What is the movie Wily Wonka and the Chocolate Factory about?

Answer 1

1. The movie was filmed on location in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

2. The movie premiered on June 30th, 1971.

3. Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) was present at the opening in New York City along with the Wonkamobile. Free ice cream and chocolate bars were given to all.

4. The tinker (Peter Capell) that startles Charlie outside the gates of the factory quotes from the poem "The Fairies" by William Allingham. "Up the airy mountain, Down the rushing glen..."

5. The Scrumdidilyumptious Bar and Oompa Loompas (candies) are no longer made. The Srumdidilyumptious bar was a large chocolate bar and Oompa Loompas were very similar to peanut butter M & Ms, Both made during the 1970s.Update 11-24-99: Wonka Bars are indeed back in production complete with a golden ticket contest. They are fabulous! I've also heard of a new Scrumdidilyumptious bar though I've never had one. Both bars are made by Nestle'.

6. There is a Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory soundtrack on Paramount records. It was released in 1971 and had only one pressing. Later, when the 25th anniversary edition of the video was released, so was the 25th anniversary soundtrack.

7. When the film came out again for its 25th anniversary the movie Matilda also opened on the same day. This is ironic because Roald Dahl wrote both the books that the movies were based on.

8. The song Candyman originally appeared in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Sammy Davis Jr. made a hit record of the song. In fact, it was his only #1 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1972.

9. The girl who played Violet Beauregarde (Denise Nickerson) was also in the original cast of "The Electric Company." She appeared in the "Short Circus" in the second season (1972-1973) of the show. In case you didn't know...the Electric Company was a TV series intended to teaching basic reading skills to slow readers in second, third, and forth grade, as a derivation of Sesame Street. Also, Denise is well known for her role in the series Dark Shadows. She travels all over to appear at Dark Shadows conventions.

10. Roald Dahl hated the movie. There is actually some doubt as to whether he actually wrote the screenplay. Either he was taking his time or didn't please the the producers so another "ghost" screenwriter filled in the details including numerous literary references. This information was all found in Jeremy Treglown's book, Roald Dahl : A Biography. Dahl's script was almost identical to the book so alot of it was thrown out and the script was rewritten (without credit) by David Seltzer. David Seltzer went on to write many great films including "The Omen." Update 11-26-99: I've found out that David Seltzer only added/rewrote to about 30% - 40% of the script. The rest was all Dahl's work.

11. The Oompa Loompas in Roald Dahl's book, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", are described as being "Pygmies" which were "imported directly from Africa. They belong to a small tribe of miniature pygmies known as the Oompa Loompas." I guess the question at this point becomes - was this an anti-racist statement on Mr. Dahl's part? or just the opposite? I think the "enslavement" implications are quite clear. Kind of puts a new spin on the story, doesn't it? In some versions of the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Oompa Loompas look like pygmies but in 1973 a version was released in which the Oompa Loompas were described as "short white hippies."

12. Willy Wonka fans might also be interested in taking a look at the fairly new book called Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes. Compiled by Felicia Dahl (Roald Dahl's second wife) and illustrated by a long time Dahl collaborator, Quentin Blake, this book is a collection of recipes on how to make various food items mentioned in Dahl's books. You can learn to make lickable wallpaper and other candies from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. There was a hard-cover version released in 1994 and then a reprint in 1997 (paper-back). Note: Many of the recipes in the book are not designed for children to make. They are too difficult or require impossible to get ingredients. Both copies of the book are readily availible and still in print.

13. Roald Dahl was born September 13, 1916 in Llandaff, Wales, and died on November 23, 1990 near his home in Buckinghamshire, England. He wrote 19 children's books some of which were made into films such as "James and the Giant Peach", "Matilda", and of course "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

14. When wonka says, "Is it my soul that calls me by my name", that is a quote from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...except in Romeo and Juliet it is "It" is my soul. The line is spoken by Romeo in Act 2 Scene 2. This is another great example of literary references used in the film.

15. One of the Oompa Loompas who was not credited for his work was Angelo Muscat. He stood at a short hight of 4'3 inches. Angelo also appeared in the Beatles', "Magical Mystery Tour". Mr. Muscat spent the final years of his life in London making ornate bird cages. He died of natural causes on October 10th 1971, in his mid forties.

16. Double dose of chocolate: Milton Hershey was born September 13th in 1857. Founder of the Hershey Foods Corporation in Hershey, PA. In addition Roald Dahl, author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", was also born on this day in 1916. What a coincidence!

17. Rumor has it that during the filming Charlie (Peter Ostrum) was hitting early stages of puberty and his voice was changing during production. In fact, some of the scenes where the dialogue is looped, his voice seems much deeper. In the scene where Grandpa Joe and Charlie are walking into the fizzy lifting drinks room, listen as Charlie says, "What is it, Grandpa?" His voice is noticeably deeper. Compare it to the song "I got a Golden Ticket" where his voice is much higher.

18. Leslie Bricusse was nominated for an Oscar at the Academy Awards in 1972 for his work on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in the catagory of Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score. He shared this honor with Anthony Newly and Walter Scharf. Gene Wilder was also nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy in 1972.

19. Reasons why Charlie (not others) won the chocolate factory:
Augustus fell into the river of chocolate.
Violet ate 3-course meal gum and turned into a blueberry.
Veruca wanted a golden goose and was rejected as a "bad egg."
Mike was shrunk when transmitted into TV.


20. There was a Willy Wonka toy. The Willy Wonka Chocolate making kit. It had colored candy, printed wrappers with the Wonka logo, and several molds for making the various candies mentioned in the movie. It also had a mold for an Oompa Loompa and Willy Wonka himself. I have heard that it even included some golden tickets. I've seen these sell for many different amounts. Anywhere from $70.00 to $700.00 Check out the Wonka Collectibles page for more info on this.

21. The modern rock band Veruca Salt stole their name from the spoiled little rich girl in the movie. Veruca is the only hell-bound child that gets to sing a song in the film...the others just go to their doom with a few complaints, no singing. Charlie sings too but he doesn't count because he won.

22. The WONKA stamped boxes in the movie are hard to find now. The reason is because they were used after the film was made as storage boxes. The boxes were also wrapped and used in the golden goose scene. There are only two of these boxes known to still exist (besides prop re-makes). They were both used in the scene when workers in the nut factory are taking the wrappers off of wonka bars to find a golden ticket for Veruca Salt.

23. What did the Golden Ticket really say? When Grandpa Joe reads the ticket he leaves a couple words out. Here it is in its entirety...


WONKA'S
GOLDEN TICKET
Greetings to you, the lucky finder of this
Golden Ticket from Mr. Willy Wonka.
Present this ticket at the factory gates at ten o'clock
in the morning of the first day of October and do not
be late. You may bring with you one member of your
own family...and only one...but no one else.
In your wildest dreams you could not imagine the marvelous SURPRISES
that await YOU!

24. The address for the Willy Wonka Candy Factory: I'm not sure why anyone would need it but here it is anyways.

The Willy Wonka Candy Factory
Division of Sunmark Inc.
Itasca, IL 60143

25. The legendary actor Fred Astaire originally wanted to play the part of Willy Wonka. Gene Wilder "won" the part because Fred Astaire was considered to be too old to play the part. Do you think he would be a good Willy Wonka?

26. Joel Grey was first considered to play the part of Willy Wonka. Joel Grey is a very accomplished actor but at only 5'5" I think he would have been a good Oompa Loompa. I couldn't imagine him as Willy Wonka.

27. Contrary to older beliefs... Everything in the Candy Room wasn't completely edible. Mike TeeVee (Paris Themmen) himself explained to me that only the candy that they ate in the scene was actually edible. EX. The ears of the giant gummy bears were edible but the body of it was not.

28. A cut scene! This scene was cut from the movie. During the world-wide rush to get the golden tickets, a mountain climber goes to the top of a mountain to see a guru. He asks, "What is the meaning of life?" "You got Wonka bar?" asks the guru. The climber hands him a Wonka bar. The guru unwraps the bar, and finds nothing. The guru says, "Life is a disappointment." Nobody laughed at it during a screening, so someone (the director?) showed it to a psychologist. The psychologist said "Nobody laughed, because for many people, life IS a disappointment." So the scene was cut. I hope to have a scan of this scene from the original script here soon.

29. The "Cheer Up Charlie" musical number as well as the psychiatrist scene and the ransom scene were cut from many TV prints. I think this is a wrongful thing to do. "Cheer up Charlie" is important in that it shows how disappointed Charlie is and how much the ticket really means to him. The psychiatrist and ransom scenes are necessities! These two scenes enhance the view of how "big" this contest really is and how important it is to the entire world!

30. Shock Rocker Marilyn Manson is a huge fan of the movie and includes the dialogue from the boat scene. "Is it raining is it snowing is a hurricane a-blowing"...on one of his albums. He also uses the Willy Wonka style font on most of his albums, stickers, and posters. Although I am not a fan of Marilyn Manson, I think this fact deserves a spot here at WonkaFacts. Notice the similarities in fonts in the picture of this Marilyn Manson sticker below.

31. The idea for making Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory came from director Mel Stuart's daughter,who loved the book (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). Stuart was one of the executives at Wolper Productions at the time. He discussed it with the company, and they agreed it would make a good movie. For a time, they considered making it an animated movie.

32. The Director, Mel Stuart spoke in an interview, "Watch Gene's hair though out the movie -[it turns more and more crazy until] at the end, he's clearly mad."

33. The closing bit at the end of the movie had not been scripted when shooting began. The director (Mel Stuart) had to call David Seltzer and ask him to think of something. Five minutes later, Seltzer came up with the "He lived happily ever after." bit.

34. Gene Wilder had the idea for the cane/somersault scene. He practiced the bit endlessly with professionals to get it perfect. In an interview I saw of him, he said that he would "refuse to be part of the movie" if they would not let him do this scene. The whole cripple scene was all Gene's idea. He said that it shows how Wonka may "lie", as he does throughout the movie.

35. Peter Ostrum (Charlie) said he was, "Basically playing myself." Peter Ostrum (Charlie) didn't do too much more acting after the movie. (Last year, PEOPLE magazine did a "where are they now?" on him. He mentioned there that he was offered a several-year contract after the movie, but refused it, claiming that he didn't really want to be an actor after all. And he revealed that for years he was quite embarrassed being in the movie and shied away from it. Recently, however, he has grown to be quite proud of the movie. Click to check out a scan of the People Magazine article! (This is one big scan of the article page. It will take a while to load but it is worth it!)

36. Several years after the movie, Gene Wilder mentioned this in an interview: "We all grew up on movies with scenes where the actor is lying, and know he's lying, but he wants to make _sure_ you know it's a lie, and so he overacts and all but winks at you, and everybody in the world except for the girl he's talking to knows he's lying. I wanted to do the opposite, to _really_ lie, and fool the audience...I wanted people to wonder if Willy Wonka was telling the truth so that you wouldn't really know until the end of the picture what Willy's motivations were."

37. Ever wonder why the title was altered from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" to "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?" With the Oompa Loompas being changed in the book to be "politically correct" as goes with the title for the movie. I'll quote from Treglown's book, Roald Dahl : A Biography.-- "It was for similar reasons that the title was altered to ' Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ' --"Charlie" being Afro-American slang for a white man. The change was explained in publicity handouts as reflecting an in fact nonexistent expansion of Wonka's role."

38. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was the first live-action feature film financed by the Quaker Oats Company. It did so poorly in its initial theatrical run that the company never dabbled in movies again instead sticking to Saturday morning television.

39. Production notes for the film claimed that Munich was chosen as the filming site because it is the Storybook Capital of Germany.

40. The quote "Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker" was written by a man named Ogden Nash. He was the author of many books for children and adults. He lived from 1902-1971. He is known as one of the century's most beloved poets. That quote is actually an entire poem. The poem is called "Reflections on Ice-Breaking."
Here it is:
Reflections on Ice-Breaking
By Ogden Nash
Candy
is dandy
but liquor
is quicker.

41. "We are the music makers and We are the dreamers of dreams" was a quote from an ode by Arthur Shaungenssy. It goes like this:
We are the music makers.
We are the dreamers of dreams.
Wandering by lone sea breakers.
Sitting by desolate streams.
World losers and world forsakers on whom the pale moon gleams.
And yet we are the movers and the shakers of the world forever
it seems.
These lines are credited inside the liner notes on the John Digweed Renaissance re-mix CD which quotes the line.

42. In fact, many of the words that come out of Willy Wonka's mouth were literary quotations. This was not in the original script that Dahl wrote. All of the numerous literary references were added for one reason or another by David Seltzer when he re-wrote the screenplay.

43. "Where is fancy bred In the heart or in the head" and "So shines a good deed in a weary world" which were both spoken by Willy Wonka in the film are taken from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

44. Paris Themmen who played Mike Teevee performed in "Primary Colors: A Rain Forest Rock Musical" which is a CD that was released in 1993. Paris is like a renaissance man. He's done everything! Acting, singing, selling real estate....you name it, he's done it.

45. There is a punk/pop band, based out of L.A., billing itself as Vermicious K. One of the band's members, Michael, has dubbed himself Mike T.V. for their live gigs. They just completed recording a CD and expect its release in May of 98. They have decided to call the album "scrumdidilyumptious". Needless to say, they are fans of the movie.

46. David Battley who played Mr. Turkentine (Charlie's Teacher) recently appeared in an episode of the hit comedy show Mr. Bean with Rowan Atkinson. He played the part of a miniature golf course manager. He is credited for this role as "David Battley - Golf Manager."

47. What where the ages of the kids when the movie was being shot? Well, Peter Ostrum was 12, Denise Nickerson was 11, Paris Themmen was 11, Julie Dawn Cole was 13, Michael Bollner was 12.

48. During the filming Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt) had a secret crush on Peter Ostrum (Charlie Bucket)!! Peter never knew this. Peter had asked her to a dinner party and she got all excited so she wrote home and asked her mother if it was OK. By the time her mother wrote back it was too late. Peter had changed his mind and he asked Denise Nickerson to go with him.

49. The long lost Michael Bollner (Augustus Gloop), who couldn't be found by anyone, has been found. In late 1998, Gene Crowell, a Wonka biographer found him in a Munich, Germany. He spoke very little English during the filming of the movie. Denise Nickerson said that "...he didn't really speak English. Frawley Becker had a very difficult time getting him to speak the lines." Frawley Becker was the films dialogue coach. From what I hear, Michael now speaks English very well. He is now an accountant.

50. None of the Oompa Loompa songs were sang by the Oompa Loompas! I bet you didn't know that. They hired separate singers to sing their songs and then dubbed in their voices. What a disappointment this was for me! If you watch the film closely you'll find that some of their lip-synching is off quite a bit in some songs.

51. Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt) thinks it is wonderful that there is a band named after "Veruca Salt" She said she was thrilled about the whole thing. A friend of hers told her about the band after reading about them on the Internet.

52. Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt) currently lives in England and tries to visit New York every year for Christmas shopping. Since Willy Wonka got it's second wind in after the reunion in 98, Julie has been to the U.S. several times for appearances at conventions.

53. All the children in the classroom, running from the school, and in the candy shop were local extras from Munich except for two of them who were Mel Stuart's (the director) son and Daughter. The girl in the classroom who says "I opened one hundred Wonka Bars" was Mel's daughter. He gave her the part as a treat for comming up with the idea to have the book made into the movie. The boy they called Winkelmann who announced the golden ticket contest to Charlie's classroom and appeared in several other scenes was Mel Stuart's son.

54. The Oompa Loompas were from all over the World. There were some from Turkey, England, a German named Rudi, and one that was Dutch. Most of them were from various places in Europe.

55. The "Golden Goose" scene in which Julie Dawn Cole sings took 38 takes! Everything had to be perfect. She had to kick the boxes just right and time everything just right.

56. The building used for the front of the chocolate factory was The Munich Gas Works. Peter Goff made the doorway and the inside, of course, was all filmed on a set.

57. Julie Dawn Cole was wearing a real mink coat in the movie! It was specially made for her because it is not often that mink coats are made for children. She got in a bunch of trouble when she left it on the back of a chair.

58. You know how everything in Willy Wonka's office is cut in half. Well, someone put a coffee pot in the scene and the prop guy started sawing it in half until he realized that it was full of coffee!

59. Paris Themmen says that the most difficult parts of the movie for him was when he had to be picked up by giant fingers in the WonkaVision scene and when he ate the exploding candy. He had to yell and then be pulled back into the pots and pans by wires. He enjoyed it because it seemed as if he was doing a stunt.

60. Hit actress and TV talk show host Rosie O'Donnell is a huge fan of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. She's always talking about the "blueberry girl."

61. The picture of the guy that they show as the fraudulent golden ticket holder in Paraguay, was actually, in real life the last man known to have contact with Hitler. His name was Martin Bormann, one of Hitler's many henchmen. They wanted to use a picture of Hitler, but used Bormann's instead. I guess it was a big inside joke with the cast and crew.I think it shows that a horrible man "stole" Charlie's hopes and dreams.I know it sounds weird but it has been confirmed. Mel Stuart (the director) told about it in an interview on Saturday April 19th, 1998 on TNT.

62. For the song "I've Got a Golden Ticket" in which Charlie and Grandpa Joe run and dance around the shack, creative forces on the movie wanted it to be done like Oliver, with Charlie and his grandfather running out into the street, and the village joining in the song. As we know, it didn't happen the way they wanted it to.

63. They paid the assistant director's son to fall down the bad egg chute first to make sure it was safe for Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt) before she attempted it. She said in a 1997 interview that "I had to jump onto a bunch of mattresses where there were two guys to help catch me or keep me from bouncing back up again. It was quite a bit of a drop. You had to clear head height so it was quite a jump."

64. The quote "All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by", spoken by Willy Wonka before they get on the Wonkatania is from the poem "Sea Fever" by John Masefield.

65. Most people believe that "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" was a disaster at the box office. Actually, the movie was #53 on the box-office chart that year, with total domestic rentals being $2,000,000 (which means an actual gross about double of that figure). Compare it with the #64 movie "The Abominable Dr. Phibes", which had rentals of $1,500,000, yet still earned enough to warrant a sequel. Of course "Phibes" cost less than "Wonka". It's safe to say that "Wonka" was a disappointment - but it was not a disaster at the box-office.

66. The man who plays Mr. Salt was also in the Beatles film "Help!." He was the assistant to the mad scientist who wanted the ring to "dare I say it, Rule the World."

67. Have you guys ever noticed that all 5 of the winners of the Wonka Contest were children? What are the odds of that happening? During the film, we are shown adults buying the bars (The queen, the ransom scene lady, etc...)But no adults win... isn't that weird?

68. Willy Wonka's line "The suspense is terrible, I hope it lasts" is from Oscar Wilde's play, "The Importance of Being Ernest". Just one more example of the many literary quotes used in the film.

69. Willy wonka MUST have known that the children would disappear one by one. You know why? Well the scene where they travel on the Wonka-Mobile, their is only room for four people! That of Charlie, Joe, Mike and his mom! And if you look back at the boat ride through the chocolate river, you see that there would be no room for Augustus and his mom! Wonka sure planned that perfect!

70. A fan of the film sent me this little factoid, I thought it was useless but amazingly entertaining so I just had to add it! Here is a little theory/factoid: The lickable wallpaper contained boogers. here is the justification/theory: As we all know, Wonka claims that the "Snozzberries taste like snozberries." Well, after careful consideration, this came to mind: berries, of course, are the fruit of some vine, bush, or entity (blueberries, strawberries, Cap'n Crunch Berries) and "snozz" either is or can be easily misconstrued as "shnoz," or slang for "nose." Put those two together and you've got a Nose-fruit or nose-berry, which is a booger. Just something to think about in case you ever wondered what in the world a Snozzberry is! Update 11-24-99: You wont believe this! The snozzberry is explained in another of Rooald Dahl's books called "My Uncle Oswald" as being a penis. More specifically, the head of a penis! Amazing but true.

71. Here is another little tid-bit to think about. Each room of the candy factory was parallel to the each child's personality. For example, The chocolate room : Augustus's appetite, The golden eggs : Veruca's greed, The T.V. room : Mike TeeVee's love for television.

72. When Willy plays the musical lock Mrs. TeeVee says that the composer is Rachmaninoff. But actually that song is by Mozart from Le Nozze De Figaro. For more information on this blooper check out the Mistakes page here at WonkaFacts!

73. Jack Albertson (Grandpa Joe) appeared with Roald Dahl's wife Patricia Neal in the movie, The Subject Was Roses. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for that film. What a coincidence.

74. "Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!" is from another work of William Allingham's called "Homeward Bound."

Head the ship for England!
Shake out every sail!
Blithe leap the billows,
Merry sings the gale.
Captain, work the reckoning;
How many knots a day? -
Round the world and home again,
That's the sailor's way!

75. The quote spoken by Wonka in the Secret inventing room, "Button Button, Who's Got the Button?" is From an old children's game of the same title.

76. Another quote from the film, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" was written by John Keats in a work called Endymion: A Poetic Romance. Keats writes this quote in line 1 of book 1.

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness."

77. "In springtime, the only pretty ring time.." from Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Act 5 Scene 3

"It was a lover and his lass,
With a hey,and a ho,and a hey nonino,
That o`er the green corn field did pass
In springtime ,the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing,hey ding a ding ,ding"

78. Bob Roe who played the boy in the classroom scenes named Peter Goffe who opened "about 100" wonka bars was Charlie's (Peter Ostrum's) stand-in for the entire shoot. You can see a picture of Bob Roe on my Wonka Reunion 1998 page.

79. In the Jim Jones tragedy in Guyana, where a cult following of Jim Jones all drank a suicide drink, the children were all gathered and put in front of a television to watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory before they were forced to drink the suicide drink. They did this to keep the children's minds off of what was going on all around them. I know it is a horrible piece of Wonka trivia, but it is documented.

80. During the filming the crew ran into a small problem. You see, the movie was filmed in Germany but they needed American cars to set the setting in the U.S.. Diana Sowle (Mrs. Bucket) came to the rescue. At the time she was living on a U.S. military base in Germany so she asked her American neighbors if they could borrow their cars for the film. Several agreed and the problem was solved. The crew had the American cars that they needed to line the streets in the film.

81. Michael Bollner (Augustus Gloop) explained to me at the 1999 reunion that he had to jump into the chocolate (colored water) river not only once but lots of times! Then to make matters worse, they kept him in the same dripping wet clothes all day! He said the water was freezing and Julie Dawn Cole felt sorry for him.

82. Unfortunately, Only 5 of the 10 Oompa Loompas who appeared in the film are still alive and only 2 are still well enough to travel. Look forward to seeing plenty of Oompa Loompa facts on the Oompa Loompa tribute page that I'm currently working on. I still have alot of research to do in this area but it will be up and running by January.

83. Many people always ask me where they can get a golden ticket. As for genuine real ones used in the movie, there are about 12 that exist. Most of the people who own them will not sell them because of their sentimental value. As for remakes, check out the Memorabilia page here at WonkaFacts! Shannon Schrum makes a beautiful repro and several others have also started making Wonka re-makes.

Answer 2

That doesn't sound silly at all. In fact, I kind of agree with you. I think God gives some of us the gift to find parables in everyday things. Everyday actions, pop culture, non-Christian music, video games, etc. don't have to preach Satan. Sometimes if you truly think about it, God gives us thousands of opportunities to learn about life and Heaven. Now I don't know if Heaven would be a giant room filled with edible landscaping, but I believe that when we go to Heaven we will all be filled with peace, humility and awe. Hope this helps!! God bless! P.S. I love this musical! These days almost all children's movies are about talking dogs or something stupid like that, but this movie is timeless. Most of the Disney musicals were the crap back in the 90's (well this movie was from the 70's...) But never mind that. I'm going off on a tangent. :D

Answer 3

A young kid wins a tour through a famous chocolate factory and gets to meet the legendary Willy Wonka. There are two movies. A 1971 version starring Gene Wilder and the 2005 version starring Johnny Depp.

Answer 4

It's the adaptation of a book by Roald Dahl called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Read the book before you see the film.

Answer 5

Seriously you don't know? If you are looking for the obvious answer then Wily Wonka is about a man who owns the most magical candy making company ever. He is growing old and has now come to the conclusion that it is time to find an heir to pass the company to. So he has a contest to give 5 lucky children a chance to prove they are worthy of such an honor. Watch the original movie it is the best especially when you are high.

Answer 6

Gene WIlder has a chocolate factory that has been closed to people for many years. He allowed only a few children to go inside with an adult. It is a funny child's movie.

Answer 7

It is about a poor child that wants to tour the Chocolate Factory. The only way he can tour the Chocolate Factory is by buying a chocolate bar and if that chocolate bar has a gold ticket in it he gets to go. Finally, he finds one with the gold ticket and takes his grandpa on the tour with him. It is a great movie.

Answer 8

The original is better than the remake "Charlie and the Chocolate factory", but both are good.

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Answer 9

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is an influential 1971 motion picture based on the 1964 children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by British author Roald Dahl. It was directed by Mel Stuart and starred Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka and Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket

The book tells the story of a poor young boy, Charlie Bucket, who lives in a small home, with his parents and his four bedridden grandparents. Charlie is a bright, kindhearted boy who loves his family despite their shared hardships. Apart from his family, his greatest love in life is candy. Due to his family's extreme poverty he only receives one bar a year on his birthday. The book describes him as "Our Hero, who was honest, obedient, loyal, trustworthy, brave, good, kind, and starving."

Near to Charlie's house is the largest chocolate factory in the world, owned by Mr. Willy Wonka

Answer 10

JEEZ! It's simple, Wonka is looking for the kid who has the most heart to take over his factory! (And I did it in UNDER 1000 words!)

Answer 11

It's about an hour and 40 minutes long.