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!
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.
