Monologo - Willy Wonka in La Fabbrica di Cioccolato

MINUTAGGIO: 6:25-11:24

RUOLO: Nonno Joe

ATTORE: David Kelly

DOVE: Netflix

INGLESE

Think so? I know so! I saw Willy Wonka with my own two eyes! I used to work for him, you know. Of course, I was a much younger man in those days. Only, say, sixty- five or seventy. Twenty-five years ago, Willy Wonka began with a small store on Cherry Street, but the whole world wanted his candy. Willy Wonka had the knack for candy. He could make tiny candy- coated eggs that you sucked on for only a few seconds, and they hatched into little chocolate birds. The man was a genius. Did you know he invented a new way of making chocolate ice cream so that it stays cold for hours, without a freezer? You can even leave it lying in the sun for hours on a hot day, and it won’t go runny! But Willy Wonka did it! Before long, he decided to build a proper chocolate factory. I had retired by then, mind you, this was only fifteen years ago. It was the largest chocolate factory in history! Fifty times as big as any other! The opening day was a media sensation! You mean Prince Pondicherry! Well, Prince Pondicherry wrote a letter to Mr. Wonka, and asked him to come all the way out to India and build him a colossal palace, entirely out of chocolate. True to his word, the bricks were chocolate, and even the cement holding them together was chocolate! All the walls and ceilings were made out of chocolate as well! So were the carpets and the pictures and the furniture. Even the telephone was chocolate. Prince Pondicherry was pleased as punch. But Mr. Wonka was right, of course. Soon after, there came a very hot day, with a boiling sun. The entire palace melted away in the course of an hour. It was all Prince Pondicherry could do to escape with his life and not drown in liquid chocolate! Soon after, he sent an urgent telegram to Mr. Wonka in request of a new palace. But Willy Wonka was facing problems of his own. All the other candy makers, you see, had grown jealous of Mr. Wonka. They began sending in spies to steal his secret recipes. Fickelgrubber started making an ice cream that would never melt. Prodnose came out with a chewing gum that never lost its flavour. Slugworth began marketing candy balloons that you could blow up to incredible sizes. Then pop with a pin. The thievery got so bad that one day, without warning, Willy Wonka told every single one of his workers to go home! He announced that he was closing his chocolate factory forever!

ITALIANO

Io ho visto Willy Wonka con questi miei oggi. Lavoravo nella sua fabbrica. Naturalmente a quei tempi ero molto più giovane di adesso. Willy Wonka aveva iniziato con un solo negozio a Cherry Street, ma tutto il mondo voleva i suoi dolci. Quell’uomo era un genio. Lo sapevi che ha inventato un nuovo modo di fare il gelato al cioccolato, che resta freddo per ore senza bisogno del freezer? Puoi anche lasciarlo sotto il sole di una giornata calda e non si scioglie. Ma Willy Wonka l’ha fatto. Non passò molto tempo che costruì una vera fabbrica di cioccolato, la più grande della storia. Cinquanta volte più grande di qualunque altra. Il principe Pondichery scrisse una lettera al signor Wonka chiedendogli di andare da lui fino in India per costruirgli un colossale palazzo tutto fatto di cioccolato. Mantenne la promessa: i mattoni erano di cioccolato, e il cemento che li univa era di cioccolato. Anche le parete e i soffitti erano fatti di cioccolato. E lo erano anche i tappeti, i quadri e i mobili. Ma il signor Wonka aveva ragione: poco tempo dopo ci fu una giornata molto calda, con un sole rovente. Il principe inviò un telegramma richiedendo un nuovo palazzo, ma Willy Wonka aveva i suoi problemi. Gli altri produttori di cioccolato, vedi, erano invidiosi del signor Wonka. E cominciarono ad inviare delle spie per inviare le sue ricette segrete. Fickelgruber produsse un gelato che non si scioglieva mai; Prodnose lanciò un gelato che non perdeva mai il sapore; poi Slugworth iniziò a vendere un chuwing gum con cui fare palloni di dimensioni incredbili I furti arrivrono a tal punto che un giorno senza preavviso il signor Wonka disse ai suoi pperai di tornanderseen a casa, e annunciò che avrebbe chiuso l sua Fabbrica di Cioccolato per sempre.