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kleenexwoman) wrote2004-12-13 09:49 pm
kleenexwoman) wrote2004-12-13 09:49 pm
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I want candy now
On seeing the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory trailer, thoughts:
• Willy Wonka, as played by Johnny Depp, is a total pimp. The coat. The cane. The glasses.
• The trailer music makes me want to not eat chocolate ever again. But I have a lot of chocolate that one of my roommates gave me, so I shall have to choke it down. (Also I cannot for the life of me understand the lyrics.)
• Oompa Loompa band? WTF?
• From watching old Oingo Boingo music videos, I know that the drummer had his hairline shaved into a spiky pattern (this stuck in my mind because it was very weird and very 1980s) and I swear to God he had a cameo as one of the Oompa Loompas. Am I imagining things here?
(To digress: Young Danny Elfman looks a little bit like a kid I knew in grade school who liked to pretend that he put his boogers in your milk. Same creepy grin.)
• They're giving backstory which involves Willy Wonka in what appears to be Vietnam. Is this where he finds the Oompa Loompas?
• Actually, that would make sense. In the original movie, I always thought he looked oddly sad during "Pure Imagination." Based on Roald Dahl's stories about his time in the RAF, I made up a backstory about how Willy Wonka had been in World War I and was totally traumatized by it, and the chocolate factory was an attempt to build a world where he didn't have to face up to whatever he did in the war. Hide inside his imagination, so to speak.
• Speaking of "Pure Imagination..." According to my sources, parts of the "Pure Imagination" scene were based on the frat rituals of AEPi, Gene Wilder's fraternity. (My sources happen to be![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gyr_falre, who is in the frat.)
• A conversation:
gyr_falre: I will kill if this movie sucks
Me: Agreed. Drown Tim Burton in chocolate?
gyr_falre: unless the acting is bad, then we sodomize Johnny Depp to death
Me: I have no argument with that.
Me: :videotape:
• It will not suck. Burton+Elfman+Depp+Roald Dahl cannot suck, for that would violate the laws of spacetime and the universe would die a flaming fiery death.
In any case, I have finished my Mass Media final. It was fairly easy. I filled in the questions and wrote a nice little pointed paragraph of the type my prof seems to like from me about advertising. Well done, me. Have a candy cane.
I'm currently working on finishing that story for English as well as an unbalanced little set of fanfic vignettes. They were originally inspired by some of the deja vu magic power weirdness last night, but I've cut that bit out and am saving it for a nice gothy novel.
• Willy Wonka, as played by Johnny Depp, is a total pimp. The coat. The cane. The glasses.
• The trailer music makes me want to not eat chocolate ever again. But I have a lot of chocolate that one of my roommates gave me, so I shall have to choke it down. (Also I cannot for the life of me understand the lyrics.)
• Oompa Loompa band? WTF?
• From watching old Oingo Boingo music videos, I know that the drummer had his hairline shaved into a spiky pattern (this stuck in my mind because it was very weird and very 1980s) and I swear to God he had a cameo as one of the Oompa Loompas. Am I imagining things here?
(To digress: Young Danny Elfman looks a little bit like a kid I knew in grade school who liked to pretend that he put his boogers in your milk. Same creepy grin.)
• They're giving backstory which involves Willy Wonka in what appears to be Vietnam. Is this where he finds the Oompa Loompas?
• Actually, that would make sense. In the original movie, I always thought he looked oddly sad during "Pure Imagination." Based on Roald Dahl's stories about his time in the RAF, I made up a backstory about how Willy Wonka had been in World War I and was totally traumatized by it, and the chocolate factory was an attempt to build a world where he didn't have to face up to whatever he did in the war. Hide inside his imagination, so to speak.
• Speaking of "Pure Imagination..." According to my sources, parts of the "Pure Imagination" scene were based on the frat rituals of AEPi, Gene Wilder's fraternity. (My sources happen to be
gyr_falre, who is in the frat.) • A conversation:
gyr_falre: I will kill if this movie sucksMe: Agreed. Drown Tim Burton in chocolate?
gyr_falre: unless the acting is bad, then we sodomize Johnny Depp to deathMe: I have no argument with that.
Me: :videotape:
• It will not suck. Burton+Elfman+Depp+Roald Dahl cannot suck, for that would violate the laws of spacetime and the universe would die a flaming fiery death.
In any case, I have finished my Mass Media final. It was fairly easy. I filled in the questions and wrote a nice little pointed paragraph of the type my prof seems to like from me about advertising. Well done, me. Have a candy cane.
I'm currently working on finishing that story for English as well as an unbalanced little set of fanfic vignettes. They were originally inspired by some of the deja vu magic power weirdness last night, but I've cut that bit out and am saving it for a nice gothy novel.