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You know how everything in Willy Wonka's office is cut in half. Well, someone put a coffee pot in the scene and the prop guy started sawing it in half until he realized that it was full of coffee!

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The picture of the guy that they show as the fraudulent golden ticket holder in Paraguay, was actually, in real life the last man known to have contact with Hitler. His name was Martin Bormann, one of Hitler's many henchmen. They wanted to use a picture of Hitler, but used Bormann's instead. I guess it was a big inside joke with the cast and crew.I think it shows that a horrible man "stole" Charlie's hopes and dreams.I know it sounds weird but it has been confirmed. Mel Stuart (the director) told about it in an interview on Saturday April 19th, 1998 on TNT.

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They paid the assistant director's son to fall down the bad egg chute first to make sure it was safe for Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt) before she attempted it. She said in a 1997 interview that "I had to jump onto a bunch of mattresses where there were two guys to help catch me or keep me from bouncing back up again. It was quite a bit of a drop. You had to clear head height so it was quite a jump."

Eliza may already have posted this, but if she did I missed it...

Tim Burton is making another version of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" which is due for release in 2005.

Now I appreciate that Tim Burton is a master of the craft and will likely make a very good film... but he really should not be messing with a classic. I thoroughly doubt that anything done today will carry the same message that the original did!

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Amen! I agree..and doubt I would want to watch it..Can ANYONE else play Willy Wonka but Gene Wilder?

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The quote "All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by", spoken by Willy Wonka before they get on the Wonkatania is from the poem "Sea Fever" by John Masefield.

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Have you guys ever noticed that all 5 of the winners of the Wonka Contest were children? What are the odds of that happening? During the film, we are shown adults buying the bars (The queen, the ransom scene lady, etc...)But no adults win... isn't that weird?

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Willy wonka MUST have known that the children would disappear one by one. You know why? Well the scene where they travel on the Wonka-Mobile, their is only room for four people! That of Charlie, Joe, Mike and his mom! And if you look back at the boat ride through the chocolate river, you see that there would be no room for Augustus and his mom! Wonka sure planned that perfect!

6688- No idea if all this is true..but it's intersting so I'll post it...

As we all know, Wonka claims that the "Snozzberries taste like snozberries." Well, after careful consideration, this came to mind: berries, of course, are the fruit of some vine, bush, or entity (blueberries, strawberries, Cap'n Crunch Berries) and "snozz" either is or can be easily misconstrued as "shnoz," or slang for "nose." Put those two together and you've got a Nose-fruit or nose-berry, which is a booger. Just something to think about in case you ever wondered what in the world a Snozzberry is!

Update 11-24-99: You wont believe this! The snozzberry is explained in another of Rooald Dahl's books called "My Uncle Oswald" as being a penis. More specifically, the head of a penis! Amazing but true

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Here is another little tid-bit to think about. Each room of the candy factory was parallel to the each child's personality. For example, The chocolate room : Augustus's appetite, The golden eggs : Veruca's greed, The T.V. room : Mike TeeVee's love for television.

http://bookworm.com.sg/e-book-previ...colate-pg01.htm

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During the filming the crew ran into a small problem. You see, the movie was filmed in Germany but they needed American cars to set the setting in the U.S.. Diana Sowle (Mrs. Bucket) came to the rescue. At the time she was living on a U.S. military base in Germany so she asked her American neighbors if they could borrow their cars for the film. Several agreed and the problem was solved. The crew had the American cars that they needed to line the streets in the film.

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g'night....

6693 Night MT..I think I'm headed out to...

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~6702~ My Sexy Sandman is long overdue.

6703 <--------wishing he was sexy sandman

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6712... oh wait, no work today.... oh crap, overnight guests tomorrow.... gotta go clean the apartment... C YA.

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Good morning!

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Contributing to the one million thread . . . part of my 'to do' list ;)

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My son's goldfish just died :(

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I have to go outside and bury it now.

hi is me again

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The burial went well.