Gene Wilder Has Died
Willy Wonka (screenplay by the genius Roald Dahl) has one of my favorite scenes in film and I invite you all to watch it: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz9jc5blzRM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz9jc5blzRM</a><p>> In 1970, when originally offered the lead role in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory by director Mel Stuart, the great Gene Wilder accepted on one condition. "When I make my first entrance,” he explained, “I'd like to come out of the door carrying a cane and then walk toward the crowd with a limp. After the crowd sees Willy Wonka is a cripple, they all whisper to themselves and then become deathly quiet. As I walk toward them, my cane sinks into one of the cobblestones I'm walking on and stands straight up, by itself; but I keep on walking, until I realize that I no longer have my cane. I start to fall forward, and just before I hit the ground, I do a beautiful forward somersault and bounce back up, to great applause." Asked why, Wilder said, "Because from that time on, no one will know if I'm lying or telling the truth."<p>Quote from: <a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/06/part-of-this-world-part-of-another.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/06/part-of-this-world-part...</a>