If there is someone who can be made to do the job cheaper, they're in, you're out. He got a chocolate for his birthday and he was hoping to get the golden bar and a tour of the factory. They are constantly hungry, which is especially hard for Charlie, since they live down the street from an enormous chocolate factory and he loves chocolate more than anythin… Soon four lucky winners were published: August Gloop who always ate, Veruca Salt who was spoiled, Violeta the girl with the gum and Mike who always watched TV. Of course, he can't have many candy bars since he's too poor to buy them. I also liked checking the status of how many rentals I had on my accounts. What's next Despicable ME is also racist because a big white guy has enslaved a bunch of little yellow guys in his basement who can't speak good English and are bumbling bafoons? Unfortunately the poor family did not have enough money for the chocolate.eval(ez_write_tag([[250,250],'bookreports_info-large-mobile-banner-1','ezslot_14',116,'0','0'])); The family saved some money every day so that they could buy him one chocolate bar for his birthday. Fans of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory most vividly remember the fantastical character of Willy Wonka, a reclusive candy business owner who re-opens his factory to five lucky children, who get to see and taste his wonderful creations.. To children who often long for the sweet taste of candy, the idea of visiting a factory like Willy Wonka's is the stuff of dreams. One of my favorite things about the movie is, in fact, how a lot of adults behaved regarding finding the tickets. Veruca Salt found the second golden bar and she was very spoiled by her parents. "Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination." I think there are racist overtones, but not as directly as you argue. Here's my factory - a gift to you for so many years of hard work." Before you make up such lies in the future, be sure to know all the facts and don't withhold key points that discredit your arguement. The screams turn into laughter as Miranda survives. Mike is a boy who always watches TV. The degree of misery caused by Wonka's decision never made it into the story. To fully understand Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, you have to look at the story from the point-of-view of the Oompa Loompas, the little people who do the actual work in Willy Wonka's factory. So, rather than develop a security solution or management solution to deal with these spies, like a sane person would, Willy Wonka fired his entire workforce. Willy wonka was God and the chocolate factory was heaven and the five kids that found the golden tickets was humans and the everlasting gobstopper was our souls and slugsworth was the devil and he was trying to get ahold of one to gets its ingredients and he offered the kids wealth. We had movie stores, but that gave a whole different experience at a young age. Mike also found a ticket and his main hobby in life was watching TV. The owner of the factory was Willy Wonka. Of course, the slaves' versions of events was very different. Wonka hardly tries to hide his murderous intents with this one and Veruca is thrown into the chute by the entire squirrel squad. I definitely got an indentured servitude vibe from them. Jeannie Marie from Baltimore, MD on September 11, 2013: Wow, I never thought of it this way before. Story goes that spies were sent into the factory to get the secret recipes. I can see how you can think this, but in my point of view I feel and think this theory is wrong. And since, to my memory, Willy Wonka didn't air all that often, I would be overjoyed when it came on. He was so happy that he accepted to accompany Charlie into the factory. Think about what happens to the other children, Augustus gets thinned down by a pipe, Violet turns into a blueberry and later turns out blue, Veruca is thrown down the garbage chute by squirrels (or by standing on a eggdicator in the earlier film), and Mike Teevee is shrunk down by a TV teleporter and later stretched to a height of about 10 feet. Wonka told him that it wouldn’t be safe but he decided to go into the TV. Getting back to the Christian thing, there have been Christian sects that seemed to teach that God operated on strict reward and punishment with very little grace or forgiveness as happens in the factory. Wonka got a whole tribe into the factory and they were constantly inventing songs and singing. August Gloop is an obese boy that eats everything and that almost cost him his life because he nearly drowned in chocolate. Very, very interesting read. There was a big mystery about the opening of the factory because the doors were never open, nobody saw Wonka and nobody saw a single worker there. In the book, they are simply described as very small, no taller than your knee. He had a big family and lived with six adults: 2 grandpas, 2 grandmas, father and his mother. Sychophantastic (author) from Texas on September 09, 2014: I don't recall them being paid in cocoa beans. Nowhere do you hear of anything like hard candies or gum or drinks made by Wonka. Yet, instead of being thought of as a villain, Willy Wonka is considered a hero. Even if you did get a reasonable facsimile, what good would it do you? In the case of Charlie's parents, the Buckets, and probably numerous other families who relied on those jobs for their livelihood, it pushed them into poverty. In fact, it's revealed in the first movie that Grandpa Joe used to work in Wonka's factory and was one of the unlucky workers let go (an addition from the story in the original book). They were happy because they get free room and board in the baddest candy factory in the world and all they have to do is clean up after an occasional 5 guests every 15 years. This is terrible! Before this, the group travels to the Inventing Room where Wonka shows off the "Three-Course Dinner Chewing Gum", a dangerous, experimental candy which has the side-effect of turning people into blueberries. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. He spent most of his youth in Africa in an oil company. After that, he started to shovel snow. So there was a certain amount of anticipation. Lisa Stover from Pittsburgh PA on September 11, 2013: Interesting, never really thought about it that way. They used the hymns that the enslaved Africans sang as proof that they were happy. Of course, the kid who is honest, genuine, generous, and thinks positive, is the one best suited to imagine the world of tomorrow... “If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. With the factory being handed over to a human boy instead, the Oompa Loompas were given the opportunity to mold him into the callous master of their fantasies. That trip was a great test. Candy and justice - is that what Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is really about? Your email address will not be published. WE HOPE YOU ENJOY IT. Since Charlie is so poor he can't have any candy save for one chocolate bar a year for his birthday, a candy that you can suck on all year and it will never get smaller would be the PERFECT candy for him. It was designed with prior knowledge that they would lose two participants before that point. Sondra Rochelle from USA on September 12, 2013: I will never watch that movie again in the same way! It's undoubtedly different from Willy Wonka's side. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is perhaps Roald Dahl’s best-known story. Veruca wanted a squirrel but when Wonka told her that they are not for sale she got angry and opened the big glass door. So if your cleaning lady works hard for you for 50 years you should give her your house and not your children?! And Charlie was the only one who could pass the test. There are two versions of any story, but we never get to hear the Oompa Loompas' side. I always wondered how Slugworth felt when he was in the office as Wonka told Charlie that he won (without elaborating yet). So what in the world is Willy Wonka doing when he decides to give his factory away to some utterly random ten-year-old white child instead of giving the factory to the Oompa Loompas who are almost entirely responsible for his continued success? The only thing close to a Christian reference is the use of the word " paradise" in the song Pure Imagination - and a lot of religions have a belief in paradise. His father owned a peanut factory and bought hundreds of chocolate bars and then made all of his employees search for the golden bar. Your email address will not be published. That does make the most sense. If Willy Wonka cared about the Oompa Loompas, he would have given them the factory. Slugworth was a loyal employee, and presumably a friend, and adult, who was passed over. Roald Dahl is considered to be one of the greatest children writer who used to be criticized about his harsh humor. Of course, Charlie has heard about all of Wonka's great creations from his Grandpa Joe. Wonka has some Oompa Loompas take her to the Juicing Room to get back to normal. He shut down the factory and fired everyone because he was furious about the fact that his competition was stealing his recipes with the help of their spies who worked in the factory. Charlie showed his nobility every day even when he found 50 pence on the street. These are kids who we find out in class can afford to buy chocolate bars numbering in the 100s. Those sects were basically Puritan type sects and the current fundamentalist and evangelical sects in this country. There were dwarf from a foreign country who only ate caterpillars. One day the factory started working again and it was making the most delicious treats. I had always noticed the slavery thing with the Oompa Loompas but i am not sure they should have been given ownership of it. But because Willy Wonka was the greatest candy maker in the land, his enemies sent spies into his factory, stole his ideas, and recreated his greatest candy creations. He invited them, INVITED THEM, to live and work in peace in his factory and they accepted. Charlie finds out about it and that's the end of his dream. It should have been a sequel, with the original cast in their original roles and their children. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is about slave labor and injustice. cfin from The World we live in on September 11, 2013: Something you may find interesting....I noticed while watching "fringe", that most, if not all of the villains are "foreign". The Oompa Loompas should have had an insurrection and gone on strike. He is described as a witty character. In the center of the story are Charlie and 4 other kids who represent the worse human flaws. After that, through a pipe, he went to a room where chocolate was refined. The next in line was the room where squirrels were preparing the walnuts. Once again, the people who work in the factory get screwed over by the guy who owns the factory because he doesn't trust them. This theorist says YES. He ate too much and didn’t know when to stop. Still, apparently a small boy was a more attractive owner than the Oompa Loompas. Candy is wonderful. It's AFTER Charlie finds the golden ticket that he not only gets up, Poor Charlie wants chocolates and sweets like most children. Guess what Wonka replies. However, these are just the ones that Charlie gets to see in the factory. No. Yet when this poor pauper Charlie comes in for a single bar, the shopkeeper holds out his hand and coughs "ehem". World War he was a British volunteer and he crashed in the middle of the desert. The paycheck got smaller and the family got hungrier.eval(ez_write_tag([[300,250],'bookreports_info-large-mobile-banner-2','ezslot_15',117,'0','0'])); Grandpa Joe was the oldest on out of all of the grandparents. Billy Haynes from Paragould, AR on February 25, 2019: I too remember watching and enjoying this one as a kid, as I did with various films during the 90s. In the second movie, the Oompa Loompas are of Indian descent, which essentially signifies that Wonka outsourced his entire operation. If I was channel surfing and I came across Willy Wonka, no matter how much of the movie I'd missed, time would stop. Beth Perry from Tennesee on May 15, 2014: I see your point, but I tend to see Wonka's motives as running a little deeper. That last one is particularly hilarious. If anything, Wonka comes across as pagan and a bit sociopathic as well. Every one of the children that found them was immediately met by Slugworth, who appears to have planted them to assure that those specific “bad” children, with particular traits, would be selected. He worked in a factory but he got fired. Charlie found 50 pence and decided to buy another chocolate and give the rest to his mom. Just … [more] about Cinderella. It felt like Christmas. What deep social meanings.! Later they drive a cream spewing car with only four seats. So, that last ticket probably wasn't a fake and Charlie just lost. I appreciate the comments. You obviously can't watch a movie like this without seeing it through your commie-red tinted glasses. In the first movie, the only candies that are exclusively said to be made by Wonka were the candy bars. Wonka must have seen Charlie when he was talking to the knife sharpener guy outside the factory gates and set the whole thing up so that he would win. Wonka is not necessarily evil; he just has a very messed up scale of morality where he designs his tour to try and tempt each children with a karmic fate to evaluate if they are worthy of living or not by setting up traps or gambits which kills them. That's a fairly large pipe. Shasta Matova from USA on September 11, 2013: This is an interesting analysis. When he stands outside the factory, the crowd pities Charlie for his small size and frailty. Thus, Wonka was actually displaying great respect for their cultural choices by damning them to continued servitude. The chocolate had the golden bar in it. Those who say it should be given to the workers would value living as Native American nomadic tribes with a different concept of property. 3. Grandpa Joe bought him a chocolate bar but the ticket wasn’t in it. The complete opposite is Charlie whose family is barely making a living but they always manage to surprise him for his birthday. All rights reserved. Sounds like something I would like to do. They knew what they were signing up for and were paid in cacao beans. The Africans they brought were simple people who needed saving because they couldn't take care of themselves. They … [more] about Snow White, "Beauty and the Beast" is one of the most popular Perrault's fairy tales, but also more special … [more] about Beauty and the Beast, Charles Perrault is one of the most famous fairy tale writers, popular among children. It's a faint memory, but I can sometimes picture how excited I would get looking down the shelves for a movie I had waited for, or walking the rows of Hollywood Video for older ones I hadn't seen. You clearly have put a lot of time and effort into inserting a race issue into something that never intended it. There was only one bed in the house and his grandparents slept there for 20 years already. We've buried our heads in the chocolate river. Slave labor. This whole article is nonsense,its a movie about God for kids to understand Christian values. Though he behaves well, that doesn't mean he's not going to get jealous and wish bad on others. Makes a great story and all. Sure, its like Wonka to joke around, but this is a bit messed up. In as much as i care about Christianity at all, i go more with the mainstream on that topic and believe God's love is given freely rather than earned. Wait. Mrs. Piker calls Wonka a murderer, "I know your tricks! Wonka notices that Miranda is still alive and is joking around with Mrs. Piker. Charlie Bucket is a young boy who comes from a poor but loving family and would love nothing more than to find a golden ticket to enter the amazing chocolate factory run by inventor and owner Willy Wonka. Were the other kids part of some untold profit sharing scheme or something? Thousands of people work for Coca-Cola but only two people know what the recipe to coke really is. Although we hear nothing about the town where the factory resides, it's probable that the city, or at the very least the neighborhood, was decimated by that decision. Dawn Wessels from Orange, California on March 04, 2019: Wondering why Mr. Wonka wants kids licking penis(snozberries) flavored wallpaper. So, while it was a good whimsical story, Charlie probably just dreamed up the whole thing and we followed him into a world of pure imagination. When they got to the chocolate river August started eating everything he could and in the end, he fell into the river and almost drowned. The reader sees the main problems of the modern society such as unhealthy eating and people becoming couch potatoes. Now it's just "walk up to the Redbox" or as you said, order on demand. For Charlie, that situation would be that the last ticket was a fake and HE found the real one. Charlie's response: "That's impossible." The squirrels are trained to work together in dragging people into the chutes, apparently. Fan Theories Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. "Shut up Hofstadter and tell me where the ticket is!!". The father lost his job and started shoveling snow so his paycheck was lower that the last one. We see a similar mechanic again with the Nut Room, where there is a large tube that connects to an incinerator. Large enough for a Human being. There are many surreal elements in this book and as in any other fairytale nobility and kindness are rewarded. Notice how in each mode of transportation they took in the factory (The boat, the bubble car), there are only enough seats for the REMAINING children, implying that he knew that what would happen to them in advance. They threw her into the trash pipe.eval(ez_write_tag([[250,250],'bookreports_info-leader-1','ezslot_8',115,'0','0'])); The chocolate TV room was next and Wonka showed them his newest invention. At the end, only Joe and Charlie were left. She was mean and careless and her only goal was to break the worlds record in chewing one gum. I have to admit that when I first read the book for the first time as a child, many years ago, I did have an uneasy feeling about how mean he was to the kids and to his workers. How long will they give me to think it over"? Now you're trying to ruin my childhood by telling us it was all a lie. At the beginning we see him giving away his stock to a shop full of kids - letting them help themselves behind the counter and literally showering them with the contents of his jars without keeping track or asking for payment. Dahl was probably more anglocentric than an outright racist. Well, in the original version of the novel, there was an omitted chapter and sixth child named Miranda Piker, who seemingly falls down the "Spotty Powder Mixer" to be chopped to death, screaming. It's really hard now to articulate to people just how awesome it felt to realize something was on television that I hadn't seen in awhile. I wouldn’t hand it over to the Oompa Loompas either: anyone who values coca beans as currency can’t run a factory. Why would a mixer, which seems to be easily traversed and below a large area, be necessary? Unfortunately the poor family did not have enough money for the chocolate. And that message is not at all hidden. Wonka saved the loompas from the beasts that lived in their homeland. They were abused, mistreated, and miserable. In two minutes my darling Miranda will come pouring out of one of those dreadful pipes." All that mattered was that his candy was the best. It's a classic rags-to-riches tale against a creative, sugar-filled backdrop. That situation went on for 10 years and then there was an article in the newspaper that Willy Wonka put golden bars in five of his chocolates and that five lucky people will get the tour of the factory and chocolate to last a lifetime. Willy Wonka tricks each kid and they go into the trap or something and Willy Wonka tried to kill them?! In fear of being ruined, he fires all of his employees and closes the factory. The moral of the story is that kindness always wins. In fact, nothing impossible or even unlikely has happened up to this point. It is hard to explain how happy Charlie was. His solution? The book is known for a rather dark nature in how it handles. Also at the end of the film, Wonka gives the whole company to Charlie because he is the only "good and honest" child on the tour. The story of Charlie Bucket, the five Golden Tickets, the Oompa-Loompas and the amazing Mr Willy Wonka has become firmly embedded in our culture since it was first published in 1964. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl.The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka.. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964 and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin 11 months later. However, these are just the ones that Charlie gets to see in the factory. Required fields are marked *. To repeat Jeremy Shane Cole “This whole article is nonsense,its a movie about God for kids to understand Christian values”. This is what i got from the movie. Fire all his workers and shut down his factory. I understand hiding a secret recipe to making candy, but it isn't that difficult. Why would you make it that big for the chocolate river? Slave masters who purchased Africans and brought them to America had many things to say about their practice intended to make it appear righteous. Willy Wonka uses children to make candy.". Kids are dreamers and any kid is going to imagine up a situation where they somehow managed to win a game that they lost. When a higher up opening pops up don't expect they will promote from within. In the 2. Every kid broke the rules in the chocolate factory but in the end charlie didnt give his everlasting gobstopper to slugsworth,he gave it back to willy wonka and after he did he inherited the chocolate factory. They, more than anyone, know what it takes to run that business and make the best candy in the world, and they are utterly loyal to Willy Wonka (in part because they are apparently not allowed to leave the factory). "That's impossible?" The only version of the Oompa Loompas we hear is Willy Wonka's version. Possibly had the opportunity to purchase stock or move up in management, though. "I am now telling the computer exactly what it can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate". He eats up his grandfather's stories with a spoon despite. Now I feel bad for the Oompa Loompas. Sychophantastic (author) from Texas on October 13, 2014: Thanks for reading! However, is it possible that the story really is just pure imagination? After Augustus gets sucked up the shoot, they all hop on board the boat through the tunnel of doom. Sounds like you had a poor childhood and want to spread your misery to others, but if you are such a miserable person, maybe you should go drown yourself in the chocolate river. Nevertheless, that's hardly sufficient given that they saved Wonka's factory! The squirrels checked her and saw that she was hollow. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was sold in 13 million copies. Finally, lets look at when Grandpa Joe manages to get up out of bed. Particularly in the first movie, the factory is run by "little colored people" from a far away, exotic land (very interesting they could be described as "colored" even in the '70s). You are a terrible person for your passive aggressive lie that you are portraying. Informativka. In the original film (Wilder) the distribution of the Golden Tickets was an obvious set up. The Nut Room has a bunch of squirrels testing walnut out to see if they are a "bad nut". On the surface, it would seem that the moral of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is that good children are rewarded and bad children are punished. The visitors were introduced to the workers, the Oompa Loompas. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a novel in which things are either good or bad, and one way Dahl attributes goodness to something is to make it small. Willy Wonka was the owner of the factory and the biggest chocolate inventor. Wonka explained that the other kids are fine and that he had done all of this because he was searching for somebody to inherit the factory. He was a child that did not have many demands in life. “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” represents a fun children novel with many modern fairytale characteristics. Sychophantastic (author) from Texas on November 20, 2016: peachy from Home Sweet Home on February 04, 2015: i only saw the chocolate factory with johnny depp, thanks for the real story. Charlie Bucketis the main character of the novel and he is described as a kind, honey, thoughtful, full of understanding and noble. Another way of looking at it is as a way of introducing children to the realities of corporate life. Place: unspecifiedeval(ez_write_tag([[300,250],'bookreports_info-medrectangle-4','ezslot_6',135,'0','0'])); Charlie Bucket is a boy who lived in a small wooden house on the outskirts of town. Chocolate was everywhere. Charlie loved chocolate and always walked slowly when he was near the factory so he could enjoy the smell. Copyright © 2015.–2020. Rebecca Mealey from Northeastern Georgia, USA on September 11, 2013: Thanks for a great interpretation of Willie Wonka. I think the Wonka understood the Oompa Loompas (the ones he recruited, anyway) all shared a certain fetish for bondage. From a general summary to chapter summaries to explanations of famous quotes, the SparkNotes Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Study Guide has everything you need to … He bought a chocolate and gave the rest to his mom. Augustus Gloop can't control his gluttony when he gets to the Chocolate Room and falls into the chocolate river, and is sucked up a large pipe.