[WATCHED: March 11, 2013] Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
After enjoying the audio book of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang so much we thought it would be fun to watch the movie–it’s one of the first times we’ve watched a movie after reading the book with the kids so we thought it would be fun to compare them.
This proved to be an awesome opportunity to show that books and movies can be a wee bit different. Holy moley, about the only thing that the movie has in common with the book is (some of) the characters have the same name and that there’s a magical car. Oh, and there’s candy involved. Other than that, there’s really no resemblance whatsoever.
The screenplay to the movie was written by Roald Dahl, which explains some of the weirdness (child catcher, anyone?), And yes the movie producer’s real name is Albert Broccoli. But seriously, someone read the book and said, hey, that car is cool, I’m going to take it and make something totally different with it. Oh, and I know, it should be a musical! Oh, and it should be two and a half hours long! Oh and even though it’s set in England, it will star Dick van Dyke! Oh, and instead of him having that crazy accent like in Mary Poppins, he’ll be American, even though his children and father will be British.
I was going to talk a bit about the movie, but that only seems doable by comparing it to the book. In this handy table format. (more…)
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