Fancy Bread

My favorite line from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

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Entertainment

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• willy
• wonka
• fun
• chocolate
• factory
• fancy
• bread

[greymattersblog]

The quote is, "Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?" It's not "bread" as in sandwiches, but "bred" as in breeding. He's quoting Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." He quotes the same play again later on when he says, "So shines a good deed in a weary world", right after Charlie gives back the Everlasting Gobstopper.

[Popecornclock]

wow. thanks for the correction. I guess it's hard to understand exactly what he means when he says that. I would never have realized that. Now it doesn't seem so odd for him to be saying that. thanks again.

[pnutty7]

Gene Wilder quoted Shakespeare, he just goofed on the line because he was ad-libing. This line (as well as many of Wonkas quotes)was not in the script! Lots of stuff Gene Wilder came up with, from him doing the roll when he meets the children for the first time to when they licked the wallpaper.

[danniegirl1213]

I keep saying this to my friends. It was on the other day. I've been watching this movie pretty much since I was born and the last time I watched this was when I actually caught this line. Ha! Love it! :)

[jklolbrblmfao]

@jrhythm98 All I said was that Wonka didn't say exactly the same words as Shakespeare, which he didn't. I don't know whether or not the writers intentionally wrote it differently because they were referring to something else, like you said, but my point is that it's not the same.

[jrhythm98]

@jklolbrblmfao Actually no. Fancy bread is a type of bread one step above bread you'd find in the grocery. A lot of times they'll add raisins or maybe caraway seeds to make it better. This is what Willy Wonka is referring to, which is consistent in the movie as he is always very meticulous and fancy about what he does.

[jrhythm98]

I would like to eat fancy bread I bet it is very sugary and would go with my coffee. I drink coffee on weekends while I read about the weeks' events in periodicals and newspapers. That's why I have many friends in business. Fancy bread must taste very good. Good bread uses good yeast. I want the world. I want today. I want tomorrow. 10,000 tons of ice cream. Don't care how, I want it now.

[brainslug223]

Mmm fancy bread! Delicious :)

[dwn2earth]

@Yarbols Ohhhhhhhhhhh, hahahaha! There are so many lil jokes in this movie that if you don't catch it, you'll miss it! Love this movie!!!

[mattyboi678]

I don't think directly quoting shakespeare would have worked... It's a tribute ;)