This movie altered my mind when I was in the 1rst grade...I watched my daughters.mind be opened up when she watched it and my son is about to watch it for the first time tonight...This was the 70s version of the wizard of Oz
He understood what that first impression meant for the film. In the beginning everyone was talking about how mysterious Wonka was and nobody had seen him or what was going on in his factory... So when he finally showed up he made a quiet entrance then showed the razzle dazzle!
He lived a few miles away from me in Stamford CT. Word was: He gave out the best candy on Halloween 🎃! I hadn't known he was right down the street from my kids Middle School at the time so they missed out. 😢
It definitely set the tone for the film. As a child, when I first saw this, seeing him use the cane was strange for some reason, and seeing him fall and jump up made me feel uneasy. Like, what’s his point? What’s the lesson? But the movie kept my attention.
The creators intentions often are misinterpreted by those who witness their work. So long as it is a positive thing, who is to say that it wasn't a part of their reason, i'm fairly sure they won't.
@jaymorsis-official 🤣🤣🤣 my husband agrees, but that's because he saw the film before he read the book. I read the book first so everything was just seen as wrong and completely inaccurate in my eyes. It left me disappointed since I loved the book. I had a bias towards the book so I could never truly enjoy Wilders depiction (and I love Gene Wilder films) The Depp film was closer to the book than the Wilder film, and people get upset when I point that out because they love Wilders depiction so much😅
My ring tone is Wonka yelling at Charlie and Grandpa Joe in the office over steeling fizzy lifting drinks and bumping into the ceiling that now has to be sanitized. The ring tone is the ENTIRE scene from "You stole Fizzy lifting drinks" all the way to "Good day sir" 😂 And my message notification is the Umpalumpa summons flute. Gene was such a good person and actor. He was so heart broken when Gilda passed they were so much alike.
Mr. Wilder's eyes grabbed you as a child and still make you look today. Brilliant work in one of the best children's movies ever! Sad he's not around anymore.
So by him falling and doing a somersault after walking out with a cane, did you wonder if he was ever telling the truth? …or did he just overthink something?
Literally just reminds me of my husbands sarcasm😂 i’m start calling him willy wonka insteada corbear. sad truth. Never watched it. So I will add it to my list to watch.
@@masterofnow1I knew from that moment that he wasn’t straightforward. There was always more hidden under the surface. His efforts worked for me as a kid
@@masterofnow1 I always wondered if he was telling the truth…because of the way he introduced himself in that scene. It’s genius. Now, what you might not realise is that it might have also affected you….but subconsciously. Before you jump to a quick No with bias…Digest it and re-think it…and you might realise it did affect you without you truly realising it at the time. Now you are able make your subconscious……conscious.
What's crazy about that scene is just how memorable it is. I remember watching this movie for the first time as a kid and being absolutely blown away by that entrance
He came into a restaurant where I was working once in South carolina. As he left, I went up and told him that I loved him in Blazing Saddles. He took my hand and said, "thank you dear" with such genuine warmth.❤
I looove tidbits like this and just getting to see and hear how the GOATS had a vision for a part and could see in their minds how it would all play out and a director had to trust in the end they'd have a masterpiece such as this one.
The age of the movie star faded when we lost him and all the greats it's really sad to in my life time to see Legends like gene to the actors we have now.
@@JohnQueSacc Can someone explain why he wants the character to be like that as in we don’t know if he’s acually crippled or not when he cleary shows he’s not crippled by rolling an getting up fast
I remember saying that when he died and my son said "Mommy, maybe you should go to his funeral then." I told him if everyone whose childhood he'd affected went to his funeral, they wouldn't have enough room.
My ex husband and I used to plow snow at Gene's CT home. In the middle of the night, I would see Gene standing in his bedroom window, watching us, wearing a nightgown and sleep cap. Gilda used to shop at my 1st job with their dog Sparkle, in the mid 80's. They were the absolute nicest people. You'd never know they were such famous people.
If he was wearing a nightcap, I'm certain it was a nightgown he was wearing with it. The two go together. Also, because of his age and accentricity. ❤Love those two to the moon and back❤
I felt such authenticity in his acting. That was one of my favorite movies of all time as a kid. I watched it on VHS tape, rewound it, watched it, rinse, repeat, so many times until I broke it, then my parents bought me another copy. His Willy Wonka was my favorite
Nothing wrong about this movie being your favorite growing up as a child. Gene Wilder was a brilliant actor and there will be no other person to ever come close to his caliber with this movie!
Best part about Gene was he convinced his directors to let him do these improvisations whenever he felt they were necessary for the character. Genius actor
I don't think Depp beat him, but I could name a few actors who could beat him out on a Willy Wonka reboot. I think, however, this tale is done and over with. If Hollyweird reboots Willy Wonka again I'm giving up on the movie industry and going to invest my free time in to reality TV lol
@@benchinny-ev3xe depp version was significantly more book accurate. Like Willy Wonka is supposed to be weird. His last name is literally Wonka for this reason. He spent the last 20 years alone in a factory with nothing but the Oompa Loompa’s for company. He didn’t do it differently because he’d never be able to do it like Wilder. He did it differently because Wilder didn’t do it like Wonka. When they re adapted it, the intention was to be as accurate as possible. Like don’t stroke him off so much. They didn’t even watch his version when they were producing the 05 version.
He is on another level, alongside actors like Jim Carrey and Joaquin Pheonix. Men like them don't just act, they live the roles they portray. There's a reason some movies are better than others, some have actors who care so much that they would turn down the job if they can't see their vision through
Crazy work for a crazy world. So many movies from a childhood that would never have believed if not for the movies. They were so important to our imagination's. And look at it all now. My daughter hated Alice in wonderland until the color came in and wow, she just loves it now. Color became a real game changer to all of us back then.
Because it gave Wonka illusion, and made him seem like an eccentric lively character. The rest of the movie is scripted. It's why modern Hollywood feels so empty. Everything is a set, its all scripted, there's no spontaneity
@@drekwilliamton5830"it's all scripted ", are you telling me the actors were acting the entire time?? 🤯🥺 Its litterally their job to ACT like something they are not, what do you expect??
To bad he never read the actual book, he probably would've passed on this role if he did cuz that movie is nothing like the book and Rold Dahl hated it.
The creativeness of Gene he wasn’t just playing his role and sticking directly to the script he always had to add his own little touch and that’s what made this movie so legendary 🙏
I always get a sad little feeling when think about him passing, I get the same feeling when I think about the equally legendary Robin Williams. It's so bittersweet, think about how they're no longer with us... while still being with us in such special ways through their incredible talents and the contributions they made to our lives without even knowing us.
Not really. Unless he explained it, you didn't take it that way. Odds are, you, like everyone else just assumed it was showmanship with no deeper meaning. Thus it failed
@@SinturionsThe audience could very well internalize it subconsciously. At the very least, it shows him to be a trickster, which is essentially what he’s saying
@@texasbeast239That’s what made him such a fine actor. He has just the most gentle, mesmerizing voice-that he can snap into absolute insanity when needed. Reminds me of Robin Williams, I feel like they had similar comedic and serious range as actors. Just absolutely brilliant
Ironically, Roald Dahl hated that they casted Gene Wilder. He wanted a different actor, and he wasn't a fan of them rewriting his script and putting the focus on Wonka, especially since the book is called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
@@gabe608 From what I heard that when they remade Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Dahl family/estate was heavily involved with the making of it and was more faithful to the book (aside from Wonka's backstory)
I knew after that moment that Wonka was gonna be an unpredictable guy who you can't take too seriously. Gene Wilder was definitely THE guy to play Willy Wonka, and that scene being entirely his own idea just makes so much sense
Amazing at 3 years old you thought that. More likely you are lying just like wonka. At least he did it for a better reason than likes and attention on the internet.
To me it always just made him look like a fun guy haha... I always thought that was the point of that scene.. It's not like I put a lot of thought in to it tbh.... But I remember watching it the first time and it was cool.. I just thought he was a funny dude!!
I view him and Johnny Depp as two very different Wonka's. Gene was the eccentric grandfatherly type with a bit of bite. Johnny exhibits a dark twisted innocence and is a Wonka I'd Yoko Ono. Timothy Chamalet....uh....he did the best he could with the material and it's not his fault the writers/creators didn't understand what makes the character Willy Wonka. I didn't hate the movie, but I hate when prequels are more updated than the OG. Like on Starship Enterprise they were more modern than when Tiberius Kirk manned the ship. But on Enterprise they were building the ship. Why was the Wonka factory more incredible than when Gene set foot in it? Why did he have flying chocolates and then the fizzy lifting drink?
Fr. Johnny depp did good with the more comedic Willy wonka, but gene wilder just feels more authentic. then there’s timothee chalamet.. it should be pretty self explanatory
@@gypsywoman9140I totally agree with what you’ve said about viewing Johnny’s Wonka, and Gene’s Wonka as separate entities. I watched the original more times than I could count as a child. It was my absolute favourite film, I loved every second of it. And when I went to the theatre with my friends to see the Johnny Depp version, I was very disappointed and slightly confused. I couldn’t believe how strange it was. I thought “Well. They’ve gone and ruined it all”. But I was completely wrong! All I had to do. Was, exactly what you just said. See them as completely different Wonka’s. I could then enjoy Johnny’s version. Which was a relief, I am a huge fan! I didn’t want to not enjoy Johnny’s performance simply because it wasn’t the same as Gene’s. They both did a brilliant job. Gene was brilliant in his portrayal. Johnny was brilliant in his very different portrayal. I haven’t seen the newer one yet..I may hold off as I know it isn’t quite, what it should have, and could have been. Take care!
That’s actually beautiful, he really did come across as mysterious after that. He seemed so very eccentric in the movie you kinda felt both afraid of him but also loved him at the same time. His effect was amazing
Even though I like Johnny Depp... I AM A DIEHARD GENE WILDER FAN. I actually walked out the movie theater while watching the Willy Wonka "remake". Some things can't and SHOULDN'T be "remade". I wonder what Gene felt about the Johnny Depp version???
@@ginah6834I agree, Young Frankenstein is probably one of the best comedy movies ever. The shower scene from hear no evil see no evil has me dying to this day. So many funny movies.
@@ginah6834the Depp version was actually made with direct contact with Roald Dahl’s family so that it captured the intent of the story. As much as I love the Gene Wilder version, it was made specifically so that it could advertise the new Wonka line of candy launched by Quaker oats company. This is also why they changed the name of the 1971 movie to “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” rather than the original name of the book “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” as kids would remember the name recognition of Wonka chocolate and want to buy it.
@@KristenDETW Yeah, I couldn't believe that I didn't see a comment on it when I scrolled down. The soundtrack from this anime is such a bop, I discovered it on an anime jazz playlist.
That's actually a good way of playing the character I never really noticed that I always assumed "Oh he's just quirky" but now seeing that and knowing this makes him kinda intimidating
I remember being 6 years old and asking if my parents if he was still alive and they both said he wasn’t. I’m 30 now but I remember hearing about his ACTUAL passing and was like damn really? This whole time he was alive? I love my parents but really?? Lol
@@lindseysloan8735lol that sucks. They def had the wrong information back then. Although to be fair to your parents, they likely didn’t have easy access to internet to fact check and you did. It’s basically a pastime for us millennials to Wikipedia/IMDB casts from movies we’re watching. That could have been one of those moments for you Either way, Gene Wilder hopefully knew he was adored by many young fans who grew up on his movies before he passed 🤍
He could do it all, from slapstick comedy, to touching, seriously dramatic scenes. But, always with a twinkle in his eye. It was like, he was letting us in on a secret, so, strap yourself in, and get ready for a wild ride. That was part of the fun! Lord, I miss him!
Love you Gene. You got me through some hard times. I grew up in a hell disguised as a loving home. Your movies helped me laugh through it. So shines a good deed in a weary world.
Bro, this dude lived in an era when computers were barely functional. Now he’s in the era where computers are technically alive. Just imagine what the next generation will see.
I was born in 1981 but grew up watching Willy Wonka every Easter... Thanksgiving and Christmas on PBS...this was a tradition when i was young and my mom would make homemade kettle popcorn for us...me and mt little sister would just imagine living in the factory...when i had my kids (27..18..14&12) i passed it down to them...even tho the remake had came out and they liked it they rather watch the old one now im a granny and now im passing it down to my grandbabies❤️❤️❤️ Gene u are and forever will b Mr Willy Wonka ❤️❤️
We lost so many in just this past decade: Christopher Lee Peter O'toole Sean Connery Carrie Fisher Rutger Hauer (bladerunner) Leonard Nimoy Robin Williams Peter Fonda STAN LEE (RIP X-Men) Adam West (the OG Batman) Dennis Hopper David Bowie
