Tim Burton to remake Willy Wonka

Ron-P

Warners takes whack at 'Wonka'
Burton to helm Dahl redo, supervise 'Bride'

By MICHAEL FLEMING
Confident they've finally unwrapped the Wonka bar with the golden ticket, Warner Bros. execs are enlisting Tim Burton to direct "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," the second live-action adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic children's novel....

Variety

Could be very cool. I'm looking forward to this.


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STUFFMD

They have been talking about doing it for 3 years now, they even had a cast at one time...Nick Cage as Wonka........Would love to see it.
Stuff

Ron-P

I'm willing to bet Depp will play Wonka, which he is perfect for ayway.


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Demiurge

They were actually planning on casting Marilyn Manson as Wonka. IMO that would be the most awesome thing that could happen. They should make this a creepy movie, since it was to begin with. Not to mention, the guy can actually act, and despite what you think about him....he's actually a very educated person.

burdette

I saw an interview with Mary... I agree - he came across as intelligent and informed, and able to make his point.

I don't think I've read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.. isn't the book quite a bit darker than the original film? I thought the Oompa Loompas in the book were almost sort of... ghoulish? Edit.. never mind.. I looked into it, it is and always was a children's book. I must be thinking of some other book.

I have read Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.. and there is a lot more to the book than in the movie... much more structure to the story in the book that the movie does not convey.

Ron-P

They were actually planning on casting Marilyn Manson as Wonka.

Actually, this was nothing more than a rumor, no truth to it what-so-ever. He was never considered for the part.


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phuz

Good stuff Ron, thanks for the info.

Lets hope Elfman does the soundtrack.

Demiurge

Actually, this was nothing more than a rumor, no truth to it what-so-ever. He was never considered for the part.

Not according to him.

jeff biggs

Well! Burton. Let's see, the giant candy forest at the river of chocolate, the candy is going to come alive and eat the kids. This is going to be a very short movie. Timmy is a weirdo!

Made a damn fine Batman tho'

rskarvan

WILLY WONKA's FREEMASON CHOCLATE FACTORY
by Mark David

For those of you who so gleefully enjoyed the movie Willy Wonka and the
Choclate Factory as a kid, allow me to explain its meaning and what was
taught to you. Alot of its meaning may not have meant anything to you as
a kid, but, I can assure you it means alot to the Illuminati.

The whole movie is based around a giant choclate factory in which all
are
seeking. It is their Quest, to discover the 'truth' of it, much as the
Rose Cross, or the Order, the Order of the Quest, claim to be in search
of the Holy Grail, within The Grail Temple which lies inside the Grail
Chapel, surrounded by, the Grail Forest.

The whole concept is choclate, and subliminal reasoning now comes into
play. After eating choclate, one may find choclate still residing in
their teeth, thus, 'lodged' in their teeth.

Lodge.

This is their lodge.

Surrounding the factory, or, the Grail Castle, are the people awaiting
entrance, begging for the contents of the inside to be shown to them.
These people represent the Grail forest, surrounding the Grail Castle.
Willy Wonka appears. Walking down the parsifal he does something un-
expected, which commonly occurs within initiations of secret societies.

The adepts and initiates are brought in, shown certain things, and the
meaning of these things are explained to them. This occurs within all
initiations. It is indoctrination and deception.

There are those not willing, and those people are flushed down shoots,
turned
into giant blueberries by the Blue Lodge, thus, terminated.

At the end, Charlie is offered a position of power because he has
undergone
all intitiations. He is illuminated and therefore a member of the
illuminati.

We know this is true due to the meaning of the OOMPAS, oompa doobidee
doo.
Lets explore this word.

OOMPAS, when played with, sais MASOOP.
The first four letters are MASO , four representing the 3 sections of
the
Blue Lodge, + 1. 1 represents the item of quest and the hidden one.

The first letter of the first section is M, which is 1 letter back from
O, the
first part of the second section. Therefore, we should
subtract one letter from our next part, OOP, which inturn makes O an N.
So we have MASONP.
Seperated, we have MASON P
5 letters in Mason, the P represents Parsifal in which Willy Wonka, and,
the Rosicrucians will walk upon, when they return the earth back to the
east, the 'choclate factory'.

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Here is a web-site I found:
http://wonka-is-satan.tripod.com/
The Candy Man

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Below are song lyrics:




I've got a Golden Ticket!
I NEVER THOUGHT MY LIFE COULD BE
ANYTHING BUT CATASTROPHE
BUT SUDDENLY I BEGIN TO SEE
A BIT OF GOOD LUCK FOR ME
'CAUSE I'VE GOT A GOLDEN TICKET
I'VE GOT A GOLDEN TWINKLE IN MY EYE
I NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO SHINE
NEVER A HAPPY SONG TO SING
BUT SUDDENLY HALF THE WORLD IS MINE
WHAT AN AMAZING THING
'CAUSE I'VE GOT A GOLDEN TICKET
I'VE GOT A GOLDEN SUN UP IN THE SKY
I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE THE DAY
WHEN I WOULD FACE THE WORLD AND SAY
GOOD MORNING, LOOK AT THE SUN!
I NEVER THOUGHT THAT I WOULD BE
SLAP IN THE LAP OF LUXURY
'CAUSE I'D HAVE SAID
IT COULDN'T BE DONE
BUT IT CAN BE DONE
I NEVER DREAMED THAT I WOULD CLIMB
OVER THE MOON IN ECSTASY
BUT NEVERTHELESS IT'S THERE THAT I'M
SHORTLY ABOUT TO BE
'CAUSE I'VE GOT A GOLDEN TICKET
I'VE GOT A GOLDEN CHANCE TO MAKE MY WAY
AND WITH A GOLDEN TICKET IT'S A GOLDEN DAY
'CAUSE I'D HAVE SAID, "IT COULDN'T BE DONE"
BUT IT CAN BE DONE
I NEVER DREAMED THAT I WOULD CLIMB
OVER THE MOON IN ECSTASY
BUT NEVERTHELESS IT'S THERE THAT I'M
SHORTLY ABOUT TO BE
'CAUSE I'VE GOT A GOLDEN TICKET
I'VE GOT A GOLDEN TICKET
I'VE GOT A GOLDEN CHANCE TO MAKE MY WAY
AND WITH A GOLDEN TICKET IT'S A GOLDEN DAY

---

Pure Imagination
COME WITH ME
AND YOU'LL BE
IN A WORLD OF PURE IMAGINATION
TAKE A LOOK
AND YOU'LL SEE
INTO YOUR IMAGINATION
WE'LL BEGIN
WITH A SPIN
TRAVELLING IN THE WORLD OF MY CREATION
WHAT WE'LL SEE
WILL DEFY
EXPLANATION
IF YOU WANT TO VIEW PARADISE
SIMPLY LOOK AROUND AND VIEW IT
ANYTHING YOU WANT TO, DO IT
WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD
THERE'S NOTHING
TO IT
THERE IS NO LIFE I KNOW
TO COMPARE WITH PURE IMAGINATION
LIVING THERE
YOU'LL BE FREE
IF YOU TRULY WISH TO BE
IF YOU WANT TO VIEW PARADISE
SIMPLY LOOK AROUND AND VIEW IT
ANYTHING YOU WANT TO, DO IT
WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD
THERE'S NOTHING
TO IT
THERE IS NO LIFE I KNOW
TO COMPARE WITH PURE IMAGINATION
LIVING THERE
YOU'LL BE FREE
IF YOU TRULY
WISH TO BE

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Oompa Loompa Song #1 (Augustus Gloop)
OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DOO
I'VE GOT A PERFECT PUZZLE FOR YOU
OOMPA LOOMPA, DOOMPADAH DEE
IF YOU ARE WISE YOU'LL LISTEN ME
WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU GUZZLE DOWN SWEETS
EATING AS MUCH AS AN ELEPHANT EATS
WHAT ARE YOU AT GETTING TERRIBLY FAT
WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL COME OF THAT
I DON'T LIKE THE LOOK OF IT
OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DAH
IF YOU'RE NOT GREEDY YOU WILL GO FAR
YOU WILL LIVE IN HAPPINESS TOO
LIKE THE OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DO
DOOMPADEE DOO

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Wonka's Soliloquy on the WonkaTania
THERE'S NO EARTHLY WAY OF KNOWING
WHICH DIRECTION WE ARE GOING
THERE'S NO KNOWING WHERE WE'RE ROWING
OR WHICH WAY THE RIVER'S FLOWING
IS IT RAINING
IS IT SNOWING
IS A HURRICANE A-BLOWING
BLEH!
NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT IS SHOWING
SO THE DANGER MUST BE GROWING
ARE THE FIRES OF HELL A GLOWING?
IS THE GRISLY REAPER MOWING?
YES! THE DANGER MUST BE GROWING
FOR THE ROWERS KEEP ON ROWING
AND THEY'RE CERTAINLY NOT SHOWING
ANY SIGNS THAT THEY ARE SLOWING!

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Oompa Loompa Song #2 (Violet Beauregarde)
OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DOO
I'VE GOT ANOTHER PUZZLE FOR YOU
OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADAH DEE
IF YOU ARE WISE YOU'LL LISTEN TO ME
GUM CHEWING'S FINE WHEN IT'S ONCE IN A WHILE
IT STOPS YOU FROM SMOKING AND BRIGHTENS YOUR SMILE
BUT IT'S REPULSIVE, REVOLTING, AND WRONG
CHEWING AND CHEWING ALL DAY LONG
THE WAY THAT A COW DOES
OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DAH
GIVEN GOOD MANNERS YOU WILL GO FAR
YOU WILL LIVE IN HAPPINESS TOO
LIKE THE OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DO

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I Want It Now!
I WANT A FEAST
I WANT A BEAN FEAST
CREAM BUNS AND DONUTS AND FRUITCAKE WITH NO NUTS
SO GOOD YOU COULD GO NUTS
I WANT A BALL
I WANT A PARTY
PINK MACAROONS AND A MILLION BALLOONS
AND PERFORMING BABOONS AND--
GIVE IT TO ME
NOW!
I WANT THE WORLD
I WANT THE WHOLE WORLD
I WANT TO LOCK IT ALL UP IN MY POCKET
IT'S MY BAR OF CHOCOLATE
GIVE IT TO ME NOW
I WANT TODAY
I WANT TOMORROW
I WANT TO WEAR 'EM LIKE BRAIDS IN MY HAIR
AND I DON'T WANT TO SHARE 'EM
I WANT A PARTY WITH ROOMFULS OF LAUGHTER
TEN THOUSAND TONS OF ICE CREAM
AND IF I DON'T GET THE THINGS I AM AFTER
I'M GOING TO SCREAM
I WANT THE WORKS
I WANT THE WHOLE WORKS
PRESENTS AND PRIZES AND SWEETS AND SURPRISES
OF ALL SHAPES AND SIZES AND NOW!
DON'T CARE HOW
I WANT IT NOW
DON'T CARE HOW
I WANT IT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

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Oompa Loompa Song #3 (Veruca Salt)
OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DOO
I'VE GOT ANOTHER PUZZLE FOR
YOU OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADAH DEE
IF YOU ARE WISE YOU'LL LISTEN TO ME
WHO DO YOU BLAME WHEN YOUR KID IS A BRAT
PAMPERED AND SPOILED LIKE A SIAMESE CAT
BLAMING THE KIDS IS A LIE AND A SHAME
YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHO'S TO BLAME
THE MOTHER AND THE FATHER
OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DAH
IF YOU'RE NOT SPOILED THEN YOU WILL GO FAR.
YOU WILL LIVE IN HAPPINESS TOO
LIKE THE OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DO

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Oompa Loompa Song #4 (Mike TeeVee)
OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DOO
I'VE GOT ANOTHER PUZZLE FOR YOU
OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADAH DEE
IF YOU ARE WISE YOU'LL LISTEN TO ME
WHAT DO YOU GET FROM A GLUT OF TV
A PAIN IN THE NECK AND AN I.Q. OF THREE
WHY DON'T YOU TRY SIMPLY READING A BOOK
OR COULD YOU JUST NOT BEAR TO LOOK
YOU'LL GET NO
YOU'LL GET NO
YOU'LL GET NO
YOU'LL GET NO
YOU'LL GET NO COMMERCIALS.
OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DAH
IF YOU'RE NOT GREEDY YOU WILL GO FAR
YOU WILL LIVE IN HAPPINESS TOO
LIKE THE
OOMPA
OOMPA LOOMPA DOOMPADEE DO

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Pure Imagination #2 (Voice over at end of film)
IF YOU WANT TO VIEW PARADISE
SIMPLY LOOK AROUND AND VIEW IT
ANYTHING YOU WANT TO, DO IT
WANT TO MAKE THE WORLD
THERE'S NOTHING TO IT
THERE IS NO LIFE I KNOW
TO COMPARE WITH PURE IMAGINATION
LIVING THERE
YOU'LL BE FREE
IF YOU TRULY WISH TO BE

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Wonka's little song in the Inventing Room
IN SPRINGTIME
THE ONLY PRETTY RING TIME
BIRDS SING
EH, DING A-DING A-DING
SWEET LOVERS LOVE
THE SPRING

rskarvan

Just finished watching one of my favorite unappreciated horror films,
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Of course, it’s not an
unappreciated film, but critics and audiences alike insist on calling it
a musical, or a kids’ movie. But if the goings-on in Wonka aren’t
horrific, I don’t know what is. It isn’t the first time, of course,
that a tale of terror has been presented as a children’s story. The
supposedly innocent bedtime fairy tales have always been chock-full of
witches, evil trolls, and other things going bump in the night. Little
Red Riding Hood, after all, encountered a walking, talking wolf who had
the presence of mind to find out where she was going and disguise itself
before she got there. If that isn’t a werewolf, I don’t know what is.
Hansel and Gretel not only had to face a cannibal witch, but got in
their predicament in the first place because of a stepmother who
insisted that her hubby kill the two kids! Pleasant dreams, indeed. But
I digress.

The subject is Willy Wonka, and it was a sensitive subject indeed, way
back in the year of the original book’s release, Library associations
expressed great distress at the content of Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory (the original title), and questioned its appropriateness as
children’s entertainment. The author Roald Dahl (whose other speciality
was out and out tales of horror suspense for adults), never one to
suffer fools gladly, referred to the librarians as "silly little
****" and offered the view that children themselves could judge what
they wanted to read. In the end his confidence was justified, as the
massive and immediate popularity of the book ensured its place on
library shelves. In the seven years that passed before the making of the
film version, the tale had become widely recognized as a classic of the
genre. But what was the fuss about its "inappropriate" nature? What was
so horrific about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (which was a
fairly faithful and only slightly toned down adaptation of the source material)?

Not much sinister is going on for almost half of the film’s length, to
be sure. Much of the film is given over to alternating comedy and drama,
as the contest to find Mr Wonka’s five Golden Tickets proceeds and the
audience becomes acquainted with the poverty-stricken Charlie Bucket and
his family. Only minor sidelines to the ominous are present, with the
first views of the locked-up and rather intimidating Wonka Factory
grounds, and the eventual appearance of the character who is introduced
as Mr Slugworth, Willy Wonka’s evil competitor in the candy business.
Such moments, while atmospheric to be sure, will only frighten the
youngest of children. So again, where does the horror lie? Ironically,
things only go awry for the film’s characters once they enter the
‘wondrous’ factory of Mr Willy Wonka, guided by the rather odd man
himself. Although they at first consider themselves lucky winners,
within the next fifty minutes the five children (each accompanied by a
parent or guardian) are whittled down in interesting and potentially
deadly ways until there is only one survivor. Each of the four who does
NOT make the grade falls victim to his or her own greatest weakness, in
a kind of grade-school version of Seven. In order of demise we have:

1. Augustus Gloop, whose gluttony causes him to ignore the warnings not
to drink from the Chocolate Stream. He rather predictably falls in,
quickly getting sucked into the plumbing and shot on his unmerry way to
the fudge-making machinery.

2. Violet Beauregard, who prefers gum chewing to any other activity,
grabs a piece of Wonka’s experimental gum, quickly swelling up and being
turned into a giant blueberry. She is then rolled off by Mr. Wonka’s
Oompa Loompa assistants, to be JUICED before she can fill up completely
and explode!

3. Veruca Salt, who has become accustomed to getting anything she wants
immediately, during her little musical diatribe about how the world had
attend to her every need is dropped down a chute (after amusingly being
judged a Bad Egg by Wonka’s Eggdecator), on her way to the incinerator.
As Wonka puts it, she has pretty good odds of survival, since the
incinerator is lit only every other day.

4. Mike Teevee, whose obsession with (what else?) television makes him a
rather dull and violence-obsessed little boy, has his greatest wish
fulfilled when he becomes a living TV signal, transmitted by the
Wonkavision process to a receiver across the room. The only catch is
that he is restored as a little six-inch version of himself. Although he
isn’t terribly upset, and his fate at first seems far less fatal than
the others’, the true situation becomes clear when Wonka decides that
the best way to restore the boy to normal is to send him to the Taffy
Room to be stretched!

All very ‘magical’ indeed. The contest is revealed to be in fact a test
to see which child would be most appropriate to take over Wonka’s
candy-making outfit after his retirement, and Charlie, the only
survivor, goes literally through the roof (in Wonka’s experimental
Wonkavator) to a presumably happy future.

Charlie, a MUCH nicer child than his fellow competitors, asks Mr Wonka
if the the other children will be all right, and is told by the man that
they indeed will be, in addition becoming "maybe a little wiser". But
doesn’t his assurance ring a little hollow? For one thing Willy Wonka
gives the answer rather quickly and offhandedly, given the fact that no
one has checked at any time on the fates of the children. Also it is a
rather odd notion that Willy Wonka, having shown the other children to
be selfish and untrustworthy, would then allow them to exit his factory
and run off to his competitors to gush out his secrets. Yes, it is true
that the man who claimed to be Slugworth is shown to be in actuality an
employee of Wonka’s and part of the test, but that does not change the
fact that there is a real Mr. Slugworth waiting in the real world,
having created Wonka’s need for secrecy in the first place (for the
doubters, Slugworth’s products are offered at the candy store that
Charlie frequents during the first half of the film). If the children’s
fates were instead as originally implied, however, that problem would
take care of itself, when Wonka took care of them, as it were.

Also worthy of note is the fact that Roald Dahl was by the time he wrote
the screenplay to the film very familiar with the concept of giving
false and winking assurance of a happy ending to an audience. In the
early sixties many of his short stories were adapted for television’s
Alfred Hitchcock Presents. To please the TV censors, Hitchcock had
needed to follow up many of the episodes, which often had endings in
which killers got away with their crimes, with quick and insincere
wrap-ups in which Sir Alfred himself would walk onscreen and assure the
audience that later on the criminals had been punished for their deeds.
Wonka’s assurance to Charlie seems very much in the same vein. For Willy
Wonka to actually be ruthless enough to send four children to their
dooms would of course imply that he is a madman.

But isn’t there ample evidence of that during the course of the film?
Wonka is after all, however ‘magical’ his world, a rather dark
personality. He has no problem at all with sending children and adults,
good and bad alike, on a terrifying boat ride, surrounding them with a
disorienting mix of flashing psychedelic patterns and far more sinister
sights. All in fun, Charlie’s grandpa says at first, before they are
treated to the sight of a centipede crawling on a man’s face and a quick
view of a chicken having its head cut off. Just a harmless ride, it
seems in the end. All of Willy Wonka’s factory is harmless, with
"surprises around every corner, but no real danger", as he assures
everyone, very shortly before the ‘accidents’ begin to occur. This is
the real question about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, then.
Just how ‘accidental’ are the fates of the four naughty little children?

rskarvan

continued....

Upon closer examination, the answer appears to be not very accidental at
all. All part of the test, of course, as it becomes clear at the end of
the film. But is it really a fair test? After all, Wonka creates several
situations which cater specifically to some of the children’s greatest
weaknesses. He makes available to Violet, the gum-obsessed girl, the
most special piece of gum in the world, then tells her that she
shouldn’t chew it. He shows Mike Teevee an apparatus that can transmit
anything, even a person, in the same way that a television signal is
sent. Is it surprising that the boy takes the bait? And how much of an
accident is it when Augustus topples into the Chocolate Stream, given
the fact that Wonka has rushed up behind him, right up against his feet,
while the boy is leaning over the ‘bank’ of it? In fact, the only
accident in which Wonka seems to play no part is Veruca’s. When she
jumps onto the egg scale and is shot down the chute, for once Wonka is
nowhere near and in that instance seems to be honestly innocent.

There are also more subtle moments that imply that all is not as it
seems during the tour of Wonka’s factory. For one thing, most of the
stops along the way that eventually lead to mishaps involve
‘experimental’ products. Although from the beginning of the film it is
established that Wonka is the world’s greatest candy maker, the products
shown in the candy store during the first half of the movie are pretty
much standard chocolate bars, gumdrops, etc. Oddly enough, though, once
within the walls of his factory the children are exposed to far more
bizarre items: An exploding piece of candy blasts Mike Teevee off his
feet. The children get to sample flavored wallpaper. Each child is given
the Everlasting Gobstopper, which never loses its flavor. Odd that all
of these products are ‘in development’, especially given the fact that
many of them lead the children to unfortunate ends. The piece of gum
simulating a three-course meal turns Violet into a blueberry because it
"hasn’t been perfected yet" (a fairly extreme understatement). Veruca
goes to her doom on a machine designed to detect bad eggs, on which are
placed GIANT solid gold eggs which are laid already filled with
chocolate, another product which is, to say the least, a bit more
unusual than the ones shown being sold at the start of the film. And in
the most extreme example, Mike Teevee is shrunk by a machine that Wonka
is first shown using to scale down giant chocolate bars to regular
consumable size. In other words, a machine that has no practical purpose
at all, other than to interest and lure in the child. (It is also worthy
of note that the Oompa Loompas, who have up to then in the film been
shown to be strictly loyal to Willy Wonka, immediately activate the
transmitting equipment when the boy jumps on the platform and tells them
to.) In fact, almost all of the dangerous equipment and candy seems to
serve no purpose other than to be there when the next child is tested
and fails. The ultimate in duex ex machina.

But there is a far more telling clue that neither Willy Wonka or his
tour of the factory are what they seem to be. Oddly enough, it involves
his wondrous vehicles. Early on, as mentioned, the children are
subjected to a frightening boat ride. Toward the end of the film, the
remaining children ride on the messy but fascinating Wonkamobile, as
their numbers diminish. When the children and their guardians board the
boat, there are just the right number of seats for the number who
remain. And when only Charlie and his Grandpa, and Mike Teevee and his
mother, remain, there are again on the Wonkamobile the exact number of
seats needed to hold them, and no extra. It then becomes obvious that
Wonka knew exactly how many children would be remaining at each stage of
their journey. When the thought first occurs to the viewer it is a
moment chilling in its calculating incongruity to the outwardly
lighthearted spirit of the film. Willy Wonka, the supposedly benevolant
and lovable benefactor, now takes on the appearance of a coldly
premeditating man, knowing in advance when each child will be eliminated
from the group. All part of his ‘test’.

And finally, what exactly is the nature of the test, really? At the end
of the film Wonka tells Charlie that he knew he’d "be the one". It is
implied that he means that Charlie would be the honest child, since he
has just passed the final test by handing back the Everlasting
Gobstopper, instead of saving it to give to the evil ‘Slugworth’, who
has offered the boy riches in return for the boy’s help in stealing
Wonka’s secrets. But upon further thought, up until then the boy had not
passed Wonka’s test. When left alone, as Wonka pointed out, the boy did
disobey the man’s orders. He and his Grandpa both tried the Fizzy
Lifting Drink, after being instructed not to, and then barely escaped
with their lives when they were almost lifted up into the ceiling’s
giant ventilation fan. In other words, Charlie had been given one chance
to prove his honesty, and however more innocent than the others, he had
failed just like the others.

So what test is Wonka really conducting? The most obvious answer appears
to be a simple test of survival. Charlie and his Grandpa were left in
the room with the drinks not only to see if they would give in to
temptation, but to see if they would simply survive. If anything,
Charlie faced the harshest ‘accident’ of any of the children. He faced
being shredded into bits if he did not figure out a solution to his
problem. One wonders if he had not done so, would Wonka at the end have
been explaining to one of the other children in the same less than
sincere manner that Charlie was somewhere fine, and a little wiser for
the experience? Why not, given the many other lies and half-truths that
the man had said during the film?

The wonder and fun of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, for adults,
is that all of Wonka’s machinations, and the terrible fates of the
children, are all presented as subtext, only as real as the viewer wants
to interpret them as being. It is possible for a child to watch the film
and take it very literally as written, with the four bad children
escaping harm and Willy Wonka the kindly if odd magician that he at
first seems to be.

But for the horror fan, with only the slightest of effort, it is
possible to watch the film and be pleasantly chilled by seeing all of
what is going on just below the surface, with the appropriate and
extreme punishments being dealt out to the naughty boys and girls, and
Willy Wonka a charming but obviously unstable plotter of their fates.
Either way it is the magic promised by the premise, but for those who
want it to be, it quickly becomes a very dark magic indeed.

Billm57

perosnally I think David Lynch should do a remake of it...

rs159

http://www.dribbleglass.com/posters/wonka.htm

GuitarheadCA

Lets hope Elfman does the soundtrack

Yes Yes, Good to know there are other Elfman Fans around, I love every score he wrote for hollywood. I also own more than 4 CDs of orchestral music by him. Throw in some Early years of Oingo Boingo, and the man is a musical Genius.

(Sorry ot sidetrack from the story a bit)