Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Directed by Ken Hughes
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
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Even so, as a portrait of one future auteur’s late-1960s childhood, Belfast is vivid and heartfelt: In one scene, the whole family treks out to see the ridiculous 1968 crowd-pleaser Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, falling under the spell of its godawful but indelible theme song.
The magic moment here belongs to the communal experience of seeing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang together, a vivid splash of colour and levity in a film that is brimming with playful nods to well-worn genres and beloved characters.
There are several classic movie references and film clips from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , High Noon and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance are shown.
Buddy (Jude Hill) is a young, working-class Belfast boy whose biggest concerns are playing in the streets with a makeshift sword and trashcan-lid shield, Matchbox cars, the girl he has a crush on in his class, Westerns on TV and going to see the movie about the flying car in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”
The only two scenes in which “Belfast” uses color (other than a brief intro and exit) involve the film musical “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” (1968), which the family goes to see; and a staged version of “A Christmas Carol,” which Buddy attends with his grandmother.
Family visits to movies like “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” (1968) add wonder and fantasy to Buddy’s life and a clue to his future career.
Did you know he wrote the screenplay for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
I wanted to make a movie that had the kind of imaginative elements of all those movies I loved growing up such as Willy Wonka and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang --- which was written by Ian Fleming by the way, " explains Rodriguez.
(I don’t think I’ve been as disturbed by a performance since the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ) He plays Arthur Fleck, clown and would-be stand-up, whose weirdness — that laugh!
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Bug-eyed Goggins nearly always seems cartoonish in other roles, but rather astonishingly integrates into the ensemble here, whereas Roth’s wonderfully named Oswaldo Mobray doesn’t belong, an escapee from “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” or some entirely different movie.
A "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" style journey to Hogwarts ensues, albeit one with far more danger, after Ron and Harry are denied access to Platform 9 3/4.