I must specify that my pick for Willy Wonka, whacked out chocolateer, to be inducted into the Thor's Day Heroes is the Gene Wilder version. Everyone has their favorite Dr. Who, me, my favorite Wonka is Wilder. His portrayal as this sheer genius madman is just so over-the-top and amazing, yet sprinkled with just enough inner darkness that he's a force not to be ignored. I envision the Thor's Day Collective, myself in the captain's chair of course, as a giant ship plying the spacelanes, intervening with galactic situations as needed. To this end how could we not afford to bring on board Willy Wonka? He's got confectionary skills as well as engineering.
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ReplyDeleteIndeed.
DeleteGene Wilder is a treasure, and my favorite Wanka as well.
ReplyDeleteSo many awesome movies with him in them too.
DeleteThe man was a demented genius!
ReplyDeleteGreat description Fran!
DeleteWilder Wonka is a stone-cold gangsta. He let those kids fall one by one in his chocolate factory while the Oompa Loompas took the parents out back to dispose of the witnesses and remains... Oh yeah! and he was totally popping LSD-flavored everlasting gobstoppers during the chocolate river ferry scene.
ReplyDeleteThis movie could have taken a couple pages from the ending of Scarface...
*plops his face into a heap of powdered sugar*
"Say HELLO to my little friends!!!"
*Oompa Loompas come charging out in droves*
*Wonka shot dead off a balcony into the chocolate river...*
- dark turn at the end there...yeah.
Wow. That just happened boys and girls.
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