![]() ![]() And even before that, he at least tries harder to talk the kids out of unwittingly doing horrible things to themselves than his 1971 counterpart did. ![]() Luckily, he gets better by the end of the film. While the original book character could be a bit of a Jerkass at times, here he's more of an apathetic and self-absorbed braggart. Adaptational Intelligence: Mike Teavee is turned from the excitable, television obsessed kid he is in the book to a jaded Insufferable Genius who couldn't care less about chocolate.Wonka doesn't break the news that Charlie's won the factory to anyone until after he's crashed the elevator into the shack and to make matters worse, he doesn't intend to take anyone but Charlie back to the factory, so this just makes him look like an even bigger jerk. Wonka tells Charlie he's won the factory while they're flying in the Great Glass Elevator, and in order to ensure that the boy's other grandparents won't have to get out of their bed - which won't fit through the shack's door but will fit in the elevator - to move there, he crashes it into the shack to pick the family up. Adaptation Explanation Extrication: In the novel, Mr.Here, he's played by Johnny Depp-ergo, younger, slimmer, and more conventionally attractive. Adaptational Attractiveness: Willy Wonka appears as a lanky, older man with thin hair, a zany smile, and a large nose in the book's illustrations.Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Willy Wonka has issues with his father which need to be resolved, extending the climax past the point in the book. ![]()
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