Paul Jackson... - RUFA - Rome University of Fine Arts

THE DREAMERS OF DREAMS: there’s a great scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory where Wonka turns to one of the children, but also in a very real sense, turns to us in the audience, and reminds us of a truth we had forgotten. He quotes O’Shannaughssey and tells us: “we are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams”. This may be the most profound scene in the movie, a scene that poignantly and poetically reminds us that we are here to actualize our imagination. We are here to summ