Timothée Chalamet calls upon an “uncynical young audience” to enjoy Wonka
Timothée Chalamet hopes Wonka will be a “piece of chocolate” in a world beset by tragedy and horror
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Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew, cover it with chocolate, and a miracle or two? Timothée Chalamet can.
The world is a bad place. There’s a writers’ strike, a pandemic the government seemingly gave up on, a war in Ukraine, and a near-constant flow of filth and misery pouring from social media. But hey, have some chocolate, says renowned chocolatier and our future Willy Wonka, Timothée Chalament, who declared last year, “societal collapse is in the air.”
Speaking to Vogue, Chalamet has sincere hopes for Wonka. Though anyone that’s seen the first teaser can tell you abandon all hope ye who gaze upon Hugh Grant’s original Oompa Loompa. Nevertheless, after eating his fellow human right the fuck up in Bones And All, he was ready to pop an Everlasting Gobstopper and work on something less cynical.
“To work on something that will have an uncynical young audience, that was just a big joy. That’s why I was drawn to it,” Chalamet said. “In a time and climate of intense political rhetoric, when there’s so much bad news all the time, this is hopefully going to be a piece of chocolate.”
Chalamet’s take on the character aligns with what he told the crowd at Cinema-Con, where he discussed playing a character that would evolve into Gene Wilder’s portrayal.
“The Willy Wonka films have been hugely inspiring,” he said, presumably referring to the Mel Stuart and Tim Burton adaptations and not 2017’s Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. “I grew up on them, and this felt like an opportunity to present Willy as the optimistic, youthful, hopeful figure. Gene Wilder grows into this sort of cynical version. This is a willy that is full of joy and optimism and hope and a desire to become the greatest chocolatier of all time.”
Chalamet’s anti-cynicism interpretation raises some questions about what happens in this movie. Sure, we know a little Hugh Grant will be running around mixing chocolate or something, but Wonka, as an adult, is this “sort of cynical version” of the character. So what happens to him in this movie that turns Wonka into that? We’re hoping it has nothing to do with his father.
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No one asked for a Wonka origin story. But, Johnny Depp’s not in it, so that’s something.
Thats either a very low field goal post or a very hard limbo…
That’s a very difficult limbo.
*Hermes Conrad has entered the chat*
No. I don’t think I will…
This is a willy that is full of joy and optimism and hope and a desire to become the greatest chocolatier of all time.”
New Tinder profile incoming.
And that’s why capitalising proper nouns in important, kids.
“In a time and climate of intense political rhetoric, when there’s so much bad news all the time, this is hopefully going to be a piece of chocolate.”Fairly-priced, ethically grown and produced chocolate or what, you monster?! We all know what the labor conditions in Wonka’s factory were like…
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Disagree.
“Trump-a-loompa, doopety doo,
I’ve got more lies and bullshit for you.
Trump-a-loompa, doopety dee,
If you are wise, you won’t listen to me.”
I walked into that one.
“To work on something that will have an uncynical young audience, that was just a big joy. That’s why I was drawn to it,”
It’s ok to call it a kids’ movie.
But thanks for letting parents know they can put this movie on for the kids while they do something else, I guess.
Given that this is from the director of the first two Paddington movies, I feel confident that it will be beloved by people of all ages.
Then why not promote it as such.
Are they not? I haven’t seen much promotion, but it’s based on a children’s book, so I’ve always assumed it would be appropriate for children. I’m not sure it needs extra marketing to get that across?
You really gotta spell it out for some people.
Apparently.
eh? Kids aren’t “people of all ages”.
I don’t understand this comment. Was it for the other commenter? I didn’t say “people of all ages.”
You replied to my comment which was a reply to someone else’s comment.
Nevermind. Simple misunderstanding. I’ll just dismiss this thread.
Not this one!
“It’s ok to call it a kids’ movie.”
Who said it’s a kids movie?
A movie ticket is like $18 these days. That could buy a lot of chocolate.
Not at the movie theater
Not at a movie theatre, it couldn’t.
The alst time I took my friend to the mvoies, on a Tuesday ‘cheap’night, i bought the tickets, he bought the popcorn. It bith cost us something like 25 bucks.
Movies theatres can die. I am totally oaky with this given how much they want to gouge me for such a crummy experience.
Yuor tpying is incerdible!
Fuck don’t remind me. I had to replace my keyboard with a giant clunker and its fucked my typing worse that usual.
Just go in the morning/afternoon, when it’s $9 (which is still way more than it was just a few years ago).
Uh oh… He knows it sucks
Please stop remaking this creepy thing. Wonka couldn’t stand children, I don’t want to know how he became such a neurtoic, obessesive judgemental child abuser.
Sounds like Hollywood.
Not all kids. He sometimes found a “special one” and asked them to live with him in his giant sprawling factory full of slave labor. Not creepy at all 🙂
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Spreading it rather thick, aren’t we, Tim?
I’m neither young nor uncynical, but I’m planning to enjoy the heck out of this one.
What I got from this is that Timothée Chalamet sure is fond of his willy!
He wants to show his willy to an uncynical young audience!
Jesus Christ what a miserable bunch of assholes in the comments.