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The kids never saw the chocolate room before filming, so their reactions were 100% genuine. RIP Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka.) Thank you for giving us a world of pure imagination.
Exactly
He was in so many funny movies! RIP
People say the same thing about the kids in Gonnies seeing the pirate ship, failing to realize that was the second take since they cussed hard in the fist take.
Yep. Julie Dawn Cole who plays Veruca wrote a book detailing her experiencing making the film which is a really great read and she mentions this there. I've met her and she's actually really nice which shows how good an actress she was I guess ! During filming there was an underlying tension between her and Denise Nickerson who played Violet as they both fancied Peter Ostrum who played Charlie. But it was all amicable in the end as they agreed to alternate days that one or the other would hang out with him after filming.
And when Gene Wilder kicked that big jelly bean he actually broke his toe.
One of the best jokes in the film is the winner of the fifth golden ticket from Paraguay. The man in the photo is Martin Bormann, a high-ranking Nazi official who was part of Hitler's inner circle. At the time this movie was made, there was a world-wide hunt going on to find him, and he was thought to be living in South America.
That is Lindt-95%-cocoa-content levels of dark
In actuality he was living in San Fransisco.
@@GarytongueBetz-vl1fu He was killed at the end of the war, and his remains were discovered in Berlin in 1972. Where did you get this nonsense about San Francisco?
@@Jeff_Lichtman he read it in a comment on YT. 🤣
@@Jeff_Lichtman I think he was just joking.
The day after Gene Wilder passed Peter Ostrum (Charlie) updated his Facebook status to, “Inherited: One chocolate factory.”
Even Charlie's grandpa was going to give Slugworth the gobstopper, Charlie is the only one that stayed true all the way through.
Grandpa is an asshole. Been faking injury to get disability benighted to waste on tobacco for years until Charlie gets back golden ticket, and all of a sudden he can walk?
Plus, he even claims the golden ticket for himself.
NO, Joe you asshole!
YOU do not got a golden ticket, CHARLIE does and don't you forget it!
Not exactly. He and grandpa did break the rules and float upwards. Had they not burped, they would've been killed like the rest of the kids. I mean, possibly killed. Lol
@@illuminahde The test was the gobstopper, all the rest was background. That is how Wonka set it up.
@DylansPen
I agree... Mr. Wonka was not so single minded to believe that curiosity would not get the better of the children, if not the adults.
Grandpa Joe's the real inhuman monster
The track "Pure Imagination" is easily the top 5 greatest Film Musical original compositions of all time. Gene Wilder's performance unmatched. I'm glad you got an opportunity to see a film of this time era that is still as watchable today as it was yesteryear.
That slow chime-like three note motif at the beginning still gives me goosebumps.
That and the riverboat song. Absolute gold.
There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction we are going
There's no knowing where we're rowing
Or which way the river's flowing
Is it raining, is it snowing?
Is a hurricane a-blowing?
Not a speck of light is showing
So the danger must be growing
Are the fires of Hell a-glowing?
Is the grisly reaper mowing?
Yes, the danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing
And they're certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing
- This movie is actually a really excellent example of how movies, including kids movies, should be made - they don't "Pretty it up" sugar coating the truth with a false cheerful goodness - the world isn't always nice and pretty, and people aren't always good or pleasant; This movie is an excellent teaching tool for kids about that, and nowadays too many people think that by shielding kids from pain and ugliness they are helping protect them, when in reality all they are doing is sending them out into the cruel heartless vicious world, less prepared and more easily victimized because they think everything is all flowers and kittens. Willy Wonka shows that there are only sometimes flowers, and only occasionally kittens, sometimes there are weeds and rabid dogs.
The source material often had warts, and showed them
Please watch "The Neverending Story".
Soooo, this is a special movie to me. It came out right before I was born and my Mom always talks about it and says how it reminds of the time of her life when she was about to become a mother. She always calls Gene Wilder the Candy Man and any time she mentions it I feel closer to her. Congrats and all the best on your new adventure!
14:10 Gene Wilder's one condition for accepting the role was that he be allowed to do this, because he said that from that point forward, no one would be able to trust anything he said.
Genius.
No, he said from that point on no one would Know if he was LYING.
Which is a enough proof to know he is lying about the kids being alright at the end of the movie. They are dead!
This is the first movie I remember seeing as a kid in the theater; of course in those days our parents would just drop us off at the theater and then pick us up when it was over!
So you just admitted that your parents were neglectful?
My generation was much more independent, and we weren't in a big city either. We did lots of things without having to have our parents hovering over us.
@@kendramalm8811
Still sounds like neglect to me. You wouldn't need to be independent if your parents cared.
@@GarytongueBetz-vl1fu regardless of if it counts as neglect, it was the norm for the time. Which doesn't make it any more or less okay, but it might not have been the individual parents of this person being neglectful, but rather the generation those parents came from as vague collective. In those days, people didn't realize how dangerous that was.
I think one of the most unexpected benefits of starting the channel and watching classics like these is that you're slowly curating a list of movies to one day share with the little one yourself. Some sooner, others later, but all something you can create a lifetime of memories with.
❤This is the best version of Willy Wonka ❤Gene Wilder was pitch perfect. I love the low key matter of fact warnings that was the best part. "no...stop...don't. And the songs are great and gove truths.
The kids are all casted perfectly.
I hold this movie like The Wizard of Oz. Both are just magical, and both dark comedies too.
You mean she bit chu?
No! .....Her Dog!
Oh! She bit her Dog, Ay????!!!!!
Mary: I wonder how many people got nightmares from Mister Slugworth?
The Tunnel ride: Honey, you got a big storm coming!
One of my favorite movies. VHS was putting in hard work.
@NJAsmodeus1 I had a similar experience as a child, I wore out my copy of "King Kong" (1933)🤣🦍
7:11 the girl who played her actually was so sweet and kind to everyone on set. She had a harder time portraying herself as a brat.
Gene Wilder passed away in 2016, three years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. He kept the diagnosis a secret, according to his nephew, Jordan Walker-Pearlman, not out of vanity, but because he didn't want to disappoint his young fans who would call out to him "There's Willy Wonka!". According to Walker-Pearlman, "He simply couldn't bear the idea of one less smile in the world".
Willy Wonka's walking out of the factory, acting like he had a bad leg and then summersaulting and walking normally was Gene Wilder's idea. He said he wanted to do it because then nobody would ever be able to tell whether he was telling the truth or not.
Charlie Bucket was played by Peter Ostrum. This was the only movie he ever made. After the movie was finished, he quit show business and decided to follow his true passion- becoming a veterinarian.
Michael Bollner, who played Augustus Gloop, didn't speak a word of English, so he had to read his lines phonetically.
9:50 The picture they're showing is of Martin Bormann, Hitler's secretary. The joke is for a while they thought he escaped to South America until they discovered his remains a year after this movie was made.
You seem like a genuinely good, kind person. I don't think you need to worry about how your kids will turn out. They will have a very good example to follow.😊
@DarkLegion75 I agree wholeheartedly, Mary is such a sweetheart.
RIP Gene Wilder. He made this movie irreplaceable. Don't even know why they tried to remake it... it's perfect.
Because money
Because it isn't a remake.
Just an another adaption of the first book.
There is a difference. Although they literally stole dialogue straight from the first film.
@@GarytongueBetz-vl1fuit's a remake. Same characters, same premise. Closer to the books ending
@@donotevenbegintocareUsually money is the case, but it isn’t in this case. Tim Burton made another movie in 2005 because the original (this one) was a horrible adaptation of the book and was hated by Roald Dahl. The 2005 movie was made as a passion project to finally give the classic book a proper and accurate adaptation. And I prefer it, having read the book MANY times as a kid. Don’t get me wrong, I do love the 1971 movie, but it’s hardly related to the book at all with some of the strange scenes it includes.
@@GarytongueBetz-vl1fu true that it's not a remake, but to be fair, both movies are based on the same book so there is bound to be overlap in dialogue.
I find this version superior in story and acting. The second movie had better set design and special effects.
1:16 “It’s good I don’t have chocolate close to me right now…do I?” I feel that. 😂
My nightmares of this story stemmed from reading the book in 4th grade (around 9 yrs old). I had some traumatic dreams that involved 4 versions of my dad (one kind, one angry, one aloof, and one bossy ... like Mr Wonka exhibited here), and they ended as we weaved in and out of the sliding doors around the riverboat tunnels when my little sister's arm was chopped off! And my mother never let me forget it !
@steffurness JESUS HITLER CHRIST!
i love that you reacted to this!! and yes, the boat scene is notoriously scary.
8:51 RE: Guns. Yep We Americans trigger happy with our guns! Mike is a bit of an exaggeration but not by much. This movie is 1971. Farmers and ranchers, along with their teen children still used rifles and shotguns (not handguns) for pest control of livestock predators (coyotes, cougars, bears even). If you think is an isolated movie, I highly recommend the 1983 holiday comedy "A Christmas Story" which takes place in 1940 and Ralphie's wishlist.
My guy, she already reacted to that movie.
19:56 notice that the boat has only enough seats for the remaining people.
Wonka was planning to eliminate one of the ticket holders in this room!
Sammy Davis, Jr. had a number one hit with The Candy Man in 1972, the year after the movie came out.
The book by Roald Dahl that the movie was based on is called "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." They changed the name for this movie, but went back to the original title for the 2005 remake with Johnny Depp.
Sammy Davis, Jr. REALLY wanted to play the guy in the the candy store and sing the song and he lobbied for the part. The producer's were tempted but they didn't want any big time stars. Gene Wilder was a relative unknown at this time and Jack Albertson was the best known actor in the cast but he was a life long character actor.
They originally changed the name for the movie because it was funded by one of the candy companies and they wanted the movie associated with Willie Wonka, not Charlie so they could sell more of their Wonka candy bars which came out very near to the opening of the movie.
The funny thing about Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt) was how unlike her character she was. She was constantly being told by the director that she wasn’t being nasty enough. She was more like Charlie in real life. Her parents were divorced and she lived in the low rent district with her mother and sister. She had no clue how to be a spoiled brat. Which isn’t a bad thing if I’m being honest.
And Mary, don’t worry about it. You’ll figure out this whole being a parent thing as you go along. One word of advice, don’t always listen to your heart. It’ll tell you to give in ALL OF THE TIME. Listen to your head. It’ll tell you to give in SOME OF THE TIME. And learn how to say “Get over it” and “No.” It sucks to hear and say but it is necessary. A child who learns to go without will most likely become an adult that knows how to appreciate.
PS Sorry for unsolicited parenting advice. I just wanted to make you feel better.
I've always said that if a child doesn't learn the meaning of no by three, they won't learn it at sixteen.
i told my girls (i'm a single father of 3 girls) that i am not on this earth to be their friend or buddy. i am here to teach and guide them into becoming decent upstanding citizens with a good sense of morals and ethics.
as they were growing up, they always groused and bitched and moaned about how "unfair" i was with them, and why couldn't i be nice and let them stay out until early in the morning, etc. now, i have come to learn that each of them have told their own kids the same thing i used to tell them. i am vindicated.
@@JohnLeePettimoreIII I heard once that “If you want to know if you were a good parent, see how your grandchildren act”. Sounds to me that you did a pretty damn good job, sir. 🫡
And I agree. Parents are parents not friends. That was something my brother and I learned very early on. And we hope to pass it on to our kids one day.
There is also a band named "Veruca Salt", I assume they were named after this character, lol.
@@DavidSmith-pg1ob most likely. 😂
Thanks, Mary! 🍫 I vividly recall my mother telling me that this movie was on if I wanted to watch it. I had no idea what it was, but I'm so glad I gave it a shot... because it remains a favorite. #MoviesWithMary #MelStuart #WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory
There is no “second movie”. ‘Charlie and the Chocolate factory’ is the Tim burton version of this movie, with Johnny depp and wonka. Very different vibe, but really fun.
Disagree johnny depp was annoying 😊
@@only257 Your comments are annoying, Veruca
The girl who played Veruca was constantly told to act more selfish and mean, which she was having difficulty doing.
I've heard that, like me, she dislikes chocolate, so spending the month of filming choking down handfuls of it was not fun.
@@isoldejaneholland8370in the audio commentary she said she still has her wonka chocolate bar and now eats more chocolate, but more expensive chocolate, honestly i don't blame her, chocolate like hershey can be too sweet with no other flavor.
@@Imbatmn57
As a kid, I enjoyed going out for Halloween, but always gave my haul away after. Mostly to family, but saved the peanut butter cups for my friend Lorraine.
@@Imbatmn57 Hershey's doesn't count as chocolate.
The kid who plays Charlie in real life became a veterinarian and he is really sweet.
All that candy will do that to you.
The movie was filmed in West Germany, though different editions of the book were set in America or the UK.
In the original edition of the book, the Oompa-Loompas were a tribe of dark-skinned African pygmies about 45 cm high (Charlie wondered if Mr. Wonka had perhaps created them out of chocolate). People complained about this portrayal of tribal Africans, so the second edition of the book portrayed the Oompa-Loompas as still wearing deerskin, but having white skin and blond hair, because it wasn’t racist to enslave Aryans 😂. In the movie they decided to avoid the issue altogether by using orange skin and green hair.
I like how you’re not supposed to be able to tell where it takes place, like a mix between them all.
25:24 I love the satisfaction Mary had when Veruca finally went away.
Roald Dahl wrote the original story (also did the script for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) and his books always had darkness in them to scare kids. Another movie based on his work is 'The Witches'. Hope you're keeping well.
Growing up we had a player piano. My favorite song we had for it was the song "The Candyman" from this movie. When you played the song on the piano the lyrics would scroll along on the roll as it played.
I learned the lyrics to this song by heart and I still remember them all.
I sang it twice in the school talent show with a friend of mine singing back up.
About 10 years after I had sang in the talent show I was walking around the neighborhood and a woman driving by stopped her car and said to me "Didn't you sing 'Candyman' that time at the school talent shiw?"
When I said "yes" she said "You had style!"
I recommended warching the RUclips video of Sammy Davis Jr. singing Candyman. His cover of this song was one of his biggest hits and is very good!
Best Regards
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang always had the same vibe to me as Wonka. Songs and fun and a truly unforgettable creepy bad guy.
While rehearsing the scene where Willy Wonka yells at Charlie and Uncle Joe for stealing the fizzy lifting drinks, Gene Wilder held back, so Willy would appear more disappointed than angry, so that when he yelled at time during filming, the shocked reaction of Peter Ostrum and Jack Albertson would be genuine.
The cast's reaction to Willy Wonka's singing during the tunnel scene was genuine. Peter Ostrum, Jack Albertson and Denise Nickerson were afraid Gene Wilder was having a psychotic breakdown.
Denise Nickerson's blueberry scene was shot in the middle of the day, a time frame in between takes for lunch, so she had to stay in her "blueberry" costume the whole time, and had to be turned over several times to keep her blood circulating.
Director Mel Stewart originally wanted to reveal that Willy Wonka strategically placed the golden tickets in order to give the factory to Charlie. The idea was dropped but the clues remained in the fact that Mr. Wilkinson, acting as Slugworth, conveniently appeared every time someone won a golden ticket.
Peter Ostrum was going through puberty while the movie was filmed, So his voice is higher at the beginning of the movie and lower by the end.
On the 30th anniversary DVD of the movie, Gene Wilder said he enjoyed working with most of the child actors, but said Paris Themmen, who played Mike Teevee, was a "handful".
Mike Teevee's father's line "Not until you're twelve, Son" took over 40 takes to film.
Some gun enthusiasts in the U.S buy their kids actual working firearms as young as 5 or 6.
The actor playing “Grandpa Joe” (Jack Albertsons) was also in the original “Miracle on 34 th street” he was working in the mailroom and helped come up with the idea to send the Santa mail to the courtroom.
@susanliltz3875 He was also one of the title characters on the 1970s sitcom "Chico and the man".
This is one of several movies that appeared on television annual as I was growing up in the '70s. I think you have already reacted to The Wizard of Oz (1939), which was also a childhood annual standard. The other that I'd like to recommend is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), based upon the 1964 novel by Ian Flemming (the creator of James Bond - 007). I won't tell you anything to spoil it, but it is a children's story with fantastical elements.
A great movie to do a reaction of!
Also "Bednobs and Broomsticks" and "Puff the Magic Dragon".
This was filmed in Munich and Nördlingen, Bavaria. While it is based on the 1964 Roald Dahl children's story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the name was changed to tie in with a Wonka chocolate bar that the Quaker Oats Company planned to release. They were persuaded to finance the movie as it would be a great advertisement for the new bar.
As you mentioned The Wizard of Oz and the darkness of this Willy Wonka movie, may I suggest a similarly dark children's movie called Return to Oz (1985)? It's an unofficial sequel to the 1939 movie and is much closer to the books. It has a number of nightmare inducing moments for kids (and adults too I suspect!)
When you say, "much closer to the books" which book or books are you referring to specifically? I've only read the first two or three, so I'm curious if _Return to Oz_ would contain any spoilers.
@@dreamwalking If you've read books 2 and 3 (The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz), you'll be fine to avoid spoilers. It introduces characters and story elements from both of those books.
@@TerryNationB7 Cool, I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
The sequel to the book is called Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, which goes to all sorts of unexpected places.
"Surprises around every corner but nothing dangerous!"
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.
I love the calling out of Grandpa Joe's coke nail.
So *that's* how he had the energy to get out of bed after 20 years
A fun and disturbing fact about the boat scene, it had just enough seats for the tour. But they’d already lost Augustus which means Wonka knew they’d be down a person by that point before he ever even let anyone in the factory.
Becourse Wonka created the tour guide as a test based on the individual personalities of each kid, thats why August subcomes to the river of chocolate, violet to the chewing gum, veruca to the animal room, geese in this adaptation, but squirrels in the original material, and Mike teevee to the actual television teleportation.
Great reaction. 55 year old dude here with no kids, and I totally watch this every time it's on TV. The Johnny Depp version is darker, apparently closer to the original story. It was okay IMO but I like this one much better. It isn't part two. I's the same story essentially.
the actress who played Charlie's mom is a friend of mine. She was a great comic actress and such a lovely woman.
Diana Sowle did a great job as Charlie's mom, and she probably doesn't get enough credit for it. Her song, "Cheer Up, Charlie," made the biggest initial impression on me out of all the movie's songs.
I love this movie so much. It's one of those movies I could rewatch any day of the week. Gene Wilder is flawless
Fun fact: this movie was shot in Munich.
The exteriors of Willy Wonka’s factory are actually the Stadtwerke München, and the interiors of the factory, including the Chocolate Room, the Inventing Room, and the Fear Tunnel, among others, were filmed at Bavaria Filmstadt.
It was filmed in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany, from August 31 to November 19, 1970
11:15 Mary, you're thinking about it and you obviously have a good heart, I think you're going to be a great Mom!
Kids' movies from the 80s were a lot scarier than kids' movies today. But they were wonderful. Some similar kids movies that are terrifying and yet beloved:
The Last Unicorn
The Secret of Nimh
Return to Oz
Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
The Neverending Story
I watched these as a kid, multiple times, and my cousins and I often had sleepovers when we were 9 or 10 and watched the any of these (and Willy Wonka) on VHS when they'd come to visit during the summer. Such a good time.
The first movie that Gene Wilder directed was The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother. He was also in The Frisco Kid, with Harrison Ford.
I was today years old when I realized ReBoot named its sentient TV character Mike as a Willy Wonka reference.
"How many kids had nightmares from this guy?" Probably fewer than had nightmares from *redacted because I can't remember if you've seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or not*.
I have a Golden Ticket ! Well to be fair it's not an original but I bought the 40th Anniversary Blu Ray box set which has a copy ! This was my favourite film as a kid - I even bought the soundtrack. Wonka is the role that Gene Wilder was born to play.
The actor playing grandpa george was pretty blind so the light youre seeing is a light they shone to be able get him looking the right direction. In one shot they had to move his boots and he thought they were going to steal them so they had to get a translator to tell him they were just moving them.
Hey Mary. I love all of your reactions! If you like Gene Wilder, please consider his first movie, the original *The Producers* which is also Mel Brooks’ first movie. And my favorite comedy… of all time! Keep up the great work!
Parenting? "Keep them long on love, and short on pocket money." ~ Robert Heinlein.
Mary, others may not like the Johnny Depp version of Willy Wonka, but I think it is worth seeing. Johnny Depp portrays an out of touch genius, a product of his upbringing, and lots and lots of isolation.
If you're into reading books I can highly recommend reading the book the movie is based on. As great and popular as the movie is (and I do love the movie), it takes quite a few liberties with the story, and Roald Dahl hated pretty much everything about it, from the casting to the music to the changes in plots and storyline.
One liberty the 1971 film had to take was replacing the book's squirrels with geese as sfx weren't upto showing squirrels that way in 1971🎩
Roald Dahl also wrote "James and the Giant Peach", which was also made into a movie. Some of his short stories are really trippy!
@@neilmcdonald9164 The newer movie actually trained squirrels for the sequence so it was possible to do that sequence, they probably just didn't have the time or money back in 1970
@@DavidSmith-pg1ob And 'Matilda', ditto.
26:40 "Oh no. I beg you so hard. Don't do it. It's dangerous." Now you're into the spirit of the movie! 😆
This movie is an adaptation from a series children's books by author Roald Dahl. other great Roald Dahl movies are "The Witches" (1990 version is the best) "Matilda" (Fun fact: Tim Minchin has recently written a stage show musical of Matilda) "James and the Giant Peach" "Fantastic Mr Fox" and he also wrote the legendary 1968 movie "Chitty, Chitty Bang Bang" starring Dick Van Dyke.
If you like this type of children's movie, try "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" with Dick Van Dyke. Great story and great singing.
This movie was filmed in different locations in Germany, mostly Munich. The town at the end that they were flying above was Nördlingen, Germany.
If you’ve ever seen the original “Miracle on 34th Street,” the actor playing Grandpa Joe was the guy in the mailroom who came up with the idea of sending all the Santa Claus letters to the courthouse. (Actually, I have to add, he’s in a ton of stuff; but you have to be an old timer like me to remember “Chico and the Man” with Freddie Prinz, or “The Poseidon Adventure.”)
Also, the actress playing Violet Beauregard (Denise Nickerson) had a couple of roles on the 1960s soap opera “Dark Shadows.”
There was an even weirder sequel to the original book by Roald Dahl: “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.” Charlie, his parents (his father was alive in the books), his grandparents (in their bed) and Willy Wonka have some misadventures on their way back from Charlie’s house to the chocolate factory. I seem to remember something about the grandparents taking a de-aging formula of some kind, and one of them de-ages herself right before she was born, so they have to go to some negative realm to re-age her back to normal.
Never realized that. Great factoid!
Denise Nickerson also played the title role in the Boston tryout of Alan Jay Lerner and John Barry's *Lolita, My Love,* a musical based on Nabokov's *Lolita* that was intended for Broadway, but failed on the road. The surviving audio recording of Nickerson's performance shows that she was a fantastic singer, however, so it's a shame her character wasn't given a song in *Willy Wonka.*
The movie was filmed in Munich, Germany. I grew up with this movie and it's still a feel-good favorite in my 40s.
There’s a story that gene wilder (Willy wonky) wanted to do that specific entrance walk fakeout, so that audiences from the start wouldn’t know whether to trust him or not
Fun fact: my mom's family used to live next door to Charlie's mom, in Maryland, for like 20 years. My grandparents were friends with her!
This movie has a great sub theme to it. The 7 Deadly Sins are used as an allegory.
Augustus Gloop: Gluttony
Mike Teevee: Sloth
Veruca Salt: Greed
Charlie Bucket: Envy
The people who bought Wonka bars to find the golden tickets: Lust
Violet Beauregarde: Pride
Willy Wonka: Wrath
I always joked about all the half stuff in his office. "His wife must have gotten the other half of EVERYTHING in the divorce." Of course that hit better in the 80's when I was a kid because that was a very common joke because it was how most things were divided back then.
20:01 Notice that the number of seats in the boat is exactly the number he needs. Like he knew what was going to happen to the big boy lol
First time I saw Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was in 1873 on a "special movie Presentation" on the television.. that boat ride scared the willies out of me! intense for a 6 year old kid!
I remember seeing an interview with one of the writers and he said the movie was originally supposed to be aimed at adult audiences, but kids ended up liking it so much they changed course and made it suitable for kids. That’s also why their are more horror scenes and humor aimed at adults than you’d expect in a kids movie
'Cuz it isn't a kid's movie.
I'm not sure I buy this. The book was definitely intended as a kids book, and this movie fairly faithfully sticks to the same story and even most of the same tone. Roald Dahl wrote pretty dark kids books. If anything, I think this might be prettied up a little.
@@hkpew Dahl hated the film for how much it changed, so I'm not sure about that.
@@willfanofmanyii3751 I'm aware of how Dahl felt about the movie. I'm also very familiar with the book, and it's (in my opinion) much better than the movie so I can understand why Dahl felt that way. That doesn't change the fact that the movie tells the same basic story with much of the same tone.
All of the child actors did an amazing job. One of my favourite movies! Still remember all the lyrics by heart. ❤
Charlie Bucket was my Aunt's dog's veterinarian in upstate NY. He never acted in any other movie after this.
I might be in the unpopular camp in that I enjoy the remake. but it is not necessarily a "Need to watch" situation.
This movie will always be my favorite. I still hum the songs every now and then. But the remake is much closer to the book. Wonka is supposed to be weird, creepy and unpredictable, almost low-key a villain. And also it's great to watch Johnny Depp apply his skill in creating the Wonka character. His story in how he came up with Wonka's voice is excellent. He knew exactly what he was doing.
I was a little kid when this came out, and it cannot be overstated how special it was when it came out. Movies truly directed at kids was still pretty uncommon, particularly one of such great quality.
My dad worked at IBM at the time and they actually reserved an entire screening for the staff to round up their kids and take them to see it. I can still remember the atmosphere, a theater full of familiar faces (dad’s co-workers, you’d get to know the other kids). Very special.
Some neat trivia, the film was really a sort of promotional stunt to launch that candy bar in stores simultaneously, but the formula of the chocolate had faults in it and it melted too easily so stores were rejecting it at the critical time. And ironically, people loved the movie far, far more than expected. So, a movie that was intended to be discard-able and temporary to serve it's purpose and fade away became immortalized and a candy bar that was intended to be a massive hit ended up being the one that was forgotten and faded away!
Right, this was a just a year before Deep Throat, and the same year as Clockwork Orange, Dirty Harry, and Straw Dogs. It must have been wild for this movie to appear during that cynical, seedy "adult" era of cinema.
@@trickster721 Exactly! It was still yet another long wait for the next film to his the same wholesome, up-beat tones as Wonka, Star Wars! There's a reason why the public loved these outliers.
fun fact: Julie Dawn Cole who played "Veruca Salt" is the only one of the main child actors who continued acting into adulthood.
I've heard that, like me, she dislikes chocolate, so spending the month of filming choking down handfuls of it was not fun.
@@isoldejaneholland8370 I've heard her say "I've worked on it since!" as if not liking chocolate is a bad habit🤣 I mean like it as much anyone else for the most part, although I normally prefer vanilla cake over chocolate cake or strawberry shakes over chocolate ones and I have met two people who said they hate it, as weird as it may seem to me I don't think anyone needs to apologize for it, incidentally Mrs. Movies from "You, me, & the movies" says she thinks Pudding is gross which I also think is weird😕🤣
Charlie became a veterinarian. Didn’t miss acting at all.
@@jimglenn6972His name is Peter Ostrum and he specializes in treating Cattle, and Michael Bollner who played "Augustus Gloop" went on to be a public accountant.
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I love strawberry shakes. And it's not fair that in a carton of Neapolitan ice cream, the strip of strawberry is always half the width of the other two. 😱😏
This movie for some reason ranked at #74 in the 100 scariest movie moments on Bravo. Anyway, cool reaction as always Mary, you have a nice day sweetie 🥰❤️
The majority of this film was filmed in Munich and Nördlingen, Germany. Most think it was filmed in the UK.
The exterior streets and town shots could only pass for a German or Bavarian-type town. I've no idea where the studio sets were, but you'd have to Really not know UK streetscapes to think the exteriors were shot there.
My favourite movie theory is that OSHA, the occupational safety and health administration, was founded a year after the movie takes place. Wonka saw it brewing and knew he’d suddenly be held accountable for his factory, so he needed to offload it immediately. Charlie’s second year in charge of the factory he’d be slapped with so many fines, he’d be financially ruined again. Meanwhile Wonka is on a beach somewhere with is profits, just chilling.
You should watch a UK children's TV series called Bagpuss... Absolutely magical.
Generations of British kids have it engrained in their souls.
Warm, gentle, and sweet.
The psychedelic boat ride at 20:00 is referenced in Thor Ragnarok when Thor meets the Grandmaster. And yep this movie is actually pretty dark because it talks about our vices and the consequences.
Kids in the 70's could handle a lot more than the powder puffs growing up now.
This was the only acting role for Peter Ostrum (Charlie) who later grew up to be a veteranarian.
The boat part is more in line with the book. Super creepy
When you look at the boat that comes for them, there is only enough seating for the ones who are left. It's almost like Wonka expected someone to not make it past the river of chocolate... 😉
This is one of only a few kids films i really like. Personally i'm not a fan of the remake, but by all means watch it, i'm sure lots of people love it.
@paulohernanndizz3506 Why did Ronald Dahl despise it so much then?
14:06 it was Gene Wilder's idea for Wonka to do a flip after losing his cane. the idea was "from that point forward, you could never be certain if you could trust Willie Wonka."
Hi Mary! Great reaction to one of my childhood favorites! This movie is geared towards the children that are the same age as those in the movie, which is preteen/early teen. So it has some darker moments that older kids might think were exciting or they would get scared but they could handle. A smaller child probably would be scared by the boat scene. In the book, Veruca Salt, the annoying girl that goes down the trash chute, that scene is written as her going into the nut room. Squirrels separate the good nuts from bad. She’s grabbed by the squirrels and forced into the chute. So it’s even darker!
There’s an interesting theory that the movie Snowpiercer is the story of Charlie Bucket when he is an older man. The theory makes sense to me, but it is unofficial and that movie is much much darker than the Willy Wonka story.
This was the first cover to cover book I read when I was about eleven years old. I loved it!
17:09 Yep
It was projected last week at my local theater, I was so happy to be able to see it on the big screen for the first time !!
Here's a hot take: The real villain of the movie is Grandpa Joe. As soon as Charlie gets The Golden Ticket suddenly not only can Grandpa Joe walk but he starts dancing! He starts singing "I'VE got a golden ticket" when it was Charlie's ticket. It was his idea to steal the fizzy lifting drinks despite being told not to. As soon as Wonka calls them on it he tells Charlie to sell the Everlasting Gobstopper to Slugworth. As soon as Charlie wins the factory he's primarily concerned about himself "and me?!"
I always find it funny that the boat has just enough seats for all of them after Augustus and his mom are gone.
This was filmed in Munich, Germany. The orange roofs are a dead giveaway that it was filmed in Germany. You also see them waving German and American flags at the factory ceremony.
I would suggest that you watch the Johnny Depp version as well. I know I would enjoy watching that one with you, too.
It is the same basic story, as both this movie and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are based on a book of the same name (Charlie and etc.) by Ronald Dahl. The JD movie is not a remake of this movie, it is another movie adaption of the book, plus has some additional stuff in it as well that was added by Burton.
I was 6 when this came out! Dont remember if i saw it in the cinema but watched it everytime it came on tv! It scared me when i was little but its such a gem now that im 55
Great reaction. Nobody picks this film for a reaction thanks for picking it. Funny that Slugworth is on the Wonka payroll.
This is based on a book called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They changed the name for this movie but the remake kept the original name.