Their stories and remembrances are quite fun and the in-jokes are endearing because they help them recapture the sheer joy of being kids on the set. The Blu-ray and DVD editions include the half-hour “Pure Imagination” and the original 1971 promotional featurette, but the real treat is a reunion commentary track with the five grown-up Wonka kids: Julie Dawn Cole, Denise Nickerson, Paris Themmen, Michael Bollner, and Ostrum, all watching the film together for the first time in almost 30 years. Subscribe to the Stream On Demand weekly newsletter (your E-mail address will not be shared) and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: Three-Disc 40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition ĭon’t miss a single recommendation. On Blu-ray and DVD and on SVOD through Amazon Video, iTunes, GooglePlay and/or other services. It earned an Oscar nomination for the original score and songs by Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley, and Walter Scharf. Tim Burton and Johnny Depp have tried their hand at adapting Roald Dahl’s classic fantasy but even Burton’s madcap imagination can’t match the perfect balance that director Mel Stuart (a major documentarian of the sixties and seventies) and Dahl (who adapts his own book) bring to the production, and Depp fails to bring the mix of mystery and magic and dark and light of Wilder’s knowing incarnation.
In this case you really are what you eat. The fizzy pop that makes Charlie and granddad float like a bubble also sends them up into the rotating blades of a vent, and that Three-Course-Dinner-Gum has a doozy of a side effect: it plumps up little gum-smacking Violet Beauregarde into a roly-poly human blueberry when she gets to dessert. There’s a chocolate river (Wonka chocolate is famously churned by waterfall), flowers with hard-candy petals, and jelly beans growing like wild berries, but things get a little darker in the experimental section.
The pure imagination of the world inside the factory is an escape from the dreary reality of soot-covered town, and by extension the taste of a Wonka bar is a little piece of paradise.įor all the wonder of a film, with its bouncy, silly songs, art design in candy colors, and mix of innocence and strangeness, there is also an edge to Wilder’s simultaneously weird and warm eccentricities, like a mix of storybook fantasy and Grimm Fairy tale updated to the industrial world of the twentieth century, and to his sugar-rush fantasy factory. It sounds miserable but there is plenty of love and cheer in the house, which gives Charlie room to hope that he can win one of the Golden Tickets that would usher him into the fabled candy kingdom that stands out of this grimy city that exists somewhere between the modern world and a 19 th century factory town. Peter Ostrom is Charlie, the son of a widowed, overworked washerwoman living in poverty with bedridden grandparents in a hovel right out of a Dickens novel. It is a rare breed: an imaginative live-action kid’s film that engages and delights adults. Gene Wilder is the weird, wonderful, slightly sinister candy bar king who invites five children into his factory kingdom in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), a musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s fantasy. “Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination.”
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