Thursday, January 12, 2006

Googley Wonkology

I'm a big fan of the film "Charlie and Chocolate Factory".
In the earlier version there are many great scenes, one of which involves wallpaper that has pictures of fruit which when licked, tasted like the fruit depicted. I was very much taken by this idea as a child, so much so that any time I was in someone's house who had fruit wallpaper, I could not resist giving it a surreptitious lick (and this picture suggests I'm not the only one - how great is google for this stuff??)

Anyway, just after as this scene ends, Wonka says to Veruka Salt, "We are the music-makers, we are the dreamers of dreams." It sounded like a quote to me so I googled it and it turns out this is where it comes from:

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by Arthur O'Shaughnessy [1844-1881]

We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities.
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion art empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample in empire down.

We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth.
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

...which I think is pretty cool

2 Comments:

At 10:27 AM, Blogger Buckley said...

The more I look at that picture, the more indefinably pornographic it seems. Is that just me?

 
At 10:59 PM, Blogger Kathy said...

Those girls look a little like, y'know--maybe, yes, this is a prelude to some serious cover-your-children's-eyes lovin'.

But that still doesn't ruin Willie Wonka, which was one of my absolute favorite childhood movies, right up there with Annie (thankfully out grown), and Clue (a strange choice for a 9 year old, but still one of my favorites).

 

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