1971
Director: Mel Stuart
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Key Elements: Characters – Music – Visuals – Message
My Review:
Based on the book by Roald Dahl, this story is both whimsical and weird. It has given us some lasting pop culture imagery and song.
What I really like about this movie is that it outlines the major vices of our society: overeating, too much TV, selfishness, and inconsideration. But it also rewards the mild-mannered, unassuming and selfless.
Gene Wilder is also a great in this role. His steady delivery of bizarre quips couldn’t be recreated. Particularly like when they firs enter the factory and the boat scene.
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Quotes:
- I’ve got the golden ticket!
- There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.
- The snozzberries taste like snozzberries.
- Oh, you can't get out backwards. You've got to go forwards to go back, better press on.
- A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
- 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… 'Cause the rowers keep on rowing… And they're certainly not showing… Any signs that they are slowing.
- But Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted. …He lived happily ever after.
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