Gene Wilder - Pure Imagination 

ikr, wowww

also, ready player one made a remake of this song and it's absoulutely brilliant. r.i.p willy wonka.

Also, the teacup-flower was made of wax, and he had to spit it out quickly.

@@j6lkx5kt31 That's right. I had recognized it within the trailer and then forgotten all about it. Let me go find it. Thanks.

Plume That’s amazing

Nobody uses DVD anymore lol Bluray! Or digital!

@@amyschildgamerlive4519 let's put it on beta and not VHS.

Oh I am definitely taking my copy of this movie to the nuclear bomb shelter

Dankmon that would be mf scary if everyone was hearing this in a apocalypse

I agree. This is exactly the message the survivors should have as they rebuild civilization.

What area?

@@UzzyX I’m from the Hartford, Connecticut area. It was probably a Stop and Shop grocery store - Wilder lived out his last decades in Stamford Connecticut!

Your really lucky!

bro met gene wilder 💀 how lucky

Cool😊

Ghettos are not paradise.

I Love that specific line too....

Beautiful lyric for sure...Hope,love,friendship...Way, Truth, Life

Easier to view paradise when you’re on that molly

@@denisemilanifan704 go away satan

Why didn't they make the next one as a Charlie's journey? Maybe he could have had trouble with Hershey and Reeses and they could have had a candy war with candy tanks and chocolate soldiers?

Raymond Rose y e s just yes

Watch SnowPiercer

Raymond Rose yes

Watch snow piercer

I heard it was plastic

Tiktok told me it was tripe.

@@cameron3525 It was wax. I had the actors' commentary on DVD when I was a kid and Gene Wilder talks about how it was all wax and he had to spit it out right after the shot.

@@Cerise4697 do you know what tripe is?

@@cameron3525 I- why would they make a fish cup?

I thought Timothee was wonderful as Wonka 😭. He was so child-like and so wonderfully loveable.

It is a prequel after all

Totally agree. Gene Wilder is the true Wiily Wonka - S

No need to compare them.

@@sirmel11 We don't need too, but as individuals we have preferances therefore do it anyway. Have a Happy Holiday Season - Paz S

The Wonka experience has to be the funniest thing to happen this year 😂

“Willy Wonder”… lol thats the perfect name for an off brand Willy Wonka

@@captainwumbo7629 That was a mistake but I'm not gonna fix it because your right.

Wolfbane McBuff Twotoes

Update: The guy behind this mess has been nicknamed: "Willy Wanker".

"If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it." Take this to heart and life will be so much better. Even waiting for the bus is nice if you leep this in mind.

But not in a White Supremacist and Privilege society; where you feel like an eternal prisoner, if you're not White.

@@ubuntuiqinisoofuna7852 Sounds like a YOU problem

ed donahue I think the song is meaning that even with what goes around around you if you only look at your positives you’ll be viewing paradise.

ed donahue I think you should re-evaluate your own life

Dude you do realize thats from tik tok and literally on everyone's YT feed, but still yes that's true

@@captaintom282 yeah but if you knew before watching a video about you then noice

@@Sam64783 I didn't know so thank your for the comment, also Sam not everyone is a a sad fucker and spends there life on tiktok, I've never been on the app once so I appreciate the original comment

@captaintom thank you for that fun fact very helpful god bless

And they had to stop from barfing as the chocolate river was mixed with chocolate with something I can't remember.

When you take the book/Depp version’s backstory into account it gets even sadder. Wonka got too trusting and let his recipes get stolen, stopped trusting anybody after that

⁠@@mrcritical6751as he should be. I hope the new Wonka films don’t change that. It’s a big part of his character how he gave so much to people, he gave them a new lease on life and they repaid him by taking away the one thing he held most sacred in the world. And just used it for money, not even to spread it like he wanted to. It plays into how Charlie makes him believe again and ensures him he can finally trust someone with his life’s work.

A reflection of the ultimate tragedy of the human existence and reality

@@mrcritical6751 that book taught us to never put your whole trust into people

Silent Youngsters hey it was the 70’s its allowed

Joe was a butthole actually

ironic yeah thats why i love this scene and wilder in general he actually made you believe this stuff is real

Wilder actually said about a third of the props were actually edible (I read the trivia on Amazon Prime so yea.. There was a lot)

Spoiler alert, dammit! Now I looked up and seen the warehous..dreams shattered ☹️

He did

My eyes kind of started tearing up

​@Anon me neither

​@Anon same lol

@@Anon-ir5ntThis songs an absolute bitch to do without squinting. I directed a small production of Willy Wonka a few years back and the guy playing Wonka struggled immensely with keeping his eyes open.

@@hakushranata7726 is it just the nature of the song that makes the singer want to squint their eyes? I’ve never thought about that before.

This was recorded in a booth and mimed by Gene Wilder on the set.

I think that his sadness reflects one of the main themes of the movie. If you live purely in your own imagination you'll be sad. You have to have others to share it with.

@@stephencarlsbad exactly. I love the song because it glorifies imagination and the wonders of it but at the end of the day you cant just live in your imagination. Even if you managed to literally build it into reality like Willy Wonka

1:27 you can tell why he's lonely (because he's a NONCE) (just a joke)

Jim Smith you’re old. Not dead. Do it

Well he doesn't care if kids get murdered in his factory so.

1:42

LOL

Wilfred Fitchett 💀😂😂

XD

Trying to kill his grandpa

No other❤

@@annrodriguez2891the new one is mid and will never beat gene

Most definitely I 100% agree

me too bro. Me too

@@pogbloxian1817me three bro me three

REAL

Me too!

Want to change the world theres nothing to it

We possibly ulli8iu

holy shit i heard it right when i read this comment

@@Johnny-zj1go Same

b0redom same

Rip

Sadly 😭😢😪

RIP

@Çhrîstófêr Pèzêt ×5 shut up

Damn sad he’s gone

Guilty. 😊

ME😊

Caught me

DAWG AINT NOW WAY YOU CAUGHT ME 😨😨😨 YOU STALKIN ME OR SUMTHING!?

@@ビノミstop 🤡

"Reality cannot be changed by a wish. But it can destroy the wisher." - Ayn Rand

And... why weren't you doing the same?

ⁱˢ ⁱᵗ ᵇᵃᵈ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ⁱ ˡᵃᵘᵍʰᵉᵈ ?

What a idiot 😂

jax 0901 lol

Did u ever sing this song doing any of those things? I sing this all the time to my girls, anywhere.

Beautifully written May God bless you as you keep stepping all over the World.

@لا لا (No No) انا إسا قريت شو إنته كاتب و بكاني I Just read what you've wrote and it made tear 😢 up

🥹😢

That was awesome brother

😢

The author of the book didn't want the actor to play him that is both weird and funny

@@galacticsector3195 do you know why not??

Arnold Schwarzenegger would play it better. Hands down.

@@J_PIK Seriously? Arnold can barely talk let alone sing.

Liitj strongly disagree lol

I love that part

fucking grandpa joe sleeps in bed for 20 years and doesn't even know what direction charlie is going in

Grandpa joe is a confirmed Shitbag… Lays in bed for over 20 years sponging off his daughters hard work, then when something fun and fantastic pops up he shoots outta bed like nobodies business to go and do it. Screw Scumbag Joe.

Lol

I’m only 20 but I totally agree I get a feeling of nostalgia even when I wasn’t brought up in that era. Cheers to the good times 🤝

nothing can beat physical sets tbh, it has a real tactile feeling that cgi just can’t replicate, and it actually gives the actors something to work with and build off of. a well built set can be just spectacular as well.

You can always watch a stage show or something😂

David Farmer how did she die

@@halleys.comett she had a seizure.

@Nihil I'm not related to her, I just saw on Wikipedia.

Just another Cameron boyce

awww another cast member lost. she was very enjoyable to watch RIP

It's nostalgia, I feel it too

@@electionpalava2987 nostalgia has to be one of the best and worst things to feel. Because you're remembering those good times, but then that was back then and you wish if life was like it was back then, then maybe it'd be a little easier for a time. Or you just really miss that time and you feel sad remembering such times. Nostalgia is truly a beautiful thing. LmaoigotsentimentalsOrRy

​@@quentin932 don't be sad it's over be happy it happened

It’s because he was sad still even with all his imagination :( but the reason it sounds a little sad makes the song just that more beautiful x

To me it makes me feel happy, sad, hopeful, faithful, curious, imaginative and mysterious all at the same time. The way Gene Wilder performed this, from the way he sings, the lyrics, and its meaning, and his facial expressions, especially near the end just have this mysterious, and hopeful vibe to it I can't explain. Ever since I was a kid and first heard this, this magical song touched my heart and opened my mind. And I always thought that the look on his face near the end while he is singing, had something behind it. Like he was always lonely, and had a rough childhood. There was always something so wondrous about this Willy Wonka, yet somewhat mildly sinister or dark as well.

Marlar House a shame to lose such an artistic genius of this acting Calibur

You know before he died they asked him to play in ready player one which is crazy so the movie was being made for 3 years

I wish he could be in more movies before he died

WHA!? The original Mr. Wonka is dead!? ...Now I'm upset :(

Flying Legos - ROBLOX ready player one was pretty average, but if Gene Wilder played Halliday it would have made it a bit better. Mark Rilance did a great job, but Gene would have done better

Yep 😞

General Grizzy :(

General Grizzy it's no imagination. it's out there

And now he only exists in imagination.

MR r we cant comprehend life after death.. not existing.. so we make up lies to fill that gap aka religion but as they say ignorance is bliss

Why does this make me want to cry?

Actually it was from the 1873 poem Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; - World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. With wonderful deathless ditties We build up the world's great cities, And out of a fabulous story We fashion an empire's glory: One man with a dream, at pleasure, Shall go forth and conquer a crown; And three with a new song's measure Can trample a kingdom down. We, in the ages lying, In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself in our mirth; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth; For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth. A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation; A wondrous thing of our dreaming Unearthly, impossible seeming - The soldier, the king, and the peasant Are working together in one, Till our dream shall become their present, And their work in the world be done. They had no vision amazing Of the goodly house they are raising; They had no divine foreshowing Of the land to which they are going: But on one man's soul it hath broken, A light that doth not depart; And his look, or a word he hath spoken, Wrought flame in another man's heart. And therefore to-day is thrilling With a past day's late fulfilling; And the multitudes are enlisted In the faith that their fathers resisted, And, scorning the dream of to-morrow, Are bringing to pass, as they may, In the world, for its joy or its sorrow, The dream that was scorned yesterday. But we, with our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see, Our souls with high music ringing: O men! it must ever be That we dwell, in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. For we are afar with the dawning And the suns that are not yet high, And out of the infinite morning Intrepid you hear us cry - How, spite of your human scorning, Once more God's future draws nigh, And already goes forth the warning That ye of the past must die. Great hail! we cry to the comers From the dazzling unknown shore; Bring us hither your sun and your summers And renew our world as of yore; You shall teach us your song's new numbers, And things that we dreamed not before: Yea, in spite of a dreamer who slumbers, And a singer who sings no more.

“If the good lord had intended us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented roller skates.”

@@coldestboi3228 it makes me cry because this I what so I am told this what my grandad said to me as a baby and the flim was playing when I was born I don't how true it is but it also the first thing my great nana clare wanted to say to me

The quote is actually from the beautiful poem "Ode" by Arthur O'Shaughnessy. It is from the first stanza, which also gave us the phrase "movers and shakers". "We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; - World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems."

Depp was perfect to 💩 on it.

@Utajiri Y Gene Wilder was 👍 👍Johnny Depp was 🤮 🤢

Yes yes he was

Wanna know something ? My last name is wilder mind you gene wilder was from Milwaukee so am I coincidence huh

Gene performed this Newley and Bricuse tune wonderfully well..

And I love how Wonka is implying he wants to hit Violet with the cane and then she just dodges it! That timing is just impressive

💙💚💛🧡❤️💜💖

aitter89 being letting them in whole heartedly or letting them in to get punished?

@@williamalva2826 all of them brought their own punishments upon themselves

@@CarlsCozyCorner but if they weren't at the factory they would never get punished like that

@@williamalva2826 If they weren't rotten they wouldn't have gotten punished all the same

Him, and Cruella De Vil (Glenn Close's portayal), were real to me as a child! They were most definitely not actors in my mind. She terrified me, and Wonka just absolutely fascinated me. This is one of the first films I remember loving as a child.

You stole my name. ( I think my name is actually cringy, and I choose it because I couldn't think of anything else.) EDIT: this comment is actually pretty good BTW.

Yes...

Underated comment.

@@sonichedgehog8646 self promotion

@@sonichedgehog8646 , his name is actually Sonic THE Hedgehog

so true!...rest in peace Gene Wilder.

I wasnt a big fan of his. I really did enjoy Young Frakenstein when I watched in my theather class, but there is somethibg about him that so..., well beautiful. It's more than his charisma, it's his persona and acting skills. It is quite sad that all these actors/actresses from this post-Old Hollywood era will soon vanish fro the earth. But will never be forgotten.

+Emily Tenorio till we canish from the earth

So true. Gene Wilder was amazing. There was not one movie he started in that I didn't like. No one can ever take the place of him.

Truth

It's so powerful! It's like we're getting a visit from a long-gone mentor and close friend from the innocence of our childhood. It's so moving and deeply emotional.

As a child this song makes me WANT to cry... but I don’t cry... nope. Not at all

The beauty of the lyrics just hit me at 31!

Then lets fall into our pure imagination

Every time I hear this song, I’m bitch slapped by all of the dreams and goals I had when I was young. I can’t begin to imagine how much my younger self would loathe who I have become and how I gave up the pursuit of not only my dreams, our dreams.

If that would be possible, does that mean the kids who had to leave are the ones who woke up? Are the ones who stayed the longest the ones with the most creative imaginations?

Sounds like Charlie and Gramp Joe died :(

You just copied this comment from the remix

@@NotBanned_ lmao!

SHUT THE FRICK UP. PLEASE DONT ASSUME ANY THEORIES

Me too!!😱😱😱😭😭😭😭😭😭

Agreed the music and him singing

Very nostalgic sound .. takes me back to my childhood before all the technology and everything

pfft

The prices you see, will defy, explanation!

My my, do i feel so old. Good night legend.

I just cannot see anyone else in this part.

I originally agreed but Tim did a really good job

The Chalameister has struck out again

​@@SimplejackfadeNo he didn't.

The

I agree!

beautiful soul ill forever love this movie😥😥

Agreed with all you 7yrs-4yrs old comments ago!

pure imagination...♥️

Aka a Classic

I turn 50 aswell in November 😇😋

This is truly one of those movies like the Wirzrd of Oz that gets better as you age but shows both adult and a kid

That is so creepy you said that. There’s a movie thing I go to on sundays. Recently, it showed Wizard of Oz and Willy Wonka back to back.

@@NerdWithLaptop I think to same one and mathematics not math

Yeah its pretty disappointing

According to Mike's actor, he was wacked a LOT in bloopers.

I know

XDDD

Mike TeeVee i read an article and heard Verruca caught it a couple times

Me too

Same. The movie gave me the fucking chills it did.

“Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination”

​@@alexthegreat059"Take a look, and you'll see into your imagination"

"We'll begin with a spin, traveling in the world of my creation. What will see will defy explanation."

@@TheAzraelOfGaming”If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it”

I don't understand why, but I always cry hearing it. Happy and sad indeed.

so fucking true

YES EXACTLY

That's nostalgia for you.

Omg yes

RoboticDreamz Probably by the fact that gene wilder is dead....the music and the words are beautiful and that it makes my heart cry with me 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Even before he died this song always gave me left my feeling melancholy

The man singing it had such a beautiful soul. He didnt want to tell people of his sickness because he didnt want a single person to be sad and quit believing. I kind of think they found the real willly Wonka and made him an actor because he made everyone smile

The look on his face at the very end always gets me.

Both the music and his voice most likely give you this feeling. To me it's more so a song about Willy himself. He's not the person he always shows on the outside. As we see towards the end of the movie and how he seemed quite disturbed. Willy was reclusive, neurotic, controlling, and had trust issues. I think he was actually quite lonely. And I think this song captures more than just some feeling of wonder, but also is a bit bittersweet because behind all the joy and bright colors is actually kind of lonely and sad man. We can just look at the title of the movie, the movie is just as much about Willy as it is the factory.

@@tonyyyy same haha

Did u do it?

So true

Quite sad, indeed. We sometimes forget that these great actors are still alive, until we just open google and just see the headline.

So you jynxed it, is what you are saying?

He's had Parkinson's for three years. Won't really change anything if he's still living.

I think you mean alzheimers.

yes

Jack Spry, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q5iKKUfh7cI.html

He’s would have been 90 years old this weekend

It’s odd that today is his birthday and I was thinking about this song just now.

I wish he lived to see the new Wonka movie

Rip gene wilder giving generations good memories, and a lot of laughs.

Miranda Dick that part is in my marching band, but my director narrates it.

Gives me chills every time 😂😂😂

I know it’s so hard to sing but I like it

I know.....wait he is dead?

Why?

Your welcome. But in all seriousness, if you can't tell the difference does it really matter? live your life knowing full well that every memory you will make is whole and pure, because you'll know nothing else. Also, dogs exist

h edits wtbe golden heaven*

*Chocolate heaven

Imagine him dead and realising he is in this scene but without the brats only with other dead actor legends in his Willy Wonka outfit and theyre like "We have been waiting for you lord"and he just bursts into a smile and says something like "so this is our world of pure imagination right?"

The Masks Salesman LMAO

The Masks Salesman haha

I can't 💀💀💀

The Masks Salesman This got me good because that’s the only thing I ever send to any of my friends

polysynth my classmate showed me a cursed Phineas and Ferb photo of Isabella and Phineas. Will never be the same again 😳

RIP

Agreed! RIP

agreed

This song was definitely one if those I watched the movie for. Well done Gene. Thanks for being part of my childhood.

true

😢

I only seen your comment after I commented, and you are dead right. This film is imprinted in most kids heads well the ones that watched it years ago. no updated version will ever beat the genuine article, it really was one of those films 😢

Well Said My Friend

+fallen angel I am with you 100%. Gene Wilder was a legend in film, and one of those that we will never forget. I will never forget my first time seeing this movie, and seeing Gene Wilder on screen. Right up there with Alan Rickman.

+ShockwaveGaming I totally agree with you!

Not only that. But he also dislike Gene being Willy and had someone "better" in mind. Appearntly he didn't like the movie so much. He didn't want anyone to make his 2nd book into a movie. (course he never said anything about a prequel) 😆

Roald Dahl just needed to stick to writing children’s novels. The man did not have a clue when it came to cinema. He didn’t want Gene Wilder as Wonka and he crushed it as Willy Wonka. Yes its true they did take a couple of liberties I didn’t agree with but as an overall product, the movie’s legendary status still stands the test of time here in 2022. And the remake while more faithful to the book does not compare to the original movie and a big reason for that is the disparity between Wilder’s superior performance and Depp’s Wonka is too vast to quantify.

@@kenalier Well it's his story to do with. Same could be said with Stephen King and how he disliked Stanley Kubrick's version of The Shining. If someone wants to dislike another's version. Let them. (even if other's liked it)

@@Dremag_Gaming That’s perfectly fine. My point I’m trying to make is literature and cinema are two very different things. They have different elements. Which is why what can work for a book probably will not work for a movie and vice versa. He opines from the mindset of a writer who could not understand the vision of cinema. Even the famed Ian Fleming didn’t think Sean Connery could be James Bond and he’s the signature 007 of the film series. So he can have whatever opinion he wants and then I have the right to analyze his opinion and choose to agree or (in this case) disagree strongly.

@@Dremag_Gaming Dahl wanted Spike Milligan for the part. He didn't like the overall changes this movie had from his book. Mel Stuart had him to write the screenplay. Dahl felt that this film put to much emphasis on Wonka instead of Charlie.

+Tracy Smith same

How so

Anas Uchiha The dude playing Willy Wonka died.

Lorence RIP Old friend.

fr nothing will beat this one wonka is my 2nd favourite willy wonka film and this is my first favourite

The only thing Charlie has is that it's more faithful to the book than Willy Wonka

Well I'm saying it Charlie and the chocolate factory is horrible

De'Annah Mitchell ...

Don’t you mean hold a *cane*

I know this is 2 years old, but I think if they were trying to create it like this one, Johnny Depp would have been great in this role, I know he's a really nice guy in real life

Oh I'm so sad (thinking of Havo)

thats disrespectful i was torn at my childhood shock jocks death

MCluvgames don't forget the maker of your childhood as well as the leader of your imagination

Well hes in our phones now

@@sonicshadowsilver245 thank you

You may have a better shot at finding the fountain of youth.

@@HybridSpektar I dunno, maybe a really firm taffy would work.

Omg sameee!!

He actually ate wax for that scene

NightWolf ooof

Wonka shuts that shit down asap though

Yes I saw them

SportaRose 10 in the modern version they say it only to gain a person who would “route” for the other one so theyd win, if they seem nice and friendly wonka might choose them over the others in their mind

I did

Rebeca Ibarra no way really!!??

Sorry cant relate

communism gaming lol just can't relate I cry from the just sound part of the song it can be used to create a sad animation

@@drkirby-zc7gd im talkinf about his name lol

mad dog really? “sad animation” lmao

Every time I hear this song I cry too I really don’t know why though

I agree

Dude it was the 1970s :-: but still it look goof

@@randomnoobie9662 of course you have a fork knife profile

We’re running out of land on earth to film movie scenes, thats why we use cgi. It’s cheaper and requires no land

Totally agree. So sick of CGI. Even if the props aren’t super realistic it was just a different feel.. I’d rather see some actual props instead of computer generated nonsense.

I love that part❤

Underrated comment.