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The Writer's Block was created with a single goal in mind: to explore the art we consume and develop a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
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For film lovers, video game addicts, and pop culture enthusiasts, The Writer's Block is the perfect channel for thought-provoking examinations of the art we love. With insightful commentary and fascinating discussions, The Writer's Block is the perfect place to explore the world of film, video games, and pop culture.
Whether it's exploring the hidden meanings in our favorite movies or dissecting the latest gaming trends, The Writer's Block is a place where fans can come to expand their horizons. In terms of community, The Writer's Block is dedicated to providing insightful analysis and thoughtful discussion. So whether you're a lifelong fan or just getting started, be sure to check out The Writer's Block.
Overanalyzing Wonka: A Descent into Madness
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Can Timothée Chalamet in Wonka really compare to Gene Wilder's version of Willy Wonka? Does the musical aspect of Wonka capture the magic of one of cinema's most beloved characters? Or does it leave things on a sour note. And is it ok for movies to just be ok???
Delve with me into the Wonka-verse as we explore these questions .
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Can Timothée Chalamet in Wonka really compare to Gene Wilder's version of Willy Wonka? Does the musical aspect of Wonka capture the magic of one of cinema's most beloved characters? Or does it leave things on a sour note. And is it ok for movies to just be ok???
Delve with me into the Wonka-verse as we explore these questions .
I'm Dylan, and THIS is The Writer's Block
Written & Edited ------------------ Dylan Gregory @TheWritersBlockOfficial
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I love Mean Girls (2004) and Mean Girls: The Musical. So imagine my disappointment when Mean Girls (2024) the film adaptation of The Broadway version of Mean Girls turned out to be... well... a mistake. Remakes are rarely good, and movie musicals are always a tricky thing to pull off, so let's dive into why the Mean Girls remakes was a bad movie and even worse musical. And let's talk about the ...
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Um... Did A.I Write Disney's Wish???
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Something doesn't feel right about Disney's latest Animated Feature film... Disney's Wish was supposed to celebrate the company's 100 year anniversary, but it seems to take all the wrong lessons from the extensive history of Disney. Today on the Writer's Block, let's dive into the 3 reasons Disney's Wish *FEELS* Like it was written by Artificial Intelligence... Written & Edited Dylan Gregory @T...
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Hollywood is completely out of original ideas. This is the end.
this whole time i thought the kenyan guy was named kenyan and was just a rlly fast runner 😭😭
Not fetch! The worst thing is that is doesn't teach people enything and lack of character development!
The more time I watch 1 & 2 are my favorite of the series.
0:25 is that Amor Redentor by Francine Rivers?
Ima just state the obvious tdk is infact a trilogy with clear physical and mental character growth let’s talk in sun years the 2022 film was good and if u simply just don’t like u either didn’t like the pacing and style aka were bored or just blatantly biased as a grown man the film was great but I don’t see it entertaining or grabbing kids the same way as tdk
I was hoping to see at least one comment referencing Snowpiercer or the fan theory, but all I got was one Dune reference. Just imagine, though: a crossover between Willy Wonka, Dune, Snowpiercer and Infinity Train. _A young Wonka got mysteriously sent into a weird world, finds out it's within a massive and very long train that's continuously traveling in the middle of a desert. He somehow misses the point of the train and why he's in there, journeys through many cars and meeting fellow passengers along, and eventually reaches the engine which is unoccupied. The whole journey made him into a madman. He declares himself the Chosen One, The Messiah - "Muad'dib" as the more veteran passengers prophesized, and he now rules the entire train; he has the most numbers on him out of all the passengers of the train._
Willy wanka the first movie I've seen in years that I smiled through the entire thing and saw twice in theater. I still love the original but find nothing wrong with the new one bc I see it as a prequel and don't compare too harshly
You have too much forbidden knowledge to not be one of my people but your "40 year old white guy explaining to me how microsoft teams works" voice is kinda throwing me every time I hear it lol.
I'm a bit confused. Feel free to elaborate or leave it a mystery. Your choice
I don't see the Kenyan comment as racist. Kenya is known to have the fastest runners in the world, hands down. Running is a huge part of culture within Kenya. I am open to being corrected if I am wrong here.
I haaaaaated this movie!!!
As someone who has never read ballad of songbirds and snakes, does she really sing that much? She really pissed me tf off!!! Like she just felt like a Mary sue to me, in her wildly colourful clothes and her incredibly intelligent mindset plus the singing. Lucy gray just made me so annoyed
bith 1971 and 2023 wonka kinda look alike the only difference is the eye colour
My view on Thor in Endgame is that its a good idea, very poorly executed. There’s nothing wrong with the idea of Thor spiralling with depression the way he does, but the movie consistently treats Thor and his state as a joke intil he meets with his mother again. That left a really bad taste in my mouth and is why i find it difficukt to return to Endgame.
it's funny. Harry Potter 6 the 'Dumbledore has a Drink' movie was so bad I forgot they made two more.
You really nailed this analysis. When watching this movie myself, I found it a fine enough movie to be enjoyable, but whenever they tried to make it...wonka-esk, it ended up just taking me out of the emersion somehow, and i couldnt really figure out why it felt that way. It felt like they were trying to shoehorn the wonka aspect of wonka in so much that it felt so out of place and looped right back around to being why it DIDNT feel like a movie made to be a wonka movie. It felt like a movie wearing wonkas clothing rather than a movie about wonka. Every wonka action felt like it either hit as funny, quirky or so jarringly "look how funny and quirky willy wonka is!" that it makes the movie feel like its trying too hard. That and this disjointedness of the story that i would look past in most musicals but feels confusing why they included them in a wonka movie when it doesnt really enhance the movie, it just sort of...happens. I feel like if it was trying to be a purely original story, there would be more focus on making the story have a proper theme and have their story decisions enhance the plot. It was a fine movie, enjoyable enough to watch, but it would have been better if it wasnt a wonka movie. Though....I doubt they'd make nearly as much money if that was the case, so it was probably never meant to be.
I'm just going to say the thing you're not supposed to.... None of those girls were attractive.
Honestly I'd just recommend the broadway musical version if someone wanted a musical charlie and the chocolate factory story other then the original as the songs form that one are pretty enjoyable and the show overall is decently fun while still trying to keep characters in line with how they would act. also i am just so glad that charlies mum gets a way better song then Cheer up Charlie in the stage show.
I liked the Songs but Cady's songs are a different Species I was even in Mean Girls the musical like 1 month ago or Something Also the Zoom in of Cady's face is weird Why would they do that (Also I seen the Og one and the musical)
Also, you can't make Willy Wonka LITERALLY magical and say he's the same character as Gene Wilder's Wonka. That's just... No.
If "Wonka" had advertised itself as fanfic or inspired by the character, I actually would've enjoyed it. But as a prequel to Gene Wilder's Wonka? It fails in every single way. Every attempted nod to the IP was awful. The original stuff? Not bad. It was odd.
My interpretation of Wonka is that he is a good, eccentric man who was driven into isolation by others’ greed (especially the corporate espionage of people stealing his ideas) - the darkness in Gene Wilder’s Wonka is because of decades of isolation and paranoia around other people, and in a way finding Charlie is him opening back up to the world - while testing people’s intentions to ensure his factory is safe. His eccentricities are genuine, but it’s also a mask he uses to protect himself and his factory.
The ending was very 'teenage', everything had to be spelled out in an obvious way, as to explain something to a child and make sure they 100 % understand. That said, it was an enjoyable movie, it maybe dropped it from a 9 to a 8 or a 7.5, i mean what ever its entertainment, but yeah it was a bit offensive knowing the director didn't think we would understand and have to spell it all out. Still enjoyed, liked the darkness the grossness, the overall vibe of the film.
Honestly, this movie should have been magnifico being the king that saves his people from asha's mad ideology and save the kingdom from the uprising, and guess what, in a long time, we could have gotten and male main character againts an evil (mad) girl, or hell, he could have showed her why her's idea is soo wrong showing, not everything is black and white (like, the young girls not always on the right whatever they think and need a supervisor to show them the right way) for the audience, this movie had so much potential, yet wasted sooo much
The Battle of Helms Deep is one of the greatest things ever captured on film and one of my all time favorite scenes ever
lemme remind the people that in the past years disney has fallen off... you should not be surprised that the story is bad probably people with great story to tell dont wanna work with disney with everything that is happening with it
19:57 Actually, Slugworth _is_ a real person in the Willy Wonka universe and is _not_ Willy Wonka’s ally. Yes, he does exist alongside Fickelgruber and Prodnose. They had sent in spies to steal the recipes for Wonka’s candies in the adaptations that came before. The “Slugworth” you’re referring to in the 1961 movie was an actor hired by Wonka to put the winning kids up to the test to see if one of them would be rightful owner of Wonka’s chocolate factory.
Just realized I'm eating Nerds gummies while watching this for extra immersion
I've never seen a video miss the point harder in my entire life. 9:19 "Its unclear if he gets revenge on Fuches", he didn't want to get revenge on Fuches, they forgave one another after fuches saved his son, I don't understand how that could be more clear. Barry ended his story being remembered as a tragic hero by all and burried with honors having a biopic made about him that literally erased all his bad deeds, I have no idea how you somehow twisted this into "barry didn't get what he wanted." He got a more glamorous ending than walter white.
It's like after Hamilton, producers are jumping to create movies like the DEH instead of just feeding us with the pro shot; they want to make a comprised product to gain those greens from a wider, more casual, audience.
"The filmmakers are so scared that high school kids might consider musical theater cringe, that they tried to strip away everything that made Mean Girls: The Musical work." This is exactly right! I saw the movie in the theater. My husband and I (late 30’s) were basically the only adults in the room, the rest were teenagers. They ALL audibly groaned every time a song started. I think that if the filmmakers didn’t try to appeal to the kids, the actual kids might come around and start liking the songs as the movie went on.
I am groot " I am Steve Rodgers "
Just watch the film and like it or not.... and move on. Analysis is totally pointless. A waste of time. This is as boring as hell!!!
If you dont like film analysis: 1. Don't act like others can't 2. Don't click on videos that are clearly about analyzing a film
I'm genuinely curious if high schoolers have eliminated fatphobia to the extent that Renee Rapp would be believably considered the hottest girl in school, because that was very much not my experience of high school and I feel like in general societal views of fat haven't changed all that much. If so, that's really awesome, but despite Renee Rapp being objectively very hot, in my experience of high school she would definitely be too large to be one of the most popular girls. Either way, how the hell did they keep that kalteen bar plot line??? It literally makes no sense and is way more offensive and harmful than other problematic things they removed ...
They for some reason did change the line to say the bars are for elderly people rather than starving children which is... something... not a good something... but... it happened...
Huh. When I watched the first part of Dune, I knew it wasn't the whole movie, so to speak. I knew he hoped to make a second part so he could finish his story. Maybe it was made clearer to people like us Swedes, who got the movie a bit later than Americans (as usual). Hence, we were forewarned. Still, if I had one complaint with the first part, it was that the Atreides family didn't feel like a true family to me. Lynch (who made the 1984 version) actually made the family feel more real, for some reason, than Villeneuve did. At least in my opinion. But maybe I was a bit distracted by the oh so very loud movie. During the second part, I used earplugs, which made it much more enjoyable to listen to. Never missed a sound. Imagine that.
Paraphrasing.. - Take that money and go somewhere nice & enjoy it. - I can't enjoy, I'll just be worried thinking about you. - That's just love, nothing you can do about that. 😭😭😭
Because everyone knows that Hank=Science... LOVE IT!!!!
Maybe they chose that lady to play Katie because her face is so puffy☝. In comparison to Regina whos face is considered more beautiful & Katies face not being on par. Then Caren has a slim face matching Reginas but Gretchens face is also puffy matching Katies who is also the only other underdog female in the group. Idk maybe.....but Katie was really cliché to watch.
I don't really get the part about grading and how the Deathly Hallows is uh.. real? Because these movies look absolutely not real at all. Reality isn't strangely muted in color or tinted blue or green or something like that.
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Ai thumbnail. Okay.
It's just an oil paint filter from photorea
THE PAGE MASTER!!!
Maddie-sharpay dichotomy is such a phrase love that
Thanks!
It's really bad! Even AI can do better imo
YESS New moon rights!!
Every good word you may have said were thrown out the window the minute you mentioned how you didn't like the Joker. Lol
Care to elaborate?
Time for a slime tutorial
Seeing a project like this come out of Disney is literally insane 😭😭😭
Song birds amd snakes was adapted just fine. Zeigler played an amazing role as Lucy Gray and gave v8ewers another perspective as to her motivations than they may have found reading the book.
don't call LLMs an artificial intelligence, because it's not