Iona

assistant editor🎬

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

London based 2nd Assistant Editor with experience in features available now. DM or email [email protected] for my CV #PostChat #AssistantEditor #Available

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

So I guess I might come back to film?

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

Left the film industry because I couldn’t find work, retrained in a field I never thought I’d do and now won’t pass probation because they “don’t see potential” 🙃

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

The last 7 months have been super hard being out of work and it’s a bittersweet moment to say that as of Monday I’ll be in store working as a Travel Sales Consultant. I love this new career path but do miss being an AE

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

@TfL hi I accidentally used two different cards for my journey and have been charged the max fare on both, is there anything that can be done regarding a refund?

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

Today was my last day of unemployment as I head into a new full time job tomorrow😌 it’s been a crazy 6 months but I’m looking forward to starting a new chapter of my life!

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

So if anyone is interested, around 16:45 Wednesday 24th on BBC Essex you can hear me talk about my journey into being an AE🫣

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

Although next Monday will be bittersweet with me starting a new job outside of film and editing, Wednesday will be great as I am being interviewed on BBC Essex Radio about my work in film!

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

Booked a wowcher mystery holiday for a laugh and ended up with Italy😍

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

Anyone know the average salary for an in-house edit assistant?

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

This is incredible🥰🥰

[ron 🐚🗝️🩸 @noctass]

After seeing #Wonka (nine times like a normal person) here is a super sized list of silly things I noticed or just really liked:

1. In the opening number Willy is referred to as "Chef" and "Cook" by the crew on the steamboat implying he was working as a chef while he traveled. That was the same profession he said his mom had.

2. Wonka conveniently traveled the world during the years of, and successfully avoided, WWII.

3. Willy does not wear underwear? On the laundry receipt of his contract at Scrubbit’s the undies in question are listed, but he was not charged for washing them.

4. It makes me laugh that Willy throws his oatmeal in the trash and calls it slop, because Quaker Oats was the original sponsor of the 1971 movie and was responsible for a lot of the cost cutting in that film, which resulted in such bright ideas as spraying the children with fire hydrant foam.

5. When Willy is happy, his cane stands up by itself. When he is sad, he has to prop his cane up (see after he had his earnings confiscated or was on the ship to the north pole).

6. The way Willy looks at the ruined chocolate shop, takes off his hat as the world stops around him and becomes more colorful, reminds me of the way a man reacts in movies when he sees a beautiful woman. I love that for him.

7. The way Willy spins his cane (two spins backward one spin forward) is identical to how Gene Wilder spins it in one wide shot from the original “Pure Imagination”.
8. Willy’s travel factory has four buttons, The lightning bolt that he uses for Silver Linings, but also a spiral, a heart, and a sparkle. Does the heart imply the existence of love chocolates?

9. There are a bunch of references to “The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me”, not just the Giraffe but also the abandoned sweets shop Willy buys. Presumably he abandoned it after he started making his factory, did the Giraffe move in? Is the misspelled “For Sail / Soled” sign in the book now one that Wonka put up because he still can’t quite spell?

10. This is just a head canon, but I like to think the little shoe-shine boy in this movie, Billy in the “The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me” and Bill the Candy shop owner in the 1971 movie are all the same guy.

11. Speaking of Bill, Willy throws chocolates into the crowd the same way Bill does in 1971.

12. Does the abandoned chocolate shop imply the existence of a fourth murdered competitor of the Chocolate Cartel?

13. The side of Willy’s hat has text on it that says “SUG—“ I’m not 100% certain but I think this is a reference to Henry Sugar, another Roald Dahl character who is a magician. In an interview with the costume designer she said he had traded for all of his clothing, and got his hat and coat from a Magician.

14. Before “Sweet Tooth”, the chocoholic monks are singing it in Latin.

15. I love how seductive the Chocolate Cartel are to the Chief of Police during “Sweet Tooth.” Patting the seat, kicking up their feet next to him, feeding him a chocolate olive, fan dancing, spanking their butts, hating on his wife. Incredible. No notes.

16. I encourage you upon rewatch to watch Ficklegruber and Prodnose’s background acting. It’s extremely funny how much they hate each other.

17. I love that Willy and the Chocolate Cartel are all color coded. Wonka is red, Slugworth is blue, Ficklegruber is green, Prodnose is yellow. Given that Wonka will eventually turn into an (almost) equally cruel capitalist pig like them it seems sort of fitting.

18. Every trap that Wonka sets for the kids in Charlie and the Chocolate factory is something that happens in this story. He makes the Chocolate Cartel float away like Charlie. He’s almost drowned in chocolate like Augustus. He almost gets blown into a million pieces like Mike. He falls down a laundry chute like Veruca falls down garbage chute. His customers eat body altering chocolate like Violet’s gum. He also makes them sign an insane contract like the one that got him into indentured servitude. Interesting heel turn from the Candy Man in 25 years.

19. Slugworth throwing away his heir is an interesting mirror to how much Wonka wanted an heir but didn’t have one in Charlie and the Chocolate factory.

20. Noodle’s special chocolates have long swirly designs… like a noodle!

21. The mug Noodle uses to give Willy the Colder water says “Work Harder.”

22. In “A World of Our Own” Willy is constantly looking around at the faces in the crowd for his mother, there are allusions to it in the song but the song hits different when you keep that in mind as you watch the camera snap between the crowd and his face.

23. Also in “A World of Our Own” Willy’s hat is mysteriously pristine and unwrinkled for, his bow is very exaggerated and stiff, and there are no more rips in his coat or pants. After the song ends and after the shop burns down, his hat goes back to being wrinkled, his bow wilts, and his jacket is ripped again.

24. “All the colors of the rainbow… and some others too” Makes me think of the Progress Pride Flag, inclusive king.

25. The little girl with the mustache is smiling because she loves having a mustache!

26. Literacy being a central theme of the story is very cool because that was important to Roald Dahl, a lot of his charitable work went into childhood literacy. Reading is the only way Willy was able to get the message from his mother and see her again and I think he would have liked that.

27. There is a scene cut from the film where Noodle and Willy sing ‘Pure Imagination’ in the library, and that’s when Willy reveals he has learned how to read, and there is an extra layer that Willy knows how much books mean to Noodle and now has similar feelings about them. So, after the Wonka Shop burns down, Slugworth tempts Willy by telling him Noodle will be able to have “Books”, that line is a lot more impactful if you think of it in the context of the cut version.

28. On the flip side, that version of the script has Willy reading his own contract and signing the lease for the chocolate shop, where is name is listed as “William”. I’m glad they cut this. Real ones know Willy’s full name is Wilberforce after Roald Dahl’s bully in school.

29. Everyone has a fun name that references their occupations which is something Roald Dahl loved. Abacus Crunch the Accountant, Piper Benz the Plumber, Lottie Bell the Telephone Operator, Larry Chucklesworth the comedian, Noodle the genius orphan. I love puns.

30. Willy Wonka’s Wild and Wonderful Wishy Washey Wonka Washer is very similar to the Wonka Wash! It also vaguely reminds me of how 1971 Wonka would add shoes to a recipe for “kick” and a coat if something was too cold. Lots of laundry based threads between the two films.

31. The Oompa Loompa calls himself “Lofty” which was Roald Dahl’s nickname in school.

32. The Oompa Loompas are dressed the the Vatican’s Swiss Guard and I think that’s hilarious.

33. In the end of the film, there’s a lot of set-up for Wonka as an untrustworthy character for later stories. Wonka has a strange degree of certainty about what is going to happen. He has no concern about the Chocolate Cartel being able to buy their way out of trouble and simply says they’re going “to change the world”, so does that mean he knows they’re going to dump their entire factories worth of Chocolate to drown him and therefore go bankrupt? He obviously suspects that the Oompa Loompa is probably going to save him, but he still acts like he’s going to die when he and Noodle are stuck. This is sort of similar to how he tells Noodle he’s “not sure” why Slugworth is targeting her despite being pretty sure. He probably doesn’t want to lie to her on the off chance he’s wrong which I understand, but I think these scenes do a great job of setting up that Wonka can be a little tricky, if not untrustworthy. (Unless he has pinky promised something, of course).

34. There are two lines that never get any laughs because they are barely audible but they are some of my favorites. One after Mrs. Scrubbit asks Mr. Bleacher what Bavaria was like and he says “It’s very… Bavarian”. Another is in the Accountant’s flash back working for Slugworth, Slugworth offscreen says “I don’t care if they were school children! They were in our way! Next time STEP ON IT!” Excellent stuff.

35. There's a ton of hidden Mickey Mouse shapes for some reason. At least three. They're everywhere. Also Willy lives on a steam boat so does that make him Steam Boat Willy?

36. Pure Imagination being a song he sings to Noodle is a lot like how the West End Musical made Pure Imagination a song Wonka sings to Charlie!

37. Willy hooks up five couples in this film. Abacus and Larry are able to return to their wives (or ex wives). He hooks up the couple in “You’ve Never had Chocolate Like This” and Gwen and Basil. Also Scrubbit and Bleacher. He’s a bona fide match maker.

38. Wonka encourages people to eat the chocolate he had just been swimming in with his shoes on. Absolutely disgusting. I love it.

39. This film said All Cops are Bad and the Catholic Church is corrupt they're so brave for that.

40. Just because it has to be said I’ll end with the obvious ones. Wonka drops a coin into the storm drain that Charlie finds his coin in. The Galleries Gourmet opens at 10 AM like the factory. We can all acknowledge the coop is basically the Chokey from Matilda. He does the little step back up the stairs in the opener and when he’s showing Lofty the chocolate factory. His mamma left him a Golden ticket. God bless.

41. Chocolate is equivalent to drugs in this universe. There's no way around it. The cartel have "cut" their chocolate to sell inferior product, it's exceedingly addictive, the chief of police refers to eating chocolate wrappers as taking a hit. Amazing.

Here is one bonus thing I hate about this movie:

1. Why is the cool “W” in the movie never used in Promo images. Why is the promo “W” different and never appears in the film. Why is the Promo “W” non-canon to lore and yet it is the only thing I can buy on merch? Free Mamma’s cool “W”!!!

[ron 🐚🗝️🩸 @noctass]

After seeing #Wonka (nine times like a normal person) here is a super sized list of silly things I noticed or just really liked:

1. In the opening number Willy is referred to as "Chef" and "Cook" by the crew on the steamboat implying he was working as a chef while he traveled. That was the same profession he said his mom had.

2. Wonka conveniently traveled the world during the years of, and successfully avoided, WWII.

3. Willy does not wear underwear? On the laundry receipt of his contract at Scrubbit’s the undies in question are listed, but he was not charged for washing them.

4. It makes me laugh that Willy throws his oatmeal in the trash and calls it slop, because Quaker Oats was the original sponsor of the 1971 movie and was responsible for a lot of the cost cutting in that film, which resulted in such bright ideas as spraying the children with fire hydrant foam.

5. When Willy is happy, his cane stands up by itself. When he is sad, he has to prop his cane up (see after he had his earnings confiscated or was on the ship to the north pole).

6. The way Willy looks at the ruined chocolate shop, takes off his hat as the world stops around him and becomes more colorful, reminds me of the way a man reacts in movies when he sees a beautiful woman. I love that for him.

7. The way Willy spins his cane (two spins backward one spin forward) is identical to how Gene Wilder spins it in one wide shot from the original “Pure Imagination”.
8. Willy’s travel factory has four buttons, The lightning bolt that he uses for Silver Linings, but also a spiral, a heart, and a sparkle. Does the heart imply the existence of love chocolates?

9. There are a bunch of references to “The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me”, not just the Giraffe but also the abandoned sweets shop Willy buys. Presumably he abandoned it after he started making his factory, did the Giraffe move in? Is the misspelled “For Sail / Soled” sign in the book now one that Wonka put up because he still can’t quite spell?

10. This is just a head canon, but I like to think the little shoe-shine boy in this movie, Billy in the “The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me” and Bill the Candy shop owner in the 1971 movie are all the same guy.

11. Speaking of Bill, Willy throws chocolates into the crowd the same way Bill does in 1971.

12. Does the abandoned chocolate shop imply the existence of a fourth murdered competitor of the Chocolate Cartel?

13. The side of Willy’s hat has text on it that says “SUG—“ I’m not 100% certain but I think this is a reference to Henry Sugar, another Roald Dahl character who is a magician. In an interview with the costume designer she said he had traded for all of his clothing, and got his hat and coat from a Magician.

14. Before “Sweet Tooth”, the chocoholic monks are singing it in Latin.

15. I love how seductive the Chocolate Cartel are to the Chief of Police during “Sweet Tooth.” Patting the seat, kicking up their feet next to him, feeding him a chocolate olive, fan dancing, spanking their butts, hating on his wife. Incredible. No notes.

16. I encourage you upon rewatch to watch Ficklegruber and Prodnose’s background acting. It’s extremely funny how much they hate each other.

17. I love that Willy and the Chocolate Cartel are all color coded. Wonka is red, Slugworth is blue, Ficklegruber is green, Prodnose is yellow. Given that Wonka will eventually turn into an (almost) equally cruel capitalist pig like them it seems sort of fitting.

18. Every trap that Wonka sets for the kids in Charlie and the Chocolate factory is something that happens in this story. He makes the Chocolate Cartel float away like Charlie. He’s almost drowned in chocolate like Augustus. He almost gets blown into a million pieces like Mike. He falls down a laundry chute like Veruca falls down garbage chute. His customers eat body altering chocolate like Violet’s gum. He also makes them sign an insane contract like the one that got him into indentured servitude. Interesting heel turn from the Candy Man in 25 years.

19. Slugworth throwing away his heir is an interesting mirror to how much Wonka wanted an heir but didn’t have one in Charlie and the Chocolate factory.

20. Noodle’s special chocolates have long swirly designs… like a noodle!

21. The mug Noodle uses to give Willy the Colder water says “Work Harder.”

22. In “A World of Our Own” Willy is constantly looking around at the faces in the crowd for his mother, there are allusions to it in the song but the song hits different when you keep that in mind as you watch the camera snap between the crowd and his face.

23. Also in “A World of Our Own” Willy’s hat is mysteriously pristine and unwrinkled for, his bow is very exaggerated and stiff, and there are no more rips in his coat or pants. After the song ends and after the shop burns down, his hat goes back to being wrinkled, his bow wilts, and his jacket is ripped again.

24. “All the colors of the rainbow… and some others too” Makes me think of the Progress Pride Flag, inclusive king.

25. The little girl with the mustache is smiling because she loves having a mustache!

26. Literacy being a central theme of the story is very cool because that was important to Roald Dahl, a lot of his charitable work went into childhood literacy. Reading is the only way Willy was able to get the message from his mother and see her again and I think he would have liked that.

27. There is a scene cut from the film where Noodle and Willy sing ‘Pure Imagination’ in the library, and that’s when Willy reveals he has learned how to read, and there is an extra layer that Willy knows how much books mean to Noodle and now has similar feelings about them. So, after the Wonka Shop burns down, Slugworth tempts Willy by telling him Noodle will be able to have “Books”, that line is a lot more impactful if you think of it in the context of the cut version.

28. On the flip side, that version of the script has Willy reading his own contract and signing the lease for the chocolate shop, where is name is listed as “William”. I’m glad they cut this. Real ones know Willy’s full name is Wilberforce after Roald Dahl’s bully in school.

29. Everyone has a fun name that references their occupations which is something Roald Dahl loved. Abacus Crunch the Accountant, Piper Benz the Plumber, Lottie Bell the Telephone Operator, Larry Chucklesworth the comedian, Noodle the genius orphan. I love puns.

30. Willy Wonka’s Wild and Wonderful Wishy Washey Wonka Washer is very similar to the Wonka Wash! It also vaguely reminds me of how 1971 Wonka would add shoes to a recipe for “kick” and a coat if something was too cold. Lots of laundry based threads between the two films.

31. The Oompa Loompa calls himself “Lofty” which was Roald Dahl’s nickname in school.

32. The Oompa Loompas are dressed the the Vatican’s Swiss Guard and I think that’s hilarious.

33. In the end of the film, there’s a lot of set-up for Wonka as an untrustworthy character for later stories. Wonka has a strange degree of certainty about what is going to happen. He has no concern about the Chocolate Cartel being able to buy their way out of trouble and simply says they’re going “to change the world”, so does that mean he knows they’re going to dump their entire factories worth of Chocolate to drown him and therefore go bankrupt? He obviously suspects that the Oompa Loompa is probably going to save him, but he still acts like he’s going to die when he and Noodle are stuck. This is sort of similar to how he tells Noodle he’s “not sure” why Slugworth is targeting her despite being pretty sure. He probably doesn’t want to lie to her on the off chance he’s wrong which I understand, but I think these scenes do a great job of setting up that Wonka can be a little tricky, if not untrustworthy. (Unless he has pinky promised something, of course).

34. There are two lines that never get any laughs because they are barely audible but they are some of my favorites. One after Mrs. Scrubbit asks Mr. Bleacher what Bavaria was like and he says “It’s very… Bavarian”. Another is in the Accountant’s flash back working for Slugworth, Slugworth offscreen says “I don’t care if they were school children! They were in our way! Next time STEP ON IT!” Excellent stuff.

35. There's a ton of hidden Mickey Mouse shapes for some reason. At least three. They're everywhere. Also Willy lives on a steam boat so does that make him Steam Boat Willy?

36. Pure Imagination being a song he sings to Noodle is a lot like how the West End Musical made Pure Imagination a song Wonka sings to Charlie!

37. Willy hooks up five couples in this film. Abacus and Larry are able to return to their wives (or ex wives). He hooks up the couple in “You’ve Never had Chocolate Like This” and Gwen and Basil. Also Scrubbit and Bleacher. He’s a bona fide match maker.

38. Wonka encourages people to eat the chocolate he had just been swimming in with his shoes on. Absolutely disgusting. I love it.

39. This film said All Cops are Bad and the Catholic Church is corrupt they're so brave for that.

40. Just because it has to be said I’ll end with the obvious ones. Wonka drops a coin into the storm drain that Charlie finds his coin in. The Galleries Gourmet opens at 10 AM like the factory. We can all acknowledge the coop is basically the Chokey from Matilda. He does the little step back up the stairs in the opener and when he’s showing Lofty the chocolate factory. His mamma left him a Golden ticket. God bless.

41. Chocolate is equivalent to drugs in this universe. There's no way around it. The cartel have "cut" their chocolate to sell inferior product, it's exceedingly addictive, the chief of police refers to eating chocolate wrappers as taking a hit. Amazing.

Here is one bonus thing I hate about this movie:

1. Why is the cool “W” in the movie never used in Promo images. Why is the promo “W” different and never appears in the film. Why is the Promo “W” non-canon to lore and yet it is the only thing I can buy on merch? Free Mamma’s cool “W”!!!

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

Well I’m thrilled with our roof damage from the storm yesterday 🙃

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

Happy New Year everyone🥰 May 2024 bring lots of work and fun projects✨

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

Man I can’t wait to be back assisting 🙃

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

Which means I have a new CV and email!

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

Have finally changed my @ and will be know by my married name professionally going forward🥰

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

A great opportunity!

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[Iona @ionagoddardae]

I got married yesterday 🤯

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

The rollercoaster oh my gosh I realised how that sounds

[Iona @ionagoddardae]

Life is such a rollercoaster atm when will it end 😫