Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Puns

“Warner Bros. considered or discussed Willy Wonka with Bill Murray, Christopher Walken, Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Mike Myers, Ben Stiller, Leslie Nielsen, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Patrick Stewart, and Adam Sandler. Dustin Hoffman and Marilyn Manson reportedly wanted the role as well.”

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This theory was written by Travelbound in the YT comments of The Film Theorists’ classic “Willy Wonka’s Factory is full of OSHA violations” video, which turns out to be the most-liked one there.

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Not bad MatPat. Not bad. But let me try one better. Willy Wonka was willing to risk the OSHA violations because the contest winners never actually saw the real factory. What they saw was a series of carefully crafted rooms designed to test the real winner of the golden ticket contest. Why? To find his true successor. Who? Charlie Bucket. That's right! Charlie was the first choice all along. But Wonka had to test him.

First piece of evidence that we see that the factory Wonka showed off wasn't the real factory was right in the opening credits. Remember the credits rolling over a series of conveyor belts and machines making chocolate? Funny how we never saw that room in the tour huh? That's because non disclosure agreements aside, Wonka wasn't going to trust his secrets to a group of strangers. So that's reason number 1 he created a bunch of fake candy making rooms that would still be way too small to produce the massive amounts of chocolate he actually sells.

Reason number 2 is as he says in the movie, he needed someone to pass his secrets down to. So he sent his only non Oompa Loompa employee Mr Wilkerson to find an honest child. He found four kids that could have been candidates but they were eliminated. Augustus had a good head for business "it'll cost him a fortune in fudge" but he was a glutton. Veruca wasn't afraid to boss people around but she was spoiled and greedy. Violet was competitive but a nitwit. Mike had a scientific mind since he was always asking questions, but he was lazy. Then right in the same town Wilkerson finds Charlie Bucket. But there's a problem. All the other kids turned out the way they did because of their parents. And while Charlie was mostly a good kid, he still had a father figure in his life that was a bad influence. That's right. Grandpa Joe. After all the man spent twenty years in a bed then gets up and does a song and dance? Some kind of fraud going on there... Don't believe sweet Grandpa Joe was a bad influence? Who convinced Charlie to try the fizzy lifting drinks?

So Wonka decides to create a series of fake rooms to tour and at the same t

Excuse me for appreciating his creepy take on Willy Wonka. This guy lives in a magical factory with enslaved creatures churning away at chocolate rivers day and right. I don’t want some regular sarcastic dude in a purple jacket, I want a fucking weirdo that makes me uncomfortable and wonder what kind of porn he watches at the end of the day. Johnny Depp gave me that.

Over on Ask Reddit, there’s a post about what if it was Charlie and the Cheesecake Factory. Fun ideas, but of course it turned into talking about how horrible and lazy Grandpa Joe was.

I’m pretty sure nobody saw it this way until the internet ruined Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Grandpa Joe was a symbol of how a lack of hope and joy crushes resilience. He and the other grandparents lived a very miserable life at that point. When the golden ticket was found, he was overcome by joy and found his youth again. The only real problem with this is the fact that in reality he would have bed sores and blood clots from being in bed for so long. Getting out of bed that quickly and leaping around probably would’ve killed him.

Grandpa Joe spent 20 years in bed (age 44ish-64ish, based on age of actor) for no apparent medical reason, just because he wanted to, even though his family was very poor. Then when something exciting happened he got out and about.

I read a comment that choosing to be bed ridden used to be common for seniors in Britain in the 1900s. Is there any truth to this?

Discuss.

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In the original Charlie and the chocolate factory charlie is deceitful with his family, grandpa joe is crooked not caring about if charlie stole bread. In the remake charlie is honest and loving to his family. (More explanation in the comments if you want.)

Almost every bit of opinion I see about the movie is that it was bad and ruined the original Willy Wonka movie. While I agree that the whole “Willy Wonka’s dentist father” backstory was completely unnecessary, the rest of the movie was actually closer in details to the book, from the Oompa Loompas’ song lyrics drawing directly from the book (and made into actual distinct songs instead of “Oompa Loompa Doopity Doo” over and over) to the actual title of the movie. Maybe my opinion is invalid because I saw this version first as a kid, but I think it gets too much hate.

He’s living off Charlie and that’s after his miraculous bullshit.

I like the books and I feel that the 2005 adaptation is better because it feels more similar to the books, like the music, the glass elevator and the "Verruca Salt" scene. The CGI in the 2005 film feels better than the practical effects of the 1971 adaptation. I still like the 1971 film though. But I'm sorry, the 2005 film is better IMO. I like the Nightmare Before Christmas feel, the music, the accuracy to the source material and Wonka's dark backstory. The only negative point I have is that Willy Wonka in the 2005 film looked too much like Michael Jackson

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