The new movie remake has been airing trailers, and quite frankly, while the movie looks absolutely loony, I am somewhat attracted to it. This leads me to ponder, why do things that are uncharacteristic to our nature sometimes appeal to us in a big way?
I'm a huge fan of the movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Not the one with precious-Johnny in it, but the original. Gene Wilder, while his interpretation of Willy Wonka seems tame to that of Johnny Depp's, he was the better of the two in my opinion. He kept the character just barely tangible, so that the effect was someone we could relate to, but also someone that we subconsciously envied because of his freedom of actions and whimsicality. Why can't we all be that unique and admired? Obviously, we can't. In the movie The Incredibles, the villian states that through him, everyone can have super powers; everybody can excel. And if everybody's super, NO ONE IS. That is because a people, individuals in everyday society, iconoclasts if you will, are head and shoulders above everyone else. If suddenly everyone had the capability to be someone really special, for example, Einstein, than the whole connotation of the word, Einstein, would be lost. If everyone is as smart as one of the smartest people, then everyone is the same. Nothing is exceptional about that.
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