Happy Birthday, Roald Dahl
Sep. 13th, 2006 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomOn this day in 1916.
First, what are your favorite Dahl pieces? I know, I know, it's like picking your favorite dessert, or your favorite pasta dish. While I like the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I love the movie Willy Wonka (he did the screenplay, so it counts). (The Burton/Depp film, not so much, although it has its moments.) I'm also very fond of The Witches book and movie, and a short story he did for Playboy called "The Great Switcheroo".
Second, what's your favorite bits from any movie based on a Dahl book? Honest to Ghu, mine is that moment in Willy Wonka when we find out that the fifth ticket is a fake, and Charlie walks away dazed and hoping and finds someplace to go peek and there it is. Also, the intro of Wonka -- the limp, the sticking cane, the fall and roll and tah-dahhh!
I also love the last scene in the half-room, where Wonka apparently loses it. Love love love it when Charlie wins.
First, what are your favorite Dahl pieces? I know, I know, it's like picking your favorite dessert, or your favorite pasta dish. While I like the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I love the movie Willy Wonka (he did the screenplay, so it counts). (The Burton/Depp film, not so much, although it has its moments.) I'm also very fond of The Witches book and movie, and a short story he did for Playboy called "The Great Switcheroo".
Second, what's your favorite bits from any movie based on a Dahl book? Honest to Ghu, mine is that moment in Willy Wonka when we find out that the fifth ticket is a fake, and Charlie walks away dazed and hoping and finds someplace to go peek and there it is. Also, the intro of Wonka -- the limp, the sticking cane, the fall and roll and tah-dahhh!
I also love the last scene in the half-room, where Wonka apparently loses it. Love love love it when Charlie wins.
