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Geek Tyrant
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Bozo The Clown Made a Bonkers "Making Of" Video For WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTOR — GeekTyrant
I've got an absolutley wild behind-the-scenes video here for you to watch for the orignal 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and it features Bozo the Clown (Larry Harmon) visiting the set in Bavaria, Germany. The video came with the note: 'Here's a short behind-the-scenes film, 'Making a Movie,' made by Larry Harmon Corporation, showing Bozo the Clown visiting the set of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and speaking with its stars, while explaining how a motion picture like that is made.' After receiving his 'Golden Ticket', Bozo met with author Roald Dahl, visited the music department, the props department, and he also met the actors playing Oompa-Loompas before meeting Gene Wilder in character as Willy Wonka. I've been a fan of this film my whole life. I've seen tons of behind-the-scenes footage, I've watched 'Making of' documentaries, but I never knew until now that freakin' Bozo The Clown visted the set while sooting the film! It's bonkers!
Daily Mail
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Gene Wilder is superb as the eccentric chocolatier in a film scripted by Roald Dahl himself Certificate: u Johnny Depp put a very different spin on Roald Dahl's strange creation in Tim Burton's 2005 film, and Timothée Chalamet was a lot of fun as the young and mostly innocent version in 2023 origin story Wonka but, for many of us, there is only one Willy Wonka - Gene Wilder. In this 'scrumdidilyumptious' musical version of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - scripted by Dahl himself - it is Wilder's confectionary wizard Wonka who is the star attraction, as indicated by that subtle title change. His Wonka is the perfect blend of trustworthy and untrustworthy, fatherly and childlike, mercurial, yet totally and utterly in control - in a way that Depp's oddball turn could never quite convey, and which Chalamet's version was, necessarily, only on the way to being. For an extra treat, seek out pal Mel Brooks's sublime satire The Producers, which boasts Wilder's only Oscar-nominated acting role - which is incredible, when you think about it. (100 minutes)
