With roles like Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean series or Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Johnny Depp crazy cult figures for eternity created. Among the star’s craziest characters, however, is eccentric chocolate factory owner Willy Wonka.
If you don’t know Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or want to watch it again, Amazon Prime gives you the opportunity to do so. The flashy Tim Burton film adaptation of the Roald Dahl children’s book has also nowadays lost none of their funky charm.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory unleashes Johnny Depp in an incredible fantasy trip
In the plot of Tim Burton’s film, a poor boy named Charlie (Freddie Highmore) wins one of five golden tickets scattered around the world. This makes him one of the lucky chosen ones Guided tour of Willy Wonka’s legendary chocolate factory to get. Together with the other children, the trip quickly turns out to be crazy fantasy excess.
Watch the German trailer for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory here:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Trailer (German)
The walk through Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory becomes an unbelievable fever dream, in which the sets constantly surpass themselves in terms of brightly colored creativity. In addition, there is the idiosyncratic tone of Tim Burton. He’s filming a children’s book here, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is also a strip for all ages. Still swinging in history constantly bizarre and morbid undertones who make the fantasy trip insanely fun for adults too.
Of course, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is rounded off by the already mentioned Johnny Depp performance. He plays his Willy Wonka as an eccentric hybrid of a childhood friend who has been through the gestures that are often applied much too thickly and the bizarre facial expressions repeatedly drift into almost frightening regions.
Depp’s acting performance, the incredibly imaginative sets and the idiosyncratic tone of voice make Burton’s film a terrific viewing experience to this day.
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