{"id":19,"date":"2005-07-17T17:31:38","date_gmt":"2005-07-17T21:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2005\/07\/17\/gene-wilder-must-be-turning-in-his-gra"},"modified":"2006-04-29T22:03:19","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T02:03:19","slug":"gene-wilder-must-be-turning-in-his-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2005\/07\/17\/gene-wilder-must-be-turning-in-his-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Wilder Must Be Turning in His Grave."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a29\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DJ and I missed the maiten\u00e9e showings of <a href=\"http:\/\/chocolatefactorymovie.warnerbros.com\/\">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/a>, and so, payed too much. I don&#8217;t blame Johnny Depp, although perhaps I should, for this disappointing rendition of the movie classic. The problem stems from a poor script. This Willy is dull-witted, poorly timed, caught up in a flashback fight with his father.<\/p>\n<p>Wilder was smart. Slow. Wonderful. He didn&#8217;t rely on CG tricks. He provided the tricks. You can&#8217;t tell if he&#8217;s lying or not, ever.<\/p>\n<p>This Wonka is a confused, pale child who&#8217;s completely disillusioned with the human experience. The message is much more grim than the original and &#8220;The psychological math is rudimentary and borders on insulting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, go see it and regret it.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, I played with some new friends Araksya and Jordan well passed dawn. I hope we can spend some quality Arrested Development time together this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DJ and I missed the maiten\u00e9e showings of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and so, payed too much. I don&#8217;t blame Johnny Depp, although perhaps I should, for this disappointing rendition of the movie classic. The problem stems from a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/2005\/07\/17\/gene-wilder-must-be-turning-in-his-grave\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jreyes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}