What was bad about it? It's been years since I saw the movie but I remember it being serviceable. Classic rebellious childhood story and Christopher Lee was cool. Nothing groundbreaking, but interesting to see Wonka's childish nature through the lens of arrested development.
That's fair. I do think that the remake was more concerned with humanizing and filling him out rather than keeping him mysterious and the like, and his backstory fits with that approach. But yeah, if the goal is to keep him as an utterly strange dude then no backstory is better.
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What was bad about it? It's been years since I saw the movie but I remember it being serviceable. Classic rebellious childhood story and Christopher Lee was cool. Nothing groundbreaking, but interesting to see Wonka's childish nature through the lens of arrested development.
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That's fair. I do think that the remake was more concerned with humanizing and filling him out rather than keeping him mysterious and the like, and his backstory fits with that approach. But yeah, if the goal is to keep him as an utterly strange dude then no backstory is better.