Which kid in this movie were you?

One of the random nobodies that didn't get a ticket

I'm definitely an oompa loompa.

>Free food and board
>Don't have to go outside
>Get to torture children

Was Willy a pedo?

Either he was, or he despised children, one of the two.

GRRRGHGH WHY ARE YOU WATCHING THE TELLY YOU LITTLE YANKEE TWAT?! YOU SHOULD BE BUYING MY BOOKS ABOUT NASTY PEOPLE BEING NASTY INSTEAD!

Mike Teavee had some pretty based taste in television too, watching westerns and old war movies.

More like a serial killer really

People always try to copout of this by saying the children inflicted it on themselves, but there's a reason we have OSHA rules.

it's about only being able to see not think, and not being able to accept a fairytale.

This always came across as a bit silly to me. If I was a child and I saw a shrink-ray teleporter, you bet your ass I'd use it, and why? Precisely BECAUSE as a child I know about all those fairytales and fun adventures that tiny people go on.

Idiot. I wouldn't have. Not all children are brainlet subhuman imbeciles.

>I wouldn't have.
Why not? What would be going through your mind after seeing a fellow kid get shrunk other than "that looked cool as heck, I want to try that!"?

you are right i just rewatched the scene. I can still justify it as Mike TV being only able to see not think, but yeah the fairytale part does not apply.

>I can still justify it as Mike TV being only able to see not think
How so?

Not thinking everything through, because he just wanted to go through the shrinker for a pretty vain motivation: becoming the first person to be sent by television and telling people back home.
It's very common with kids. I bet I would be thinking the same thing, but this is probably due to the influence of TV according to Roald Dahl.

I agree it's weak.

The motivation part is true, but I feel like the actions wouldn't change for many children regardless. A teleportation device + shrink-ray is just fucking cool as hell, you don't have to want to be the first person to do something or be famous by telling people back home about it, you just have to think "wow that looks like it'd be a lot of fun" and that's enough justification for most kids.

The author of the book was an antisemite. That's all I know about it.
Didn't read, didn't watch.
Sorry not interested.

>Dahl and his work have been criticised for racial stereotypes, misogyny and anti-semitism, the latter contradicted by those who knew him.
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl#Comments_on_Israel_and_antisemitism
He wasn't an antisemite.

I guess that kid that played videogames? But not nearly as aggressive. Maybe if he and Charlie were combined that would have been me. That isn't to say I didn't have a strong competitive spirit though