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In disappointing and bewildering contrast, Burton's Wonka initially disallows Charlie's family from coming to live in the factory. Apparently, the selfish Wonka has internalized anger towards his own estranged father, a story element found nowhere in Dahl's book. The remainder of Burton's film contains a weak and unaffecting account of Charlie's successful attempt to mend bridges between Wonka and his father. The film concludes flippantly, with Charlie and his family residing in the Chocolate Room of the factory, sharing turkey dinners with Wonka inside of their shack which has been relocated there on the shore of the Chocolate River. Not only does this ending have nothing to do with the narrative of Dahl's book, it violates the spirit of the work and ends on an unsentimental note that betrays the fairytale-like quality that makes the book and the 1971 film so endearing.
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When Tim Burton entered the world (as Timothy William Burton) in Burbank on August 25, 1958, it was into this echt-1950s world of suburbia that he came. Burbank, in 1958, was not yet a cultural joke. Burbank was a small town within a big one and largely reflected the Eisenhower-era world of mss conformity with it standardized houses and lockstep mentality. Everyone was largely expected to do and behave the same way. Anything outside a fairly rigid set of largely unquestioned rules was considered suspect or worse. This, after all, was the end of the eara of Senator Joseph McCarthy and the extensive witch hunts for supposed Communists festering in America's underbelly.
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In recent years this has been less of a problem for Burton, who has learned how to make his films move forward without sacrificing his all-important visuals. But in his take on Wonka there are sections of the film where emphasis on the visuals subtract from and even slow down the pacing. For example, the boat ride on the chocolate river (a scary and very memorable scene in the 1971 film) contains far too many recurrent shots of the Oompah-Loompah rowers, and the shots of the boat sailing through the currents are not especially engaging. There is no dialogue among the characters during this scene, and nothing moves it forward. While mildly visually interesting during the first viewing, it will likely prove tedious on successive screenings.
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The Hollywood Reporter says that model turned actress Estella Warren is ready to join the cast of Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes" remake, which is going under the title of the original novel, "The Visitor." Mark Wahlberg is already slated to play the lead role.
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"There are a lot of projects that explore the dark side of suburbia and there is a reason for it because there is a dark side," Burton continues. "It's got that mask of normalcy which is truly disturbing." - Burton to The London Times, Oct. 28, 2006
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A deleted scene from The Nightmare Before Christmas features a group of vampires playing hockey on the frozen pond with the decapitated head of producer Tim Burton. The head was later replaced with a Jack-o'-lantern.
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