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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.

Date: 2004-12-15 11:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] some-fan.livejournal.com
I <3 that movie. Is Veruca the girl that says to her daddy "I want an oompa loompa."?

I know some girls like that. :^)

Date: 2004-12-15 12:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] full4zaccordion.livejournal.com
"But Daddy, I want it NOOOW!"

Hehehe...I still can't believe that's a kids' movie. I mean, that scene on the boat where they go into the tunnel, and all the horrible things that happen to the kids...then again, I guess kids see a lot worse these days :P

Date: 2004-12-15 12:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] writer-lilies.livejournal.com
Hmmm. Bet they cut those parts for tv. Now I need the dvd.

Date: 2004-12-15 03:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hiddenmuse.livejournal.com
That would be Veruca, Miss I Want It All And I Want It NOW, Daddy!!

People - children and adults - like that can be so annoying.

Date: 2004-12-15 03:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hiddenmuse.livejournal.com
OMHearn ... what was hilarious were some of the fan the comments on IMDB.com.

One guy went so far as to call for Roald Dahl's institutionalization because of the film and its treatment of the child characters. (Yo, newsflash, Captain Delusional ... Roald Dahl *hated* the film - and didn't write the screenplay. Also - are you up for exhuming remains or something?)

Date: 2004-12-15 03:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hiddenmuse.livejournal.com
They might've cut them. This was the motion picture presentation - which made it especially cool.

I just wonder if the censors caught onto Veruca's "twat" - something I certainly didn't notice when I was a young one!

Date: 2004-12-15 03:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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!

Date: 2004-12-15 04:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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. :)

Date: 2004-12-15 04:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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!!

:)

Date: 2004-12-15 07:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cyndal.livejournal.com
My entire office dressed up as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory for Halloween. I was Mrs.TeeVee.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for the Holiday card :) I triple loveded it. Especially the back sticker and Kelly's message of "spread the legs".

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