Hm ... well, I certainly liked both the Charlie and the Willy Wonka versions of the movie, but yes, I'd have to say the Gene Wilder version had a scarier boat ride, partly because the effects were more disorienting and his Willie Wonka was more inscrutable for it. (I forget if Johnny Depp's Wonka had the same ``there's no Earthly way of knowing ... '' speech, too, which Wilder delivered so utterly perfectly.) Not that Depp's didn't have abundant wonderful and scary scenes on his own.
The luge run can be a great scene, certainly, particularly if it's part of character definition (see the ``Hundred Mile Dash'' in The Incredibles, as Dash discovers his powers), but too much of it is way too much of it.
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Date: 2005-12-30 06:38 pm (UTC)Hm ... well, I certainly liked both the Charlie and the Willy Wonka versions of the movie, but yes, I'd have to say the Gene Wilder version had a scarier boat ride, partly because the effects were more disorienting and his Willie Wonka was more inscrutable for it. (I forget if Johnny Depp's Wonka had the same ``there's no Earthly way of knowing ... '' speech, too, which Wilder delivered so utterly perfectly.) Not that Depp's didn't have abundant wonderful and scary scenes on his own.
The luge run can be a great scene, certainly, particularly if it's part of character definition (see the ``Hundred Mile Dash'' in The Incredibles, as Dash discovers his powers), but too much of it is way too much of it.