What do you think of Johnny Depp's Willie Wonka role?  

Hi aslanlight
At first I though Johnny Depp looked really creepy in the movie and I wondered why this look had been chosen for him. Maybe it was to show people visually what a traumatic familiy life he had, had! LOL I think Depp really demonstrates what a very sarcastic sense of humour he has and I think this is also portrayed in The Pirates of the Carabean! I do have both versions of the movie and both myself and my children prefer the original with Gene Wilder but that was the one I was brought up watching and my children have been influenced by my preference. Not to say the most recent version is no good, it's great!

I have never actually read the book, but I think I prefer Gene Wilder for the role. The movie from the 70s is just so classic that I can't help but absolutely love it. I do also love Johnny and he did a fantastic job, it was just, to me, a different twist of the character.

That was worst role ever.

It wasn't him at all but he really pulled it off! Bravo to Johnny for doing such an awesome job.

I love that Johnny strayed away from Gene Wilder's "Wonka". They totally don't compare bc they took on the role of Wonka so differently. Wilder's was more sarcastic, monotoned, and moody...Johnny's was more comical and disturbed. I love it bc in interviews, Johnny always laughs and even amazes himself at how he creepy he was.

I don't know why people say it was Johnny's "worst role ever". I guess it's bc it was totally out of his element? But the thing is that he ALWAYS challenges himself and does a role that is so far from who he really is. So portraying Wonka the way he did really is Johnny-esque.

Whatever, Johnny's just amazing.

I think, even though Depp is a marvellous actor, and does something really different with every role he plays, that I still prefer the original version with Gene Wilder. Depp's film is much darker in many ways, and I wasn't entirely convinced by the back story about his awful dentist father. However, the family of parents and grandparents in the newer version were more quirky than the original set - though I liked them as well.

When the second version came out, I asked myself what had happened to the children from the original version, and finished up writing an article on the subject which has been far more popular than anything else I've written on the Net - to my surprise!

http://cinemaroll.com/fan...