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Read Charlie and the Great Glads Elevator if you want a deep dive into the horrors of Dahl's mind.
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Or search Anyway, the Burton movie shows the kids after the tour. They're massively fatter, or still blue, or stretched into a SlenderMan, but alive.
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Nov 18, 2019 22:13
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The Great Glands Elevator, you say?
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Nov 18, 2019 22:25
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They took her to a farm where she could run and play and have the juice squeezed out of her all day.
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Mr. Sunshine posted:The Great Glands Elevator, you say?
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FactsAreUseless posted:Read Charlie and the Great Glads Elevator if you want a deep dive into the horrors of Dahl's mind. The aliens who spell SCRAM in an elevator
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The Saddest Rhino posted:The aliens who spell SCRAM in an elevator
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None of the kids in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory died. They just all got horribly disfigured, except Veruca who just got a bit dirty. Now Great Glass Elevator, tons of people died in that one.
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Regy Rusty posted:None of the kids in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory died. They just all got horribly disfigured, except Veruca who just got a bit dirty. Is that the one where almost an entire space station is eaten by aliens? Its been ages since I read a Dahl book but man, some of the went places.
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Don Gato posted:Is that the one where almost an entire space station is eaten by aliens? Its been ages since I read a Dahl book but man, some of the went places. Yup. The Vermicious Knids are truly horrifying
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Didn't that the book where a couple of Charlie's Aunts found themselves in a place where time moved backwards quickly, and they had to save them before they became unborn? For some reason I forgot about the Knids, but that's the only part of that book that stood out in my memory.
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umalt posted:Didn't that the book where a couple of Charlie's Aunts found themselves in a place where time moved backwards quickly, and they had to save them before they became unborn? Something along those lines. Wikipedia summarizes it thusly: quote:Back in the chocolate factory, three of Charlie's grandparents refuse to leave their bed. Mr. Wonka gives them a rejuvenation formula called "Wonka-Vite". They take much more than they need, subtracting 80 years. Two become babies, but 78-year-old Grandma Georgina vanishes, having become "−2". Charlie and Mr. Wonka journey to "Minusland", where they track down Grandma Georgina's spirit. As she has no physical presence, Mr. Wonka sprays her with the opposite of "Wonka-Vite" - "Vita-Wonk" - in order to age her again. Mr. Wonka admits that it is not an accurate way to age a person, but the spray is the only way to dose "minuses". Upon leaving Minusland, they discover that Grandma Georgina is now 358 years old. Using cautious doses of Wonka-Vite and Vita-Wonk, the three grandparents are restored to their original ages.
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Elfface posted:
That's basically how the book ends.
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lol
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Kids these days can't even make Loss comics.
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Yoshi Wins posted:I really think Wonka went overboard for killing a girl for chewing gum. Misophonia is real, and strong, and not my friend.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Misophonia is real, and strong, and not my friend. 
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ultrafilter posted:Something along those lines. Wikipedia summarizes it thusly: 
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The Wikipedia summary leaves out the most disturbing detail. Read the book and discover it for yourself!
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If your only exposure to the works of Roald Dahl is the Willy Wonka movies, reading some of the books is an eye-opening experience.
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Just wait to when you get to his stuff about Jewish people.
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lol, Great Glans Elevator
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It's got a Shaft, too.
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:lol, Great Glans Elevator Don't Doxx me
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FactsAreUseless posted:The Wikipedia summary leaves out the most disturbing detail. Read the book and discover it for yourself! Mind posting it? Because I’m probably not gonna bother reading it!
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Kit Walker posted:Mind posting it? Because I’m probably not gonna bother reading it!
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We invented video games precisely so we wouldn’t have to waste time reading books anymore
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oldpainless posted:We invented video games precisely so we wouldn’t have to waste time reading books anymore But someone would have to read the book to make a game of it. What now, athetist?
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Nov 19, 2019 19:47
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Make the game out of the movie adaptation
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Then turn the game into a movie ala resident evil
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The ending of Dahl's Witches - the one where the witches succeed in turning the protagonist child into a mouse - did not have the boy return to a mouse. He transforms all the witches into rats and they all get murdered by ignorant hotel staff members in a witch genocide, and he goes back to his grandma. He finds out from her how many years she has to live and how many years he (as a mouse) has to live, which comes to the same number, and they both live happily ever after knowing that they will die together at the same time in approx 5 years. Roald Dahl also wrote one of the best crime short stories Lamb to the Slaughter, which is short enough you don't have to refer to a wiki. He wrote Switch Bitch, a story introducing the Uncle Oswald character. In that story Oswald gets hold of a perfume that causes people to get into frenzied orgies, so he does the natural thing which is to try to get the President of United States to rape a celebrity on live tv (things do not go on as planned). This story proved to be successful enough he went on to use the same character to write the novel My Uncle Oswald, where Oswald and a female accomplice uses the spanish fly to get her to rape famous intellectuals, royalties and celebrities to get hold of their sperm to sell off to the highest bidders.
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The Roald Dahl story about the dude who gets to "live" forever as a brain in a jar certainly made an impression on 11-year-old me. aaaaaaaaa
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Roald Dahl also wrote the James Bond movie "You Only Live Twice", which strikes me as especially odd because Ian Fleming wrote the almost Dahl-esque "Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang".
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ultrafilter posted:If your only exposure to the works of Roald Dahl is the Willy Wonka movies, reading some of the books is an eye-opening experience. Lamb to the Slaughter is a good story
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Ranking of Willy Wonka media: 1) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2) Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator -gap- 3) First movie -another, larger gap- 4) Slurm factory episode of Futurama -huge loving gap- 5) That Johnny Depp piece of poo poo movie
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ultrafilter posted:If your only exposure to the works of Roald Dahl is the Willy Wonka movies, reading some of the books is an eye-opening experience. Surely everyone has seen Gremlins? Granted it was just based on his work. Then there's Skin of course and The Landlady. Despite being an massive antisemite I do think Roald Dahl's books are good and really stand up to teach children about the horrors that can be visited on them by adults who seemingly have authority over them. But yeah don't buy a cheerily illustrated Roald Dahl book for a kid unless you're happy with some occasional murder. Aramoro has a new favorite as of 15:55 on Nov 20, 2019 |
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His autobiography made a huge impression on me as a child and it wasn't until I was much older and had history degrees that I really realized he was the prototypical imperial subject, working for shell and flying planes around Africa and just generally being a cog in the extractive colonial apparatus, which he characterizes as a big fun adventure and is how I read it as a kid to If I ever have kids I'll have them read Dahl but he's certainly representative of a lot of the cultural baggage from the mid-20th century people like to not acknowledge if they can avoid it
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Roald Dahl taught me that land owners are bastards and pheasant poaching is cool and good.
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I saw the Wonka musical recently, and while on the whole it’s pretty average, it does have Veruca Salt being torn to pieces by the squirrels, which was extremely  . Anyway, comics!
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