The Reel Rejects - WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!

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Starting point is 00:01:54 And I am the only one on the channel who has not seen this classic. So you're getting a Greg Solo today. With that in mind, ladies and gentlemen, please go ahead, leave a like on this video. Also, subscribe and click the notification about the good notified when we got something that pops up in your notification feed that peaks your interest. Thank you to Prepper for helping us edit down these highlights. Also, massive thank you to all who have joined our Patreon for the month of December. Just this entire year, it's been our most successful year thus far. Over there, you can get the full-length gradual watch along.

Starting point is 00:02:22 It's where you sync up with your own copy of Willy Wonka on The Chocolate Factory. But John and I also cover several things over there exclusively with the highlights and watch-alongs included. Timothy Shalamay's Wonka movie finally coming out. Here now is the perfect time to finally cover this because it's algorithm stuff. So who can I trust to run the factory when I leave? That's why I decided a long time ago that I had to find a child, a very honest, loving child, to whom I can tell all my most precious candy-making secrets. Good thing you fixed him at random.

Starting point is 00:02:57 So the factory's yours, Charlie. You can move in immediately. What happens to the rest of the whole family? I want you to bring them all. Really? Everyone? Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.

Starting point is 00:03:10 What happened? He lived happily ever after. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. What a great movie. This movie is actually so good. Big surprise. oh my god what happened a peter ostrom ostrom aloha reject nation gregg here so many of you guys know most of my days are a couple of

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Starting point is 00:05:58 I just remember having a thought when I was a kid going. Oh, wait, no, okay. Let me start this again. All righty, guys. Well, if you're listening to this on Apple or Spotify, please rate that video. We got a Real Rejects podcast going for those watching us here on YouTube. I'm trying to conduct this for two different audiences,

Starting point is 00:06:16 one who just here and one who can see. Anywho, just watched Willie Wonka in the Chocolate Factory, first time ever. And a little bit of background here. probably should have given this on the i said it on the patreon one but i should give it on youtube one so i did i did see the charlie and the chocolate factory movie the one that tim burton did when it first came out in the theaters i barely remember it i mean that with the utmost sincerity barely remember what happens in that film uh i remembered like basically

Starting point is 00:06:48 about that charlie eventually gets the chocolate factory and the giant up's a little creepy but I honestly kind of part of my brain was was racking and stuff going he he gets does he get the chocolate fact I was like asking myself that I think he gets the chocolate better but I don't remember if he does and yeah it's like the idea I definitely didn't remember well enough to like be making comparisons or or have an idea of like oh here's what the structure of the movie is I don't even remember if this slug worth or whatever the hell this guy's name is in the giant up one or not like so that was like the most association i have with it and um when i was a kid i i saw maybe like 30 seconds of this on tv and i must have been like really really

Starting point is 00:07:37 young and i went this looks like an old movie i don't want to watch it and i just never did but here i am now and i i loved it i really did love it it it is such a fascinating experience because while, you know, it, while it is from an older era, I do find the way this movie's executed to feel rather timeless. Like, I, I wasn't distracted by the period in which it was captured. If anything, like, it actually helps amplify the experience and the magic behind it of making this feel even more fantastical by the era it's set. And so I don't know, like, if, I guess my question that I'm asking is,

Starting point is 00:08:22 the year in which the i don't know if this movie makes it explicitly clear when it takes place like what year it does because this is all a fictional world of this guy with this amazing chocolate factory and everyone just wants a piece of that candy uh i don't know what year it takes place in in the movie itself but is it supposed to take place for whatever year this movie came out in the 70s is this supposed to take place then is this take place in the 70s what i'm asking i don't know you guys let me know below uh but i actually feel like the it encapsulates it's more in a way that does have it feel a lot more magical due to that fact. And I love the production design of everything.

Starting point is 00:09:00 It's everything is so vibrant. It pops. The entire film just had this sort of whimsical elegance about it. It's structured in a, in kind of an odd way. If there was one bit of criticism that I might, it's strange because the first like 40 minutes you don't go to Willie Walker. You're like kind of building him up, right? And I really love that part of the movie a lot.

Starting point is 00:09:28 Like my heart was so in it when it came to everyone looking for the golden tickets and kind of hopping around the world and seeing who's who and how everyone responds to this. And it was really funny. It seemed like this play on society that I was really enjoying. And Charlie, who is the guy who plays Charlie? My God, I got to look him up. I just got to look him up and I'm going to kill the dead air while I'm here 1971 is when this came out because yeah I don't know if this this kid is still

Starting point is 00:10:01 alive he's not a kid anymore that's for sure see alive Peter Ostrom did he only do one movie is that it what happened to him what happened to this guy I don't even see like modern day photos of him okay well he was He's in something called Remembering Gene Wilder in 2020, 30. So I imagine he's still around, kicking it a little bit. But anyway, I thought he was excellent. He really captured this sort of, like, innocence, this purity that felt just so multi-layer. Like, yeah, he's got this, like, optimism, this hopefulness and this exudes empathy.

Starting point is 00:10:50 and all the, basically, all the qualities that Willie Wonka lists about him, you know, with the honesty and the integrity. And at the same time, he's got this, like, resilience and perseverance about his attitude that I, that I, that I, I love so much because whenever an obstacle was turned his way, he would try to find a way to be optimistic. He never, like, got too down in the gutters about anything. And I feel like just the way he was played was perfect. I really cared about him and it you could feel kind of that the way how true optimism ought to be executed is you got to have that feeling of you're constantly up against the wall of feeling defeated and that's why you have to have optimism for example like if if you were to have courage you must have an element of fear otherwise what's the point of courage because courage has to be the thing that's counteracting against fear right and

Starting point is 00:11:47 I really think he he embodied that so well in like the relationship with his grandpa that I thought well grandpa Joe is the character's name again you know even though he is an elderly man he I thought he had such a youthful spirit about him as well and for him to be sort of this storyteller and mentor to Charlie was great like I just really love the characters and I wasn't expecting that because they had such a curiosity and enthusiasm about them that and so much support and love as well so all that like layered on to it with really catchy tunes and really catchy songs and very appealing visuals and the way it's the movies also edited it moved like the first 40 minutes kind of felt like it was editing sort of like a martin scorsese movie which

Starting point is 00:12:38 which is the last thing i expected to say when going into a willie wonka film but it did remind me a bit of like a scorsese fast-paced editing style of something that he would have made in the 70s but you know just a lot more PG friendly and less gangster Catholic driven and so I really I really loved it because there was such a youthful spirit about it from beginning to end and then when you get to like Willie Wonka the movie then adapts you know what it does it's it's actually now that I'm thinking about like with the words I was about to say it suddenly made me appreciate it because the first 40 minutes why you do cut around other people it's still primarily you are

Starting point is 00:13:17 watching it from Charlie's perspective. And then when you get to Willy Wonka, now you are the audience observing. Like you are one of the golden ticket winners who are on this journey with Willie Wonka. And you're just trying to figure out who this guy is because it's like Gene Wilder nailed it. You know, I remember like not minding,

Starting point is 00:13:47 the Charlie and the chocolate factory Johnny Depp one but clearly I've never cared to revisit it I don't really didn't leave an impression on me when I was younger I definitely didn't hate it I remember thinking it was creepier but I but what they did here with Gene Wilder and I you know and just kind of having a bit of an understanding of how Gene Wilder operates

Starting point is 00:14:10 I imagine it was very much creatively involved more than we might expect yeah it was very eccentric very whimsical I think he does capture that creative, innovative side of Willie Wonka, but yet there's that mystery, the secrecy behind him that it is very captivating. And same time, he's got the dark humor and he's got this sarcasm. And yet there's still a depth behind those eyes. Like, I believe that whole speech at the end, that that was the entire motive, even if there was a bit of a ploy there in order to provoke Charlie and to giving up the. slug nugget, I don't remember what it's called the candy thing to test him.

Starting point is 00:14:53 I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, you still believe this, this, this, um, this sadness and this melancholy and a bit of, like, a melancholy and a bit of vulnerability to him. I thought it's actually a really multi-latered performance, even though it's not one where you're like, ah, here's how he starts and here's this character arc or something like that that's like explicitly clear and while the big part of it is to kind of keep you at a distance and make him mysterious and a bit mischievous and do I really trust this guy? He seems a little bit scary but I

Starting point is 00:15:23 also kind of love him I believed every I felt like the unpredictability and the overall ambiguity of right that's the right choice it works at the unpredictability of this character Gene Wilder just embodied it so well

Starting point is 00:15:40 my initial impression and I made a comment about it while I was doing the reaction though is that I did kind of feel like we lost sight while we do become the audience kind of observing willie wanka and you are kind of hopping back and forth between how willie wanka's observing and stuff and that is like the overall game i did find myself like losing a sense of that connection with charlie which was the the thing that the movie hooked me in when the first 40 minutes is we are living vicariously through charlie he's the character who we are latched on to and

Starting point is 00:16:14 then there were a lot of the journey throughout the chocolate factory you're not really in Charlie's perspective and you don't really cut to him a lot and I did miss I did I did find myself craving that the last thing I expected to say was I just wanted to spend more time of Charlie while we're in the chocolate factory

Starting point is 00:16:32 and I do think that is one of the the like this while I I have two sides of two feelings about it and it's possible to have two feelings and I have two feelings about it one is I love being in the audience perspective and just watching Willie Wonka do

Starting point is 00:16:48 I keep wanting to call Willie Wonka Charlie watching Willie Wonka do his thing and then the other side is out but I I'm the character journey of being in Charlie's shoes and getting a little bit more nuggets of of like maybe Willy Wonka observing Charlie and seeing

Starting point is 00:17:04 how it contrast against the choices that the other kids do I did find myself missing some of that but by the time you get to the finale and I still really enjoyed the journey throughout the chocolate factor it did it like it's psychedelic it's weird as hell um but i i loved it i did love it and then when you do get to the the final moments it is it is extremely touching and it

Starting point is 00:17:29 it does feel cathartic you know and and and earned it and like i could see how there's some things that maybe the story might not have aged as strong as people might i don't know i don't really give a shit like the one the one thing that comes to mind is seems a little bit moralistic you know it kind of seems judgmental of people but whatever this is the fucking movie from the 70s and it's a family film and they're keeping it simple they're keeping it simple and i really liked it but but even if you do have that feeling i think there's a lot of great morality lessons there's a lot of like good cautionary tale stuff about um things against the deadly sins you know greed, gluttony, laziness.

Starting point is 00:18:13 And I feel like there is, like, commentary on wealth disparity and also the appreciation of, you know, just like family and connection and the simple, the simple things of life, you know, but also the encouragement on imagination, you know, like the songs really speak a lot of volumes to that. and and and and and and and and the value of being a of maintaining integrity and and and um i i also imagine that there's probably some um i don't imagine i think it's there in the movie there seems to be like commentary too on parenting and and the importance of how you raise a kid and how a lot of this is instilled in the value of like because you got the grandpa like the dad's not around

Starting point is 00:19:05 for Charlie but you got grandpa and Charlie and then here you're watching the relationship between like either a father and a child or a mother and a child and you're watching how these children developed and how the parents kind of spoil them and there seems to be a lot of emphasis on parenting as well and that how important that is to the development of a child and I really loved that aspect of it and just overall yeah it's great It's a great film with the enigmatic qualities of Willy Wonka, but there's just this spirit of innovation throughout. And while there's like some cautionary tale elements to it with wonderful music and great performances, solid direction all around, and just a lot of heart, it just has a lot of heart. I thought this was a really solid film.

Starting point is 00:20:00 And I could see why it stands a test of time. and I don't even I have no nostalgia for this and I found myself very much moved and I'm very surprised by just how much I ended up loving it. I thought I'd be more here going you know I really appreciated it and I could see why people like it let me tell you why I think people really like it I did not actually expect to walk out of this movie

Starting point is 00:20:22 going wow I really did love it and I loved it before we even got to Willy Wonka and that to me is a testament to this movie's strength But guys, how do you feel about Willie Wonk on The Chocolate Factory? Do you like the Johnny Depp one? And are you excited for the Timothy Shalamey one? What is your favorite moment from here? If there's something I did not talk about that you wish to talk about,

Starting point is 00:20:46 well, you can talk about it in the comments below. Thank you again, and I'll catch you all soon. Thank you guys so much for being here, a rejack name. John, pick a name, any name. Oh, how about... Maria Hammond Maria Hammond You know what you're getting for Christmas this year

Starting point is 00:21:10 You're gonna get You know I thought of a really dirty joke And then I thought You know as as close as we've gotten I still am like I feel like a one joke away From completely ruining all goodwill We have established with each other Maria

Starting point is 00:21:28 So now I'm not as confident Should I just go for it? I think it's a super light dirty joke it's like not even that dirty but I was like you know we're always like you're like the mother on our Patreon and you're like a son and I was like we got weird if I made a dirty joke well I mean it depends on if the joke is about that context I guess all right okay there's a way to make both of this work all right Maria you're gonna get a Polaroid of me naked this year and then you're gonna go Greg you're like a sudden to me, you should be sending me these photos. Why would you paint our relationship this way? And I think if there's one thing you love more than receiving gifts is giving gifts. Oh, sure.

Starting point is 00:22:13 And you will give me the gift, a lesson in behavior of knowing when I'm crossing the line. Hey, and you've got to cross the line to find it. Based off of the scrutinization, you dish my way for being a callous with my behavior. Yes, keeping you honest. So I appreciate you, Maria, always keeping me in check. My sweet, sweet, hot mom, you. Gregie's mom has got it going on this Christmas. And I'm going to get you a ham.

Starting point is 00:22:49 Ooh. And I'll get you some almonds. And then you can crust the ham. It can be ham hamaments. What did you get the almond from? I thought the first half of Hammond is ham and the second half is Mund and the second half of almond is also Mund. So I was like, I'm getting her a Polaroid of me naked and you're getting her an almond. You said you're getting her a ham.

Starting point is 00:23:13 I can, I'll paint a self-portrait of myself and send it to her in addition to the almonds. Sorry about the light down there, Maria. It's okay. No, it's up to you to decide. We love you, dear. Merry Christmas. I hope you have a good one with your family this year. You deserve it. You do.

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The Reel Rejects - WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!

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