Dreams Of Noise

Okay. Number One: Dahl *wrote the script for the Gene Wilder movie*, as well as the book on which it is based. So Dahl does bear some responsibility for the movie itself. That said, Number Two: Wilder's W.W. is much scarier than the character in the novel, IMO. And nastier too: the "You've broken the Rules" bit is *NOT* in the novel. At all. (Having read the book a year or two before the movie came out, I was shocked when we got to that scene in the movie.) I don't really know why Dahl remade the movie Wonka into a borderline nutcase, when the guy in the book came across as "eccentric but somewhat lovable" to me.