Caractacus Pott Caractacus Pott Caractacus Potts is one of the main characters in Ian Fleming's novel "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang" and its film adaptation. The film version of the story makes several changes to Pott's character. In the original 1964 book, "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car", Pott is a Royal Navy Commander and eccentric inventor who lives with his wife Mimsy and their twin eight-year-old children, Jeremy and Jemima, on their hilltop farm. The filmmakers, including screenwriter Roald Dahl, altered a good deal of the book's details when crafting the 1968 film musical version of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", in which Caractacus is portrayed by Dick
Story within a story version of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" uses a story within a story format to tell a purely fantastic fairy tale within a relatively more realistic frame-story. The film version of "The Wizard of Oz" does the same thing by making its inner story into a dream. Lewis Carroll's celebrated "Alice" books use the same device of a dream as an excuse for fantasy, while Carroll's less well-known "Sylvie and Bruno" subverts the trope by allowing the dream figures to enter and interact with the "real" world. Some stories feature what might be called a literary version of the Droste effect,