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WONKA (2023) dir. Paul King

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Image by Tom Davis || Twitter

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For a moment, I kinda forgot to be sad.

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Wonka (2023)

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Wonka (2023)

Wonka practically steps onto the stage and declares itself a new favorite. When the film was announced, it was met with skepticism. We’ve already had two adaptations of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Going back to see how the book’s most memorable character became who he is felt like a desperate attempt to cram more chocolate down an already-filled stomach. Here’s what the naysayers should’ve paid attention to, however: writer/director Paul King. I know you loved Paddington and its sequel, Paddington 2. Everything that made those films great – except for the titular bear – is present here, along with catchy musical numbers. This is a lovingly assembled film the whole family will eat up.

After an extended journey around the world gathering the rarest ingredients and learning everything there is to know about sweets, Willy Wonka (Timothée Chalamet) dreams of establishing his own chocolate shop. Unfortunately, his initial trip to the Galéries Gourmet sees him pushed out by the “Chocolate Cartel”. Shortly after, he’s swindled out of his savings and forced into indentured servitude by Mrs. Scrubbit (Olivia Colman) and her co-worker, Bleacher (Tom Davis). He’ll be doing laundry for the next twenty-five years unless he can settle his debts. The only way to do that is to become the chocolatier he's always dreamed of becoming.

Wonka has been called a “companion piece” to 1971’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory but come on. It's a prequel. Two songs are reprised/expanded upon, several visual cues are ported over and Chalamet’s portrayal of the titular character is reminiscent of Gene Wilder’s. If you were to watch the films back-to-back, however, you would spot certain inconsistencies. Some, there’s no way you could’ve worked around, such as the character Hugh Grant plays. I won’t spoil what his part in the film is (even though he is on the poster) but if you were to watch this movie before the original, he would give away one of the latter’s biggest surprises. There’s also an aspect of Wonka’s character that’s a bit off. I personally think people label WW&tCF as being much darker and scarier than it is but you can understand why people would call it frightening, or "a gateway to children’s horror". This film has no cynicism or darkness in it whatsoever. It’s one of the reasons why it works so well but if this film is indeed a prequel, that's an inconsistency.

With those minor complaints out of the way, let’s talk about the many ways Wonka succeeds. First, the cast and tone. There are many villains in this movie. Keegan-Michael Key plays the corrupt, chocolate-addicted Chief-of-Police. Paterson Joseph is Arthur Slugworth, the leader of the Chocolate Cartel. He, along with his cohorts Gerald Prodnose (Matt Lucas) and Felix Fickelgruber (Mathew Baynton) are not above sending innocent people to be enslaved or even murdered. Then, there’s the extended Cartel, which includes a small, but funny role for Rowan Atkinson. Finally, the combo of Mrs. Scrubitt's & Bleacher. On paper, these characters are quite sinister - even children are being enslaved by Scrubitt and Bleacher. Despite that, you kind of… like them. They're all delightfully ridiculous and quirky. You can tell the performers are having a blast hamming it up – in the best way. They’re all evil. They all love being evil. You love seeing them do their thing.

Nearly everyone we meet is more eccentric than anyone in real life could ever be - including the other "inmates" at Scrubbit's boarding house (played by Jim Carter, Natasha Rothwell, Rich Fulcher and Rakhee Thakrar), except for the friend Wonka makes once all his money is stolen: an orphan named Noodle (Calah Lane). She’s in a worse spot than anyone else, which makes her apprehensive and cynical but also most receptive to the idea of hope once Wonka gets going. You can bet that by the end, all of the heroes will have played an important part in the story, even if their skills seem to make them kind of useless. Seeing how they fit in the big picture is part of the fun.

Between the big laughs and musical numbers, we get scenes of magic and wonder - the kind you can only in worlds where people spontaneously burst into dance. There's something so earnest about Wonka. It knows exactly what it wants to be and isn't afraid of going for it. Paul King takes single gags and turns them into characters for the sake of a big punchline at the end. You can tell from the way the story flows that's going to be the case and there's almost a sense of suspense as you wonder what's going to happen with that. Wonka pokies fun at itself more than once but is willing to be serious when the scene calls for it. That's what makes it, why it's a great prequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Wonka is the kind of movie I wish we’d see more often. You think back to the movies you used to see as a child and it feels like we used to get ones like this all the time but actually, we didn't. Movies like this one are rare, it's just that they're so much fun you never forget them and they get passed down from generation to generation so it feels like there's this large library you had before and haven't been able to add to. Push away any apprehension you might've had initially and you'll see. Wonka fits in with those childhood favorites. (November 22, 2024)

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Olivia you got to be very mean to Timothée on camera. What’s that like?

Olivia: Really fun being mean. (Laughs) He’s just so sweet and gorgeous isn’t he? He’s like magic on camera.

Tom: He is. He just melts you.

Olivia: You know you have a good look at the monitor and you go ‘He’s just beautiful.’

Tom: He is. You were very good at it I will say. You’re such a sweet person then you just morph into this character who is terrifying.

-Olivia Colman & Tom Davis Design Timothée Chalamet Wonka Cookies (YouTube credit: The Hook)

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Tom Davis

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TRIPLE FRONTIER MEN (including t0m) + funny tweets [part two]

part one

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Ok, was NOBODY going to fucking tell me there exists a Blues Brothers documentary with scenes in which Dan Aykroyd and Tom Davis talk directly to Elwood Blues with Dan playing both himself and Elwood??

They’re actually speaking to each other. Holy shit. Holy shit.

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Have yall seen Wonka (2023)?

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“INTERVIEW - Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam & Garrett Hedlund” by SensCritique

Transcript by @ casual-video-transcripts is under the cut

[0:00] Charlie Hannam: Kamikaze!

[0:01] (Ben Affleck laughing and Charlie Hunnam chuckling followed by a clap from Ben)

[0:02] Oscar Isaac: Woof woof!

(Garrett Hedlund giggling)

[0:03] Oscar: Are we trained animals?

[0:05] (Translating On-Screen Text to English: Triple Frontier)

[0:06] (On-Screen Text: Ben Affleck)

[0:07] (On-Screen Text: Charlie Hunnam)

[0:08] (On-Screen Text: Oscar Isaac)

[0:09] (On-Screen Text: Garrett Hedlund)

[0:10] Charlie: Hello SensCritique!

[0:11] Garrett and Oscar: Hello SensCritique!

[0:13] Ben: Bonjour SensCritique.

[0:14] That's French.

[0:15] Charlie: There you go! Wha-cha-cha!

[0:18] (Translating On-Screen Text to English: CAN YOU SUMMARIZE THE FILM?)

[0:20] (Translating On-Screen Text to English: IN ONE SENTENCE)

[0:22] Oscar: See, the thing is one sentence can be veeeeery long...

[0:24] Garrett: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[0:25] Oscar: So you can put commas!

[0:26] Garrett: Just commas.

[0:27] Ben: A group of ex-Special Forces soldiers...

[0:30] Oscar: come together to... carry out a heist in South America against a narcos traficante.

[0:39] Ben: Turns out, it wasn't that hard.

Charlie: Right?

[0:40] (Ben and Charlie laugh)

[0:41] (Translating On-Screen Text to English: HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH THE PROJECT?)

[0:45] Ben: It was a combination of genres: it was strong, compelling, pure action heist story, but so was also a morality tale, and sort of-kinda a parable about military intervention.

[0:57] Charlie: Between the cast and the script, and me being excited for J.C. as a filmmaker, it was a no brainer for me. He was looking at a friend of mine, Garrett Hedlund.

[1:04] Garrett: And he had no idea about that, and got really excited about that. And then I got excited about that. And then Oscar called and said -

[1:10] Oscar: Got excited too.

[1:11] (Garrett laughs)

[1:12] Garrett: And he got excited too!

[1:13] Oscar: And then you guys said that -

[1:15] Garrett: And then I got excited because he was excited and you know -

[1:19] (Translating On-Screen Text to English: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FILM?)

[1:21] (Translating On-Screen Text to English: WITH YOUR CO-STAR/NEIGHBOR)

[1:22] Garrett and Oscar: Inside Llewyn Davis!

[1:23] (Translating On-Screen Text to English: (they both play/star in it))

[1:24] (Garrett and Oscar are in a giggling fit)

[1:27] Charlie: I like The Town a lot, there was Argo, Gone Baby Gone. You know...

[1:31] Ben: There we go.

[1:32] Charlie: Really really really...

[1:33] Ben: Oh wow.

Charlie: Spectacular stuff!

[1:34] Oscar: He's an iconic guy.

[1:36] Garrett: And he's says that! He's got that! He's Llewyn!

[1:38] Oscar: Yeah, yeah.

[1:39] Garrett: And that's iconic.

[1:40] Ben: And I like Charlie as a person.

[1:42] Charlie: Yeah (and then laughs)

[1:43] Ben: So... Hard to pick a favorite!

[1:45] (Charlie laughs and then Ben laughs after)

[1:47] Charlie: I'm not gonna help ya. Come on!

[1:49] (Ben leans towards the camera and continues laughing)

[1:50] Charlie: We're all waiting!

[1:52] Ben: I would say...

[1:54] (Take a shot of water every time Ben and Charlie laugh LOL)

[1:55] Ben: Did I tell you I watched The [Lost] City of Z.

[1:57] Charlie: Oh no you didn't!

[1:58] Ben: Yes, it was quite good! After I haven't seen it initially, and then when I got to know him - I've seen Sons of Anarchy, it's great. That's the thing everybody knows! And I've seen the King Arthur movie too! He's a first class actor.

[2:09] (Translating On-Screen Text to English: WHAT IS YOUR NEXT PROJECT?)

[2:11] (Translating On-Screen Text to English: WE WANT THE EXCLUSIVE)

[2:12] Ben: Wow, that's a tall order.

[2:13] Charlie: (chuckles) Yes, it is!

[2:15[ (Ben chuckles)

Charlie: You don't ask for much, do ya?

[2:16] Garrett: Ed Harris did the adaptation of a book called The Ploughman with myself and Robert Duvall. It's a two-hander, like a 70s deputy outlaw kind of thing.

[2:26] Charlie: I just did a thing - a movie with Justin Kurzel. The next thing that comes out is a film about Ned Kelly. This is the first time on camera that I'm talking about it, and that's all you get.

[2:37] Ben: I did a movie, it doesn't have a title, but with the Gavin O'Connor who is the director, he's the director of The Accountant. Yeah, that'll be out late summer, early fall time.

[2:45] Oscar: I'm also doing a small sort of sci-fi movie. It's called Star Wars Episode 9.

[2:51] Garrett: It's kinda - It's a smaller budget kinda thing.

[2:53] Oscar: Yeah.

[2:54] Garrett: It's very hard in cinema: you know, if it's not a very big budget thing, you know it's a small budget thing. The... the... Space Wars.

[3:02] Oscar: Space Fights?

[3:03] Garrett: Space Fights.

[3:04] Oscar: (chuckles) Yeah.

End of Transcript

YouTube Channel: SensCritique

Video Description:

Le plus beau cast de toutes les interviews SensCritique. Pour la sortie de "Triple Frontière", le nouveau film de J.C Chandor, aujourd'hui sur Netflix, nous avons eu la chance de rencontrer Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam et Garrett Hedlund !

La fiche SensCritique du film : http://bit.ly/2HwvcEG

Disclaimer: None of the videos I transcribe belong to me. They belong to the content creators and the crew behind the videos. Please keep in mind that my transcripts may not be 100% as I am not a professional. I'm just someone who wants to provide video transcripts for people like me to understand and enjoy these videos.

For this video, I focused on the speakers while translating some of the on-screen text from French to English. I used the French captions in the video as a guide for the timestamps. I did also use Google translate for some of the French captions, so I apologize if some are incorrect. For the rest of the transcript I just followed whatever came out of the guys' mouths.

If there are any corrections you would like me to make, let me know in the comment section of the post.

If you like this video or any other videos from SensCritique, please support them by watching their videos on their YouTube channel and/or through other means by them. Also, if you want to support the film, it's on Netflix and apparently the sequel is in the works with Charlie as a main producer. Also, if you'd like, check out the filmography of the cast like Charlie Hunnam, Ben Affleck, Garrett Hedlund, Oscar Isaac, and Pedro Pascal (who's not in this interview but is in Triple Frontier interviews).

Personal Notes: So I got distracted while editing the mera video transcript and found myself back into the Triple Frontier fandom. I haven't been here since 2019 so it's been a hot minute. I transcribed this video because there is a section in the middle that is so funny to me that I almost had to hold my breath transcribing it. Rewatching these interviews really shows the golden retriever personality of Garrett that I didn't fully notice until like a few month ago when I got distracted back into the Triple Frontier and Garrett fandom. The video is funny because it literally cuts Garrett off because he got excited that Charlie was excited and Oscar was excited and -

Anyways, I don't know when I'll finish the mera video I have been working on. I think it's been maybe half a year. When I finally finish it, I'll probably schedule a series of reblogged posts that'll hint to it. In the meantime, I think I did transcribe a Triple Frontier-related video that has Pedro in it so keep an eye on that among other videos.

That's all for now. I'll catch you all in the next post. See ya!

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Lamborghini Countach

Image by Tom Davis || Twitter

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Took a step back from writing to mainly give my brain a break. Toyed with just giving it up all together because it’s been nice to not feel tied to anything, zero anxiety about not writing words.

Lately though I’ve had that itch to dive back into a few things, but still haven’t really made the leap. There’s Dave, Javier and Dieter WIPs that I would love to finish.

But sometimes my brain is funny and will throw me a random curveball… and I’ll be plotting out a completely different thing with a completely new character.

So I’m doing what no one asked for… An AU where Tom isn’t the asshole and has a healthy relationship with everyone…

Anyways…. Kthnxluvyoubye