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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.
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.
>Helena Bonham Carter in this old old house… It really reminded me of Big Fish.
Definitely! The crooked door in particular.
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.
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.
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”?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.
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