{"id":353,"date":"2004-11-12T00:51:02","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T04:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=353"},"modified":"2004-11-12T00:51:02","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T04:51:02","slug":"charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2004\/11\/12\/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed some complaints surfacing about the upcoming Tim Burton film based on one of my childhood favorites:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chud.com\/nextraimages\/charliefactory.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While I too love the original (came out the year I was born), some of the best parts were the hints of something darker just under the surface. From the simple things like &#8220;Candy is dandy, but liqour is quicker&#8221; to the more complex psychosis of the boat ride.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m hoping that Tim Burton and Depp will inject just a touch more of that, while still keeping the innocence intact. Kind of an inverse of the angst vs innocence they brought to Edward Scissorhands.<\/p>\n<p>Burton hasn&#8217;t quite been on top of his game lately, but I&#8217;m still hopeful that the earlier magic of his work like Nightmare Before Christmas can make a return.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to see if they update Mike TV any. The vices of the others are relatively timeless, but his television obsession seems slightly out of date in a world of videogames and the internet. Not that you couldn&#8217;t just expand it to include those, mind you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed some complaints surfacing about the upcoming Tim Burton film based on one of my childhood favorites: While I too love the original (came out the year I was born), some of the best parts were the hints of something darker just under the surface. From the simple things like &#8220;Candy is dandy, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2004\/11\/12\/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-redux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory redux&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}