

Down the rushing glen,
We dare not go a hunting,
For fear of little men.
You see, nobody ever goes in, and nobody ever comes out.



Bill: My dear boy to ask a fish how it swims? Boy: No. Bill: A bird how it flys? Boy: No. Bill: No sir'e you don't, they do it because they where born to do it just like Willy Wonka was born to be a candy man and you look like you where born to be a Wonker.
































Willy Wonka: Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.
Charlie Bucket:
What happened?
Willy Wonka:
He lived happily ever after.
Trivia!
Revealing mistakes: When Willy Wonka does a pirouette and reaches to push the button for the Wonkavator doors, he misses the button, but the doors open anyway.

The combination to the first door in the chocolate factory is 99-44/100% pure, which was an ad slogan for Ivory Soap.
Peter Ostrum, who plays Charlie Bucket, made no other films. He later became a veterinarian. In fact, out of all the Wonka kids, Julie Dawn Cole is the only one still acting.
Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt) hated chocolate.
According to the DVD commentary, Julie Dawn Cole kept several props from the movie (when instructed not to) including the Golden Ticket, an Everlasting Gobstopper, and a Willy Wonka candy wrapper.
The length of Veruca Salt's hair becomes progressively shorter throughout the movie as the filmmakers kept burning off Julie Dawn Cole's split ends.
In the scene where Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) drinks from a flower-shaped cup and then eats the cup, the cup itself was made of wax. Gene Wilder had to chew the wax pieces until the end of the take, at which point he spat them out.
The reactions of the actors in some scenes are spontaneous. For example, when the children first enter the main factory and see the gardens, their reactions are real, it was really their first view of the beautiful factory set!
The opening credits sequence was filmed at a real chocolate factory in Switzerland.
The little scene with Charlie and his mom before the "Cheer Up, Charlie" song was filmed at 1:00 in the morning.
Before Wonka does his little somersault, he sticks his cane into a brick made of Styrofoam.
Goofs!
Revealing mistakes: When Willy Wonka does a pirouette and reaches to push the button for the Wonkavator doors, he misses the button, but the doors open anyway.
Revealing mistakes: When Wonka first allows the children into the chocolate room he makes an umbrella out of a "mushroom" top. As he twirls the umbrella you can see the stab holes in the Styrofoam bottom from prior takes.
Crew or equipment visible: When Mike Teevee gets thrown back into the pots/pans after eating the exploding candy in the inventing room, you can clearly see the line attached to his belt that was used by a crew member to yank him backwards.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the office, after Charlie is introduced to Mr. Wilkinson, Wonka puts his hands on Charlie's shoulders. You can hear Wonka say, "You've won,"but his lips don't move.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the kids in the candy store are yelling, "Me, me!" their lips don't move.
Miscellaneous: At the start of the movie when all the children are in the sweet shop, the shopkeeper lifts up a section of counter to go to the customer side of the counter and does not put the section of counter back down. The shopkeeper returns to behind the counter through another section of counter, and then re-opens the first section of counter to let the kids behind the counter. Also, when he lifts up the counter the second time, a girl by the counter clearly gets smacked on the chin by the rising counter.

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka
Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket
Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe
Julie Dawn Cole as Veruca Salt
Paris Themmen as Mike Teavee
Denise Nickerson as Violet Beauregarde
Diana Sowle as Mrs. Bucket
Dodo Denney as Mrs. Teavee
Michael Bollner as Augustus Gloop
Leonard Stone as Mr. Beauregarde
Roy Kinnear as Mr. Salt
Ursula Reit as Mrs. Gloop
Günter Meisner as Arthur Slugworth/Mr. Wilkinson
Aubrey Woods as Bill
Great post Sarah!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the trivia, goofs and pictures! =)
And the the name list was fun to see what there real names were... I like most of there names like it in real life. Exept I thought Paris was a girl name, and I like Aubrey woods' name as Bill.
Sue! =D
Thanks!
ReplyDeleteIt sure took a long time to put together!
Yeah me too!
And I don't really care for Mrs. Teavee's name in real life!
I like that post!
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I'm trying to fix the header right now...
Sys! ~Alex! ;]
Thanks! ;-D
ReplyDeleteYeah I know interesting isn't it?!
Oh good, Thanks again!
That's really interesting! I new about the Mr Wonka and the wax and some of the mistakes you pointed out I already had nocticed, but apart from that, I did not know all those little interesting tibits and things!
ReplyDeleteYes they are pretty neat!
ReplyDeleteWow! Great post!!
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