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"Mike Teavee" has the variety of them all, which takes place as the shrunken Mike Teavee is bounced between different channels (much like Joe Dante's Twilight Zone: The Movie segment). "Violet Beauregarde" is done in the style of a 1990s Backstreet Boys pseudo-rap, and "Veruca Salt" is like a late 1960s rock song, replete with sitar and harmonized chorus. For "Augustus Gloop", the first time we see the Oompa Loompas in action, there is a large synchronized swimming sequence which fits the tribal rhythms and big-band music present in the song.
On screen, the Oompa Loompas (all played by Deep Roy) stage exorbitantly choreographed sequences, set to each song. The four Oompa Loompa songs follow, and each one is performed by Elfman singing all the parts. It's supposed to be annoying - that's the point of it, and if you didn't know that in context, you'd just think this song was a horrible way to start the album. The album opens with the aforementioned "Wonka's Welcome Song", an earworm-children's jingle that actually appears in the film as performed by an automated puppet show, which subsequently breaks down and catches on fire. But when heard in the context of the film, and the lyrics (which were adapted from Dahl's poems, with the exceptions of "Wonka's Welcome Song"), the songs suddenly work - exceptionally well.
Will it work for everyone? Certainly not - on first listen, the songs are disturbingly weird, and even a bit off-putting. The songs (and yes, dear reader, there are five of them), range through a variety of styles - but all retain that vintage Oingo Boingo edge that made Elfman such a success in the first place. The score that he wrote for the film is a fantastical return to the Edward Scissorhands style of film scoring, mixed with a touch of his current "modern" sound, and a dash of To Die For. Even knowing that this was not a remake of the beloved Gene Wilder Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but rather a new adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl novel, Elfman said that it wouldn't make a difference: "Tim and I will be crucified." But now, having seen the film and heard the soundtrack, I cannot really say that I would agree with that sentiment, and Elfman was just being cautious, with good reason. Wilder? Check him out in the Mel Brooks classics “Blazing Saddles” (1974) and “The Producers” (1968) alongside Richard Pryor in “Silver Streak” (1976) and in his 1967 movie debut in Arthur Penn’s “Bonnie and Clyde.” (All are available on Amazon and iTunes.About a year ago, when Danny Elfman attended a BMI-sponsored "Coffee Talk" event at the Los Angeles Film Festival, he gave a little insight into his current project: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. But whoever breaks the rules - and there are many - forfeits the grand prize. The director Mel Stuart’s sugar rush also stars Peter Ostrum as Charlie, one of five children who discover golden tickets hidden in Wonka Bars and are treated to a tour of Wonka’s fantasyland factory, with its Everlasting Gobstoppers, Fizzy Lifting Drinks and assembly line of Oompa-Loompas. For many of us, Wonka - the delightfully demented candy maker spun from the Roald Dahl children’s novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” - was our introduction to the scrumptious talents of Gene Wilder, who died on Monday.
WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) on Amazon and iTunes. And the addled soul mates at the heart of “You’re the Worst” return for a third season. You can pay tribute to Gene Wilder, who died on Monday, by streaming classics like “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and “Blazing Saddles.” Meanwhile, “Four Weddings and a Funeral” arrives on the new Starz app.