Ok,so I'm watching the new Willy wonka?

Question

Remake with Johnny Depp.
Everything is perfect,the casting seems appropriate
it looks like a great time.

Then comes the introduction to the Oompa Loompas and the whole movie takes a nosedive.Where is the frikkin Ooopa Loompa song?Now they are singing some kind of drivel and the whole thing looks
like it was choreaographed by the dancers on
the set of "In Living Color."

It's all so bloody wrong.Why would you take the greatest part of a movie(which in this case happens to be the OompaLoompa song) and replace it with some
C-grade bad dinner theatre music?

Also,it appears as they only used one Oompa Loompa actor's face for all of them and he looks like a wino troll
who escaped from a circus.There is no wisdom in the songs in a cautionary sense that a child will understand nor
do they even LOOK wise.They look more like miniature thugs instead.I was so dissapointed with this movie.

Give me your thoughts.

Answer 1

The Oompa-Loompas were first featured in Roald Dahl's 1964 children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The original book first portrayed Oompa-Loompas as black pygmies from "the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had been before". After the book's U.S. release, complaints of racism caused Dahl to rewrite the characters as dwarves with "golden-brown hair" and "rosy-white" skin. In the 1971 musical film adaptation, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the characters were again reinterpreted as orange-skinned and green-haired - very similar to the Munchkins of 1939's The Wizard of Oz. In the 2005 adaptation, restored to its original title of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Oompa-Loompas are small, with short dark hair and bronzed skin, and are all played by the dwarf actor Deep Roy. Roy's stature was diminished on screen to an apparent height of 30 inches, using digital compositing and forced perspective. They communicate only through mimic and gestures (and singing, of course) and they also have a singular gesture of accord, in which they cross their arms and closed hands up to their chest, in a way that very much resembles the greeting gesture of the aliens in Plan 9 from Outer Space, from which Tim Burton may have taken direct inspiration.

I may be the only person who likes the new Oompa Loompas. The songs are actually really funny, and not that hard to understand if you just listen.

Answer 2

Deep Roy was CGI enhanced to be al the Oompas. In the book, the Oompas were no taller than a man's knee.

If you have ever read the book, you would know that Danny Elfman took some of the actual lyrics that Roald Dahl wrote for the songs and put them to music.

I know Tim Burton put his own twist on this just like every other director does with their work, but he did stay more true to the book.

In the original version of the book, the Oompa's were described as black pygmies coming from Loompaland. Dahl changed the book because people claimed it was racist.

Answer 3

I totally missed the Oompa Loompa song. I had to see the new one a couple of times before I caught the gist of what the new Oompa Loompas were even saying. I did like the that we got to learn more about willy wonka and the after effects of the horrible children....BUT the original ranks tops in my book. I am so glad that some one else agrees with me. ..... OH I loved Veruca Salts song in the orginial. .. I want bean feast and I want it.... NOW!!!!!

Answer 4

I like the original better..but the 2nd one also had some good parts...like what happened when they took the fizzy lifting drinks and they all got everlastinggobbstoppers,, in the 2nd they showed the kids leaving the factory, and they showed more of Wonka but over all it was ok i do have both and the special addition of the first where the kids was interviewed 20 years later and it is awesome that are was still around for that

Answer 5

Yes, I agree that that is probably one of the best parts of the original willy wonka movie, but.... if you put all the old parts into the new movie, I think it would ruin the original and classic version of willy wonka. The remake, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a good movie, however, it will never, in my eyes, do as well as the classic version. It just makes me appreciate the older version more while still enjoying the remake.

Answer 6

Oompa Loompas in the book were really mean :) the new movie is just like the book

Answer 7

I like the first one much better, I didn't like the Oompa Loompa's in the second one as much either. Stick with the original!

Answer 8

There was only one actor that played the OompaLoompa. The rest were computer-generated reproductions of him.

I haven't seen the movie yet but that is the one most interesting piece of news I heard about it. Like the producers couldn't afford other "little people".

Answer 9

the unique movie grow to be referred to as Charlie and the chocolate production unit and grow to be a great movie. i come across that the unique grow to be lots greater thrilling and had greater suitable concepts than what they did with the hot movie. some orginals could by no skill be remade, quite not with johny Depp staring in it, undesirable alternative character for willy wonka, to not point out that computing gadget lively oompa loopmas that killed the hot movie.

Answer 10

hence why i love the original better.... i was upset too that they took the Oompaloompa song out and yea i noticed they used the same person, i did not like the new version but i do love Johnny Depp..........