Perhaps the prints we saw were different. I was waiting for and expecting Veruca to ask for an Oompa-Loompa, and she didn't. There was a perfect spot for her to do so, just before Augustus is seen drinking from the river.
Really disagree about the argument scene. The hint that this is a set-up is already there: it doesn't need to be pounded in like that. The hint of a set-up is also beautifully carried in the book at the delicious moment when Wonka suddenly realizes Charlie is the only child left and says "That means you've won." Won what? Charlie wonders, and this wonderment gives sparkle to the ending. Again, the film spoiled this and pounded it in with the repeated addition of the announcement that one of the children would win a special prize. The Wilder film just deleted that whole business.
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Date: 2005-07-19 04:57 am (UTC)Really disagree about the argument scene. The hint that this is a set-up is already there: it doesn't need to be pounded in like that. The hint of a set-up is also beautifully carried in the book at the delicious moment when Wonka suddenly realizes Charlie is the only child left and says "That means you've won." Won what? Charlie wonders, and this wonderment gives sparkle to the ending. Again, the film spoiled this and pounded it in with the repeated addition of the announcement that one of the children would win a special prize. The Wilder film just deleted that whole business.