98. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)

Fine. Fine. No problem at all. We'll talk about the actual movie. Also: Happy holidays! Thank you for a great year! We'd normally have an episode coming out on Friday, Dec. 22, but we're taking a break and shall return on Friday, December 29 with a very special mailbag episode. And after that, we're on to episodes 99 and 100, where we'll revisit the movies covered on our very first episode (Dirty Dancing and Star Wars). It only took us seven years to get to a hundred episodes.   Time stamps: 00:02:15 — Thoughts about the new movie Wonka, which we haven't yet seen 00:08:59 — Our histories with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 00:11:43 — Pre-movie predictions 00:23:23 — History segment: Roald Dahl (author of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory), the strange development of this movie and its entanglement with the Quaker Oats company, director Mel Stuart, and star Gene Wilder 01:00:47 — In-depth movie discussion 02:12:06 — Final thoughts and star ratings   Artwork by Laci Roth.  Music by Rural Route Nine. Listen to their album The Joy of Averages on Spotify (https://bit.ly/48WBtUa), Apple Music (https://bit.ly/3Q6kOVC), or YouTube (https://bit.ly/3MbU6tC).  Songs by Rural Route Nine in this episode:  "Winston-Salem" - https://youtu.be/-acMutUf8IM "Snake Drama" - https://youtu.be/xrzz8_2Mqkg "The Bible Towers of Bluebonnet" - https://youtu.be/k7wlxTGGEIQ   Sources used in this episode: Roald Dahl: A Biography (1994) by Jeremy Treglown - https://amzn.to/4amizqz Storyteller (2010) by  Donald Sturrock - https://amzn.to/3GRMw44 Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory (2014) by Lucy Mangan - https://amzn.to/3tlQVcB  Kiss Me Like a Stranger (2005) by Gene Wilder - https://amzn.to/3RzxG7E  The New York Times - "The Real Story Behind Roald Dahl's 'Black Charlie'" by Maria Russo (Sept. 22, 2017) - https://nyti.ms/3uWi3ze The Washington Post - "'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' at 50: The tender yet terrifying movie that never lost its flavor" by Annabel Aguiar - https://wapo.st/41zpLvC