The drink makes them float up and have a near-fatal encounter with the ceiling exhaust fan, but burping allows them to escape and descend to the ground.Īt the end of the tour, Charlie and Grandpa Joe, now the only remaining guests, ask about what will become of the other kids. During the tour, Charlie and Joe enter the Fizzy Lifting Drinks room and sample the beverages against Wonka's orders. The Oompa Loompas sing a song of morality after each disposal. Augustus gets sucked up a pipe Violet turns into a blueberry Veruca falls down a chute and Mike is shrunk very small. The visitors meet Wonka's workforce, little people known as Oompa-Loompas.ĭuring the tour, the individual character flaws of each child has them give in to temptation, resulting in their unusual elimination. The factory includes the Chocolate Room, a candy land with a river of chocolate and other sweets. The next day, Wonka greets the ticket winners at the front gates of the factory and leads them inside, where each signs a contract before the tour. Returning home with the Golden Ticket, Charlie chooses Grandpa Joe as his chaperone, who excitedly jumps out of bed for the first time in twenty years. He introduces himself as Slugworth and offers a reward for a sample of Wonka's latest creation, the Everlasting Gobstopper. Rushing back, he encounters the same sinister-looking man seen whispering to each winner. Charlie then opens his Wonka Bar, discovering the final ticket. Walking home, Charlie overhears that the millionaire had forged the fifth ticket. The next day, Charlie is on his way home from school when he finds money in a gutter and uses it to buy and eat candy with the change, he buys a regular Wonka Bar for Grandpa Joe. As each winner is announced on television, a sinister-looking man then appears and whispers to them.Ī subsequent news report reveals the fifth ticket was found by a millionaire in Paraguay, causing Charlie to lose hope. The first four tickets are found by a gluttonous German boy Augustus Gloop the spoiled English girl Veruca Salt with a wealthy father and from the United States, a constantly gum-chewing girl Violet Beauregarde, and the television-obsessed boy Mike Teevee. Finders of the tickets will receive a factory tour and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Wonka announces globally that he has hidden five Golden Tickets in chocolate Wonka Bars. The gates remained locked and the original workers never returned to their jobs, leaving everyone wondering who had replaced them. Wonka shut down the factory, but resumed production years later. That night, Charlie's Grandpa Joe reveals that Wonka had locked the factory up several years earlier because rival confectioners were sending in spies to steal his recipes.
Charlie rushes home to his widowed mother and bedridden grandparents. Going home he passes Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, where a tinker tells him that nobody ever goes in or comes out. Another film adaptation was made in 2005 under the same title as the original book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with Johnny Depp portraying Willy Wonka.Ĭharlie Bucket is a poor paperboy who can only look inside a candy shop but never buy any sweets.
In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The film remained in obscurity until the 1980s where it gained a cult following and became highly popular due to repeated television airings and home video sales. The film also introduced the song " The Candy Man", which went on to be recorded by Sammy Davis Jr. In 1972, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score, and Wilder was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. With a budget of just $3 million, the film received generally positive reviews and earned $4 million by the end of its original run. The film was released by Paramount Pictures on June 30, 1971. The musical numbers were written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley while Walter Scharf arranged and conducted the orchestral score.
Against Dahl's wishes, changes were made to the story and other decisions made by the director led Dahl to disown the film. Dahl was credited with writing the film's screenplay however, David Seltzer was brought in to do an uncredited rewrite. The film tells the story of a poor child named Charlie Bucket who, after finding a Golden Ticket in a chocolate bar, visits Willy Wonka's chocolate factory along with four other children from around the world.įilming took place in Munich from August to November 1970. It is an adaptation of the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 American musical fantasy film directed by Mel Stuart and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.
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