Charlie and the chocolate factory

Away With The Fairies

I love this movie, the old one and it's on rte2 at the moment, so watching it again.

I'm only noticing something now and I've watched it a million times already.

Who's that odd man that goes around when each kid finds a golden ticket? Whispers something into the kid's ear.

How does he know who finds a ticket and where they find it because he's there waiting for them as soon as they show their excitement to finding a ticket? He seems to be very quick to follow the kids around, to Germany, England and America. Has anyone else noticed this odd fella before?

EmmetSpiceland

Keep watching.

Skill Magill

He's Willies stooge, keep watching

Purgative

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

How does he know who finds a ticket and where they find it because he's there waiting for them as soon as they show their excitement to finding a ticket? He seems to be very quick to follow the kids around, to Germany, England and America. Has anyone else noticed this odd fella before?

Magic

frag420

Watched it on Netflix earlier.

Something I noticed was that when the kids are entering the gates to The Chocolate Factory and introducing themselves to Willy Wonka, he touches them all except for Charlie!!

Weird huh!?

LuasSimon

About the only film i watch ever year, a real Christmas tradition.
Going to use it as my specialist topic if i ever go on Mastermind!

Panthro

That flipping boat ride is still bananas

Mam of 4

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory with Johnny Depp , isn't a patch on the original Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory imo . Gene Wilder plays the part brilliantly .

SEPT 23 1989

Panthro wrote: »

That flipping boat ride is still bananas

1971

My favourite Christmas film, I still get anxiety every time I watch it in case Charlie doesn't find a ticket. ☺️

waynescales1

The eponymous Charlie only getting third billing in the closing credits, unusual. Peter Ostrum’s only film role.

Afroshack

Also watching this and started to think Grandpa
Joe is a bit of a lazy slob to be bedridden for twenty years but suddenly recovers for free chocolate.

noodler

Afroshack wrote: »

Also watching this and started to think Grandpa
Joe is a bit of a lazy slob to be bedridden for twenty years but suddenly recovers for free chocolate.

Watched earlier too and though Joe got a bit self-righteous for someone who stole fizzy lifting drinks.

Humberto Salazar

Where is fancy bred? In the heart or in the head?

waynescales1

The 4 grandparents in the bed is like something from Charles Dickens.

PropJoe10

Great movie. Not sure why that remake with Johnny Depp ever happened. There's some movies that really should not be remade, and this is one of them.

Humberto Salazar

The photo of the winner of the fifth fraud ticket in Paraguay was Nazi Martin Bormann...

Sardonicat

Violet, you're turning Violet, Violet!

hynesie08

3 things

1.
Wonkas assistant would drop off the box of sweets containing the golden ticket, at the rate they were selling, he wouldn't be waiting around too long.

2.
The grandparents were devastated by an economic depression, Charlie getting that ticket gave grandpa joe a reason to live.

3.
Let's agree that they never remade, rebooted or reimagined that movie. There was the book, the movie and the musical, that's it.......

Mongfinder General

hynesie08 wrote: »

3 things

1.
Wonkas assistant would drop off the box of sweets containing the golden ticket, at the rate they were selling, he wouldn't be waiting around too long.

2.
The grandparents were devastated by an economic depression, Charlie getting that ticket gave grandpa joe a reason to live.

3.
Let's agree that they never remade, rebooted or reimagined that movie. There was the book, the movie and the musical, that's it.......

2. - I smell disability benefit fraud.

Sheep Shagger

I never realised it was filmed in Munich...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ostrum

woejus

Afroshack wrote: »

Also watching this and started to think Grandpa
Joe is a bit of a lazy slob to be bedridden for twenty years but suddenly recovers for free chocolate.

http://www.saynotograndpajoe.com

Grandeeod

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

I never realised it was filmed in Munich...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ostrum

And Barvaria film studios. An epic film!

Panthro

And Dahl wanted nothing to do with it in the end

Montage of Feck

Panthro wrote: »

That flipping boat ride is still bananas

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

martingriff

You lose
Now Good Day

martingriff

I love the scene with the kid goes up to the TV thing and he says in a soft voice please no stop

Cienciano

hynesie08 wrote: »

3 things

2.
The grandparents were devastated by an economic depression, Charlie getting that ticket gave grandpa joe a reason to live.

He lived in bed for 20 years. Grandpa joe was a piece of ****. Literally did nothing for 20 years. Then made Charlie drink the fizzy lifting drink almost costing Charlie the factory

Sheep Shagger

Panthro wrote: »

And Dahl wanted nothing to do with it in the end

Never knew that.

bazz26

The way 2020 has played out we could have done with the Oompa Loompas singing their songs of wisdom and lessons to learn:

Doctors room ghost

PropJoe10 wrote: »

Great movie. Not sure why that remake with Johnny Depp ever happened. There's some movies that really should not be remade, and this is one of them.

Ghostbusters with the women ghost busters was another fcukin farce of a film that shouldn’t have been made.
Nothing against women but I fcukin hate to see a classic film butchered

Strumms

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory with Johnny Depp , isn't a patch on the original Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory imo . Gene Wilder plays the part brilliantly .

100%.

Everything about the film is perfect....

Casting, characters, cinematography, acting, sets, script... the joy of it, the pure weirdness, malevolence and scariness ( if you are a kid ) at times... the film for my whole life defined Xmas.

waxmelts2000

I absolutely love this movie.. I am saving it this Christmas waiting for my nephew (age 17) to watch it with me as we have done for the last 10 years or so. Plus wizard of oz!

Charlie19

I don't even like chocolate that much;)

Hangdogroad

Panthro wrote: »

That flipping boat ride is still bananas

One of the images that flashes up is a chicken being decapitated.

Gruffalux

We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Bob Harris

It gave rise to one of my favourite memes.

Valresnick

I love Grandpa Joe, i forgave him for stealing the fizzy lifting drinks as he hadn’t been out and about for a while.

ThunbergsAreGo

Valresnick wrote: »

I love Grandpa Joe, i forgave him for stealing the fizzy lifting drinks as he hadn’t been out and about for a while.

Cos he is a disability cheat.....

Love this movie, I thought I was the only one who felt this way about Granpa Joe!

El Gato De Negocios

Panthro wrote: »

That flipping boat ride is still bananas

Little known fact, the dialogue appears as track 1 on Marilyn Mansons debut album.

Valresnick

ThunbergsAreGo wrote: »

Cos he is a disability cheat.....

Love this movie, I thought I was the only one who felt this way about Granpa Joe!

Joe was bed ridden for years with the others. Surviving off cabbage water and scraps. His legs suddenly healed when he saw how much it meant to Charlie that he should go with him to the factory. I’ll tell you this, there are not many grandads today that would step up to the plate like that ! Grandpa Joe is one in a million !

ThunbergsAreGo

Valresnick wrote: »

Joe was bed ridden for years with the others. Surviving off cabbage water and scraps. His legs suddenly healed when he saw how much it meant to Charlie that he should go with him to the factory. I’ll tell you this, there are not many grandads today that would step up to the plate like that ! Grandpa Joe is one in a million !

Yeah most would let his long suffering mother go....

Valresnick

ThunbergsAreGo wrote: »

Yeah most would let his long suffering mother go....

She had to work that day.

DulchieLaois

Everything I see a teenager girl who butchers themselves in fake tan, I always reminded of this movie .

cdeb

It is weird that the book ends by starting straight into another book where Charlie gets a lift into space and ends up battling people-eating aliens, before Wonka turns Charlie's grandmother into a -2 year-old and they have to visit another world to rescue her.

Dahl was weird. The Vermicious Knids never made it into a film though

Mad_maxx

waynescales1 wrote: »

The eponymous Charlie only getting third billing in the closing credits, unusual. Peter Ostrum’s only film role.

Is he the blonde kid who played Charlie?

Not surprised, he was a poor actor

EmmetSpiceland

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Is he the blonde kid who played Charlie?

Not surprised, he was a poor actor

No, his character was poor. That was all acting.

greenspurs

My fave film ....

Soundtrack is amazing ...

fryup

Deleted User wrote: »

My favourite Christmas film, I still get anxiety every time I watch it in case Charlie doesn't find a ticket. ☺️

i still get anxiety looking at the oompa loompas they used to freak me out as a kid:o

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

I did not get to see this film until my teens because my sister, who is older, had seen it and was really freaked out by the bit where Augustus Gloop is sucked up the tube of chocolate. So we could never watch it. This film is pretty scary (and that’s what makes it great).

D3V!L

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I did not get to see this film until my teens because my sister, who is older, had seen it and was really freaked out by the bit where Augustus Gloop is sucked up the tube of chocolate. So we could never watch it. This film is pretty scary (and that’s what makes it great).

The ride on the boat is even more disturbing.