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Oompah.

And, furthermore, loompah.

Andy Pipkin writes:

I don’t know if you or your readers are interested but today marks the 50th (yes 50th!!!) anniversary of the release of the amazing movie Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971).

One of my favourite movies ever, Gene Wilder was born to play the role [of Wonka], considering it was 50 years ago the ‘special effects’ were way ahead of their time as in this clip above!

Original cast of ‘Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory’ celebrates 50th anniversary of classic film (ABC7)

Alternatively…

‘…the film honors Wonka’s antisocial, child-unfriendly coolness, to the point of leaving the fates of most of its young characters unresolved. (The book’s coda, detailing the kids’ survival, is excised from a rushed finale.) Yet it cushions him in starry-eyed romanticism, too, from the first bars of its signature song Candy Man, which posits Wonka as joy-spreading visionary who wants only to make the world taste good. Is he an idealist of pure imagination, or a canny commercial opportunist and coloniser of cultures? The film defused the NAACP-stoked controversy over the book’s racialised depiction of Wonka’s Oompa-Loompa workforce by making them orange-faced alien beings, but the sour taste remains.’

Jayz.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory at 50: a clunky film that Roald Dahl rightfully hated (Guy Lodge, The Guardian)

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He’s at it again.

To mark the 45th anniversary of the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, ‘sheet fave Steve Collender has done another movie re-edit, this time as a video for an underappreciated post-hardcore tune.

Sez Steve:

“The 1971 classic recut as a concept video, where the chocolate factory is a fantasy in Charlie’s head.”

Meanwhile, on Funeral for a Friend’s somehow still-inhabited social media (having broke up earlier this year)…

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…Always manages it somehow.

The children’s classic was re-released to cinemas in the States as a one-day only event yesterday.