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[hiddenmuse]

Last night, I went to see Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Kellie and friends at a very cool theater in Oakland, Parkway Theater.

Before the movie started, we got to settle into Ikea couches with pizza and drinks, and big-ass bowls of fresh-popped popcorn with butter and salt, Bjork playing in the background - it has to be the best way to see a movie.


And the movie? Well, I'd always seen Willy Wonka on TV, never on the big screen, so this was especially cool for me. I've loved that film since I was a kid, still love it to this day - and some scenes just cracked me up more than others:

* When Mike TeeVee is interviewed as the latest ticket winner, he shoots his cap gun, then complains about not being able to have a real one. Dad's reply? "Not until you're 12, Mike."

* When Veruca Salt was in her dad's office, pushing him to get the ladies to work faster at opening the Wonka bar wrappers, she called one lady a twat.

Comments

[kathykat.livejournal.com]

I always found it odd that it was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a book and Willy Wonka as the movie...I also enjoyed Charlie and the Great Glass elevator...but I guess they never got their cinematic hands on that one!

[hiddenmuse.livejournal.com]

Apparently Roald Dahl was against the idea of Charlie and the Glass Elevator being made after being so disappointed in Willy Wonka.

I'd love to read the original books, though. :)

[kathykat.livejournal.com]

I will lend them to you right offn' my living room book case if we ever get a chance to meet up for pizza one day!!

:)