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    boingomusic
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    Did anyone notice how the hole in the roof of Charlie’s house looks like the one in Edward Scissorhands’ Castle ?

    Another thing I noticed is the Oompa Loompa sleeves. They’re black and white, exactly like BeetleJuices’ socks…!

    One other little thing that felt familiar was seeing Helena Bonham Carter in this old old house… It really reminded me of Big Fish.

    Oh, and that show, on TV, with the apes…. I’m pretty sure that wasn’t innocent either…

    What do you think??

    -Boingomusic

    #54762
    Mr. Dantz
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    The scene with the apes (from 2001: A Space Odyssey) was an homage to the great director Stanley Kubrick (The scene even sort of had his particular stylistic look to it) … Not Planet of the Apes.

    #54763
    Kipobe
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    The first thing I thought of was Space Odyssey (especially with the music, and all…) but my mind went back and forth… thinking that maybe Tim knew alot of people would reference Planet of the Apes… but I dunno. Coulda been two shots with one blow.

    #54764
    mootum
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    >Helena Bonham Carter in this old old house… It really reminded me of Big Fish.

    Definitely! The crooked door in particular.

    #54774
    Donnie_Darko88
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    That’s definitely a 2001 reference (music; apes going nuts with the chocolate). Other slight Burton references could be the cutting of the ribbon when Wonka opened his factory is like Edward Scissorhands with the way he is holding out his arms with scissors. The black and white swirl is also on Wonka’s cane.

    #54778
    rex
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    And the space ship from Mars Attack too :)

    #54784
    Ross Marshall
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    What spaceship???

    #54790
    Donnie_Darko88
    Participant

    The saucer looking spaceship that sucks up Augustus Gloop.

    #54793
    Kipobe
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    Don’t remember if I said this before, but the part where Augustus gets drowned in the chocolate, and you see it in the window (towards the end of the Oompa Loompa’s song) is very close to the image at the end of “Buried Alive 2” in the boat. Very very morbid… I loved it.

    Don’t know if it was intentional… but very well done.

    #54801

    It wasn’t a spaceship, it was the chocolate sucker machine thingy.
    How about the swirly thing on the top of Wonka’s cane? Doesn’t it look like the remote transmitter on the bottom of the Batmobile in “Batman Returns”?

    #54812
    stanleyfilms
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    actually, the scene with the apes was more than just an homage… it was right out of “2001: a space odyssey,” with the black monolith replaced by the wonka bar. a little cut-and-paste, that’s all. something tells me, like the scene or not, kubrick would not have been happy with this.

    #54814
    Edward Bloom
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    Stanley Kubrick wasn’t happy with many things !
    I’m huge SK fan and this “homage” didn’t bother me at all. I even thought it was pretty funny and quite original for a reference in a kids movie. Plus, Burton uses the Strauss’ ouverture with the same sense of rhythm as in 2001…

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