Watching Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971) FOR THE FIRST TIME!! || Movie Reaction! 

I love Shrek!

Love the Shrek franchise

You'll love the Shrek franchise.

You should watch Duel. It is from 1971. It was Steven Spielberg’s first film. It is about a man named David being chased by a tanker truck.

@@zoe_murtagh_03 Well, the first two at least. None are without virtue, but none are without sin either.

Wow! That's such an amazing experience to have! He always seemed like such a kind and gentle person. My heart broke into pieces when hearing of his passing, I'm glad to have these films to remember him by. Thanks for sharing that!

You don't know how LUCKY YOU ARE. I am a huge Gene Wilder fan and I wish I could've gotten to meet him. I have him on my list of dead celebrities I wish I could've gotten to meet. Gene Wilder, Adam West, George Michael, Chadwick Boseman, George Segal and so many more.

I knew a guy who was related to his current (at the time of his death) wife. I was just about to send him a fan letter via this friend the week he passed away. I felt like such a fool not sending it earlier, but I wanted to tell him everything about how he’d inspired me.

He had said he saw a bit of the new Wily Wonka movie and then stopped watching it. He didn't like it at all.

@@scriptsupervisor and he is correct in doing so. I love Johnny Depp and I love the gorgeous and talented Freddie Highmore even more. They both did an amazing job but the movie absolutely sucked.

Awe I didn't know that. Why are all these comics breaking my heart? Him Robin Williams, Norm Macdonald?

such a treasure of a man and amazing comedic actor. RIP Gene Wilder

I didn't know he developed Alzheimer's. And yes that makes sense, he would have wanted to keep children happy, and Alzheimer's is treated with such a stigma in the public eye. I can understand. Just like Robin Williams' depression, Chadwick Boseman's and Norm Macdonald's cancer. Some people just keep things secret.

Really? I didn't know he had it. Very interesting.

@@victoria_m13 I think you may have confused it with Asperger's Syndrome. Alzheimer's is a disease which is a form of Dementia.

Bruh I would've genuinely been terrified 😂

@@softsounds8453 they were, trust me

Was just gonna post this 😆 lol

They also got chemical burns from the car thing and delayed filming.

@@LostButBroken because they used fire extinguisher fluid

I didn't know about that first thing. I can get behind it tho. I don't think Grandpa Joe deserves the last line of the movie, it would just be awkward.

I like how Gene Wilder just choose chaos that day 😆

@@DAMIENDMILLS Not to mention, a movie ending with “Yippie” or something else like that is just a bad childish way to end a movie with really good dialogue in the rest of it.

@@jasmineh706 It worked out, didn’t it though?

@@c-o-b-o-2010 That would have been on par with ending Jurassic Park with Ian Malcolm going "I told you so" Or Lord of the Rings with Frodo saying "See ya" Or Endgame with Cap saying to Peggy "Yay I made it back to 1945"

Wow, that's amazing! 😍🎂

Fascinating.

❤

Agreed!

Agree. Your laugher and smile bring me so much joy.

So I imagine that apology from Wonka was probably so genuine...not just Wonka apologizing to Charlie but Wilder going "I _know_ I scared you, I am _so_ sorry, _please_ forgive me..."

The boy must have had the script in the scenes after that, so how would he not know ahead of time? Unless they didn't give that part of the script to the boy that came after that part until just before they shot it.

@@kentclark6420 could be multiple things. 1) they cut out that conversation from his script 2) he had the words but wasnt told how they would be delivered / the script may have suggested a calm conversation and the actors were told separately to shout 3) he wasnt given that scene in his script as he didnt really speak in it much anyway so was just following the older actors as they went

​@@kentclark6420they likely gave him an altered script that left that part out.

@kentclark6420 Every time they rehearsed it, they had the same lines but they were done in a calm manner, he didn’t yell it until they filmed

Didn't he actually say that about Violet when she was chewing the three-course gum?

.....and there was absolutely no need to remake it! The great thing? I don't see people doing reactions to that one any more than they're doing the remakes of "Carrie" or "Psycho"! That makes me happy! :D

@@TTM9691 The Tom and Jerry version isn't that bad

@@TTM9691 In Johnny Deeps defence his Wonka is closer to the book.

@@PikminandOatchi It doesn't matter! I love the book, but it's what makes a better movie, not what's closer to the book. The music, the script, the look, the performances.....everything is superior in the original. It couldn't help but be better since it's Tim Burton directing the pointless remake, and all that guy seems to know how to do is smear is boring style over everything. Most overrated director ever, although many others are tied with him, lol.

@@TTM9691 the opening sequence was better in the remake tho

Quite right sir! STOP THE BOAT!!!

Still one of the best scenes. Wonka’s face throughout that is classic nightmare fuel.

Boat approaches tunnel Mr. Beauregard: I want off! Nick: I'm sure it will be fine. Me: Oh my sweet summer child.

"He's so weird sometimes" What an understatement just before they ride the boat into the tunnel.

dude, that scene shared the shit out of me as a kid

Martin Bormann didn’t escape to South America, two years after this movie was released, a skeleton was found in Berlin, and identified as Bormann.

@@SomeHarbourBastard ah, ok. Well, that was a reference anyway.

@@SomeHarbourBastard something new I learned today about my own country

The even subtler joke within a joke is that, having successfully escaped Nazi Germany as a war criminal, Martin Bormann would risk exposure for the prize of a visit to Wonka's chocolate factory.

@@cliffchristie5865 yup. It’s funny in a very dark way. The sophisticated humor in this film makes it feel oddly contemporary.

Oh thanks for explaining!

Why would it be looked down on?

@@angelfirebaugh193 Just because it was usually poor people looking for whatever work they could get.

That profession is where I believe the expression “not worth a tinker’s dam” came from or “not worth a damn” for short.

@@DavidRomigJr Yep. When repairing pots, a tinker would build a clay dam around the hole, then pour molten tin into the hole. When cooled, he would carefully scrape away the excess tin, but discard the worthless clay dam.

I like the sarcastic computer. “What would a computer want with a lifetime supply of chocolate?” Lmao

@@QueenCloveroftheice "I am now telling the computer EXACTLY what it can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate!!!"

I won't tell that would be cheating!

@@phousefilms I love that line 😂

I love her. She is so seriously thinking about it it 😂

It's a shame it isn't like the book, where the jolly shopkeeper not only sells him the winning bar but defends him too.

In real life, he probably would have been trampled to death while everyone tried to grab the ticket from him and each other. Like Black Friday.

The chocolate river room was designed by Harper Goff who worked with Walt Disney in designing parts of Disneyland.

Lol, my mom does the same thing with me and my sister 😂

😆

I did always like that the mom was supportive, yet realistic.

I always felt sad that she not only had to take care of her son after her husband died, but four old people who just laid around all day, not helping. Grandpa Joe convinced me that they were all faking. The grandmothers could've helped with the washing, darning, ironing, and sewing. They could've had a family business. What if Charlie didn't find that ticket and win? She would have been worked to death because only she and Charlie worked

@@LA_HA Grandpa Joe was overwhelmed with excitement, hence why he "healed", so to speak; that doesn't make everyone else selfish or terrible. We don't even know why they're bed-ridden and Grandpa Joe CLEARLY said at the beginning of the movie "as soon as I get my strength back, I'm gonna get out there and help him."

@@monsterhanna6691 And yet, he never got his strength back until it benefitted him, did it? If he was simply "overwhelmed with excitement", he would not have been able to make a multi-hour tour of Wonka's factory. He would've ended up back in bed once his body's"weakness" took over as the excitement wore off. Just admit it. He was fine when it suited him. Up until then, he faked being weak so he wouldn't have to go out and actually do the work to help his daughter-in-law. Look, it happens. Making excuses for him doesn't change what actually happened in the movie. haha

I did not know that thanks for telling me!

@@nickflix8657 You know what’s funny is that when I watched your reaction to that movie, at one point I said “Wait, is that Grandpa Joe from Willy Wonka?” I’d never known until hearing it as an adult that it was the same actor.

No way! Despite how much I've seen the 2 that's something I never thought about, thankyou for sharing. 😂

I never knew that but now I absolutely hear it!

@@nickflix8657 Amos Slade was actually his last movie role, he died a little more than four months after The Fox and the Hound was released and ten years after Willy Wonka was released. He also won the 1968 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for The Subject Was Roses; coincidentally, Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka) was also nominated in that category that same year for The Producers which was only the second movie he had made at the time. If you really liked Gene Wilder in this movie, I highly recommend The Producers and Young Frankenstein (a parody of the original Frankenstein movies so I’d recommend watching the original 1931 Frankenstein with Boris Karloff and maybe its sequels Bride of Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein in order to get some of the jokes, some great reactions in time for Halloween though!).

I love: I’ve got a blueberry for a daughter. Or something like that. Lol!

@@VeganGroceryLifeprecisely qoted. From the remake: (after Violet swells up and turns blue) Miss Beauregard: How is she (Violet) supposed to compete? Veruca Salt chimes in: You can put her in a county fair!

Violet's father in Willy Wonka:I'll make you pay for this,Wonka!Even if it's the last thing I ever do! Violet's mother in Charlie:But I can't have a blueberry for a daughter!How is she supposed to compete? Violet's father in the West End musical:Baby,we're gonna be rich!

That's actually what I like about this adaptation of Charlie, rather than Tim Burtons version. Tim Burtons Charlie is my favorite. But I like how this version of Charlie has flaws, *he's* a kid, and people make mistakes. Tim Burtons version however, his character is flawless. Don't get me wrong, for my opinion he's the sweetest and very kind hearted. But I kind of wish his character has some flaws too 😕

​​@@snickbiordking5748 Keep in mind that in the new one he is in a much worse economic situation, so it is to be expected that he will be more conformist. He's just as realistic as the old one.

@@snickbiordking5748 Well, that's how he was in Roald Dahl's book, too. While he's a decent protagonist in it, i think he was better in this version, due to the depth they gave him. Just the scene where Wonka tells Charlie that he's won feels WAY more powerful here than it did in the book. Don't get me wrong, i love the book, but i do like how the filmmakers added more depth to the story.

Yep! And during the candy man scene, one of the kids got whacked in the face with the counter.

I always wondered why her knee had red paint on it but I assumed it was the set or maybe dye off her dress as a kid. No idea she had cut her leg in an earlier take poor girl. 😆

She actually got a permanent scar from it

Ouch, that must've hurt. 😬

Whoa, 😮

Gene Wilder was an actor that as a child, I always thought “it’s my friend in another movie!”

@@nickmanzo8459 Same

That would be so appropriate

As a decent Karen, I wholeheartedly agree!

I wholeheartedly agree, I had a very wonderful aunt Karen, who sadly passed away couple years ago.

I have a great Aunt Karen and she is super nice. I mean, there's also the 'dumb blonde' jokes and I'm a blonde so...

The more I encounter this term ("Karen" used as a pejorative), the less comfortable with it I am. Imputing a bunch of negative characteristics to people based on something they have no control over (their given name) seems a lot like the kind of bigoted behavior the users of this term probably think they are trying to criticize and oppose. Maybe "Veruca" won't be accepted as a viable substitute because her character is too specifically associated with "wanting it now," but decent people ought to avoid slandering everone named "Karen" just to criticize the behavior of a few, most of whom likely are not even named "Karen." I think it's time to talk about this when we see and hear this term being used, before it becomes even more firmly entrenched. Nobody would like his or her own name to be used in a similar way.

I always found it really telling that Grandpa Joe was the one who got mad when Charlie almost lost out because of him, tried to blame Wonka, and then threatened to give the candy to Slugworth. He's such a jerk. But, that's just my bias. I've never liked Grandpa Joe. haha

@@LA_HA Because of ONE scene? He was just upset, was close with Charlie and, just like Charlie, was only making mistakes; that doesn't make him a terrible person.

@@monsterhanna6691 Fair enough. However... Laying around while Charlie's mother works herself into an early grave while he fakes being too weak is a reason not to like him. And, while Charlie, a young boy, his grandson, has to work to be helpful to the four grandparents they both have to house, feed, and care for, do nothing to help by at least keeping the house clean and taking in jobs to help out financially; but he can do a whole ash dance and run around Wonka's place without so much as losing his breath means he was being deceitful regarding his health. That's a reason not to like him. As an older adult that saw how Wonka felt about the other kids not listening to him, and the parents disrespecting his rules, and then encouraging Charlie to do the exact same thing, while he behaved just like the parents he looked down on is a reason not to like him. So, together with him blaming Wonka for what was effectively his bad behavior and then threatening to sell the gobstopper to Slugworth -- which would've cost Charlie Everything had he not been a better person than his grandfather, -- is just one reason in a list of reasons not to like him. The guy was a deadbeat lying shyster who was a bad influence and a selfish jerk. Hope that clarifies things

@@LA_HAGrandpa Joe had issues, but here he was just lashing out, like Wonka was at him and to a certain degree Charlie. He felt awful for his grandson, and felt like Wonka was an unreasonable jerk for yelling like that and denying a prize for a minor violation. He probably shared much of Wonka's exhaustion and cynicism towards the world, albeit turned in a different direction, and likely would've felt like it was just another way of society and rich people kicking his family while they were down. I'll bet he apologized to Wonka afterwards.

@@Interestingenough4 I accept your hypothetical. We all have done it at some point in our lives and I'm sure Grandpa Joe is no exception. It's really nice of you to stick up for that selfish, obnoxious old jerk this way. It's so good of you. Hahaha. Just joking... maybe

It's the one song I skip when I watch this movie.

Two people. I like it a lot.

Cheer Up Charlie is the official anthem of using the bathroom and getting a snack.

Why do you guys hate it so much, I think It's a pretty song 😭

@@hummus_exual I actually don't hate it, but I think as a kid the upbeat songs are more attention grabbing, and as an adult you can appreciate the sentiment behind it but when you're a little kid it seems like a lull in the action. I've enjoyed it more the older I've gotten...

Love that line!

I say this randomly sometimes haha love this line

They changed it back in the remake.

At least they kept it in the 2005 version

They're trained squirrels, not intelligent, and the fact Tim Burton was able to use real squirrels in the remake to do all they did further exhibits that and its possibility.

@@Longma1 Exactly, I mean if Alfred Hitchcock could train all those birds to kill people, then why is it suddenly impossible to have squirrels throw a kid down a tube?

@@DAMIENDMILLS Probably because kids were involved and back then they didn’t want to risk injuring young Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca)

Wow! Yes so true!

Or he knew at least one of the kids would screw up at every important juncture. And if the kids messes up, the parents can't continue without them. Part of the book/movie is a commentary on how children were being raised in the current era. haha

Actually that's just one of the reasons. I'll post one of the others up above.

That’s not true, the name was changed because the name Charlie had a slavery connotation in the 70s. The original shooting script was to be entitled Candyman, but that had a drug connotation in the 70s, so they just decided to name it after Wonka.

@@nickmanzo8459 consider: it's all of the above.

According to the movie commentary it's because a candy company was coming out with a Wonka bar and so they funded the movie with the condition that Wonka would be in the title. Ironically though the bar was discontinued due to a flaw in the formula.

@@ya4girls1 I made this comment out on the regular thread.

The reveal of the candy room when those three notes start playing is one of my most nostalgic childhood memories.

Johnny Depp did a good job too in the 2005 version.

@@morganyakkofan9052 I'm afraid i'll have to disagree with that. For me, there was not one bit of magic in that remake.

@@TayannaStudios I agree with you. There are also very important teachings for kids and even adults in this movie that the Johnny Depp version lacks. I 100% prefer this movie over the other one. :)

Little known fact: all the grandparents from this movie are still alive today.

Also, the year Jack Albertson won the Oscar, Gene Wilder was nominated in the same category.

not even all of the children are alive today

@@ckobo84 Wrong, Jack Albertson died ten years after the release of this movie.

@@ckobo84 Didn't Albertson die in1981?

So she already knows about the fudge room! :-)

Omg I thought you were kidding… thank you so much for bringing this fun fact into my life!

Holy shit, that’s the last thing I expected to read in the comments!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

Well she had to pay for her son's chocolate somehow.

@@cshubs Rotflmao! 🤣

Sorry but you're wrong. He was offering a one pound RAISE onto their pay. Back in the 1970's that was a LARGE raise in pay.

@@killinglonliness88 thanks sorry I thought this was way after the 70’s

@@killinglonliness88 I went and did the googling, and it'd be the equivalent to 12.58 pounds, so as a raise, that's pretty great

Young Frakenstein, Hear No Evil See No Evil. Just a Gene Wilder Binge, the man was legend.

... which, for maximum enjoyment of *Young Frankenstein,* you should also watch -- at least the first three *(Frankenstein,* *Bride of Frankenstein,* and *Son of Frankenstein* -- these are the old black-and-white films from the 1930's starring Boris Karloff as the monster), preferably before you see *YF.*

Haunted Honeymoon is another good one with Gene

Can’t forget The Producers and Blazing Saddles as well!

..."Silver Streak" & "Stir Crazy"

Me too 😂

I hear the entire soundtrack.

All the time lol

@@VeganGroceryLife LOL!

Gene said that he was the only child on set that he absolutely hated

@@nickmanzo8459 Dang. Wonder how the actor feels about that now that he's an adult, if he's alive

For the first time ever I just realized #3, before I read your comment.

I always thought that they were picked at random but he later learned what type of children they were before they arrived and chose those specific rooms. There might be 50 other rooms we didn’t see but he chose those based on what he knew of them But reading this definitely makes you think every little thing was intentional. Wonka wasn’t phased by any of the incidents here 😂

Same here, i guess Blockbuster was a failing business too at the time, and was ok with selling a failing candy bar?

@@DAMIENDMILLS no no, I mean Nestles Wonka. Quakers Wonka never even saw the light of day on the shelves.

The profusion of candy makes it a natural Christmas movie, but I think it contains so many dark and creepy elements that, along with the candy, it makes even more sense as a Hallowe'en movie. The factory tour even takes place, broadly speaking, within the Hallowe'en season (on October 1st).

I would watch it over Easter as it's associated with chocolate.

@@BillyButcher90 I guess it would be ideal if you had giant gold-foil-wrapped chocolate eggs.

I think it only took him one take to get it just right.

That was his request to the director in order for him to do the movie.

I love this!! 😂

Its a little unnerving the first time, but after another watch or two you realize how complex Johnny Depp's Wonka actually is. I also like that it shows more of a connection between Charlie and Wonka, he's not just the kid that behaved the best, he actually got some of the "logic" behind Wonka's reasonings. Plus it is technically more accurate to the book.

@@fightingfaerie Except for the end of course, but who wants that trendy shark-jumping exercise that was The Great Glass Elevator anyway? 😮🐬

@@fightingfaerie I always loved Depp's Willy Wonka, his awkwardness was incredibly funny for me as a kid

I liked the whole design of Tim Burton’s version and the idea of a backstory for Wonka but I had mixed feelings about Johnny Depp’s portrayal of Wonka; he just didn’t have the charm and energy of the book Wonka or Gene Wilder’s Wonka. Depp’s Wonka felt too antisocial and sometimes acted like it was a chore letting people into the factory, instead of taking the opportunity to share and pass on his passion and knowledge for candy making with a potential young heir. He just felt too detached from the visitors, even Charlie who was obviously supposed to be the one that Wonka would relate to the most due to his good nature and appreciation for Wonka’s generosity. No offense to Johnny Depp’s talent, I think he’s given some great performances (love Edward Scissorhands and Pirates of the Caribbean) but I just feel like he missed the mark with Wonka.

@@ifeelpretty5790 I feel you either like or dislike the performance, but I don't think he missed the mark. He was going for anti-social eccentric recluse, and he nailed it. I won't deny I love Gene's charming charisma, but you have to wonder if it actually fits the character. He's obsessed with candy, paranoid about spies and traitors, and had locked himself away for like 20 years. With that in mind I can't help but feel Depp's is more "accurate", even if its more off-putting.

Seconded!

Yes! Good recommendation!

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