The first one was nice and psychologically disturbing, with allegories to a descent into madness and hell on the river styx & a sadistic capitalist slowly killing off children apathetically. All that papered over with dry British humor.
I want them to be immigrants from a South American Maoist breakaway republic that happens to know a lot about chocolate. (Like maybe the USSR's chocolate imports had to be routed through there for a while.) They're unionized, well paid, and free to roam about the town. If you say anything racist to them they'll turn you into a blueberry and roll you into traffic, singing and dancing all the while.
Edit: the 1971 Willie Wonka movie canonically exists in the universe of the new movie. It was bankrolled by Wonka Corp. in order to get in front of a PR problem of some sort. It has developed a cult following but can't be shown on TV anymore because the oompa loompas are portrayed by white men in orangeface.
Edit 2: the earliest mentions of this group in the international media referred to it strictly as OOMPA ("Organización de Obreros Maoístas en Puno y Arequipa"), a name which still has some currency among the locals, although obviously the indigenous name is preferred. After OOMPA re-merged with its short-lived offshoot LOOMPA ("Leninist" OOMPA), the rather clunky modern name (which the locals tend not to like) began to appear in State Department publications and thereafter in mass media.
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The first one was nice and psychologically disturbing, with allegories to a descent into madness and hell on the river styx & a sadistic capitalist slowly killing off children apathetically. All that papered over with dry British humor.
No more are needed.
I hope they make the Oompa Loompas look like the goombas from the live action Mario movie.
I want them to be immigrants from a South American Maoist breakaway republic that happens to know a lot about chocolate. (Like maybe the USSR's chocolate imports had to be routed through there for a while.) They're unionized, well paid, and free to roam about the town. If you say anything racist to them they'll turn you into a blueberry and roll you into traffic, singing and dancing all the while.
Edit: the 1971 Willie Wonka movie canonically exists in the universe of the new movie. It was bankrolled by Wonka Corp. in order to get in front of a PR problem of some sort. It has developed a cult following but can't be shown on TV anymore because the oompa loompas are portrayed by white men in orangeface.
Edit 2: the earliest mentions of this group in the international media referred to it strictly as OOMPA ("Organización de Obreros Maoístas en Puno y Arequipa"), a name which still has some currency among the locals, although obviously the indigenous name is preferred. After OOMPA re-merged with its short-lived offshoot LOOMPA ("Leninist" OOMPA), the rather clunky modern name (which the locals tend not to like) began to appear in State Department publications and thereafter in mass media.
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This is now canon
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LOOMPA is a much better acronym than POOPA, the Posadist splinter faction which wanted to downplay the Maoist tendencies of the parent group
The vermicious knids are nothing to trifle with.
Wasn't that already kinda done by Tim Burton?
Yep, and Road Dahl's wife vouched that he would've liked it much more than the Mel Stuart's version, since it was much more faithful to the book.
Roald Dahl was also an absolute crank, so yeah
There were rumors for years about a gritty reboot of Barney the Dinosaur that turned out to be true
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