posted by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
bugshaw at 11:01pm on 31/07/2005
bugshaw at 11:01pm on 31/07/2005Just been to see the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Which I enjoyed, but that's beside the point.
Postulation: Children's books mainly feature children as protagonists. C&TCF has a grown-up (Wonka) who we follow in some detail, more so than the rather one-dimensional mums and dads and grandpas and grandmas in other books. A man who has an interesting life, and who gets to think up things like "square sweets that look round." Young Bridget groks this, and thinks "Ah, that's how grown-ups are supposed to behave," and Wonka enters her subconscious as a primary role-model.
Oops!
(I bet he'd have a wall of animatronic chinchillas...)
Postulation: Children's books mainly feature children as protagonists. C&TCF has a grown-up (Wonka) who we follow in some detail, more so than the rather one-dimensional mums and dads and grandpas and grandmas in other books. A man who has an interesting life, and who gets to think up things like "square sweets that look round." Young Bridget groks this, and thinks "Ah, that's how grown-ups are supposed to behave," and Wonka enters her subconscious as a primary role-model.
Oops!
(I bet he'd have a wall of animatronic chinchillas...)
There are 2 comments on this entry. (Reply.)