The View from Above

[moonshadowmagic]

So I was Doing Nothing Much after a week of work and a sore throat, and doing that in front of the TV, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was on

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[moonshadowmagic]

And all the roofs really are orange tile. (Terracotta, I think.)

[mildmilotic]

...WillyWonka/PrincessTutu crossover. The image will not leave my head. 8|

[moonshadowmagic]

By dint of more willpower than I thought I could muster, I am not letting that one get a toehold. Nope. Not at all.

At least, not beyond product placement.

[moonshadowmagic]

(Why?) I was privileged once to converse with the guy who played Mike Teevee (at Dragon*Con about ten years ago. The guest list is sooo unwieldy that some people just get ignored....) Mostly growing up in the '70's, as I recall; which for me included seeing "Willy Wonka" in the theater. Dad, who took me and so had to watch the movie too, wasn't impressed; he much preferred Gene Wilder in "Young Fronkensteen."

Total irrelevancies.

[haleysings]

OH YEAH. I read that on Wiki before but I totally forgot. XD I'm going to have to watch that movie again now...

[moonshadowmagic]

Since the rest of it was filmed in Munich, the whole movie has a look we all recognize as vaguely not- British, I think. (And why the odd German accent turns up.) But it's quite pretty, and if PTT were shot as a live- action series, it might look like that....

[tomoyoichijouji]

Here's a screenshot from the film to prove it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nordlingen_aerial_screenshot.jpg

The Wikipedia article for Nordlingen itself also mentions the film.

[moonshadowmagic]

Yep, saw that! The article also mentions PTT, which is neat.