLayKjE</a><br><br>and yes of course if they do adult wonka again the correct choice is jeremy strong<br><br>edit: because people took the bit too literally, I actually barely moderate this comments section, so have fun you animals<br><br>please help me fund my chocolate factory:<br>💰 PATREON @ <a href="https://www.patreon.com/jacksaint">https://www.patreon.com/jacksaint </a><br>🔴 YOUTUBE @ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdQKvqmHKe_8fv4Rwe7ag9Q/join">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdQKvqmHKe_8fv4Rwe7ag9Q/join </a><br>👛 TIPS @ <a href="https://ko-fi.com/lackingsaint">https://ko-fi.com/lackingsaint</a><br><br>Second Channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@officalwordfromjack">https://www.youtube.com/@officalwordfromjack </a><br>Bluesky 🦋 <a href="http://lackingsaint.bsky.social/">http://lackingsaint.bsky.social </a><br>Instagram 📷 <a href="http://instagram.com/lackingsaint">http://instagram.com/lackingsaint </a><br>Twitch 🎮 <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/lacksaint">https://www.twitch.tv/lacksaint </a><br>Discord 🗣 <a href="https://discord.gg/pf5PXAzv8V">https://discord.gg/pf5PXAzv8V </a><br>TikTok 🎞 <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@jacksaintreal">https://www.tiktok.com/@jacksaintreal</a>

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  @mantidream8179 · 3 years ago

  My main issue is that they are trying to turn Willy Wonka into a protagonist. He is more like a god than a man, a morally gray force of nature. He is inherently difficult to relate to

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• DU

  @dustinhickey3473 · 3 years ago

  Gene wilders Wonka wasn’t just whimsical and cartoony, he portrayed wonka as an unhinged psychopath and I love it.

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• FO

  @forestbunch5 · 3 years ago

  Every character doesn’t need a backstory, sometimes stories are vague for a reason.

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• VA

  @varethedemon · 2 years ago

  Maybe a movie showing Wonka as kid friendly and idealistic would work... if it was a movie about the slow change of heart and mind into an ideal self interest, a rejection of the world that wasn&apos;t as fantastical as he wanted, and a withdrawal into his factory, where he could continue being the &quot;dreamer of dreams.&quot;

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• JA

  @jamesjoe2048 · 3 years ago

  I can&apos;t get over the fact that wonka discovered the oompa loompas in the trailer. In the books, he doesn&apos;t discover the oompa loompas until he starts the company, perfects his craft, and then shuts it down for years due to spies. If he has the oompa loompas since the start, it breaks the whole timeline of the books. Him shutting down the factory and firing everyone was the main reason why people were so excited, because nobody had seen inside the factory for years. Curiosity was powerful.

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  @Basil15k · 3 years ago

  Willy wonka is meant to provoke your imagination. He’s never meant to have a backstory, he’s literally meant to be mysterious, kind of scary and very whimsical with no way of knowing where he got his ideas from. I don’t see the point of making a prequel apart from playing on nostalgia for money

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• CA

  @capn_toad · 3 years ago

  i just physically can&apos;t see willy wonka as a young man. he&apos;s an eccentric crazy old man and he&apos;s always been that way. he was never an infant he just appeared in the world one day as a full adult in a tailored purple suit.

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• KE

  @kennethd4958 · 3 years ago

  We may have not got the best choice for Wonka in Timothy but we dodged a HUGE bullet by not having Ezra Miller in the role.

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• CO

  @costanzapolastri · 3 years ago (edited)

  &quot;there is no getting around this: Mr Beast is zoomer Willy Wonka&quot; is a sentence so fundamentally true it broke my brain

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• CA

  @cardboardtubeknight · 3 years ago

  I really like the quote from a Tweet or something I read that said &quot;None of the new Willy Wonka movies have understood that Gene Wilder&apos;s Wonka worked because you felt like there was a real chance he was gonna sit there and watch those kids die.&quot;&quot;<br><br>I have not stopped thinking of this since I first read it.

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  @slashercat8649 · 3 years ago

  I firmly believe that Willy Wonka has to be a little insane and evil. He&apos;s the antagonist and arguably the villain for most of the story, and Charlie serves as kind of a Final Girl as Wonka slowly picks off the children while their parents watch in horror. Not that he needs to be completely irredeemable or totally evil, but just of enough to be kind of scary and unnerving whenever he&apos;s onscreen.

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