Oompa-Loompas are dwarves in Roald Dahl's fictional books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. They come from Loompaland and are the only people Willy Wonka will allow to work in his factory due to the risk of industrial espionage. They are only knee-high with astonishing haircuts, and are paid in their favorite food, cacao beans
2006-11-28 18:46:26
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answered by zoomzoom 2
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Oompa-Loompas were first featured in Roald Dahl's children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Oompa-Loompas are black pygmies from "the very deepest and darkest part of the African Jungle where no white man had been before". After the book's U.S. release, complaints of racism caused Dahl to rewrite the characters as dwarves with "golden-brown hair" and "rosy-white" skin. In the 1971 musical film adaptation, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the characters were again reinterpreted as orange-skinned and green-haired - very similar to the Munchkins of 1939's The Wizard of Oz. In the 2005 adaptation, restored to its original title of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Oompa-Loompas are small, with short dark hair and bronzed skin, and are all played by the dwarf actor Deep Roy. Roy's stature was diminished on screen to an apparent height of 30 inches, using digital compositing and forced perspective. They communicate only through mimic and gestures (and singing, of course) and they also have a singular gesture of accord, in which they cross their arms and closed hands up to their chest, in a way that very much resembles the greeting gesture of the aliens in Plan 9 from Outer Space, from which Tim Burton may have taken direct inspiration.
The country you may be looking for is actually Loompaland. Oompa-Loompas lived in Loompaland, an uncharted place full of Snozzwangers, Hornswogglers, wicked Whangdoodles, and Vermicious knids, four classes of extremely dangerous creatures who used Oompa-loompas as prey. In the film Wonka says that he met the Oompa-Loompas in his travels, and brought them willingly about the Loompaland for their own safety.
2006-12-03 10:25:30
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answered by Jeff 2
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So do you beleive Oompa Loompas really exist or do you believe they are just fictional characters.
2006-12-04 18:31:58
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answered by caring_funlovingteacher 4
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