Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory * FIRST TIME WATCHING * Millennial Movie Monday
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Ashleigh: Does Gene Wilder sing in this?
Me: she is going to flip her lid.
MY LID HAS BEEN FLIPPED.
@@awkwardashleigh That makes quite a mess. Hope Hubben is there to help you clean it up.
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Funny, that's what I thought when she talked about wanting to be on the boat. :-D
@@awkwardashleigh I was surprised you didn't know this was a musical! Also Snozzberries is slang for nuts! Like the nuts boys have.
Gene Wilder was such a caring man, when his family was asked about why they kept his Alzheimer’s diagnosis a secret they said he didn't want to disappoint “the countless young children that would smile or call out to him, ‘There’s Willy Wonka” or expose them to the cruel realities of the disease and "He simply couldn’t bear the idea of one less smile in the world"
he was a brave dude, darkest days towards the end of his life, but he didnt want anyone frowning, took it like a champ.
Wow what an amazing man. Gene really was a true talent that could do so much comedy drama he has a good voice too. R.i.p. gene. Too many legends have been passing away.
That's one of the most touching facts i have ever seen. I had no idea Gene Wilder was such a brave and caring Man.
His relationship and caring for Gilda Radner as she slowly died from ovarian cancer is also another example of how brave and caring he was.
I can believe that about him.
having worked in a chocolate factory for 34 years now i need to say i was conned, its nothing like willie wonka made it out to be
You are not conned. If you were old enough to begin working at a chocolate factory, you were old enough to know that movies are different then real life. Especially a movie with Willy Wonka!
@@steelionx9255 r/woooooooooosh
it more like the opening credits.
@@steelionx9255 they were joking...
@@steelionx9255 they was joking… literally stfu
Fun fact: In the scary tunnel scene, Gene Wilder was the only one who knew what was happening.
so the actors reaction looking freaked out was real. They didnt know about genes song or the anything. Hence if you watch closely you can see the actors just stop acting and just watch gene freaked out
@@walters9620 a lot like the chest bursting scene from Alien
I used to be a truck driver and in many truck stops there is a tv room. One day I was in a tv room by myself and put this on. By the end of the movie I realized there were well over 2 dozen other truck drivers also watching it with me. Good times.
I think that's cool. Sometimes truckers get a bad rap, but that goes to show we are ALL kids at heart ❤
Dude, that's awesome. Stuff that tough guy/girl toughness that trucky's are known for. You are prime example of someone that is a big kid at hard.
That's adorable 🥺
That's the most wholesome thing I've ever heard.
@@julier4140 I don't understand WHY truck drivers get a bad rep. They are the ones that makes the world go round.
Becoming an adult is realizing Willy Wonka owning a chocolate factory and holding a contest to humiliate bad children is a great idea lol
And their parents possibly too >_>;;
And realizing schnoz berries are a euphemism for gentlemenly bits.
@@ThePorpoisepower thumbs up for the phrase "gentlemanly bits"
Very good.
My realization was that it was all a scam to con a gullible child into inheriting the company along with the mountain of debt in fines from all the health code violations.
@@jmoon6909 They're only violations if you get caught... and good luck to any inspector trying to get in!
Besides, Oompa Loompas clearly aren't human- human rights laws have yet to be extended to them, while as mentioned everyone else signed the waiver.
21:00 "apple doesn't fall far from the tree" "Egg doesn't fall far from the *cloaca*" ;-)
Ashleigh: I’d be taking a bite out of everything in that room.
Gene Wilder: 😬
“Everything in this room is edible! Even I am edible, but that’s cannibalism and it’s frowned upon in most societies.”
is eating an umpa lumpa cannibalism? I guess it falls into the same category as eating an Anthropomorphic animal but they look more humanlike so slightly worse?
It'd all go to waste anyway. Candy is meant to be eaten or it becomes stale and will go bad
The most amazing thing to me about this movie is that Peter Ostrum had a fun time playing Charlie, and got offers afterward for no less than a dozen kids' films. But he decided to reject them all, give up show business, and became a veterinarian. How many times in the history of moviemaking have we seen that? I think it was a commendable decision.
That is quite amazing!
That’s up there with Kelly Reno, who played Alec in The Black Stallion growing up to become a rancher.
Also the kid who played Benny the jet Rodriguez in “The Sandlot” he’s a firefighter 👨🚒
Carrie Hein, who played Newt in Aliens, did the same rejection of Hollywood.
And the kid who played young Forrest Gump grew up to join the military.
Fun fact: when Gene was in his last years, he stayed out of public life (Gene was suffering from Alzheimer's his last years) and all public knowledge of his prognosis was kept silent because "He simply couldn't bear the idea of one less smile in the world."
that is the saddest of fun facts
Hardly a "fun" fact
Never knew a young Jon Bon Jovi was in this movie
Gene’s autobiography is incredible. It’s especially great on audiobook. He did the narration himself.
I cry anytime I listen to that audiobook, and audiobooks rarely make me emotional.
Charlie's reaction to Gene yelling at Joe is real. The director forbade Gene from telling him about this scene beforehand. And Gene really wanted to.
I know that technically the remake is more faithful to the book but this version is by far more memorable and iconic
Yeah never liked that one. One of the few bad roles of Johnny Depp
Just because you're faithful to the book doesn't mean it's going to be a good movie. Some people don't seem to recognize that.
The one thing the remake does do right is showing the other kids leaving the factory.
@@gryphman I like in this movie that we don't see what happens to the kids. It's in keeping with Wonka being a mysterious trickster type. By the end of the movie we know he has good intentions so we can infer the kids are probably fine, but the air of uncertainty remains, Wonka is a wildcard.
The remake didn't come together as a movie, I actually liked Depp's Wonka and Christopher Lee's dentist character was excellent, but the rest of the movie was flat and disjointed.
Ashleigh's ovaries exploded when Gene started singing.
Clean up on aisle my panties, amirite.
@@awkwardashleigh sploosh!
@@awkwardashleigh 😂😂😂
@@awkwardashleigh Oh my..
*monocle falls out
@@awkwardashleigh I'm stealing this for future use.
Absolute classic. My favorite chocolate bar was the Wonka bar, chocolate & graham crackers. Fun fact, the actress who played Veruca based her character off of girls at her private school she "absolutely could not stand", & the kid actors would often apologize to each other in between takes for being so mean.
Ok, this I did not know, and I absolutely love how sweet the kids were with each other
And she is so great as Veruca!
She made the best Veruca!
She even tried to comfort the boy playing Augustus because he was shivering so badly because they had to do many takes with him in the water which basically was freezing.
Joe: lays in bed for 20 years, not helping the mother
Joe after Charlie wins a ticket: Oh look, I can stand now.
Joe Laying in bed for 20 years [literally never getting out]:
How did he use the bathroom?
How does he still have any muscle mass in his legs whatsoever?
@@MGmirkin There was a bed pan under the bed.
@@crystalsnow1138 Which makes the complete refusal to help around the house even worse; woman cleaned up his excrement!
That plot convience hits hard
I think the intention is that they were basically sleeping all the time to reduce the amount of food they needed to live, considering that the family was getting by on cabbage soup with insufficient cabbage...
"Stop...don't come back" has been one of my favorite lines for the 35+ years I been alive...his delivery is spotless!
its "Stop, wait, comeback" yawn". Perfect delivery
Also, "The suspense is terrible! .....I hope it'll last....." He's not actually eating popcorn. Idk what he's eating, but he may as well be 😅🍿
@@jal2550 lol no, it's clearly "Stop, don't, come back"
@@jal2550 he says it twice. I think 'wait' was the first one and 'dont' was the second
"I'd let Gene Wilder pull my hair!"
Now I've got Headly Lamar from Blazing Saddles in my head going: "Kinky!" 😋
Ashleigh loves Froggie. Froggie love Ashleigh?
@@alanmackie7012 Riiibit! Ribit!
Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka is so special
Stop, don't, come back.
@@whovianhistorybuff Lol, that too XD
The guy and the computer kills me everytime. "Let's see what happens if I promise to share the grand prize" 😂😂😂
That's Tim Brooke-Taylor
"He killed those kids, didn't he?" is the best response ever.
🤭
He did and got away with it.😂😂😂🤫🤫🤫
Fun fact: Gene would only accept the role under the condition that no one knows what he is about to do or say, so that their reactions would be real: his intro with the cane, the boat ride, and when he yells at Charlie, all those facial reactions were 100% genuine.
The kid who played Charlie was on the verge of tears when he went off on him, it was so unexpected
And the limp, forward roll, was his idea.
He also insisted on his introduction scene. He reasoned that if, in his first appearance, he blatantly lies to everyone, nobody will know if they should ever trust him again.
I freaking cried when Wonka yelled at Charlie. So I guess it got the job done.
@@TheDunnDusted So did the kid. The tears were completely genuine. Gene felt bad about it later, but said it was better than robbing him of the chance to have that performance as an actor.
@@Sam_on_CZcams And since Peter Ostrum had no acting experience before making this movie, that motivation actually helped him. I'm 100% sure Gene gave him the biggest hug after the scene was completed though.
A tinker was a tradesman who typically repaired household items, mainly pots and pans. They were generally tinsmiths but having other skills like grinding razors and scissors wouldn't be unheard of either. Usually they were itinerant or traveling workers, hence the cart.
6:31 "that was weird". That's a dueling scar. For generations in German-speaking countries, upper-class young men it universities would join student societies, kind of like snooty fraternities, which included dueling with swords among their traditions. Getting a scar on your face like that was a status symbol, showing that you were brave, even attractive in a way like an eye patch. Anyway that's why stereotypical German villains often have them.
Like Siegfried, he got his in a duel in Hieldberg, with his brother.
The reaction of the kids to seeing the Chocolate Room was genuine. They were kept away from the set until ready to film so as to capture their genuine wonder. Violet and Veruca had quite a feud going on during filming as they both fancied Charlie.
And their reaction to the farryboat scene was genuine.
There were a lot of reactions that were genuine. Willy Wonka limping out of the factory and doing the summer salt was improved and genuine, Willy Wonka snapping at Charlie was also genuine, Gene didn’t tell him he was going to do that.
Didn’t they reference this feud in the remake?
In the book or the actual actors?
@@anakamarvelous during filming as they said
18:00 I love how every seat on the boat was taken. Any time there’s a vehicle, there isn’t enough room had any of the missing children made it.
"Her voice feels like a warm hug." Nailed it.
The man with butcher knives on his cart was a “tinkerer” he is the man you would flag down on the road to fix your old pots and sharpen your kitchen knives. Yeah my dad used to tell us about them when he lived in the city as a kid and he is in his 70s now, so not that long ago. He also had a man who would deliver ice to his house for the ice box. The whole Willy Wonka tumbling scene was improvised by Wilder. He didn’t tell anyone what he wanted to do but he convinced them to just keep filming. The crowd’s reaction was genuine. Wonka’s office is to show how he is half a mind about everything.
Note: Roald Dahl is known for extremely weird, dark twists in his stories.
and he hated the movie version of his book so much that he refused to allow them to adapt Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Cf. James and the Giant Peach.
Yup. His wife protested outside of "The Witches"(original, not the crappy remake)because they gave it a happy ending, when the boy from the story was supposed to remain a mouse forever.
I think one of the few movie adaptations he liked was the animated "BFG"(he actually gave it a standing ovation when he saw it in theatres.)
@Always Watching - I do. So do billions of people, but they may not know exactly what a snozzberry is to say they know.
"Don't forget what happened to the man who got everything he always wanted. He lived happily ever after." RIP Gene
Still makes me tear up
A wonderful line from a wonderful person.
Seriously, though, even in that day and age, how did no one question the idea of a middle aged man luring kids to his factory with the promise if free candy, the selecting one to live there with him "happily ever after". I mean, red flags much?
@@greenpeasuit That was a more innocent time, TBH.
I am 60 years old. I have a younger sister and we shared a room growing up. I read her the book at night tell she fell asleep then pick up the next night were I left off. We both loved the book then saw the movie. One of my favorites. The scene when they enter the fantastical room made every kids jaw just drop.
Gene was a wonderful husband and support to Gilda. He is a legend.
His guest star on Will & Grace got him an Emmy. RIP GENE AND GILDA. 🌹
I just love that u love Gene. 💞
The look on your face when Gene starts singing.... PRICELESS.
A Very rare Gene Wilder AND Harrison Ford film is a comedy western called: Frisco Kid. This is not a joke.
Very fun movie. The Indian scene dancing kills me every time.
Roald Dahl is a British legend when it comes to children's books. Almost all of his classics are movies now with remakes even. Every book was read to us in primary schools 🥰 his house is now a walk around museum
Fun fact: Gene's whole introduction at the chocolate factory in front of the crowd was unplanned (improv) and the tumble and roll to a stand was unexpected by everyone there as well.
Your correct it was his idea and everyone's reactions were real. It was to show that from here on out Wonka is unpredictable and you never know what he's going to do.
Apparently, it was one condition without which he wouldn't play the character at all.
"So shines a good deed in a weary world." Charlie may not have been perfect, but he was GOOD, through and through- and I truly believe that this rendition of that character would live happily ever after.
That quote is so profound it wasn’t until now that I fully understood it
The Boat Scene Is One That EVERYONE Remembers As Being UTTERLY Terrifying As A Kid
This. It scared the crap out of me as a kid.
Still creeps me out when I see that scene 😆
Never scared me. I was eight when this movie came out and I saw it in theaters. Even then, I think I had a decent sense of wonder, and just thought the boat scene was kinda cool. My GF, though, was terrified of Violet's "expansion".
I liked the boat scene. I like the helpless screaming.
Is it bad that of all the scenes that’s the one I was thinkin “ok, scary… however that’d be bitchin!”
13:17- Slugworth has a dueling scar on his face. In Germany from 1920s thru 1950's- they had 'Dueling Societies' where upper class swordsmen would fight each other for status. They didn't have much in the way of safety equipment. So if you have a big ol' sword scar - it's a mark of honor. You got slashed in the face by a sword and lived to show it. A 'tough guy to take seriously.' mark.
The boat tunnel scene nearly 50 years later is still legit terrifying!!!
your face when you saw Gene start singing in the candy room was EVERYTHING and just made my day.
My husband, literally every time we get to Grandpa Joe's song about how he's been laying around for twenty years letting his daughter support the whole family: TAKE YOUR MOTHER TO THE FACTORY, CHARLIE! (seriously, though, when I was a kid her "cheer up, Charlie" song was always just boring, but as an adult, it kills me to think of how hard her life is and how all she wants is for her son to be sheltered from the realities of adulthood a little longer.)
Also, Gene Wilder is a gem among men and this movie is flawless.
Nah, in the book, Charlie's dad is still alive and works in a toothpast factory, screwing on the caps on the toothpaste tubes, while Mrs. Bucket takes in washing to make ends meet and Charlie has his paperroute, of course. They're still poor, of course. Ridiculously so (this is Roald Dahl, after all), since they are described as living is some hovel and only eating cabbage soup, but the point about Grandpa Joe is this: three of the four elderly (really elderly, they're all in their high eighties, if not nineties) people are frail and old and done with life, waiting for death and Mr. and Mrs. Bucket are too worn out and bowed down with worry. But Grandpa Joe is different; he believes in miracles. He's the one who filled Charlie's imagination with images of Wonka and his strange factory. He encouraged Charlie to believe that, even though he only opened a single Wonka bar, he had as much chance on winning as any other child. Charlie's parents didn't. They love him and want the best for him and work their fingers to the bone for him, but Grandpa Joe has been fascinated by Wonka for most of his life and has transferred that fascination and belief in the magical to Charlie. It's only fitting that the old man gets to go to the factory that he has been dreaming of for decades. Mrs. and Mr. Bucket don't give two hoots about that factory, or Wonka or chocolate; they only care to be able to keep a roof over their heads and to keep their loved ones fed. A noble cause, but not a magical one.
I can relate miriam my mom was a single mom everytime i hear that song now i think of her like a musical hug from the heavens movie is the best!!
Could be worse in the sequel, it turns out all of the grandparents where faking it, Grandma Josephine is just the worst.
@@Smallpotato1965 I think the point is, if Grandpa Joe can get out of bed (and he could), he could help out with the expenses by going back to work.
@@mrdoctorgilmore First of all, it was a remake, not a sequel. And second, grandma Josephine clearly had dementia or Alzheimer's in the remake. Also, what do you mean "faking it"? If your referring to how easily Joe is able to get out of bed in the remake, it's just showing that he was so happy for Charlie that he was able to get out of bed. He wasn't faking it, it was just a colorful way of showing how excited he was for Charlie.
"Oh my god, I would give my left kidney, to be in a chocolate river, on a boat, staring at Gene Wilder" ❤️ Everything you say I agree with 💯%
Ashleigh: "Sometimes I wonder what the hell's wrong with me."
Ashleigh: "Not my problem!"
Love it (and your commentaries)!
Ashleigh's reactions without a filter are the reason we see her twice a week, thrice in October. "I'd let Gene Wilder pull my hair." Yes, Ashleigh, you said the quiet part out loud.
"So is Willy Wonka crazy?" A question we have been asking ourselves since our childhood. And if you've ever wondered why Gen X is so messed up, the boat scene.
How do you explain the problem with Millennials then? The 1970's have nothing on how messed up Millennials turned out to be.
@@jeffburnham6611 They got to watch Willy Wonka and Watership Downs and Neverending Story as kids too.
He's eccentric, not crazy. Money makes all the difference.
My children's mom had a co-worker who was the only female Oompa Loompas in this movie. It was great hearing her stories about making this and meeting her.
The child actress who played Violet, blew up like blueberry balloon, and was addicted to gum has an interesting connection to a reaction you did from long ago. Violent, Denise Nickerson was the first child actor offered the role of Regan in The Exorcist. Her parents read the script and fled in horror with their child.
Interestingly, Annasophia Robb (who plays Violet Beauregarde) does a reference to Linda Blair's backwards Exorcist walk when she moves all around outside after being de-juiced. It is interesting how Denise's parents were so against her auditioning for Reagan from the Exorcist yet, 'yes, sure, let us our daughter suffer a huge humiliation turning into a big fat blueberry' and she was on set and off set. Her classmates even laughed after her when her makeup returned when she went back to school.
She did have a spooky role, on Dark Shadows.
15:40 I adore how she set it so that her little inset window is over the kid with similar-colored hair, so that it looks as though Gene is playing with Ashleigh's hair. If that was not intentional, then it is 100% more awesome!
I noticed that too! 😂😂
"Things that you did not see coming", Gene INSISTED he be allowed to do that roll at the introduction to Willy or he'd walk. He wanted to make it immediately clear that you can expect anything with him.
"Because from that point on, no one will know if I'm lying or telling the truth."
- Gene Wilder
My girlfriend calls that "the unreliable narrator". It's a writing trope that keeps the reader, or in this case, viewer, guessing, and never quite sure where things are going.
@@hughmorris7557 And it worked perfectly, thus Ashleigh thinking "Something is off about him."
Man I miss Gene.
'He killed those kids, didn't he?' lol best opening line of to a review of a beloved childrens classic ever
A couple of (hopefully) fun facts:
The ending was basically rewritten over the phone while the script writer, David Seltzer, had left Germany, where the movie was being filmed, and was on vacation in America. The director, Mel Stuart, told him he needed a new ending right then! As David stated in an interview with NPR about that phone call, "You know, how long do I have? He said, how long? We’re standing here. It’s $30,000 an hour. You tell me. And, I said, well, give me a second. And I think it was about 6 in the morning. And I walked down, literally, looked over the lake in Maine. I thought, what the hell am I going to do? My head space was totally out of this movie. I could barely remember what had led up to this but I thought, OK, it’s a fairy tale. It’s a children’s story, and how do children’s stories end? I don’t know. How could - how do they end? They end with, they all lived happily ever after. But that’s not good. That’s not what a screenwriter writes. And so I took a deep swallow and I went to the phone. I said, Mel, OK, listen carefully. They’re going up in the spaceship and looking at the ground disappear. And Willy Wonka announces to Charlie that the chocolate factory is his. Then, Willy Wonka looks at him and he says, but Charlie - in a very cautious voice - you do know what happened to the little boy who suddenly got everything he ever wanted, don’t you? And fear comes across Charlie’s face and he says, no, what? And Willy says, he lived happily ever after. And it was a long pause, and I thought my career as a screenwriter is over." Stuart loved the new ending, and that's what they went with.
Marilyn Manson took the creepy tunnel scene, and turned it into the video for the song "Dope Hat", complete with Oompa Loompas.
"Is that kid gonna be okay?"
No, Ashleigh. No. None of those kids are gonna be okay.
Watching Ashleigh swoon over Gene Wilder singing was worth the price of admission alone! My fave vid so far! :D
Free?
How much did you pay?
They did a broadway musical on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They used three songs from this film in it... "Pure Imagination", I've Got a Golden Ticket", and "The Candyman Can". It broguht me right back to my childhood when I used to watch this movie. The kids actually die in the play. One thing I didn't realize, was how subtle Gene Wilder's performance was. Love it.
I am a 46 year old "Charlie". I want to see the good in the world, despite the bad that has happened to me. Thank you for all of your wonderful reactions!! You are definitely my favorite part of every day.
I always loved hearing about the Behind the Scenes of this film. Like the fact that the actor who played Augustus didn't speak a lick of English and struggling through the couple of lines he had, or the actor who played Mike Teevee admitting he was a little shit that annoyed everyone on the set, or the two girls competing with each other because they both had a crush on Charlie. Plus of course, all the wonderful things they had to say about Gene Wilder. Was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and still is.
My favorite was finding out that when Willy Wonka yelled at Charlie and Grandpa Joe for his transgression, that was unexpected in order to get a more shocked reaction from the both of them. In rehearsal, Gene merely delivered the lines in a more calm, but stern and disappointed voice.
Fun facts is great
@@JL-sm6cg love how great this movie is directed and letting you from the beginning as Willy Wonka said "Surprises at every door" the whole movie is saying "Don't get too comfortable cause you're going on a roller coaster"
Films like this are classics
"Well, four of these children are just darling, and the fifth one I'm going to shoot in the head tomorrow."
Welcome, Ashleigh's reaction to Gene singing "Pure Imagination", We've been expecting you.
😍😍😍🤤🤤🤤
18:05 "A chicken just got decapitated. Why?"
McNuggets! :)
Gene Wilder was one of the funniest people on the planet during his lifetime. At the same time, he can be extremely creepy in parts of WWATCF. He was overall brilliant.
Yes Gene Wilder insisted on singing Pure Imagination to give his character authenticity. To give Willy Wonka the hopeful interior while showing a sad and lonely exterior. I loved Gene Wilder growing up something about his presence gives every character a rememberable performance that stays in your head for decades.
13:42 That moment with the cane getting caught in the brick, Willy falling, rolling, then springing back up was completely Gene Wilder's idea. And he believed in it so much that he actually said he wouldn't do the movie if they didn't let him do it. When they asked him why, it was because he believed it was a crucial character moment for Wonka. He said it was important because from that moment on both the children and the audience wouldn't know if they could believe anything Wonka said or showed them.
It was a genius idea, it sets the tone for the whole rest of the movie.
Possibly the greatest introduction of a character in cinematic history.
Finally, someone who loves Gene Wilder as much as I do! I thought i was crazy 🥺❤️
One thing I picked up watching this film many times was that this story has a sub theme of the 7 Deadly Sins and they're represented by the characters: Augustus Gloop: Gluttony
Mike Teevee: Sloth
Veruca Salt: Greed
Charlie Bucket: Envy
The people who participated in finding the golden tickets: Lust
Willy Wonka: Wrath
Violet Beauregard: Pride
The smile when Ashley sees Gene - good thing he's passed on Blake!
Ashleigh: "Im in love with Gene Wilder"
Hubbin yelling in the background: "What am i, chopped liver?"
Apart from writing the book this movie's based on (the book was called "Charley and the Chocolate Factory"), Roald Dahl also wrote "James and the Giant Peach," "Matilda," and "The Fantastic Mr. Fox," all of which were made into movies ("Matilda" was also made into a Broadway musical). He also wrote many very good short stories for adults.
Oh man I love me dove Matilda. Gotta get her on tat shed love that movie.
Roald Dahl also wrote the screenplay for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and You Only Live Twice - both based on books by Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond. You Only Live Twice is one of the Bond novels. Both men served in the forces during WW2. Small world & I love it!
In one of his short stories, he revealed that snozzberries is... um... an "adult" term. Lol
The BFG was also a Roald Dahl book that was converted into a Movie... And the Witches which was a collaboration with Jim Henson's muppets... And shortly after The Witches was made Roald Dahl and Jim Henson passed away
The music in this film is great. The reason you thought you saw it before is because some of the songs (especially the Sammy Davis Jr. version of Candyman) are popular enough for you to have heard them outside of the film. The real bangers are Candyman, the Oompa Loompa song and the first song Gene Wilder sings at the beginning of the tour. Also, I like that you never find out what happened to all the bad and bratty kids.
15:31 You swooning when you hear Gene Wilder's singing voice for the first time is priceless. Yes, that was really him and he had an amazing singing voice.
Now she's gonna buy the movie soundtrack.
Gene was so much more then a brilliant actor. He was a unique person and the legendary Gilda Radner’s husband.
One of the last of those great "utility infielder" actors. Comedy, Drama, Sing and Dance, able to do anything effortlessly.
@@proehm Like Danny Kaye, Donald O'Connor and Julie Andrews.
@@thomast8539 Danny Kaye is a name I haven't heard in decades, that brings back memories
The audio commentary on the DVD, with the child actors reuniting as adults to watch the movie, is pretty great.
As a kid, this film is just a happy film with a few musical numbers.
As an adult, I just can't help notice that Charlie's mum is the only one that you can't find some reason to dislike, or hate in Grandpa Joe's case. "I'd get up if the floor wasn't so damned cold. *grandson wins a golden ticket* I'VE got a golden ticket!" (after pretending he hasn't been out of bed for decades)
Gene Wilder was so amazing in this movie. Everything he was in is fantastic, but this was one of his best roles. People to this day still consider him to be the actual Willy Wonka.
For years, I always predicted there'd be a remake of this, and that Tim Burton would make it...
Boy howdy, was I disappointed when I saw what he came up with. Johnny Depp is a great actor, but just misses completely with his portrayal of Wonka.
@@Kainlarsen I think Johnny Depp was miscast. Tim Burton's usually a lot better with that kind of thing, so I don't know what happened there. The movie wasn't terrible, but it could have been a lot better if they had gone with say, ROBIN WILLIAMS.
Wilder also contributed writing. That bit where he originally limps on a cane, then falls and somersaults up, was his own. And he insisted on it. He thought it set the tone for Wonka.
I loved Tim Burton's and Johnny Depp's as well.
It's funny that I don't think about it more often, but the line “So shines a good deed in a weary world” means a lot to me. Doing the right thing, whether it's a big or small thing, can be the ray of light someone else needs to see in that moment, even if we never know it. We walk through life casting both light and shadows on other people. Charlie wasn't perfect. He made mistakes, but he also restored Wonka's ability to feel hope.
I love it when characters quote Shakespeare.
I read a nonfiction book about suicide jumpers on the Golden Gate Bridge. There was an excerpt from a jumper's diary that said 'im so lonely, if just one person smiles at me on the way there I won't do it'. That person ended up jumping.
I love how dark it dares to get, and Wilder's somersault is absolutely brilliant. After that you can't be sure about anything the character says or does.
14:52 I like when he puts the feather in your head
Ashleigh openly thirsting after Gene throughout this whole video was just what I needed this afternoon 😂 You’re not weird, luv. I totally get it 💗
We've all got our crushes... I don't judge. I'm here for it. :D
She should watch a few Gene Kelly musicals sometime. Talk about a man that could get it! Whoo!
@@sewthernbelle It’s all in the Genes.
Yup, same here 🤭
Gene Wilder really is amazing in this film. He finds the perfect balance between whimsy, creepy, psychotic and funny. There is a subtle dark tone to the movie that I can really appreciate.
That is true of all of Roald Dahl's books. The film captured that tone very well.
He told the story at his "Inside the Actors' Studio" interview that, when he got offered the part, he insisted on doing the fake fall/roll at his character's entrance. When the director asked why, he answered "the audience won't ever know when I'm lying." Perfection.
"Why do you have butcher knives on your cart"
The guy was a tinker. That is, a travelling vagrant metalworker, who repaired and sold pots and pans, sharpened and sold knives, and did other minor metalworking with their little portable forge.
Fun fact, there was no tinker in the book... but Charlie DID hear several stories about Mr. Wonka from a strange man outside the Wonka Factory. A strange little man sitting atop the fence, who, as it turned out...
...was Mr. Wonka the whole time. Charlie even recognizes him outright when they meet at the beginning of the tour and asks if it was him.
...Wonka, being Wonka, just brushes the question off with a mischeivous smile and never gives an answer.
Also, the initial cane-assisted limp, followed by the unexpected nimble somersault? That was Gene Wilder. He insisted on having that. He actually fought to add that to the movie because he wanted to show that Willy Wonka isn't always what he appears and is perhaps not entirely to be taken at face value... or fully trusted.
I've loved this movie since I was a kid. The actress who played Veruca Salt, Julie Dawn Cole, wrote a memoir of her time on the movie ("I Want It Now"). Really good, I highly recommend it. (She seems like a cool person IRL)
10:43 About why they don’t interview him: Beyond the fact that the ticket ends up being fake, there’s actually a subtle joke going on. You see, the picture they use for the guy who faked finding a golden ticket is actually a picture of Martin Bormann, head minister of the Nazi Party & Hitler’s private secretary. They describe him in the film as a “gambler from Paraguay” as a joke about all the Nazis who escaped to Argentina & other parts of South America.
Admittedly, it’s a bit of an unexpected joke to be in a movie like this, but it’s there for people who spot it.
How did I miss that? Good eye on you!
That’s crazy! I never would’ve caught it!
Roald Dahl, the author of the book, also wrote the script for the movie. He had a very quirky sense of humour - every time I watch this, I see something new. Incidentally, this was the first movie I ever saw at the cinema (in 1971, when I was 5).
I never knew that.
TIL...
"So shines a good deed in a weary world," is a beautiful line, inspired by Shakespeare.
The boat scene scares me every time dude😭😭
I always found mikes "Wam your dead>:3!"adorable.
Gene's summersault was his unscripted adlib, that surprised everyone on set, including the director. Of course, it was movie magic! One of his best films is 'SILVER STREAK'!
"I can't pass for black!"
it was scripted and genes one demand, actually. He said he wouldn't do the movie if he couldn't do the scene his way. He said from the first time seeing Wonka its important for the audience to know they can't trust him.
@@eansba88- The part about WIlder wanting that scene put in the movie is true and it was technically scripted. HOWEVER, it was also the first time that everyone in the cast had ever seen him in person, so their reactions to his somersault are genuine.
While "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" was my first Gene Wilder movie (saw it in the theater), "Silver Streak" will always be my favorite. Gene gets to play the romantic lead as the quintessential "everyman" and is a great homage to Alfred Hitchcock films. Also, the first teaming with Richard Pryor.
The real star of this is Charlie's teacher Mr Turkentine, played by the late, great David Battley: "I've just decided to switch our Friday schedule to Monday, which means that the test we take each Friday on what we learned during the week will now take place on Monday before we've learned it. But since today is Tuesday, it doesn't matter in the slightest...."
He plays the inept wizard with a goosberry pie fixation in _Krull._
@@Umptyscope that where I remember him..Krull is so great, original fantasy movie that was also very scary/ creepy.. Liam Neeson s first role
Loved him in Krull. He also has a cameo in a Mr. Bean episode, as a miniature golf attendant.
@@bigtip8371 Krull is great. Has Ashleigh reviewed it yet? If not, she should!
@@LG123ABC I agree, is it our duty to push her to watch it?! I can see her reaction now... "That was sgreat, never really heard of it but it was a good story, action, effects and surprises.. hahaha
There is an underrated film that Gene Wilder is in, in which he also sings, The Little Prince (1974). It also stars Bob Fosse, whom Michael Jackson studied dance from.
This movie is so good. I was never a fan of the newer one but this one i love. Such a classic Gene Wilder nailed the roll as Willy Wonka and i have always considered him as the real Willy Wonka
For the record, I am a “mature” black woman and I am crazy about Gene Wilder, especially in this movie! I don’t know why, and I don’t care. 🥰
"Sometimes I don't know what the hell is wrong with me. Not my problem!"
I'm dead! XD
She fits right in with Wonka...
Gene Wilder in this movie and Robert Walker in "Strangers on a Train" are the only performances I've ever said I'd watch the movie just for them, regardless of story. The stories are great anyhow, of course.
imagine seeing this as a kid in the 70's!!! It was so magical! Now you have to watch The Incredible Mr. Limpet!
The buttercup was wax and wasn’t supposed to be eaten, Gene’s a beast.
Gene bit into it, chewed a bit, director called "Cut", and Gene spit it out.
I always thought that looked really good lol, I begged my mom to make me buttercup candy lol.
It really wouldn't have been that hard to make one out of sugar or something that he could actually eat.
When Gene Wilder sings Pure Imagination you just can't help but feel all nostalgic and happy/sad all at the same time... He was mesmerising
Yeah I always thought that they died. But remember in the end that Wonka actually assured Charlie that they're all going to be fine and hopefully wiser than when they came
Another fantastic Gene Wilder movie was with him and Richard Prior. Gene's character is deaf and Richard's is Blind and it's called "See No Evil, Hear No Evil"
" I don't know why I find him attractive, but I do"
Me: Same❤
A tinker is a person who is handy with repairing items.
He also sharpened knives.
Especially items made from tin, hence the name. A "tinker's dam[n]" might refer to a small dam made of clay to hold molten solder in place during a repair.
A tin worker was called a tinker
Idk why but “we are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams” is one of my favorite lines of any movie.
He's basically telling her to shut up in the best way.
its been sampled in some awsome songs
@@iconocast any recommendations?
Charlie and the chocolate factory is one of my favorite Roald Dahl stories. I remember when I was a kid at Woodlands Elementary School in 5th Grade my teacher Mrs. Molly read the book to not only me but to all of the students in her class. Around the same time we did a class project where we made a float for the story book parade and we have to draw some pictures of different scenes from the book. Then one year later in 2009 when I was in 6th Grade I did a school play where my principal Mr. McCormick played Grandpa Joe and I was the giant Wonka Bar passing out the programs and operating the curtains. Fast forward to 2019 I saw the stage show. It started in London's West End in 2013 and it's still running on Broadway. Now the national tour has landed in Seattle's Paramount Theatre. I like the show and it is a blend of both of the 1971 Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory movie and the 2005 Charlie and the chocolate factory movie but there is one complaint of what I don't like about the show is they used adult actors to play Augustus, Verruca, Violet and Mike. Which makes the show look kind of weird because adults don't act like nasty kids. A lot of audiences who saw the show on Broadway and on tour in the U.S. are never going to notice that but for me that really bugs me because when I saw School Of Rock and Matilda The Musical when they were on tour in the U.S. they had child actors on stage. Out of all of the performances of Charlie and the chocolate factory live on stage I like the London's West End version a lot better because they have the child actors to play Augustus, Verruca, Violet and Mike which makes more since because we need kids to act like nasty kids. Plus when the show started in London they know what they were doing for the casting of child actors in the show to play the four nasty kids and they got it right. Compare to the Broadway and National Tour versions they used adult actors to play Augustus, Verruca, Violet and Mike which doesn't make any since and they got the casting of the characters in the show wrong. But still I want child actors in the show to play the four nasty kids. Every time they do a stage play of Charlie and the chocolate factory in America after the success of the West End version the Broadway/National Tour and UK Tour versions always get's the show wrong.
The Broadway and U.S. Tour versions of Charlie and the chocolate factory needs to pay attention more on the West End version and do more research on their auditioning process for child actors to be in the show because Broadway is being so lazy when it comes to casting to play the characters in the show. The show did great on Broadway and on tour in the U.S. it's just it wasn't the right casting. Other than that another con about the show is that it had no exit song for Violet after she chewed the three cores dinner chewing gum and the show is going from kid friendly to dark when during the Nutcracker Suite the squirrels tore Verruca apart. I'm going to give the Broadway and National Tour version of Charlie and the chocolate factory a 7 out of 10 with the exception of the adult actors playing the four nasty kids, making the show dark, no exit song for Violet and the squirrels taring Verruca apart. When the show is back on Broadway and back on tour in the U.S. I hope they will correct this in the future and allow child actors on Broadway and National Tour to play Augustus, Verruca, Violet and Mike in Charlie and the chocolate factory. They also need to make the show less dark, more kid friendly and make it a little more like the West End version and the 1971 and 2005 films.
Not only that, if the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle or any other Theatre in the United States and the United Kingdom want to recreate their own stage production of Charlie and the chocolate factory and make it a better version and get a revival on Broadway and on tour in the UK and USA then they not only they need to include child actors to play Augustus, Verruca, Violet, Mike and Charlie but here are the songs they should use for act 1 and act 2 from the West End version, Broadway version, stage school/community theatre productions of Willy Wonka and one song I made up for the Nut Room scene.
Act 1:
1. Opening
2. Golden Age of Chocolate
3. The Candy Man
4. Almost Nearly Perfect
5. The Amazing Fantastical History Of Mr. Willy Wonka
6. News Of Augustus
7. More Of Him To Love
8. News Of Verruca
9. When Verruca Says
10. News Of Violet
11. The Queen Of Pop
12. News Of Mike
13. It's Teavee Time!
14. If Your Mother Were Here
15. I've Got A Golden Ticket / Grandpa Joe
16. It Must Be Believed To Be Seen
Act 2:
1. Strike That, Reverse It
2. The Chocolate Room
3. Simply Second Nature
4. Augustus' Downfall
5. Auf Wiedersehen Augustus Gloop
6. When Willy Met Oompa
7. In This Room Here
8. Gum!
9. Juicy!
10. I Want It Now
11. Oompa Loompa's Nutcracker Sweet
12. Vidiots
13. Pure Imagination
14. A Little Me
15. It Must Be Believed To Be Seen (Reprise)
16. Finale
Ashleigh,
You should consider buying Roald Dahl books!
Born and raised in the UK, decidedly middle aged now a days and bought up with his books!
There is even entries in the OED with words he created that has entered the everyday English language!
And when you realise the book is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory it makes sense!