Most people also miss the Nazi war criminal. They purposely used the image of Hitler's henchman Martin Bormman as the South American with the fraudulent ticket, a joke reference to the many Nazi's who escaped to Argentina & Chile after WW2.
When Gene Wilder was approached, he said he wanted Wonka to first appear with the cane and limp, and then do the pratfall and jump up, because after that, the audience would never know what was real
To quote Higgins in Ted Lasso, “Those children are dead, Rebecca.” In the book, Charlie sees them from above when he’s in the elevator after it launched. They’re all leaving the factory in rather changed states, but alive, and IIRC, with huge containers of the first installment of their chocolate. They changed the title to promote the Willy Wonka bars that the Quaker Oats company, who was financing the film, had created to coincide with the movie’s release. When the movie tanked and the bars were apparently not good, the promotion failed but the name change remained. The book sequel is referenced once here, when Wonka mentions Vermicious Knids, a monster in the sequel.
The slasher films of the 80s were directed by kids who watched this movie. The old melodrama morality plays of two or three generations ago but in a junior-sized edition. Sinners getting their just desserts in manners ironically related to their transgressions and the virtuous are rewarded for passing the test when it came down to it, with an ambiguous ending leaving room for a possible sequel.
I'm open to seeing the Chalamet version, but to me this is *the* preeminent Charlie / Willy Wonda and the Chocolate Factory. I appreciate how well it balanced cuteness with genuine scares and adult messages. Roy Kinnear (Mr. Salt, Veruca's dad) is the father of Rory Kinnear, famous these days for recent Bond films, Russel Davies' "Years and Years" miniseries, and more. They look so much alike! One of the food competition shows brought together all of the Wonka kid actors to be judges some years ago, and the contestants had to make confections for the show's version of the Chocolate room. It was lovely and, if you'll forgive the pun, very sweet. 😄
My kids "forced" me to watch thet version. I thought I was going to hate it but it was really good. Still haven't seen the Depp version and I have no plans of ever watching it.
Bombed in the theaters and became a cult classic once it went to tv. Sammy Davis Jr. recorded Candy Man and had a huge hit with it. The funny thing he hated the song. Someone finally capitalized on the Wonka name in the early 80's. We had Dinasour Eggs, Wonka Bars and Nerds. Dinasour Eggs were a bit of a play on the Everlasting Gobbstopper. Think fireball candy but sweet and a new flavor as you went through the layers. I can't believe no young child choked to death on one. Note: Loved you guys enjoying Wilder's deadpan delivery when the kids do something stupid. Mike TV is always my favorite/ "Stop, don't come back" as he rolls his eyes.
It's a shame it didnt do well in the box office. I remember when it came out and all the pre-publicity for it. I remember it was heavily prompted on talk shows. I saw multiple clips before going to the theater to see it. I remember the theater experience was dazzling and the movie stuck with me for a long time. That's usually a good sign that a film will do well. I do remember it was a time when films rated G often struggled to bring in an audience. Disney had completely taken over all family films and anything rated G was either some tired old formulaic Disney pic or a very low budget imitator. In the early 70s, a G rating meant stay away unless you're taking your 5 year old to the movies.
Hey fellas! Remember in Ted Lasso when Higgins and Rebecca were talking about this movie? "I hate to break it to you, Rebecca, but those children are dead". 🤣
I heard somewhere that when the kids entered the first room where everything was edible, they had never seen it before so their reactions were real. Very cool!
One of my childhood favorite films! I was five when this came out so saw it in the theater. I don’t really remember that viewing too well, but the repeated tv broadcasts in subsequent years burned it into my brain. In college, they showed this annually in the student union on Wednesday Movie Night, and the place was always packed for it. Seeing it as an adult, I love the scenes of the Golden Ticket search so much more than as a kid! My favorites are the computer and the kidnapping. The computer guy is played by Tim Brooke-Taylor, who I know best from the British comedy show The Goodies, which my local PBS station showed on Sunday nights back in the ‘70s and early ‘80s (they had a BritCom block from 10 pm to 11, followed by Doctor Who). The kidnapping bit was based on the quite-frequent kidnappings of rich people for big ransom demands that was all over the news in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Patty Hearst’s kidnapping and subsequent joining her kidnappers on their crime spree was the first current news event I followed in the newspaper, even at the age of 8. I love that both the film and several songs have lasted. Just last year, Pentatonix did a gorgeous mash-up of Pure Imagination with Christmastime Is Here from the Charlie Brown Christmas special.
I forgot to mention that the old photo they used of the Paraguayan gambler who faked the ticket was of Martin Bormann. He had disappeared in the last days before Berlin fell and it was presumed he had taken a rat line to South America like so many other German war criminals. It wasn’t until decades later when DNA was able to identify his remains-he had died in Berlin when he had disappeared. A nice little nod to history buffs who would get the joke of who the “gambler” actually was.
Fun reaction, guys. Such a wonderful film. Love the music and the cast, especially Gene Wilder. Saw it 2 or 3 times in the theater when it came out. Loved the book as well.
I remember seeing this when it came out! Not seen since, but iconic scenes stayed with me. I'd read the book already so knew how the story went. Watching this with you, I realise I had forgotten that the song The Candyman is in it, and didn't realise that it was written for the film. It was a big hit for Sammy Davis Jr in the early 70s.
I loved The Goodies back in the 70s/80s! My PBS station included it in its rotation of BritComs shown on Sunday nights, along with The Two Ronnies, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, and Dave Allen at Large.
There is a real Wonka candy company and they sell Everlasting Gobstoppers. I loved them as a kid. They also created Nerds candy, which is now owned by Ferrera.
Before watching Stir Crazy you should see Silver Streak, the first movie Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor acted in together (Blazing Saddles was the first they both worked on, but Pryor was banned from acting in by the studios even though he helped write it).
"Good day Sir!..I said, good day!" Wilder's Wonka - Classic.. Depp's Wonka - More crazy but also more book accurate.. Chalamet's Wonka - A good imitation of Wilder but with his own spin on it.. All three Wonka films are great, imo..And was most surprised at how much I enjoyed the newest rendition..
A couple of fun facts: The studio hired its own set of writers who basically destroyed Roald's original script. Roald hated tge final cut so much, he mot only refused to see it, but didn't allow any other of his books to be adapted until after he died. The lyrics popping up on the screen was achieved through an early CG technique called Scanimate. There were only a few of those built and was only available to visual media. One such TV show that used Scanimate extensively was THE ELECTRIC COMPANY, which featured Denise Nickerson (Violet Beauregard), and for which Gene Wilder voiced a recurring animated character cslled Letterman..
This is the movie Higgins from Ted Lasso referenced when the warned Rebecca about the Super League meeting..."I hate to break it to you, Ramblers, but those children ARE DEAD."
I was excited to see this when it came out, but the "Candy Man" song threw me off. The fact that Charlie's dad's character was written out of the film didn't help either. Fortunately, after that things improved greatly. It's a fun film that I do revisit now and again.
1. I first saw it when I was 10. 2. Roald Dahl the book author was a well-known LSD user. (you can see why). He also didn't like this adaptation of his book. That's why we got the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp remake. 3. The Umpa Lumpas told the reverent portion of the story. Anything beyond that would have been unnecessary and overkill. 4. I suspect Wonka knew which children would win the tickets (lessons for our behalf) because Slugworth/Mr. Wilkenson was at the scene almost immediately. 5. Many people (especially women) seem to get a creepy feeling from Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka. 6. This is the only roll Peter Ostrum/Charlie. He's now a veterinarian. 7. After reading the script, Gene Wilder said he would take the role of Willy Wonka under one condition: That he would be allowed to limp, then suddenly somersault in the scene when he first meets the children. When director Mel Stuart asked why, Wilder replied that having Wonka do this meant that "from that time on, no one will know if things are real or not." Stuart asked, "If I say no, you won't do the picture?" and Wilder said, "I'm afraid that's the truth." 8. Fun fact: Veruca/Julie Dawn Cole didn't have any adult with her when they went to Germany to film the movie so Gene Wilder himself stepped in to make sure she was taken care of.🤗 9. You can get away with anything in a musical.
Can you guys do a reaction video for The Hunchback of Notre Dame one day?! If you are planning on doing some animated Disney reaction videos in the near future definitely check that one out. 😊❤️
@ That would be awesome! It’s such an underrated movie and it’s not too often I come across reaction videos for it which is surprising…hopefully you guys end up watching it! 🙏❤️
If you think about it, the entire contest of finding the golden tickets was fake. Because what are the odds that if the entire world was searching for those tickets that they would be found by five kids and also how did slugworth find the kids with the tickets so quickly unless they already knew who had them. These five children specifically were pre-chosen to get the tickets. You'll notice that the candy bar that Charlie finds the golden ticket in is not one that he picked. He was given a specific candy bar by the candy store shopkeeper.
Pleeease watch Super Troopers. It's super funny, but I mention it here because someone says "these snozzberries taste like snozzberries". Super Troopers 2 came out 17 years later and it's also pretty funny. I wish more people would react to these two movies.
I'm in Louisiana and my grandparents still deliver newspapers and have been for like 30 years now lol it's not gonna last much longer tho I'd say about 10 More years
Was the Cadbury grand prize a Kinder egg? On a side note, the golden goose song being used in ads in Amerika just shows that people still don't exactly get the message.
Another fun theory about this movie is that Wonka is actually George Weasley after the battle of Hogwarts from Harry Potter Wonka says he's deaf in one ear and George lost an ear here during the battle. There is a recurring theme in Wonka's office of things only being half like the half of a clock and half of a statue bust suggesting that George is half of the twins after losing his brother
@@RamblersInc I've never had direct communication with a reactor before, so can I take this chance to recommend a series reaction? Reboot from 1994. It was the first full-length computer animated series. It's a fun watch.
Wonka, with Timothy Chalette is a worthy prequel, it really captures the spirit of the original. Not a huge fan of Depp remake..no heart, no originality, But " Wonka" is very very good.
There's only one "re-make" which goes back to the original title -- the book title -- and is more faithful to Dahl's book, espeicially the themes and the tone. I heard he hated this movie, especially the ad libs Wilder insisted on adding. One of the movies has some suggestion of "The Great Glass Elevator."
"We've all read it at some point..." Heh. Here in 'merica there ain't _no_ book us Yanks have all read. Most of us ain't read the Bibly, despite shouting about it endlessly. An *excellent* collection of short stories from Dahl is _Someone Like You_ . Not for kids, tbc. It's brilliant - kinda Twilight Zoney, plus it's a quick read.
They changed the name of the movie to "Willy Wonka &" instead of "Charlie &" because they wanted to release a tie-in line of Wonka candy at the same time.
I watched really entertaining video that calculated the Year this movie was set and figured out that it is set only a few years after the formation of OSHA the video goes on the theorize at the reason Wonka gives the factory away is because he realizes that the factory massively violates a number of Osha laws and that he would be held responsible for millions of dollars in fines so he pawns off the factory on an unsuspecting child
I heard a film theory that Snowpiercer the movie is an unofficial sequel to this film. Thought it was interesting .. not sure how true tho?? Edit I quite enjoyed the Snowpiercer tv series worth you guys reacting to it?
It was all a setup to test for honesty, but I’m still undecided on whether the Everlasting Gobstoppers he gave to the kids were even the genuine article. They could be fakes, so that even if any of the kids handed one over to the real Slugworth, and he managed to figure out the recipe for them, he would just be producing a poor imitation of what Wonka would end up producing. That’s some clever sabotage. However, it’s also quite likely that they were the real thing (which Slugworth could get anyway, when they hit the market, but at that point, would possibly have to get around any patents), and there was something so esoteric about the recipe that Slugworth would never be able to figure out (and possibly bankrupt himself trying, if he was overly determined), so Wonka wouldn’t be worried either way.
The 2005 remake with Johnny Depp is supposed to be more faithful to the book, but it will never be as loved as this version. Even Gene Wilder called the remake an "insult". I watched the first half of the remake but then turned it off. I found all of it very unlikeable.
One could argue it’s ethically better to open the gobst*pper formula to competitors and use the money to help one’s family. Ethics in this movie are whack though, which is part of why it’s so entertaining. XD 14:28 You’re laughing. A Wangdoodle would eat ten Oompa Loompas for breakfast, and you’re laughing. I liked it as a kid, but find this movie a lot funnier as an adult. This isn’t necessarily funny by itself, but when Charlie gets the ticket, the audience can rest assured he in mortal danger lol. As a kid, it was more of a fanciful, sometimes frightening, adventure than a very dark comedy.
"The suspense is terrible! I hope it lasts!"
Greatest line ever? 😁
😂
"This is part horror movie." He says right before the scariest tunnel scene ever...
Who would imagine a chicken getting beheaded in a children's film?
I never thought I'd see that bit in a movie like this. I don't even know what happened.
Most people also miss the Nazi war criminal. They purposely used the image of Hitler's henchman Martin Bormman as the South American with the fraudulent ticket, a joke reference to the many Nazi's who escaped to Argentina & Chile after WW2.
I love me some Johnny Depp, BUT Gene Wilder will always be THE Willy Wonka. Full stop. 💜💙💜💙
Truest Statement on the Internet to date.
I really didn't like the Depp version.
💯💯💯💯💯
Same except I don't like Depp or respect his version at all
When Gene Wilder was approached, he said he wanted Wonka to first appear with the cane and limp, and then do the pratfall and jump up, because after that, the audience would never know what was real
Genius
To quote Higgins in Ted Lasso, “Those children are dead, Rebecca.” In the book, Charlie sees them from above when he’s in the elevator after it launched. They’re all leaving the factory in rather changed states, but alive, and IIRC, with huge containers of the first installment of their chocolate.
They changed the title to promote the Willy Wonka bars that the Quaker Oats company, who was financing the film, had created to coincide with the movie’s release. When the movie tanked and the bars were apparently not good, the promotion failed but the name change remained.
The book sequel is referenced once here, when Wonka mentions Vermicious Knids, a monster in the sequel.
Beat me to it! I think Higgins was right.
The slasher films of the 80s were directed by kids who watched this movie. The old melodrama morality plays of two or three generations ago but in a junior-sized edition. Sinners getting their just desserts in manners ironically related to their transgressions and the virtuous are rewarded for passing the test when it came down to it, with an ambiguous ending leaving room for a possible sequel.
If the kids are dead......where did Wonka send the parents? 😵
A timeless classic.
Saw it for the first time as a child. A “must-see” for every new generation. Nothing like the original.
Big fan of Gene Wilder.
Ramblers: Can we get some lights in this tunnel?
Me: Noooooooooooooooooooooo!
😂
This movie truly is a Beautiful Masterpiece
I'm open to seeing the Chalamet version, but to me this is *the* preeminent Charlie / Willy Wonda and the Chocolate Factory. I appreciate how well it balanced cuteness with genuine scares and adult messages.
Roy Kinnear (Mr. Salt, Veruca's dad) is the father of Rory Kinnear, famous these days for recent Bond films, Russel Davies' "Years and Years" miniseries, and more. They look so much alike!
One of the food competition shows brought together all of the Wonka kid actors to be judges some years ago, and the contestants had to make confections for the show's version of the Chocolate room. It was lovely and, if you'll forgive the pun, very sweet. 😄
I'm assuming it doesn't have the same effect as this. It feels unique.
I've got to watch that food show.
My kids "forced" me to watch thet version. I thought I was going to hate it but it was really good.
Still haven't seen the Depp version and I have no plans of ever watching it.
@@John_Locke_108 I feel exactly the same way (minus the kids).
Bombed in the theaters and became a cult classic once it went to tv. Sammy Davis Jr. recorded Candy Man and had a huge hit with it. The funny thing he hated the song.
Someone finally capitalized on the Wonka name in the early 80's. We had Dinasour Eggs, Wonka Bars and Nerds. Dinasour Eggs were a bit of a play on the Everlasting Gobbstopper. Think fireball candy but sweet and a new flavor as you went through the layers. I can't believe no young child choked to death on one.
Note: Loved you guys enjoying Wilder's deadpan delivery when the kids do something stupid. Mike TV is always my favorite/ "Stop, don't come back" as he rolls his eyes.
I remember that fireball gobstopper 😂
It's a shame it didnt do well in the box office. I remember when it came out and all the pre-publicity for it. I remember it was heavily prompted on talk shows. I saw multiple clips before going to the theater to see it. I remember the theater experience was dazzling and the movie stuck with me for a long time. That's usually a good sign that a film will do well.
I do remember it was a time when films rated G often struggled to bring in an audience. Disney had completely taken over all family films and anything rated G was either some tired old formulaic Disney pic or a very low budget imitator. In the early 70s, a G rating meant stay away unless you're taking your 5 year old to the movies.
Hey fellas! Remember in Ted Lasso when Higgins and Rebecca were talking about this movie? "I hate to break it to you, Rebecca, but those children are dead". 🤣
Oh yeaaahhhhh 😂 Good catch.
You should totally watch the 2005 version- the effects are crazy in that!
Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles. Love Gene Wilder.
I heard somewhere that when the kids entered the first room where everything was edible, they had never seen it before so their reactions were real. Very cool!
Including the chocolate river, filled with real chocolate & milk... which had turned rancid and apparently stank horribly during shooting!
One of my childhood favorite films! I was five when this came out so saw it in the theater. I don’t really remember that viewing too well, but the repeated tv broadcasts in subsequent years burned it into my brain. In college, they showed this annually in the student union on Wednesday Movie Night, and the place was always packed for it.
Seeing it as an adult, I love the scenes of the Golden Ticket search so much more than as a kid! My favorites are the computer and the kidnapping. The computer guy is played by Tim Brooke-Taylor, who I know best from the British comedy show The Goodies, which my local PBS station showed on Sunday nights back in the ‘70s and early ‘80s (they had a BritCom block from 10 pm to 11, followed by Doctor Who). The kidnapping bit was based on the quite-frequent kidnappings of rich people for big ransom demands that was all over the news in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Patty Hearst’s kidnapping and subsequent joining her kidnappers on their crime spree was the first current news event I followed in the newspaper, even at the age of 8.
I love that both the film and several songs have lasted. Just last year, Pentatonix did a gorgeous mash-up of Pure Imagination with Christmastime Is Here from the Charlie Brown Christmas special.
I forgot to mention that the old photo they used of the Paraguayan gambler who faked the ticket was of Martin Bormann. He had disappeared in the last days before Berlin fell and it was presumed he had taken a rat line to South America like so many other German war criminals. It wasn’t until decades later when DNA was able to identify his remains-he had died in Berlin when he had disappeared. A nice little nod to history buffs who would get the joke of who the “gambler” actually was.
That kidnapping scene was hilarious 😂
Fun reaction, guys. Such a wonderful film. Love the music and the cast, especially Gene Wilder. Saw it 2 or 3 times in the theater when it came out. Loved the book as well.
I remember seeing this when it came out! Not seen since, but iconic scenes stayed with me. I'd read the book already so knew how the story went. Watching this with you, I realise I had forgotten that the song The Candyman is in it, and didn't realise that it was written for the film. It was a big hit for Sammy Davis Jr in the early 70s.
@@gennytun And parodied on The Simpsons years later, when Homer sang "The Garbageman" in "Trash of the Titans".
Also, the cameo from Tim Brooke-Taylor as the computer scientist was how I got into The Goodies and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
I loved The Goodies back in the 70s/80s! My PBS station included it in its rotation of BritComs shown on Sunday nights, along with The Two Ronnies, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, and Dave Allen at Large.
Yes!! Now you can watch the Honest Trailers and Pitch Meeting for this film: they're honestly some of the funniest episodes for both channels.
😂👌
There is a real Wonka candy company and they sell Everlasting Gobstoppers. I loved them as a kid. They also created Nerds candy, which is now owned by Ferrera.
I had no idea Wonka created Nerds. I remember gobstoppers (and the hot one).
This was the very first film I ever saw in a theater, back in '71. Great memories.
There was actually a punk rock band in the 90's called Veruca Salt. They put out a couple of albums as I recall.
Stir Crazy - 1981 with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.
Added to the list. 👍
Before watching Stir Crazy you should see Silver Streak, the first movie Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor acted in together (Blazing Saddles was the first they both worked on, but Pryor was banned from acting in by the studios even though he helped write it).
Love when you two do reactions to "serious" movies, but these journeys over to the lighter side really add to the overall enjoyment.
We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams
......Ok Willy. Can I leave now?
"Good day Sir!..I said, good day!"
Wilder's Wonka - Classic..
Depp's Wonka - More crazy but also more book accurate..
Chalamet's Wonka - A good imitation of Wilder but with his own spin on it..
All three Wonka films are great, imo..And was most surprised at how much I enjoyed the newest rendition..
I still use that line to this day.
So this is the movie that line comes from 😂
I had no idea 3 were made. Classic story.
"Charlie and the Wonky Willy Factory", as Count Arthur Strong called it 🙂
🤣
A couple of fun facts: The studio hired its own set of writers who basically destroyed Roald's original script. Roald hated tge final cut so much, he mot only refused to see it, but didn't allow any other of his books to be adapted until after he died.
The lyrics popping up on the screen was achieved through an early CG technique called Scanimate. There were only a few of those built and was only available to visual media. One such TV show that used Scanimate extensively was THE ELECTRIC COMPANY, which featured Denise Nickerson (Violet Beauregard), and for which Gene Wilder voiced a recurring animated character cslled Letterman..
This is the movie Higgins from Ted Lasso referenced when the warned Rebecca about the Super League meeting..."I hate to break it to you, Ramblers, but those children ARE DEAD."
Wilder had a role in the adaptation of The Little Prince, as far as family-themed films go, but adult/grown-up comedies were what he excelled at.
He is so good as The Fox in that! I do love Bob Fosse’s dance as The Snake, too.
Other people have already mentioned the Ted Lasso quote but I'm also on Team Higgins. Those kids are definitely dead 😂
Same ! Higgins knows.
😳
The tunnel scene was used in a drum and bass song by Pendulum!
Through the loop. Just listened to it. Crazy adding it to a DnB track.😂.....and it works.
@ Yes it’s banging ! Love drum and bass. I used to work in a record shop and used to play this album a lot.
I was excited to see this when it came out, but the "Candy Man" song threw me off. The fact that Charlie's dad's character was written out of the film didn't help either. Fortunately, after that things improved greatly. It's a fun film that I do revisit now and again.
1. I first saw it when I was 10.
2. Roald Dahl the book author was a well-known LSD user. (you can see why). He also didn't like this adaptation of his book. That's why we got the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp remake.
3. The Umpa Lumpas told the reverent portion of the story. Anything beyond that would have been unnecessary and overkill.
4. I suspect Wonka knew which children would win the tickets (lessons for our behalf) because Slugworth/Mr. Wilkenson was at the scene almost immediately.
5. Many people (especially women) seem to get a creepy feeling from Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka.
6. This is the only roll Peter Ostrum/Charlie. He's now a veterinarian.
7. After reading the script, Gene Wilder said he would take the role of Willy Wonka under one condition: That he would be allowed to limp, then suddenly somersault in the scene when he first meets the children. When director Mel Stuart asked why, Wilder replied
that having Wonka do this meant that "from that time on, no one will know if things are real or not." Stuart asked, "If I say no, you won't do the picture?" and Wilder said, "I'm afraid that's the truth."
8. Fun fact: Veruca/Julie Dawn Cole didn't have any adult with her when they went to Germany to film the movie so Gene Wilder himself stepped in to make sure she was taken care of.🤗
9. You can get away with anything in a musical.
Makes so much sense now that you mentioned the LSD thing.
9. You can get away with anything in a musical. - 🤣
Coming from the U.K I was surprised you hadn’t seen it.
Read it as a kid but never watched the movie. Same with the other Roald Dahl books.
Great film. It actually wasn’t that successful when released but it has had so many TV showings it was great.
Can you guys do a reaction video for The Hunchback of Notre Dame one day?!
If you are planning on doing some animated Disney reaction videos in the near future definitely check that one out. 😊❤️
Ahh the classics. I saw that a loooooooong time ago. Might be worth a rewatch.
@ That would be awesome! It’s such an underrated movie and it’s not too often I come across reaction videos for it which is surprising…hopefully you guys end up watching it! 🙏❤️
Timothy did amazing. The movie is really good. Very different.
Mr. Jopeck is the unsung hero of this movie.
Saved Charlies life otherwise this is a different movie
@@RamblersInc he's an example of a good boss
If you think about it, the entire contest of finding the golden tickets was fake. Because what are the odds that if the entire world was searching for those tickets that they would be found by five kids and also how did slugworth find the kids with the tickets so quickly unless they already knew who had them. These five children specifically were pre-chosen to get the tickets. You'll notice that the candy bar that Charlie finds the golden ticket in is not one that he picked. He was given a specific candy bar by the candy store shopkeeper.
I always figured that, at the very least, Wonka made sure that one ticket was delivered to his home base’s candy store, so a local could be rewarded.
It's not supposed to be scientifically precise. It's fantasy. You just go with it....and enjoy it.
Slugworth (or whatever his real name was) is a wizard and was using portals. There is no other explanation.
@@RamblersInc ... CLONES! Wonka is making CLONES! It also explains the Oompa Loompas....
@Stogie2112 😱
If you want more Wilder, watch Young Frankenstein. Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder at the peak of their powers. A perfect movie.
That has to be chaos in one movie😂
Pleeease watch Super Troopers. It's super funny, but I mention it here because someone says "these snozzberries taste like snozzberries".
Super Troopers 2 came out 17 years later and it's also pretty funny. I wish more people would react to these two movies.
We'll add it to the watchlist. I've just seen they're made by a comedy group called Broken Lizard. Any of their other movies worth checking out?
I'm in Louisiana and my grandparents still deliver newspapers and have been for like 30 years now lol it's not gonna last much longer tho I'd say about 10 More years
Yeh I agree. Maybe not even 10. Shame.
The dark version of this film would be Charlie and the Horror Factory 😂
😂
It's Oompa Loompas! Wonka Green is made out of Oompa Loompas!
Yes yes yes ❤
Was the Cadbury grand prize a Kinder egg? On a side note, the golden goose song being used in ads in Amerika just shows that people still don't exactly get the message.
In his novel My Uncle Oswald author Roald Dahl tells us that ‘Snozzberry’ is a euphemism for male genitalia.
"the snozzberries tastes like snozzberries" 😳😵
This was a book. Too bad they didn't make the sequel into a movie, it was really wild.
I can imagine.
Another fun theory about this movie is that Wonka is actually George Weasley after the battle of Hogwarts from Harry Potter Wonka says he's deaf in one ear and George lost an ear here during the battle. There is a recurring theme in Wonka's office of things only being half like the half of a clock and half of a statue bust suggesting that George is half of the twins after losing his brother
Maybe in an alternate timeline. Speaking of children’s book characters, Mary Poppins was definitely a Slytherin.
I'd get the reference more if we saw the Harry Potter movies...or read the books 🙃😂
@RamblersInc crud, I'm so sorry. That was major a spoiler.
We'll get to them at some point lol
@@RamblersInc I've never had direct communication with a reactor before, so can I take this chance to recommend a series reaction?
Reboot from 1994. It was the first full-length computer animated series. It's a fun watch.
Wonka, with Timothy Chalette is a worthy prequel, it really captures the spirit of the original.
Not a huge fan of Depp remake..no heart, no originality, But " Wonka" is very very good.
There's only one "re-make" which goes back to the original title -- the book title -- and is more faithful to Dahl's book, espeicially the themes and the tone. I heard he hated this movie, especially the ad libs Wilder insisted on adding. One of the movies has some suggestion of "The Great Glass Elevator."
"We've all read it at some point..."
Heh. Here in 'merica there ain't _no_ book us Yanks have all read. Most of us ain't read the Bibly, despite shouting about it endlessly.
An *excellent* collection of short stories from Dahl is _Someone Like You_ . Not for kids, tbc. It's brilliant - kinda Twilight Zoney, plus it's a quick read.
Oooh. Roald Dahl doing dark stories? I'll check it out. 👍
£1 in 1971 is about £12 today. Still not extravagant, but still...
lol fair point.
They changed the name of the movie to "Willy Wonka &" instead of "Charlie &" because they wanted to release a tie-in line of Wonka candy at the same time.
Ahh ok. Smart
I watched really entertaining video that calculated the Year this movie was set and figured out that it is set only a few years after the formation of OSHA the video goes on the theorize at the reason Wonka gives the factory away is because he realizes that the factory massively violates a number of Osha laws and that he would be held responsible for millions of dollars in fines so he pawns off the factory on an unsuspecting child
🤣omg. Can you imagine. The next movie should have been the court case where Charlie (as the now legal owner) gets sued.
I heard a film theory that Snowpiercer the movie is an unofficial sequel to this film. Thought it was interesting .. not sure how true tho?? Edit I quite enjoyed the Snowpiercer tv series worth you guys reacting to it?
It's a fun theory that unfortunately will remain as such, but it's interesting how well things line up for it..
We'll add both movie and show to our watchlist 👍
Gene Wilder - dressed like Dr. Who.
Have loved this move since childhood. The boat ride was terrifying! Popular theory is the winners represented the 7 deadly sins.
Ooooohhh I like that theory. We're missing 2 sins though.
@@RamblersInc you have to add Grandpa Charlie & Willy Wonka (not just the kids). ❤
It was all a setup to test for honesty, but I’m still undecided on whether the Everlasting Gobstoppers he gave to the kids were even the genuine article. They could be fakes, so that even if any of the kids handed one over to the real Slugworth, and he managed to figure out the recipe for them, he would just be producing a poor imitation of what Wonka would end up producing. That’s some clever sabotage. However, it’s also quite likely that they were the real thing (which Slugworth could get anyway, when they hit the market, but at that point, would possibly have to get around any patents), and there was something so esoteric about the recipe that Slugworth would never be able to figure out (and possibly bankrupt himself trying, if he was overly determined), so Wonka wouldn’t be worried either way.
Hmm 🤔 Good point. A smart Wonka wouldn't have given them the real thing.
The 2005 remake with Johnny Depp is supposed to be more faithful to the book, but it will never be as loved as this version.
Even Gene Wilder called the remake an "insult".
I watched the first half of the remake but then turned it off. I found all of it very unlikeable.
One could argue it’s ethically better to open the gobst*pper formula to competitors and use the money to help one’s family. Ethics in this movie are whack though, which is part of why it’s so entertaining. XD
14:28 You’re laughing. A Wangdoodle would eat ten Oompa Loompas for breakfast, and you’re laughing.
I liked it as a kid, but find this movie a lot funnier as an adult. This isn’t necessarily funny by itself, but when Charlie gets the ticket, the audience can rest assured he in mortal danger lol. As a kid, it was more of a fanciful, sometimes frightening, adventure than a very dark comedy.
My condolences to those affected by Wangdoodle crimes.