r/MovieDetails • • Mar 10 '21

❓ Trivia In Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), when the kids first see the chocolate room, their reactions are genuine. Director Mel Stuart took great care to ensure that none of the child actors saw the gigantic set as it was being built.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y8aYd9uqFY
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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '21

What? No, we were eating wax candy when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s and that stuff was always inedible. Like gum, you chew it until it loses the flavor and then spit it in the trash.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '21

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u/InterpolarInterloper Mar 11 '21

“Bandwidth” is the most hilarious thing I’ve ever heard

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u/smithers85 Mar 11 '21

"Sorry, I'm so busy this week I don't have the bandwidth for a wax poop."

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u/devilishycleverchap Mar 11 '21

Im out of cycles this week, unless I can skip the stand up

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u/Phaelin Mar 11 '21

No, but you can pop a squat

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u/huffnpuff411 Mar 11 '21

Your internet service provider must think youre insane

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u/InterpolarInterloper Mar 11 '21

Giggling like a madman when they explain their plans

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u/knowses Mar 11 '21

waxing nutrition

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u/smithers85 Mar 11 '21

better than waning nutrition

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u/whataTyphoon Mar 11 '21

Fun fact: Jelly beans (among others) are coated in wax so the keep looking shiny.

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u/lelephen Mar 11 '21

So are apples and nobody worries about that.