WWAW The Witches (1990)

[JoeBrotheChildSpitGuzzler]

Shit was creepy as fuck when I was a kid. Especially the scene with the stroller rolling towards the seaside cliff and the witches are all gleeful. Of course I don't mean the 2020 remake where the kid is a nigger. Though it makes sense he'd be raised by his grandmother

 

[Harry Powell]

The book is fucking fantastic

 

[Lamont & Tonelli]

PFG if memory serves. Great puppets.

 

[JoeBrotheChildSpitGuzzler]

Roald Dahl was also an antisemite, which is pretty based

Edit And the way she describes witches vs "Real Women" is like trannies

 

[Harry Powell]

Roald Dahl was also an antisemite, which is pretty based

Edit And the way she describes witches vs "Real Women" is like trannies

Did you ever read his antisemitic remarks? They’re from an interview when he was like 90 fucking years old. SURPRISE! The Jews make a mountain out of a molehill

 

[not that Jack Horner]

Did you ever read his antisemitic remarks? They’re from an interview when he was like 90 fucking years old. SURPRISE! The Jews make a mountain out of a molehill

this is what he said

During his lifetime, Dahl made openly anti-Semitic remarks on a number of occasions.

In a review of a book about the Lebanon War that appeared in the August 1983 edition of the British periodical Literary Review, Dahl wrote, in reference to Jewish people, “Never before in the history of man has a race of people switched so rapidly from being much-pitied victims to barbarous murderers.”

He also made reference to “those powerful American Jewish bankers” and asserted that the United States government was “utterly dominated by the great Jewish financial institutions over there.”

Later that same year, he doubled down on his statements in an interview with the British magazine New Statesman. “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews,” he said. “I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”

A few months before his death in 1990, Dahl stated outright that he was anti-Semitic in an interview with The Independent.

After claiming that Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon was “hushed up in the newspapers because they are primarily Jewish-owned,” he went on to say, “I’m certainly anti-Israeli and I’ve become anti-Semitic in as much as that you get a Jewish person in another country like England strongly supporting Zionism. I think they should see both sides. It’s the same old thing: we all know about Jews and the rest of it. There aren’t any non-Jewish publishers anywhere, they control the media—jolly clever thing to do—that’s why the president of the United States has to sell all this stuff to Israel.”

 

[quark]

International and powerful secret cabal of wicked monsters who eat children. Hmmm

Seriously though, great book and I watched the movie all the time when I was a kid.

 

[Lamont & Tonelli]

this is what he said

He called Hitler a "stinker" teehee

 

[guest]

It was great, Anjelica Huston's best performance.

 

[LingerLonger]

Did you ever read his antisemitic remarks? They’re from an interview when he was like 90 fucking years old. SURPRISE! The Jews make a mountain out of a molehill

When Tolkien died his children burned all of his racist writings from his own personal notes. But stupidly left the entire collection of the British magazine Candour which was basically a White Nationalist magazine filled with all of the things he had underlined. Tolkien literally had every single issue in his possession and had kept them organized in his office.

Probably by the time JK Rowling dies there will be shrines to Hitler in her house that her family will have to get rid of quietly.

 

[Dennyislife]

As a kid everything about it was unsettling from the boys parents dying to having to live with his ill grandmother, bald women and Mr bean talking

 

[Harry Powell]

this is what he said

Maybe this place has corroded my mind but that all sounds reasonable to me. Ronald Dahl said nothing wrong!

 

[Harry Powell]

As a kid everything about it was unsettling from the boys parents dying to having to live with his ill grandmother, bald women and Mr bean talking

IIRC

In the end there’s no way for him to return to human form and he simply accepts that he will die very soon since he is now a mouse. He’s okay with this because his grandmother is going to die soon because she’s old.

 

[Dennyislife]

IIRC

In the end there’s no way for him to return to human form and he simply accepts that he will die very soon since he is now a mouse. He’s okay with this because his grandmother is going to die soon because she’s old.

In the film the witch who is kinda good turns the boys back into humans so he becomes a orphan at about 14


A happy ending