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minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 month ago“But Oompa Loompas aren’t humans, right? So they’re fair game!”
minus-squareDadifer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 month agoThe previous movies made them look like forshortened humans. The Timothee Chalamet one made them more like elves
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·1 month agoIn the original story, they were rather unfortunately depicted as looking like African pygmies. They were later made to look more inhuman so the forced labor would be okay.
minus-squarechuckleslord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·1 month agoRacism? In my celebrated English children’s story? It’s more likely than you think.
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 month agoRoald Dahl had some…UNFORTUNATE views.
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoRacism and antisemitism.
minus-squarebrsrklf@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoApparently bad enough that this had to be made : https://www.roalddahlmuseum.org/our-story/anti-racism-statement/
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoThat line cracked me up when I saw it back when it first aired. What did they do to deserve that, Farnsworth??
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 month agoThe small pygmy race barely rates against some of the racist shit in that and great glass elevator.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoThe fuck. There’s a timothee chalamet Wonka?
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoI watchd it when i had covid and fuck me dead i was not in a fit state for hugh grant oompa loompas or matt lukas with eyebrows. Try pairing it with a nice acid
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoOkay, now pair a weekend hospital stay (for, I don’t know, routine butthole maintenance? Express those glands) with watching the new Battlestar. Or rather don’t. It gave me hospital psychosis. The paranoia in the series bled through to real life. It was not my kind of fun.
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI’ll see you and raise you chemo and watchmen the film :P
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agorowan atkinson steals the show in everything he’s in. quod erat demonstratum it’s a rowan atkinson wonka.
“But Oompa Loompas aren’t humans, right? So they’re fair game!”
The previous movies made them look like forshortened humans. The Timothee Chalamet one made them more like elves
In the original story, they were rather unfortunately depicted as looking like African pygmies. They were later made to look more inhuman so the forced labor would be okay.
Racism? In my celebrated English children’s story? It’s more likely than you think.
Roald Dahl had some…UNFORTUNATE views.
Do share!
Racism and antisemitism.
Apparently bad enough that this had to be made :
https://www.roalddahlmuseum.org/our-story/anti-racism-statement/
Tell them I hate them
That line cracked me up when I saw it back when it first aired. What did they do to deserve that, Farnsworth??
The small pygmy race barely rates against some of the racist shit in that and great glass elevator.
The fuck. There’s a timothee chalamet Wonka?
I watchd it when i had covid and fuck me dead i was not in a fit state for hugh grant oompa loompas or matt lukas with eyebrows.
Try pairing it with a nice acid
Okay, now pair a weekend hospital stay (for, I don’t know, routine butthole maintenance? Express those glands) with watching the new Battlestar.
Or rather don’t. It gave me hospital psychosis. The paranoia in the series bled through to real life. It was not my kind of fun.
I’ll see you and raise you chemo and watchmen the film :P
Wonka
rowan atkinson steals the show in everything he’s in. quod erat demonstratum it’s a rowan atkinson wonka.
Fair enough