WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

[@Californiablend]

❤️BIBLE VERSES OF THE DAY❤️ 1 CORINTHIANS 2:14-16 NIV 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

[@tobiasmelvin5523]

Good and true verse, Californiablend

[@TheMikeman1971]

You should watch Legend (1985) I promise you will love it !

[@songokuda3473]

You know Sammy Davis jr was supposed to the candy man in store in this movie

[@alexandermacneil4430]

What's with the religion? I don't come to this channel to be proselytized to...

[@TheMikeman1971]

@@alexandermacneil4430 Why you crying about it !

[@johnnicpon5783]

What is interesting is how people watch this movie and interpret via the lens of what is supposedly current sensibilities. However back when this was made, many had a different perspective. This was very much a commentary on responsibilities. The parental responsibilities of raising children. The individual responsibility of self, like moral values. And as you point out, Wonka's manner of warning them (wait, don't, stop) was so deadpan and low key. He basically let them act according to their own nature. This was truly a magical movie with many layers.

[@bobsylvester88]

This was when they still taught people that you were responsible for your own actions. You see it all through the movie.

[@MetastaticMaladies]

@@bobsylvester88 Are you saying personal responsibility isn’t taught anymore?

[@ChoomahBungole]

​@MetastaticMaladies at worst it's looked down upon.

[@MetastaticMaladies]

@@ChoomahBungole Weird, I haven’t seen any of that, unless you’re talking about “young kids these days” like a boomer.

[@ChoomahBungole]

@@MetastaticMaladies lmfao you mean YOU in all YOUR time haven't seen it? Not to be rude but your addition doesn't add anything when there are millions upon millions of people who do it out of necessity or laziness. Being a part of certain communities opens your eyes to different types of thought. Dummy zoomer.

[@Cody38Super]

Gene was just to beautiful in this role, they couldn't have cast better.

[@ephraimwinslow]

Forgive me, but someone has to say it: Carmen Sandiego. There, it's outta my system now.

[@hybridbutterfly3908]

I liked that Wonka yelled because the grandfather was just as bad as the parents. Charlie was as good as he was because of his mom, she never would've disobeyed the rules to drink the fizzy liquid. Grandpa Joe pressured Charlie into it then accused Wonka of being a cheat but they signed the contract without even trying to read it then separated from the group to do something they knew was forbidden then snuck back into the group with zero consequences, they were lucky all they were going to lose was the post tour gift when the other children had huge life threatening punishments. Charlie ignoring his grandfather's threats of revealing Wonka's secret and doing the right thing instead saved their situation.

[@nimblehealer199]

Gene wanted to tell Peter that he had to yell at him, but the director wouldn't let him. He apologized when the scene was finished. Willy Wonka's entrance was all Gene's idea. The purpose was so that from that point on, you had no idea whether or not he was telling the truth.

[@jhibbitt1]

you're right. it's something i didn't think too much about as a kid, but now it's safe to say that wonka was right to be angry with them

[@tweevers2]

The guy on the street with the knives and blades/butcher knives etc. were called 'tinkers'. They are/were people that traveled from place to place mending metal utensils,pots, and cutlery as a way of making a living.

[@meganlutz7150]

Enjoyed your reaction ! Part of what makes Wonka such a great character is that he is complex. He’s zany and a bit unhinged but also incredibly warm and appealing at times. Gene Wilder’s interpretation of Wonka was absolutely spot on and in my opinion cannot be beaten.

[@Serai3]

The man in the street with all the knives was a tinker. These were guys who sharpened and repaired sharp household tools. They would go through the neighborhood hawking their services, and would pick up the work and later deliver it back. That's what all those implements are on his cart; they're work either finished or yet to do. They were part of the delivery service culture of older times, where people like tinkers or milkmen or icemen would come to you rather than you having to go find them. In the book, when Charlie and Grandpa Joe have their little midnight unwrapping moment, they burst out laughing when they see the ticket isn't there. It's a great example of the difference between the movie and the book it came from. The emotional currents are more formulaic in the film, while the book exhibits a dryer and more unexpected kind of humor. The irony of anyone trying to steal the secret of the Everlasting Gobstopper is that it wouldn't make them very rich in the long run, since a kid only ever has to buy one. Since Wonka says he designed them for poor kids, it's clearly a charity product for him. The moment when the group steps into the Great Chocolate Room was the first time any of the actors aside from Gene Wilder had seen the set. All the reactions are genuine.

[@sarahdaw6648]

Gene Wilder was AWESOME!

[@mlledarcel]

"stop, don't, come back" my general disposition

[@leeroyjenkins6061]

14:04 Get it together, Gabby 😅

[@rainbowpegacornstudios]

Honestly, my favorite song in the whole movie is "Pure Imagination". I love the way Gene Wilder sang the lyrics Also....it's weird to say, but Violet Beauregarde turning into a blueberry gave rise to blueberry inflation fetishism.

[@nothernmonkey8612]

Bugsy Malone with Jodie foster and scott biao was my favorite kids movie growing up with lots of great songs. Bad guys, my name is Tallulah, so you want to be a boxer, down and out plus loads more I think I'll watch it now myself 👍

[@glen1ster]

Jack Albertson: Chico and the Man.

[@PV1230]

Your hair looks lovely.

[@davidsumpter4933]

I love the new look. The red looked great.

[@Cody38Super]

You say that as though there's a bad look.......they're all amazing !(if you asked me, should be illegal)

[@thefuriousmackerel7672]

Be honest. How many could watch this woman's video without the movie playing and still enjoy it just as much? I know I could! So entertaining and just downright attractive.

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

I said before that she could react to paint drying and it would be entertaining to watch.😂

[@KalElvis]

Loved your reaction, you are a doll!

[@djgrant8761]

I wish I could go back to the old days of the lolly shop. Gobstopper in a white paper bag for 20 cents. Those were the days.

[@asdfasdf7199]

you look absolutely stunning in red!

[@Grace-cs5sk]

I love this movie it's so good you should watch The Ousiders I think you'd like it

[@jonathanross149]

The 1st 4 lines of poem The Fairies by William Allingham Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren’t go a-hunting For fear of little men;

[@polferiferus1938]

Even in my lifetime in Chicago candy stores existed like the one at the start of the movie. Jars filled with just candy (no wrapping) and long loops of licorice hanging on hooks. I used to visit one when I was in grammar school in the early 1970s. My guess is there are still such stores around, but only rarely chain stores. Walmart had a big hand in pricing out of business those little mom ‘n pop stores (of every sort, not just of candy).

[@mmbs3191]

I've run into some when I go into northern Minnesota to some of the small towns that still have an official "main street" with shops lining it.

[@LA_HA]

​@@mmbs3191Many, many more are needed

[@BigGator5]

"But Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted." "What happened?" "He lived happily ever after." Fun Fact: Veruca (Julie Dawn Cole) mentions a "bean feast" during her song. This is a British expression that means a dinner at a scenic locale, often given by an employer. Music Enthusiast Fact: The musical code for entering the Chocolate Room played by Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) is the overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Mrs. Teevee (Nora Denney) incorrectly states the composer as Sergei Rachmaninoff. Location Location Fact: Augustus Gloop's (Michael Bollner) interview was filmed at a real restaurant in Munich; most of the cast members went there for lunch during the time the movie was being filmed. The restaurant is called Hofbräukeller, and was completely rebuilt after a fire destroyed it in the late 1980s. All Too Real Fact: The chocolate river was made from 150,000 gallons of water, real chocolate and cream. The filmmakers had to change the formula for the chocolate river because originally the concoction they were using turned blood red. Because of the cream, the mixture began to spoil, and by the end of filming, it smelled terrible. Creating Willy Wonka Fact: 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 "no one will know if I'm lying or telling the truth" going forward.

[@Nothing-zw3yd]

Peter Ostrum who played Charlie is a retired large animal vet up in my neck of the woods, a couple of my buddies know him. By all accounts a good and decent man, well liked by everyone.

[@thegorn68]

The man at the first of the movie that talks to Charlie in front of the gates of Wonka's factory is pushing a cart of cleavers, knives, etc. because that's what he did for a living. He would sharpen your metal tools for you. Pretty much, no one does that anymore but it was common back in the day for someone to come by with a cart in a neighborhood and ring a bell if you needed scissors, knives, etc. to sharpened.

[@polferiferus1938]

Yep, I remember those guys, or really one in particular. He used to come through our block ringing a triangle and a bell rigged to a pully device (a contraption of his own making, I think). That’s how we would get our blades sharpened, including our hand-pushed lawn mower. This was in the seventies. Later, during the “great recession” of 2007-2009, I heard that old bell & triangle contraption ringing again! It turned out the grandson of the original blade-sharpener got out his granddad’s cart to make ends meet! Sadly, he only tried plying the old trade for a day or two due to lack of response.

[@scapevelocity]

There are still a few around. At my local farmer's market there's a knife sharpening van that works while you wander the market. Reminds me of the sharpeners walking their carts in my neighborhood in New York when I was young.

[@The_Dudester]

I was actually able to see this movie in the theater because I bought a fundraiser candy bar that had a "Golden Ticket." We were poor and I only had money in my pocket, because as a kid, I was always hustling for money, taking odd jobs (shoveling snow, collecting recyclables, helping janitors, etc.). A friend pressured me into buying the candy bar. With that said, I ended up buying another of the candy bars a couple of years later and that one also had a golden ticket to see "Up With People." At the end of the show they announced that "If you're interested in joining us on the road, come see us" and I did talk to one of organizers. I was 13 and he said that their youngest member was 14, but that her mother had arranged for a tutor to travel with her and the group and that I should go home and talk to my mother, and he told me where they would be the next day. I went home and had a very long talk with my mother and she was on the verge of tears because she knew I was very serious about leaving home. After two hours I decided that the idea had more cons than pros and I let it go.

[@GabrielaMorales-gm2oo]

😆🥹🤩😍 yesss!!! This is my all time favorite movie to watch alongside with wizard of oz. Gene wilder as Willy wonka and his singing voice and him singing the song pure imagination

[@StCerberusEngel]

I must've watched this movie an absurd number of times growing up in he 80s. Over 30 years later and I still feel Charlie's excitement when he finds the last Golden Ticket and I still tear up at the last line. "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted. He lived happily ever after." Gene Wilder is forever my Willy Wonka. If there's one way I could describe the effect it has on me as a viewer, I'd have to say it feels very genuine. From the opening credits, rarely does anything take me out of its reality. It really does pull me into a world of pure imagination to this day. "We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." RIP Gene. Thanks for the memories

[@RobXHEphotosPs37.29]

Yea, if you read the book, the kids are alive….not quite the same as they were, but alive! Love your reactions!

[@tommarks3726]

Lessons of morality mixed into the entertainment Saw this as a child in the 70's and it never gets old. Great reaction and you look stunning in Red. The hair and make-up are on point.😍

[@andrewcolombana3226]

He's a knife sharpener. Olden times craftsman used to make money selling knives and sharpening knives as street venders.

[@eMemoryCard]

20:12 *Charlie* is the only one *Willy* calls by name. Earned respect

[@NameOptional-p9u]

looking very professional yet elegant! great outfit. and great reaction lol

[@snafu313]

Gene Wilder wouldn't do the movie unless he did the bit where he limps out and then does the tumble. He said that after that, nobody would know whether he was lying or telling the truth.

[@dadmateryn8092]

Self entitlement was an extreme minority back then today it is the norm. In those days Wonka was viewed as morally eccentric.

[@simoliz03]

I still wish they had Sammy Davis JR. Sing The Candy Man!

[@NarnianRailway]

Delightfully sweet commentary and movie reaction!

[@dadmateryn8092]

Charlie’s ticket was found the night before the factory tour that’s why there was no news interviews 😎

[@timmooney7528]

The character Willy Wonka is based on the actual candy maker Forrest Mars. Mars discovered how to raise the melting point of chocolate. That's where the saying, "melts in your mouth. Not in your hands" came from. Before his discovery, candies such as M&M's weren't very practical. They were too sensitive to temperature. He named a candy bar after his kid's horse, Snickers. He was a bit eccentric, and also paranoid. He feared spies would steal his chocolate recipes. In college, his son was room mates with the son of Hershey, and he feared his son could not be trusted. Mars was concerned about industrial espionage, and wished he could find a tribe who could not be corrupted through money. The Oompa Loompas were based on his desire for loyal workers.

[@manuelbello5806]

The guy who made Mars Bars? I thought they were named after the planet

[@timmooney7528]

@@manuelbello5806 Besides M&M's, Snickers and Milky Way, Forrest Mars Sr is also famous for Uncle Ben's Rice and Pedigree pet foods.

[@rickardroach9075]

11:50 … and _not_ his mother, who slaves away in a wash house to put cabbage water on the table while all the other adults bunk off. What a sweet child it is. 🥰

[@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman]

Was filmed in my hometown of Munich Germany when I was a 7 yr old kid ✌💖☮

[@ink-cow]

There was a ton of candy cross-promotion when this movie came out. Quaker Oats was talked into financing the film as they launched a licensed line of Willy Wonka candies. The title was changed from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the name of the book) To Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in order to help the promotion of the new candy. The license to make Willy Wonka candy has been passed around among other companies over the years. The new candy maker is taking advantage of the new Wonka movie, but the filmmakers have no partnership with the candy company... so no cross-promotion.

[@daveygivens735]

So the closest you can come to a Wonka theme park is Hershey Park in Hershey, Pennsylvania. They've got a "chocolate" ride which of course dumps you out into a gigantic gift shop, but at least you can get pretty much any kind of candy you want.

[@FeaturingRob]

- One of the things that I love about this version is the fact that it is not as dark as the Burton version (which I didn't care for at all). Is it a little creepy? YES! But, I still love it. - There is a sequel novel 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator', but that one has never been filmed. - The score was written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, who wrote two Broadway musicals that Newley also starred in (The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd and Stop The World I Want To Get Off). Among the songs that they wrote were "Feelin' Good" from Roar of the Greasepaint... and "Goldfinger" the theme to the Sean Connery James Bond film. Bricusse alone wrote the movie musical Scrooge in the 1970s, and collaborated on songs with John Williams (Can You Read My Mind from Superman, The Movie in 1978), Henry Mancini (the Julie Andrews film Victor/Victoria), and others. - There is a weird theory that Willy Wonka is actually a Time Lord, the people that The Doctor comes from in Doctor Who. It's mainly due to events in the sequel novel, the Glass Elevator itself (possibly being a TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space), a ship that can go anywhere in space and time), and the Oompa-Loompas.

[@jimglenn6972]

I love Anthony Newley.

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

I thought the sequel was called "Snowpiercer".😁

[@memnarch129]

Specifically no one has filmed the sequel cause Roald Dahl, the writer of Charlie and the Chocolate factory, the books actual name, as well as the writer of The Witches, absolutely LOATHED how the movie was done and even demanded his name be taken off the movie. Dahl notoriously hated almost every single movie version of his books. But specifically with Willy Wonka he disliked it enough he refused to let anyone do the sequel.

[@jimglenn6972]

@@memnarch129 kind of like Stephen King and The Shining. Some great authors are lousy screenwriters.

[@memnarch129]

@@jimglenn6972 Well wouldnt say it that way. Its that in both cases the vision of the directors where VERY different from the Authors. Neither Dahl nor King wrote the screenplays for their movies, the scripts where written by someone else interpreting their works with the Directors inputs. Just with both Dahl and King they both felt the movies strayed TOO much from the original intentions of their works, yet both are highly celebrated and loved movies.

[@squeebers]

18:33 In case you missed it, this boat ride showed their deepest fears to them. For most it was usual things bugs, gore, stuff like that. But for Charlie, it was the man he thought was his biggest threat, Slugworth. I found that interesting. Charlie isn't afraid of monsters, or not having what he needed, or gore and stuff, but he is afraid of a man who is a threat, not to him, but to Wonka.

[@KyleAllen001]

To answer your question about the guy in the beginning, with the knives and such: He's a tinker, otherwise know as a tinsmith. They'd travel from place to place, repairing, fixing, trading, and mending things. They'd sell/trade knives, toys, salt, nails, news, clothes (or mend yours for a price), anything and everything.

[@jillk368]

There were people who, as a business, used to go around and sharpen knives and blades for people. They would have a hand cart, or a wagon, that looked very much like that. There are still knife sharpening businesses.

[@oneofthechampagnes5482]

Omg you are so beautiful and this is one of my favorite movies. Clicked right away.

[@gallendugall8913]

The currency in the movie is at least inspired by British currency which was most commonly coins. Paper money was something most people never dealt with prior to decimalization. A pound coin had about $30 value in today's dollars, there were 20 shillings to a pound and 12 pence to a shilling. So folding money was not commonly carried.

[@theangelgirl86]

During the boat ride when Wonka was singing Nowhere of Knowing and having his little meltdown, the other actor's reactions are genuine. They had no idea Gene was going to do that.

[@Randsurfer]

That boat ride probably took 3 days to film. I doubt they were that surprised.

[@Tony_Yayo1]

This is one of my childhood favorites! I’m glad you reacted to this. May you have a blessed Friday ❤️🙏

[@squeebers]

19:51 I just realized something. Wonka didnt 't get this formula right. He said so. They probably do get smaller. He was just using them as a facade for his test. I love this Wonka!

[@bighuge1060]

I was born in 1960 and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was one of three fantasy movies (aside from The Wizard of Oz) that defined my childhood. The other two were Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Doctor Dolittle (Rex Harrison). Whenever any of these are on television, my sisters, brother and I would watch them. I highly recommend giving each of these other two a consideration. As with Wonka, they are musicals.

[@The_Dudester]

Funny you should mention that. I'm your age and when I was nine my town city councilmen decided to tell the phone company to make it a long distance call to call a medium sized city 30 miles away. With that said, a local kid's show was running a contest-winner got to go see "The Love Bug" (local) movie premier. I won, but because the TV station had a rule against calling long distance, they could only send a consolation prize. A box arrived, which had the record albums for The Wizard of Oz, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Doctor Dolittle (the last two, I knew nothing about). There was also magazines and a big pile of candy in the box. I finally saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (VHS from Blockbuster video) in my 30's, but I couldn't bring myself to see Doctor Dolittle.

[@bighuge1060]

@@The_Dudester I remember seeing The Love Bug at the Oasis Theatre in Queens. I think I may have seen Mary Poppins there as well. That theatre is long gone, unfortunately. That was a great consolation prize. It was nice they did that. Since we're in the same ballpark age-wise, do you remember the theatre(s) showing trailers for the Mexican Santa Claus? For decades I tried to find the movie with Santa Claus looking out a telescope with an eye at the end of it and a machine with talking lips. I later read this movie made the rounds in the 1960s. I'd also recommend giving Doctor Dolittle a watch. Believe it or not, it has a really emotional scene (and song) with a seal.

[@The_Dudester]

@@bighuge1060 The Mary Poppins album was in the box as well (I saw that movie in my 30's VHS at Blockbuster as well). But in reply to your question, I didn't see the Mexican Santa Claus trailer. We were desperately poor, so I only saw the inside of a theater once that year, and it was a fluke of a thing (there was an unrated preview for "The Groove Tube" with a topless actress. Me to my mom: "MOM!! We have GOT to see that movie!!") and the movie we went to the theater to see was Kelly's Heroes. The only Santa Claus movie from that era that stuck with me was "Santa Claus versus The Martians" and in the trailer I saw on TV was a scene filmed on an Air Force Base in the earlier mentioned mid sized city (I have only seen clips of that movie). With a Google search I found this: Santa Claus (sometimes also known as Santa Claus vs. the Devil) is a 1959 Mexican fantasy film directed by René Cardona and co-written with Adolfo Torres Portillo (You can see the movie for free here on youtube). Santa Claus, a public domain film, was released on VHS by Good Times Home Video in 1992 and as a Region 1 DVD on 1 November 2004 by Westlake Entertainment Group. It was also released on DVD on the Holiday Family Favorites by Mill Creek Entertainment in 2008. The running time of each version is 94 minutes. The home video releases were transferred from several theatrical prints of the film. These prints had suffered damage from age and routine use; as a result the home video releases contain several awkward splices and the color reproduction is poor. The film's also part of Weird Christmas on Fandor.

[@bighuge1060]

@@The_Dudester Those two Disney movies were the only ones I remember seeing when I was young (under 10). I was scared by a Winnie the Pooh short that was shown before one of those two features where the end shot was a live action Winnie doll winking at the camera. When I finally saw that Santa Claus movie, it was when Rifftrax Live skewered it, even though I have that Mills Creek collection with it in it. I quickly realized only a few seconds of the movie looked familiar which probably meant I only saw the trailer. It is definitely a bizarre movie. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians used to be one of NY television's (either channel 9 or 11 (WOR/PIX)) Thanksgiving Day Holiday movies. There was also The Christmas That Almost Wasn't with the movie March of the Wooden Soldiers (Babes in Toyland) being the very first to show that day on channel 11. For some reason, channel 9 always ran the marathon of King Kong, Son of Kong, and Mighty Joe Young. Regarding that Mills Creek collection, they also have a weird rendition of Miracle on 34th Street (I think it was originally titled Meet Mr. Kringle) and watching it is like experiencing the Mandela effect. So much looks familiar to the original movie but with different actors and some minor changes.

[@charlescallen460]

Ok. I watch reaction videos every day basically and you are my new favorite reactor! You have a fantastic sense of humor and you are so chill! 🙂💯

[@RoyBatty555]

You are delightful! Please post more often.

[@Wizardjudge]

Being a knife sharpener was an actual job, although probably not at the same time tv came into existence.

[@polferiferus1938]

Growing up in Chicago in the 1970s we had one come down our block about once a month during non-winter seasons. Probably quite a rarity even then, but the old man’s grandson tried it later for a few days during the big recession of 2007-2009, but folks didn’t come flocking like they used to, so he gave it up.

[@CaddyJim]

Our Californiablend is always beautiful but today looks like a beautiful mature woman now to the video...lol

[@RyneMurray23]

An underrated scene is when the British guy is trying to get the computer to tell him where to find the golden tickets 😂 he gets so mad he tells the computer to shove the life time supply of chocolate up its arse😂

[@jennjenn8708]

Rose meeting back up with Jack at the end is such a beautiful way of showing she passed away after she took the Heart of the Ocean Bank to the ocean. She kept her promise as proof in the pictures at the end. That's true love.

[@ckobo84]

100 billion people in the world in 1971? 7:07 Dang the world 🌎 population has really gone down.

[@seanlott4062]

I like the Snowpiercer comparison if you ever wondered what happened with Charlie

[@Elephant2024-wi2li]

No matter how many lavish remakes and/or sequels they make of the Wonka story, to me nothing can match the charm and innocence of the original version. A timeless classic which children of all ages can enjoy from generation to generation.

[@sonnieandjacob]

You have some hella good style

[@mjhart68]

You are so right, there's nothing like a theater-going experience. I'm always the last to leave because i sit through the credits.

[@abelmantor7557]

This movie always makes me hungry 😋🍫🍭

[@matthewcompton3448]

In an interview with NPR, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" screenwriter David Seltzer talked about coming up with the ending for the movie. The following was taken from the interview transcript: "ALEX COHEN: Mel Stuart directed the film. He hired a young documentary maker named David Seltzer to write the screenplay. Seltzer had never written a script before, so he flew to Munich, where they were filming, and over the course of a few sleepless weeks, he furiously cranked out a screenplay. In its first draft, David Seltzer kept the ending just as it was in the book. And then, utterly exhausted, Seltzer left Germany and went to relax for while in a tiny cabin tucked away in the woods of Maine. Mr. DAVID SELTZER (Screenwriter): There were no phones up there except for one pay phone that was literally tacked to a tree. And when somebody needed somebody in the area, chances are no one would be around to hear it. Early one morning, I was going out fishing, and I happened to be walking by that spot. The phone is ringing, and I picked it up. It's Mel Stuart in Munich. He said, where the hell are you? We need you. We need to talk to you. I said, why? You can talk to me but I'm kind of way far away, Mel. And he said, we don't have an ending to the movie. COHEN: Because at that point, the ending was what's in the book, which is where - Willy Wonka and Charlie and Charlie's grandfather in this glass elevator, shooting up, and I think the last word was like, yippee. Mr. SELTZER: That's correct. COHEN: Yeah. Mr. SELTZER: That's exactly how the book ended. And Mel said, are you kidding me? All this trouble we've gone to, to make this movie - all the money that's gone into it, all the talent, the musical numbers, the choreography, the Oompa-Loompas...? (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. SELTZER: It ends with the word, yippee? He said that's not a screen play. That's not a movie. You can't do that. COHEN: So, what did you do? Mr. SELTZER: I said, well, let me think about it. 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. (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. SELTZER: I said, Mel, are you there? And he said, fantastic. And that was it."

[@burtman.]

Your reaction is just so cool. Love the way you laugh and talk. Big up from down under ❤

[@Randy-r4e]

Glad you took this one on. It's a cute version and not nearly as dark as the other one. Another one you might like is the 1988 movie "Willow". It stars Val Kilmer when he was still in good shape.

[@jesusramirez4537]

great show. thanks

[@DrFeelgood1127]

You know postmodernism has taken over when the only understanding people take away from the movie is Wonka is somehow evil...

[@-BuddyGuy]

Come into the factory and get treated like a pile of garbage because you inherently suck, and the thing you have to do to get ahead is put your pride in the toilet, ignore the slave labour and report any IP disclosure violations to management. And then you will win in the game of life.

[@tiarnanquinn5403]

Silly Lobster, postmodernism was over by the time the movie was released in the 70s, and dead by the 90s.

[@LA_HA]

DrFeelGood: Well, the responses to your post proves your point. Too bad... for them. This will be great despite the grouchy crowd. Ha

[@tiarnanquinn5403]

@@LA_HA I'm not grouchy, I'm more chill then Jordan on Benzos. I'm also high enough from em I can't find the mole hill dudes making a mountain outta to even justify starting up with the Lobster Logic.

[@LA_HA]

@@tiarnanquinn5403 Okay. But, what's Lobster Logic?

[@SunShine-qk4rb]

Great reaction to this great movie

[@brianedwards5792]

So allegedly, the movie Snow piercer is the second movie, Worth Checking out

[@yakoepchook9464]

Enjoyed your reaction 😊

[@patrickvillafuerte7943]

Not sure if anyone commented this already but I love the story of Gene Wilder taking the role. He had one stipulation, that Mel Brooks let him do the tumble during the introduction. It creates a sense that you have no idea what to expect from Wonka next. He plays the role brilliantly.

[@TheLaidOffFounder]

My fave movie ever pound for pound.

[@only257]

childhood favorite

[@squeebers]

15:09 That was practical. It really got smaller at the end. The set makers surly had a time with that.

[@randycrawford1132]

The grandfather saying I’m counting on you to find all 5, means sell the other 4

[@KavenAdventures]

I love when you said the scam I’m fine with a squiggly bump

[@Zombie_Trooper]

Theoretically a Wonka attraction could exist at Universal. Just depends on how the theme park rights are handled. Paramount owns Transformers but there's a Universal ride and WB owns Harry Potters but yet Wizarding World is at the Universal parks. Just depends on if a deal is struck between the holder and parks.

[@dcemerald70]

I watch this one when I was younger before I saw 2005 version come out in theaters. I love Willy Wonka so much that I got the chance not long ago to do the stage version. The whole point of the story is that Wonka wants to find an heir to continue his work. He knows he can’t trust an adult because they will do whatever they want so he knew it had to be child. However the child had to be the right one, not selfish or spoiled or rotten to the core. So what did happen is that he seen them I guess on the TV and he would reduce their flaws. Then he picks specific rooms in the factory to test each of them. The stage version is closer to the Gene Wilder film. There’s another oompah-loompa song which is about Charlie being honest about him and his grandfather tasting the fizzy lifting drinks. That’s why in this version Charlie is chosen because he knows he didn’t deserve to win after breaking the rules, and that he was willing to give back to gobstopper if that meant they wouldn’t get money. 🍫🎩🍬💜💛🤎

[@jonathanross149]

That Wonka Moon Pie thing always bothered me as well.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

Of the five winners, we only see what kind of candy bar the Golden Ticket was found in in two cases (Veruca and Charlie), and in those two cases the ticket is in a "regular" Wonka bar. But for all we know, the tickets of the other kids might have been found in any other kind of Wonka bar, including the "moon pie" type Charlie received for his birthday.

[@williamjones6031]

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 didn't like this adaptation, so we were cursed with "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". 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. Wilkinson 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 an 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. If you look carefully, you can see the little girl in the candy shop get wacked on the chin when the candy man opens the flip up counter. 9. 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.😎 10. You can get away with anything in a musical.

[@Muckylittleme]

The World needs more Wonka morality :)

[@ThePixarDude]

Willy Wonka is such a sass master i love it. Also logic is out the window for this movie 😂❤

[@innercircle341]

Happy Christmas ❤❤❤

[@williambanks2223]

Roald Dahl did write a sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory called Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. It does show what happens after Charlie gathered his family to go to the factory. The book gets weird with an alien invasion.

[@DevlinDomini]

Such a joy to see a full grown adult watching a movie I saw as a small child and react in a similar way I did to some of that stuff. (Except I got a little more creeped out by the tunnel scene.) Love the Bible verse of the day!

[@Andrew.Ehrhardt]

That r2-d2 sneeze tho

[@ChemiiOneLegacy]

The movie is based on a book by an author called Roald Dahl, the second one is "Charlie & the Great Glass Elevator", he begins his journey at the end of this movie by flying to pick up his family to move in to the factory.

[@squeebers]

8:52 This scene is so well-done! Lol! I love it so much!

[@GruffyddFO4]

A recurring theme for Dahl's stories is nasty things happening to nasty people, and this one is no different. "No. Stop. Don't." 🤣

[@stephanginther9051]

Fun fact. The kids all took a serious liking to Gene Wilder and they followed him around like puppies. Gene loved kids but couldn't say no to them and didn't have the heart to tell them they were in the way. So the staff would periodically 'rescue' him ​by distracting the kids and spiriting him away so he could get some work done.

[@mikesilva3868]

Huge fan of this movie 😊

[@jswap1]

The creepiness is what makes the movie so memorable

[@Lpace3]

There was a sequel about Charlie. It's called Snowpiercer. Actually, it's just a great theory you can look up on KZbin. Just like Jar Jar Binks is actually a dark Lord of the Sith in the Star Wars prequels.

[@JayPadrig]

You skipped over my favorite quote. Wonka grabs verruca‘s face, and says we are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams- after she said, who’s ever heard of a schnozberry

[@craigoconnor6662]

You're a musical theater person. What are your favorite shows that you've done.

[@jrobertlysaght]

It's funny you found Wonka Sketchy. Rewatching it as an adult, I realize Grampa Joe SUCKS. 20 years he's laid in bed letting Charlie's parents pay the bills and take care of him, but the second the ticket is real he can not just walk, but dance. And what does he sing? Not 'Charlie has a ...' or 'We've got a..' no Joe sings "I"VE got a golden ticket," I, me me throughout the song. Then he gets Charile disqualified by taling him into knowingly breaking the rules, and when he's caught out, his first thought is to betray Wonka to Slugworth. And when Wonka tells Charlie he can live in the Factory, Joe immediately says "..AND ME???". He really is the villain of the story.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

I'm incredibly sick of this cynical view of Grandpa Joe, and I think it tells us more about the people who express it than it does about him.