Gunn ,'Not Fade Away'
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Doesn't it refer to Ye Olden Times tradition of baking a small bean in one of the Christmas dishes, and whoever got the bean was crowned King? (And then subsequently killed when the sun went away again?)
Nowadays, instead of being killed you just have to bring the next King Cake. Civilized.
That's WAY better than a banquet table full of legumes!
Right? That line always bugged me, too. Talk about the feast that keeps on giving.
Talk about the feast that keeps on giving.
Ah, yes. The musical fruit.
The 25 Scariest Moments in Non-Horror Movies
Damn. I almost lurched out of my chair and fell on the floor trying to get away from #1. I saw a still of... that one shot in an article on surrealism in Vanity Fair when I was eleven, and it's still by far the worst thing I've ever seen. Like, so bad I never even have nightmares about it, because even the darkest beasts lurking in the corners of my subconscious cringe back and snarl, "Nuh uh, no way, not gonna touch that one; if we make her dream about it, we have to see it too, and that is NOT ON."
Didn't Wonka say he might be able to fix miniaturized TV Boy? Or that he couldn't fix him? For some reason I remember being more freaked out about his fate than the others. Maybe I was wondering if he was supposed to be tiny for the rest of his life....
They were going to take him to the STRETCHING CHAMBER. So it was more like an "Uh, maaaaybe we can fix him. If we do it in the MOST PAINFUL WAY POSSIBLE."
At the end of the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and Wonka look down from the elevator to see the other four kids lined up at the factory exit with their trucks of chocolate (even though they broke the rules, Wonka gave them their lifetime supplies). Veruca is covered in garbage (in the book, she went down the garbage chute, not to the boiler), Augustus is squeezed thinner, Violet is violet but no longer blueberry-shaped, and Mike Teevee is about seven feet tall (they stretched him too much).
Ooh, Kathy, thanks. I haven't read the book.
Kathy,
that seems consistent with the Johnny Depp version, without the trucks of chocolate. We saw all the kids at the end with one notably blueberry colored and one stretched quite a lot.
ION, The 25 Scariest Moments in Non-Horror Movies
We *just* did a poll about the scariest non-horror movie WW&tCF made it as did Requiem. Another one that we all wanted for the poll.
Time Bandits.
Here's the list
A Clockwork Orange
Basic Instinct
Blue Velvet
Dead Calm
Deliverance
Fatal Attraction
Heavenly Creatures
Jaws
Kalifornia
Misery
Mommie Dearest
Mulholland Dr.
No Country for Old Men
Requiem for a Dream
Time Bandits
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Oh, Dead Calm, Jaws, and Misery are all excellent calls.
No Country for Old Men
I thought this would be on that other list. That movie was scary as hell.
I thought Jaws and Misery were already horror movies.