It also suffered a fair amount from the modern compulsion to humanize and strongly motivate everyone...
Oh, I don't know. The kids and their parents were all appropriately one-dimensional, and Charlie's family is a pretty accurate portrayal from the book, IIRC. It's only Wonka himself (and his mysteriously-added father) who get the "motivation" treatment...
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Date: 2005-07-21 09:17 pm (UTC)Oh, I don't know. The kids and their parents were all appropriately one-dimensional, and Charlie's family is a pretty accurate portrayal from the book, IIRC. It's only Wonka himself (and his mysteriously-added father) who get the "motivation" treatment...