And the Oscar Goes to … Tea!
Monday, 9 August 2010 by Deb
If we were to take tea’s role in the movies as our sole source of “who is drinking tea,” we may be inclined to think that only English sisters from Jane Austen novels and kooky mad-hatted fellows partake of the beverage! Fortunately, at Bigelow Tea, we know that this is most certainly NOT the case in the real world.
Tea does play a lovely and important supporting role in two films based on Jane Austen’s novels: Sense & Sensibility and Pride & Prejudice. In both movies there are several scenes where the main characters—sisters—are pouring tea, sharing tea and drinking tea. It’s all very proper and English and civilized.
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Quite on the opposite end of the spectrum are the scenes from this year’s Alice and Wonderland and the original classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) where the Mad Hatter and Mr. Wonka certainly enjoy their tea. In the recent Alice, Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter joins a tea party in a bizarre world filled with characters like the Cheshire Cat and the White Rabbit.
And Willy Wonka, played by Gene Wilder takes a few moments to sip from a daffodil teacup at the end of the song “Pure Imagination” … and then he eats the teacup itself!
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We know tea has played a role in other great films over the years…but we’d love to hear from you, our tea-drinking fans. What’s your favorite movie that features tea in a scene? Let us know!
No. 1 — August 9th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
I remember watching Secret Garden this past summer on TCM with Margret O’Brien she was drinking tea when she hear that noise upstairs raising fears she wasn’t alone in the house
Or life with Father
No. 2 — August 10th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
In one movie the Krays it was Brit film it was noimtee for Brit Oscar they have plenty of scene of Mrs Kray their Mom giving tea to gangster LOL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nTqaBxc2Io&feature=related
No. 3 — August 2nd, 2011 at 9:02 am
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