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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Promotional poster for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The film begins in a chocolate factory where hundreds of chocolate bars are being made in a rather unusual process. Five chocolate bars are laid out on a table, and Willy Wonka's gloved hand is seen laying Golden Tickets on them. They are sent and wrapped with the other chocolate bars and shipped across the world. We then see Charlie Bucket's father enter his tiny, rickety shack in the big city. Charlie, his mother, and his four grandparents greet him. Charlie shows his father his small model of Willy Wonka's factory that he completed that day. His Grandpa Joe tells Charlie that he used to work at the factory, but Mr. Wonka fired all his workers and closed the factory when spies sneaked into the factory to steal his secrets. Charlie spends the night dreaming about the chocolate that comes from the factory. Charlie loves chocolate, but his family can only afford to get him one bar a year, on his birthday. His family is struggling to make ends meet when his father (played by Noah Taylor) loses his job at the toothpaste factory. Things begin to look up, however, when Willy Wonka announces that he has placed Golden Tickets into 5 of his Wonka Bars. The finder of these tickets will be given a full tour the factory, along with one parent, and a lifetime supply of chocolate. In addition to this, one of the five ticketholders will be given a special prize at the end of the tour. One by one, news reports from all over world reveal the children who find the first four tickets, all characterized by a morality flaw. Charlie's birthday soon arrives, and he opens his chocolate bar, only to be disappointed when he does not find a golden ticket.
Charlie gets ready to unwrap his birthday present.
Later, his Grandpa Joe gives Charlie some money to buy another chocolate bar. It, too, turns up fruitless. Later, Charlie learns that the fifth golden ticket has been found. He later sees a 10 dollar bill in the snow and decides to buy 2 chocolate bars, one for him and one for his Grandpa Joe. After devouring his bar, he hears that the fifth ticket was a fraud and the real one is still out there. As luck would have it, the Golden Ticket is in his Grandpa's chocolate bar. Charlie wants to sell the ticket to make money for his family, but his parents convince him to go on the tour. The next morning, Charlie and his Grandpa Joe arrive for the tour, led by the eccentric candy man Willy Wonka. During the tour, the first four ticket-winning children are one by one tempted by something relating to their personality flaw, causing a strange accident that eliminates the child and their worried accompanying parent from the tour, but in every case, Mr. Wonka seems indifferent, and it is implied that he planned for the "accidents to occur. GluttonAugustus Gloop (played by Philip Wiegratz), drinks from the chocolate river, against Mr. Wonka's warnings, in the Chocolate Room, falls in, and is sucked away by a pipe that leads to the fudge boiling room. Competitive gum chewer Violet Beauregarde (Annasophia Robb) chews an experimental piece of gum, and its defects turn her into a giant blueberry.
Spoiled Veruca Salt (Julia Winter) tries to steal a squirrel in the Nut Room, where she is deemed a "bad nut" and thrown down the garbage chute. Mike Teavee (Jordan Fry), who is obsessed with violent television and video games, teleports himself over Mr. Wonka's TV waves, shrinking him down to miniature size. Each accident is followed by a song of morality led by Mr. Wonka's little factory workers from Loompaland, the Oompa-Loompas. By the end of the day, each of the children leave the factory, altered in some way by their wrongdoings: Augustus Gloop was covered in melted chocolate, Violet Beauregarde was blue and flexible, Veruca Salt was covered in garbage, and Mike Teavee was at least 10 feet tall and as thin as paper.
During the tour, Willy Wonka has flashbacks to his childhood. These give background on his defunct relationship with his dentist father, Dr. Wilbur Wonka, played by Christopher Lee. As a child Wonka was denied chocolate and candies by his father because of the potential risk to his teeth. After finally sneaking in a piece of chocolate, he became obsessed, dreaming of being a chocolatier. Despite his father's wishes, Wonka ran away from home to follow his dreams.
After Mike Teavee's departure, Willy Wonka notices that Charlie is the only remaining child. He reveals his desire to hand over the chocolate factory to Charlie, as he is the least rotten of the group. The only catch is that Charlie must abandon his family in order to accept the arrangement, because, in Mr. Wonka's opinion, family members only tell you what to do, and a chocolatier needs complete creative freedom. Charlie's family is the most important thing in his life, even more important than chocolate, and therefore he refuses a befuddled Wonka.
Days go by, and the Bucket family is happier than ever. Wonka returns to Charlie, and in an attempt to understand his love of family, requests the boy to join him in confronting his own father. (Willy Wonka's father did not appear in Roald Dahl's novel or the original film. The character was written specifically for the movie to give Wonka some family history.) The elder Wonka and son end up reconciling, and in the end Willy Wonka and Charlie begin work together as a candymaking team, with Charlie's house and family relocated to the factory's chocolate room. In the end, Charlie had his own chocolate factory, but Mr. Wonka had something even better: a family. And life couldn't get any sweeter.
According to those involved with the creation of the film, the main vision behind this film was for it to be a closely adapted and slightly modernized version of the original 1964 book by Roald Dahl, and not a remake of the original 1971 musical film version.
It is a topic of some ongoing debate as to which film version is "more faithful" to the original book, as both introduce some key plot, setting, and character differences. For comparisons between the book and two films, please see the article Differences between book and film versions of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The production team of Brad Grey and Richard D. Zanuck determined that director Tim Burton was the ideal choice for the film. Martin Scorsese and Frank Oz were both at one point attached to direct. After agreeing to direct, Burton hired Big FishscreenwriterJohn August; he had read the book as a child, but not seen the 1971 film. Burton recommended that August complete his first draft of the screenplay before viewing it. [1].
Names in bold indicate actors who had expressed great interest that they auditioned for the role. Names in italics indicate actors who were in the final three. Robert De Niro was attached to play Willy Wonka when friend Martin Scorsee was attached to direct.
Steve Martin was attached to play Willy Wonka when friend Frank Oz was attached to direct.
Felicity Dahl chose who were considered, made it to the final ten and who were the final three, she had an option to choose who got the part but she didn't as she felt it was the director's honour, privilege and most of all right to choose who got the part. Felicity Dahl chose the ones who were considered for she felt captured the magic of Roald Dahl's books just by acting. She chose those in the final three because she felt they can not only capture the magic of Roald Dahl's books just by acting, but the humour of them as well as the magic and the humour of Spike Milligan who Roald Dahl wanted to play Willy Wonka in the 1971 musical. Once Burton was part of the project, he immediately chose friend Johnny Depp, who had previously starred in Burton's films Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow (and later lending his voice in Corpse Bride), to fill Wonka's shoes. Depp agreed, and also convinced Burton to hire young Finding Neverland co-star Freddie Highmore as the new Charlie Bucket and Jordan Fry as the new Mike Teavee. Tim Burton states in many interviews had he not directed the movie and chose who got the sacred part it would have gone to either Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler. The entire film was shot at Pinewood Studios, just outside of London, the same studios that most of the James Bond films were shot. Filming began on June 15, 2004. Burton preferred to avoid using computer-generated imagery, instead building actual full-size sets, created by production designer Alex McDowell.
Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) is a poor boy who lives with his parents and four grandparents in a tiny, rickety shack in a great city. Charlie loves chocolate, especially Willy Wonka's chocolate, but his family can only afford to get him one bar a year, on his birthday. He does not complain about his life, and is a goodhearted boy. He finds a dollar bill and buys a chocolate bar that contains the last golden ticket. However, he insists upon selling the ticket for money for his family, revealing his unselfish nature. He is persuaded to go by his parents, and later becomes the heir to the chocolate factory.
Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp), the best and most magical, astounding chocolate maker in the world. He closed his factory and sacked all of his workers and replaced them with natives of Loompaland because of his fear of corporate spies working in the pay of other, less successful companies. He once made an entire palace of chocolate in India, which tragically melted in a couple of days. He sent out five Golden Tickets and allowed five children to visit the factory in order to find an heir since he saw a white hair during his haircut. He is charming and intelligent (when he wants to be), but has truly stunted social skills that render him extremely bizarre to most people from the "outside world" due to his unhappy childhood and the long isolation from the world since the factory's closure. Ironically, his father is a dentist.
Mike Teavee (Jordan Fry), a boy who is obsessed with TV and video games, demands to be the first human transported over television waves, causing him to be shrunken to miniature size, and was overstretched in the taffy puller. Got the ticket by hacking into the Wonka Computer Mainframe, and only had to buy one bar (his father says in the TV interview that he is a very smart kid, as he is in high school). He doesn't like chocolate too well and he dresses like a typical mall goth. He has a very short fuse due to playing so many video games, and a superiority complex over mostly everyone, except for his mom and dad.
Veruca Salt (Julia Winter), a spoiled girl from Great Britain, tries to steal a "nut assessing" squirrel for herself after Willy Wonka refuses to sell one for her to her father. When she tries, she is assessed by the squirrels a "bad nut" and is then thrown down the garbage chute. Insisted that her dad had to get her a ticket. Her rich father turned his peanut company into a candy unwrapping plant until the ticket is found. She is finally denied something (a flying glass elevator) by her father near the end of the film.
Violet Beauregarde (AnnaSophia Robb) is a girl who is constantly chewing gum, and is very competitive, thanks to, in part, her mother, Scarlett, who is also very competitive. Besides gum-chewing, she is also a practitioner of the martial arts, as shown in the scene just before her TV interview by the Atlanta television newscrew, wearing a gi with a blue belt. She hastily chews a defective piece of gum from Wonka's factory. The gum turns her into a giant blueberry, and she is sent to the juicing room for squeezing. She took part in the contest because her mother wants her to win at everything. Unlike the rest of the children, she is pleased with herself as she leaves the factory, in spite of her mother's chagrin at having a blue-colored daughter, because she's now more flexible than ever and sure to win some more gymnastics trophies.
Augustus Gloop (Philip Wiegratz), a German gluttonous overeater, falls into a river of chocolate in The Chocolate Room and is sucked up by a pipe, gets stuck and the pressure builds up and he shoots up the pipe, towards the fudge room. He found his ticket by accident (and accidently bit one corner off). He ate so much candy a day that it was impossible for him to not find a ticket.
The Oompa-Loompas are Wonka's little factory workers from Loompaland. Loompaland is an uncharted land. The Oompa-Loompas lived on mashed giant caterpillars and never could work long or hard enough to keep their race fit or alive. They had a horrible life in Loompaland until Willy Wonka arrived.
Prince Pondicherry (Nitin Ganatra), tells Wonka to build him a palace entirely out of chocolate, and Wonka assures him that it will be. He ignores Wonka when he is told that he should eat the palace. A few days later the sun begins to melt the palace as Prince Pondicherry is feeding the Princess candies from a large box, and drops of melting chocolate begin to fall on his head. The palace begins to fall apart, but he and Princess Pondicherry escape covered in chocolate. He telegrams Wonka, asking for a new palace, but Wonka is busy because he has problems of his own concerning the spies coming to the factory.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was released in the United States and Canada on July 15, 2005. In its opening weekend it earned US$55.4 million at the North American box office, and received mostly positive reviews, with an 83% rating[2] on Rotten Tomatoes, a website service that summarizes the nation's top print and online film critics. As of September 2005, the film has grossed $400 million in worldwide box office receipts. It was released on DVD on November 8, 2005. Although, many consider the original film to be better than this adaption, and according to Rotten Tomatoes the 1971 Version has a higher rating by both critics and Rotten Tomato reviewers 2005 Adaption and the 1971 Adaption
Some critics, however, complained that Depp's interpretation of Willy Wonka was similar to Michael Jackson and the addition of the backstory of his troubled childhood was not keeping with the spirit of Dahl's novel. It should be noted, however, that Dahl's surviving family gave their wholehearted support to the film and to the inclusion of Wonka's backstory.
The original music score was written and performed by Danny Elfman, whose collaborations with director Tim Burton include the films Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Mars Attacks!, Big Fish, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Corpse Bride. The lyrics to the Oompa-Loompa songs are straight from the original book, and are thus credited to Roald Dahl. Elfman performed the vocals for the songs. The music of the main titles tracks are striking because they make use of both synthesizers and a vocoder.
Gene Wilder, who played Willy Wonka in the 1971 film, initially opposed this version, stating it "is all about money. It's just some people sitting around thinking 'How can we make some more money?' Why else would you remake Willy Wonka?" [3] Johnny Depp responded by saying "We didn't remake Willy Wonka, we remade Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It's based on the same book they based theirs on. Making a statement that they only made this film because of the money is a really odd statement to make from a guy who has been in the business as long as he has ... all movies were made because somebody somewhere wanted a return on their dollar that they spent." [4] However, since the film's release, Wilder has supported Depp, stating "If I were going to cast the movie, I would cast Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka because I think he is wonderful. Mysterious—always—and magical."[5].
On its release, the film received generally favorable reviews. The average was 83% positive on Rotten Tomatoes[6], and 72% positive on Metacritic[7].
A number of movie critics, including one from The New York Times, criticized Burton's Freudian backstory for Wonka as being both unnecessary and out of the spirit of Dahl's original novel.
Also, many have criticized Burton and August's interpretation of the Wonka character as being out of the spirit of the original character—who, for instance, did not hate being around the kids (see below) and was not socially stunted. A case in point is the scene where Wonka welcomes the guests.
In the book, Wonka is very sociable and tremendously excited, almost hyperactive.
In Burton's film, Wonka cannot even greet them without looking at cue cards. Burton made a counterpoint by saying that "living in a factory with Oompa-Loompas will make anyone a little bit strange".
In the book, Willy Wonka has a goatee that clearly is not seen in the movie.
Some film reviews have noted the resemblance of Depp's performance to pop star Michael Jackson. Like Jackson, Depp's interpretation of Wonka had pale skin, spoke in a soft tone, had a childlike persona, and had a troubled childhood. Depp denied any resemblance to Jackson. Burton commented, "Here's the deal: Michael Jackson likes children, Willy Wonka can't stand them. To me, that's a big difference in the whole personality ya'know?"
Deep Roy played every Oompa-Loompa himself: each of several hundred Oompa-Loompas represents a separate performance by Roy. These were then put together digitally. However, for some shots (such as the boat ride), animatronic Oompa-Loompas were used and therefore they could be filmed along with the live actors.
Sam Neill was considered for the role of Mr. Salt, but when Tim Burton was attached to the project he nixed the idea, as the only big male name he wanted in the movie was Johnny Depp.
Of the 110,000 candy bars made, only 1,850 were real. The rest were made of plastic. They were prepared by the Nestlé corporation for the movie
Augustus' home town "Düsseldorf, Germany" looks like a small typical southern German (Bavarian), Austrian or Swiss town with wood frame houses during winter and Alps mountains in the background. However, the real Düsseldorf is the capital city of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the lower Rhine plains. There are no wood frame houses or mountains there
There are buttons in the glass elevator marked Crusty Cream Puff, Television Room [Mike pushed this button], Brain Aches, Clotted Cream Room, Fizzy Lifting Drinks, Fudge Fallout Shower, Incompetent Fools, Mechanical Clouds, Orange Egg Flip, Root Beer Goggles, Scratch and Sniff Room, Cocoa Cats [If Mike didn't push the T.R button, we would have ended up here.], Black Box of Frogs, Brussel Sprout Ice Cream, Cheese and Anchovies, Dodgy Accents, Eight Till Latte Room, Rubber Forest, Large Cavity, Very Very Small Room, Nice Plums, Pastry Room, Heart Shaped Lungs, Projection Room, Secretarial Poodles, Beetle Juicing (reference to Burton's Beetlejuice), T-Bone Steak Jell-O, Stars in their Pies, Narnia (reference to The Chronicles of Narnia), Up And Out, Chocolate Lip Rookies, and Fragile Egos.
Willy Wonka's father did not appear in Roald Dahl's novel or the original film. The character was written specifically for the movie to give Wonka some family history.
Danny Elfman's opening music is reminiscent of his theme to Mars Attacks! and has been noted as similar to the background music of Invader Zim (composed by Kevin Manthei), a Nicktoon created by Jhonen Vasquez.
Willy Wonka was shown as wearing very disturbing headgear (braces). This is a reference to Tim Burton's own childhood.
The name of the toothpaste at the toothpaste factory where Charlie's father works is called "Smilex", which is the same name of Joker's poison in Burton's Batman.
The scene that takes place in the TV room and leads to the downfall of Mike Teavee contains a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film is shown on the TV and the famous rendition of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Strauss plays at the same time. The chocolate bar teleported onto the screen acts as the monolith in the film. The design of the room looks very similar to the interiors of spacecraft and space stations in the film as well.
In the TV room, the Oompa-Loompa was seen watching Oprah Winfrey, making her first cameo appearance in a Tim Burton movie, one of the modern-day enhancements of the story and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Additionally, the song "Macarena" can briefly be heard on the TV.
During the Boat Ride sequence, one of the glowing signs on the round doors reads "Beetle Juicing", a reference to Tim Burton's 1988 film "Beetlejuice".
Frank Oz, who was attatched to direct, was the one who suggested Grandma Georgina be senile. He had plans on voicing her in his Miss Piggy voice
Tim Allen, Dan Castellaneta, Jim Belushi, Ed O'Neill and many other actors who are famous for playing "TV Dads" were considered for the role of Mr. Teevee. However out of all of big names Adam Godley stood out the most.
The carpet made of a Polar Bear that Veruca Salt was standing on when she showed off her golden ticket was used in The Addams Family movies and T.V. show.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) 
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