{"id":313,"date":"2005-08-01T22:34:47","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T22:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2007-03-01T22:21:28","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T22:21:28","slug":"oompa-loompa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Oompa Loompa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/title\/tt0367594\/\">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/a> this evening. I wasn&#8217;t really sure what I thought I was going to expect really. It had been so long since I&#8217;d seen the first film adaptation of the book, and an even longer time since I&#8217;d read the book, that I couldn&#8217;t really remember anything of the story! As such, some parts of this film left me wondering, &#8220;Was this in the book?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What I did notice was that this film adaptation was darker and noticeably more sarcastic than the previous film, and the characters seemed a little more human. The Oompa Loompas, however, seemed to get sidelined a bit as their roles didn&#8217;t seem so prominent and I couldn&#8217;t for the life of me work out what the song lyrics were!<\/p>\n<p>All in all, an entertaining film, although I&#8217;m not sure I get on too well with Roald Dahl&#8217;s stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory this evening. I wasn&#8217;t really sure what I thought I was going to expect really. It had been so long since I&#8217;d seen the first film adaptation of the book, and an even longer time since I&#8217;d read the book, that I couldn&#8217;t really remember anything of the story!&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=313\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}