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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Mel Stuart
Screenplay by Roald Dahl[a]
Based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
Produced by
  • Stan Margulies
  • David L. Wolper
Starring
  • Gene Wilder
  • Jack Albertson
  • Peter Ostrum
  • Roy Kinnear
  • Denise Nickerson
  • Leonard Stone
  • Julie Dawn Cole
  • Paris Themmen
  • Dodo Denney
Cinematography Arthur Ibbetson
Edited by David Saxon
Music by
  • Leslie Bricusse
  • Anthony Newley

Production
companies

  • Wolper Pictures
  • The Quaker Oats Company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures

Release date
  • June 30, 1971 (1971-06-30)

Running time

 100 minutes[1]
Countries
  • United States[2]
Language English
Budget $3 million[3]
Box office $4 million[3] [4]

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 American musical fantasy film directed by Mel Stuart and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. It is an adaptation of the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. 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.

Filming took place in Munich from August to November 1970. Dahl was credited with writing the film's screenplay; however, David Seltzer was brought in to do an uncredited rewrite. Against Dahl's wishes, changes were made to the story and other decisions made by the director led him to disown the film. The musical numbers were written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley while Walter Scharf arranged and conducted the orchestral score.

The film was released by Paramount Pictures on June 30, 1971. With a budget of just $3 million, the film received generally positive reviews and earned $4 million by the end of its original run. 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, but both nominations lost to Fiddler on the Roof. The film also introduced the song "The Candy Man", which went on to become a popular hit when recorded by Sammy Davis Jr. and has since been covered by numerous artists. 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.

In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Plot [edit]

Charlie Bucket, a poor paperboy on his way home from school, watches children visit a candy shop, then passes Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, where a mysterious tinker recites the first lines of William Allingham's poem "The Fairies" and tells Charlie "nobody ever goes in, and nobody ever comes out." Charlie rushes home to his widowed mother and bedridden grandparents. That night, Charlie tells his Grandpa Joe what the tinker said, and Joe reveals that Wonka had locked the factory up several years earlier because other candy makers, including his rival, Arthur Slugworth, were sending in spies to steal his recipes. Wonka shut down the factory, but resumed selling candy after three years. The gates remained locked and the original workers did not return to their jobs, leaving everyone wondering who had taken their old jobs.

Wonka then announces that he has hidden five Golden Tickets in chocolate Wonka Bars. Finders of the tickets will receive a factory tour and a lifetime supply of chocolate. The first four tickets are found by the gluttonous Augustus Gloop from West Germany, the spoiled Veruca Salt whose father has built up his wealth in the English nut business, the gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde from Montana, and the television-obsessed Mike Teevee from Arizona in the United States. As each winner is announced on television, a sinister-looking man then appears and whispers to them, and when Veruca Salt receives her ticket, he is on the scene within seconds in her father's factory, having been previously seen working there.

A subsequent news report reveals the fifth ticket was found in Paraguay by a millionaire casino owner, causing Charlie to lose hope. The next day, Charlie is on his way home from school when he finds money in a gutter and uses it to buy a Wonka Bar; with the change, he buys a regular Wonka Bar for Grandpa Joe. While walking home, Charlie overhears that the millionaire forged the fifth ticket. Charlie opens the Wonka Bar and finds the fifth ticket. Rushing home, he encounters the same man seen whispering to the other winners, who introduces himself as Slugworth and offers a reward for a sample of Wonka's latest creation, the Everlasting Gobstopper.

Returning home with the Golden Ticket, Charlie chooses Joe, who excitedly rises out of bed for the first time in twenty years, as his chaperone. 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. The factory includes a candy land with a river of chocolate and other sweets. The visitors meet Wonka's labor force, dwarfish men known as Oompa-Loompas. Individual character flaws cause the other winners to give into temptation, resulting in their elimination from the tour while the Oompa-Loompas sing a song of morality after each. As the tour continues, Charlie and Joe enter the Fizzy Lifting Drinks Room and sample the beverages against Wonka's orders. They float and have a near-fatal encounter with the exhaust fan at the top of the room before their burping allows them to descend back to the ground.

At the end of the tour, Charlie and Joe, now the only two remaining guests, ask about what will become of the other kids, and Wonka assures them that they will be fine. Wonka then hastily retreats to his office without awarding them the promised lifetime supply of chocolate. Grandpa Joe and Charlie enter his office to ask about this, where Wonka angrily informs them that they have violated the contract when they drank the Fizzy Lifting Drinks, thereby forfeiting their prize. Joe denounces Wonka and suggests to Charlie that he should give Slugworth the Gobstopper in retaliation, but Charlie returns the candy to Wonka. All of a sudden, Wonka joyously declares Charlie the winner, and reveals that "Slugworth" is actually an employee of his, Mr. Wilkinson; the offer to buy the Gobstopper was a morality test for the ticket winners, and only Charlie passed. The trio enter the Wonkavator, a multi-directional glass elevator that flies out of the factory. During their flight, Wonka tells Charlie that he created the contest to find someone worthy enough to assume control of his factory, and when he retires, he will give it to Charlie and his family.

Cast [edit]

The main cast during filming in 1970. Back row (left to right): Michael Böllner (Augustus Gloop), Ursula Reit (Mrs. Gloop), Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka) Second row (left to right): Leonard Stone (Sam Beauregarde), Roy Kinnear (Henry Salt), Nora Denney (Mrs. Teavee), Jack Albertson (Grandpa Joe) Front row (left to right): Denise Nickerson (Violet Beauregarde), Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt), Paris Themmen (Mike Teavee), Peter Ostrum (Charlie Bucket)

  • Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka
  • Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe
  • Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket
  • Roy Kinnear as Mr. Salt
  • Julie Dawn Cole as Veruca Salt
  • Leonard Stone as Mr. Beauregarde
  • Denise Nickerson as Violet Beauregarde
  • Nora Denney as Mrs. Teevee
  • Paris Themmen as Mike Teevee
  • Ursula Reit as Mrs. Gloop
  • Michael Böllner as Augustus Gloop
  • Diana Sowle as Mrs. Bucket
  • Aubrey Woods as Bill
  • David Battley as Mr. Turkentine
  • Günter Meisner as Arthur Slugworth/Mr. Wilkinson
  • Peter Capell as The Tinker
  • Werner Heyking as Mr. Jopeck
  • Peter Stuart as Winkelmann
  • Dora Altmann as Grandma Georgina
  • Franziska Liebing as Grandma Josephine
  • Ernst Ziegler as Grandpa George
  • Victor Beaumont as Doctor
  • Frank Delfino as Auctioneer
  • Gloria Manon as Mrs. Curtis
  • Stephen Dunne as Stanley Kael
  • Tim Brooke-Taylor as Computer scientist
  • Ed Peck as FBI Agent

Oompa Loompas

  • Rudy Borgstaller
  • George Claydon
  • Malcolm Dixon
  • Rusty Goffe
  • Ismed Hassan
  • Norman McGlen
  • Angelo Muscat
  • Pepi Poupee
  • Marcus Powell
  • Albert Wilkinson[5]

Production [edit]

Development [edit]

The idea for adapting the book into a film came about when director Mel Stuart's ten-year-old daughter read the book and asked her father to make a film out of it, with "Uncle Dave" (producer David L. Wolper, who was not related to the Stuarts) producing it. Stuart showed the book to Wolper, who happened to be in the midst of talks with the Quaker Oats Company regarding a vehicle to introduce a new candy bar from its Chicago-based Breaker Confections subsidiary (since renamed the Willy Wonka Candy Company and sold to Nestlé). Wolper persuaded the company, which had no previous experience in the film industry, to buy the rights to the book and finance the picture for the purpose of promoting a new Quaker Oats Wonka Bar.[6]

Wolper and Roald Dahl agreed that Dahl would also write the screenplay.[6] Though credited for the film, Dahl had not delivered a completed screenplay at the start of production and only gave an outline pointing to sections of the book.[7] Wolper called in David Seltzer for an uncredited rewrite after Dahl left due to creative differences.[8] Wolper promised to produce Seltzer's next film for his lack of a credit as they needed to maintain credibility by keeping Dahl's name attached to the production.[7] Also uncredited, were several short humorous scenes by screenwriter Robert Kaufman about the Golden Ticket hysteria.[9] Changes to the story included Wonka's character given more emphasis over Charlie; Slugworth, originally a minor character who was a Wonka industry rival in the book, was reworked into a spy so that the film could have a villain for intrigue; a belching scene was added with Grandpa and Charlie having "fizzy lifting drinks"; and the ending dialogue.[10]

Wolper decided with Stuart that the film would be a musical and approached composers Richard Rodgers and Henry Mancini but both declined.[11] Eventually they secured the songwriting team Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.[11] Seltzer created a recurring theme that had Wonka quote from various literary sources, such as Arthur O'Shaughnessy's Ode, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.[12]

There are different interpretations regarding the title change to Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. In the United States during the 1960s, the term "Mister Charlie" had been used as a pejorative expression in the African-American community for a "white man in power" (historically plantation slave owners) and press reports claimed the change was due to "pressure from black groups".[11] During the same period US soldiers in the Vietnam War used the derisive term "Charlie" for the Viet Cong.[13] The studio publicity stated that the title "was changed to put emphasis on the eccentric central character of Willy Wonka".[11] However, Wolper claimed he changed the title to make the product placement for the Wonka Bar have a closer association.[6] Stuart confirmed the matter was brought to his attention by some African-American actors and he also claimed to have changed the title saying, "If people say, 'I saw Willy Wonka,' people would know what they were talking about. If they say, 'I saw Charlie,' it doesn't mean anything".[13]

The book was also in the midst of a controversy when the film was announced. Protest groups including the NAACP had taken issue with the original Oompa-Loompas depicted as African pygmies and compared them to slavery.[13] Stuart addressed the concerns for the film and suggested making them the distinctive green-and-orange characters.[8]

Gene Wilder wanted specific changes to Wonka's costume, including what type of trousers the character should wear, "the color and cut" of his jacket and the placement of pockets. Wilder's attention to detail also requested, "The hat is terrific, but making it 2 inches shorter would make it more special".[14] [15]

Casting [edit]

Before Wilder was officially cast as Willy Wonka, producers considered Fred Astaire, Joel Grey, Ron Moody, and Jon Pertwee.[16] [17] Spike Milligan was Roald Dahl's original choice.[10] Peter Sellers reportedly begged Dahl for the role.[18]

All six members of Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) expressed interest in playing Wonka, but at the time they were deemed not big enough names for an international audience.[19] [b]

Joel Grey was the front runner for the part but director Mel Stuart decided he wasn't physically imposing enough as the actor's height was five-foot-five. The producers learned that Fred Astaire wanted the part, but the 72-year-old may have considered himself too old.[21]

Actors were auditioned for the role of Willy Wonka in a suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York and by the end of the week Wilder had walked in. It was then Stuart and producer David L. Wolper realised that they could stop looking.[22] [21] Wolper remarked, "The role fit him tighter than one of Jacques Cousteau's wetsuits." Stuart was captivated by Wilder's "humor in his eyes" and said, "His inflection was perfect. He had the sardonic, demonic edge that we were looking for."[23] Wolper tried to suppress Stuart's eagerness for the actor as he wanted to negotiate the salary. Regardless, the director ran out into the hall as Wilder was leaving and offered him the part of Wonka.[24]

When Wilder was cast as Wonka, he accepted the role on one condition:

When I make my first entrance, I'd like to come out of the door carrying a cane and then walk toward the crowd with a limp. After the crowd sees Willy Wonka is a cripple, they all whisper to themselves and then become deathly quiet. As I walk toward them, my cane sinks into one of the cobblestones I'm walking on and stands straight up, by itself; but I keep on walking, until I realize that I no longer have my cane. I start to fall forward, and just before I hit the ground, I do a beautiful forward somersault and bounce back up, to great applause.

—Gene Wilder[14]

Stuart responded, "What do you want to do that for?"[25] The reason why Wilder wanted this in the film was that "from that time on, no one will know if I'm lying or telling the truth".[14]

Jean Stapleton turned down the role of Mrs. Teevee.[26] [27] Jim Backus was considered for the role of Sam Beauregarde.[9] Sammy Davis Jr. wanted to play Bill, the candy store owner, but Stuart did not like the idea because he felt that the presence of a big star in the candy store scene would break the reality; though Davis would make Bill's signature song, "The Candy Man", into a big hit.[28] Anthony Newley also wanted to play Bill, but Stuart also dissuaded him for the same reason.[9]

Ten actors of short stature were the Oompa Loompas, including one woman and nine men, and were cast internationally from France, Germany, Malta, Persia (now Iran), Turkey and the UK.[29] [13]

The child actors who were auditioned from hundreds, Julie Dawn Cole, Denise Nickerson, Peter Ostrum and Paris Themmen all had acting experience from stage school, theatre, television or commercials. Michael Böllner had the primary attribute of being rotund and was discovered in Germany when Stuart was location scouting. Stuart asked him to imagine being stuck in a tube and then "squeezed him like a roll of putty".[11] [21]

Filming [edit]

Principal photography commenced on August 31, 1970, and ended on November 19, 1970.[30] The primary shooting location was Munich, Bavaria, West Germany, because it was significantly cheaper than filming in the United States and the setting was conducive to Wonka's factory; Stuart also liked the ambiguity and unfamiliarity of the location.[31] [32]

External shots of the factory were filmed at the gasworks of Stadtwerke München (Emmy-Noether-Straße 10); the entrance and side buildings still exist. The exterior of Charlie Bucket's house, a set constructed solely for the film, was filmed at Quellenstraße in Munich. Charlie's school was filmed at Katholisches Pfarramt St. Sylvester, Biedersteiner Straße 1 in Munich. Bill's Candy Shop was filmed at Lilienstraße, Munich. The closing sequence, in which the Wonkavator is flying above the factory, is footage of Nördlingen, Bavaria, and the elevator rising shot showing that it shoots out of the factory was from Bößeneckerstraße 4, 86720 Nördlingen, Germany, now the location of a CAP-Märkte.[33] [34]

  • Munich Gasworks as it appeared in 2011 (building on the left)

  • Munich Gasworks as it appeared in 2011 (building on the right)

  • Nördlingen, the town seen from above at the end of the film

After location scouting in Europe, including the Guinness brewery in Ireland and a real-life chocolate factory in Spain, production designer Harper Goff decided to house the factory sets and the massive Chocolate Room at Bavaria Studios.[35]

The construction of the original Inventing Room was meant to be an industrial room with steel tubes. Stuart envisioned it differently as a wacky inventor's laboratory, with Rube Goldberg type mechanisms and unusual contraptions, and wanted it redesigned to be like Wonka's personality. Goff sent his construction crew into Munich searching junkyards, bakeries, and car dealers for discarded machinery, tin funnels, and any other raw materials. This included building Wonka's three-course gum machine, which was originally a solid state device, but Stuart requested an appliance where the operations had a visual experience for the audience.[35] [36] Stuart also instructed Goff to have all the props, furniture and fittings, excluding the light bulbs, in Wonka's original office to be cut in half, to reflect the character's eccentricity.[23]

About a third of the props in the Chocolate Room set were edible.[37] Veruca Salt had a chocolate watermelon; Mike Teevee had gum balls from a tree; Violet Beauregarde's "three-course gum" was actually a toffee-based candy, and marzipan was freely available on set; also there were giant mushrooms filled with whipped cream; and the trees had eatable leaves.[23] [35] [38] The inedible items included giant gummy bears that were plastic (but you could eat the ear); the flavoured wallpaper was just wallpaper; and Wonka's cup was made of wax which Gene Wilder would chew on camera and spit out after each take.[19] [38] [35]

According to Paris Themmen, who played Mike Teevee, "The river was made of water with food coloring. At one point, they poured some cocoa powder into it to try to thicken it but it didn't really work. When asked [what the river was made of], Michael Böllner, who played Augustus Gloop, answers, 'It vas dirty, stinking vater.'"[39] A combination of salt conditioner and some chemicals eventually removed the stink problem but it remained cold, dirty water.[35]

Stuart had issues with the large size of the Chocolate Room set and having difficulty lighting the background.[19] Julie Dawn Cole's performance of "I Want It Now" as Veruca Salt required 36 takes and was filmed on her thirteenth birthday.[23] [38]

For the performances, Stuart used a recurring "method" tactic in a few scenes.[40] When Wonka makes his entrance at the factory gates, nobody was aware of Wilder's approach as he limped then somersaulted; the reaction was of real surprise. [29] The director gave explicit instructions not to allow the child actors to see the Chocolate Room set until until the day of the shoot as he wanted their reactions to be genuine.[23] The exception was Cole, as Goff gave her a sneak preview.[29] Also the actors were not warned about the tunnel boat ride scene.[19] Similarly, when Wilder rehearsed the Wonka office scene, with Peter Ostrum as Charlie and Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe, it was in a much calmer tone. When filming started and he increasingly became angry eventually shouting, "So, you get nothing!", it was so that the reactions would be authentic.[37]

In addition to the main scenes set in town and at the factory, several comic interludes were also shot. Stuart lamented in his book Pure Imagination: The Making of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, that his favorite scene was cut due to poor test screenings. In the scene, which took a lot of preparation and money to film, an English explorer climbs a holy mountain to ask a guru the meaning of life. The guru requests a Wonka Bar. Finding no golden ticket, he says, "Life is a disappointment." Stuart loved the scene, but few laughed. He invited a psychologist friend to a preview, where again, the audience reaction was muted. The psychologist told him, "You don't understand, Mel. For a great many people, life is a disappointment."[41]

When interviewed for the 30th anniversary special edition in 2001, Wilder stated that he enjoyed working with most of the child actors, but said that he and the film crew had some problems with Paris Themmen recalling, "Oh, he was a little brat!"[6] He then addressed Themmen directly, "Now if you're watching this, you know that I love you now, but you were a troublemaker then."[42] [43] [c] An example of Themmen's misbehaviour was releasing bees from a beehive on Wonka's three-course gum machine. "As life mirrored one of the morals of the movie," Stuart remembers, "one of the bees stung him."[35]

Release [edit]

Theatrical [edit]

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory was released by Paramount Pictures on June 30, 1971. The film was not a big success, eventually earning $4 million worldwide on a budget of $3 million, and was the 24th highest-grossing film of the year in North America.[45] [46]

For the promotion before its release, the film received advance publicity through TV commercials offering a "Willy Wonka candy factory kit" for sending $1.00 and two seals from boxes of Quaker cereals such as King Vitaman, Life and any of the Cap'n Crunch brands.[47]

Television [edit]

The film made its television debut on Thanksgiving Night, November 28, 1974, on NBC.[48]

The film was repeated the following year on November 23, 1975, on NBC. There was some controversy with the broadcast, as a football game between the Oakland Raiders and Washington Redskins went into overtime, and the first 40 minutes of the film were cut.[49] The film placed 19th in the television ratings for the week ending November 23, beating out The Streets of San Francisco and Little House on the Prairie.[50] The next television showing of the film was on May 2, 1976, where it placed 46th in the ratings. Some television listings indicate the showing was part of The Wonderful World of Disney time slot.[51]

Home media [edit]

In December 1984, the film became available on VHS and Betamax in the UK and was released in the US on VHS the same year.[52] [53]

In 1997, the film was first released on DVD in a "25th anniversary edition" as a double sided disc containing a widescreen and "standard" fullscreen version.[54] The "standard" version is an open matte print, where the mattes used to make the image widescreen are removed, revealing more picture at the top and bottom that was masked off from viewers.[55] VHS copies were also available, but only containing the "standard" version.[56] [57]

On August 28, 2001, a remastered special edition DVD was released, celebrating the film's 30th anniversary, but in fullscreen only. On November 13, 2001, due to the lack of a widescreen release, fan petitioning eventually led Warner Home Video to issue a letterboxed version.[58] Several original cast members reunited to film a "making-of" documentary titled Pure Imagination: The Story of 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'. The two format editions featured restored sound and better picture quality. In addition to the Pure Imagination feature, the DVD included a trailer, a gallery and audio commentary by the cast.[58] It was also released on VHS, with only one of the special features (the Pure Imagination documentary).[59]

In 2007, Warner Home Video released the film on HD DVD with all the bonus features from the 2001 DVD.[58] On October 20, 2009, the film was released on Blu-ray. It included all the bonus features from the 2001 DVD and 2007 HD DVD as well as a 38-page book.[60]

On November 1, 2011, a deluxe edition set was released in celebration of the film's 40th anniversary. The set included the film on Blu-ray and DVD, a bonus disc and a number of collectible items including a Wonka Bar tin, four scented pencils, a scented eraser, a book about the making of the film, original production notes and a "Golden Ticket" for the chance to win a trip to Los Angeles.[61]

On June 29, 2021, a 4K Blu-ray version was released to coincide with the film's 50th anniversary. This edition restored the original Paramount logo to the start of the movie. The film would also be available to stream and download digitally in 4K high definition, including standard definition, on devices from various online video platforms.[62] [63]

Reception [edit]

The film received generally positive reviews from critics. Roger Ebert gave the film a perfect four out of four stars, calling it:

Probably the best film of its sort since The Wizard of Oz. It is everything that family movies usually claim to be, but aren't: Delightful, funny, scary, exciting, and, most of all, a genuine work of imagination. Willy Wonka is such a surely and wonderfully spun fantasy that it works on all kinds of minds, and it is fascinating because, like all classic fantasy, it is fascinated with itself.[64]

Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times praised the film as "lively and enjoyable" and called Wilder's performance "a real star turn", but thought the songs were "instantly forgettable" and that the factory looked "a lot more literal and industrial and less empathic than it might have".[65] Variety called the film "an okay family musical fantasy" that had "good" performances but lacked any tunes that were "especially rousing or memorable".[66] Howard Thompson of The New York Times panned it as "tedious and stagy with little sparkle and precious little humor".[67] Gene Siskel gave the film two stars out of four, writing, "Anticipation of what Wonka's factory is like is so well developed that its eventual appearance is a terrible letdown. Sure enough there is a chocolate river, but it looks too much like the Chicago River to be appealing. The quality of the color photography is flat. The other items in Wonka's factory—bubblegum trees and lollypop flowers—also look cheap. Nothing in the factory is appealing."[68] Jan Dawson of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote that after a slow start the second half of the film was "an unqualified delight—one of those rare, genuinely imaginative children's entertainments at which no adult need be embarrassed to be seen".[69]

By the 1980s, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory had experienced an increase in popularity due to repeated television broadcasts and home video sales.[11] [70] In 1996 there was a 25th anniversary theatrical re-release.[13] In 2003, Entertainment Weekly ranked it 25th in the "Top 50 Cult Movies" of all time.[71]

The tunnel scene during the boat ride has been cited by many websites as one of the scariest of scenes in a film for children, due to its surreal visuals. Willy Wonka was ranked No. 74 on Bravo's The 100 Scariest Movie Moments for the tunnel scene.[72]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 91% approval rating and an average rating of 7.8/10 based on 53 reviews. The site's critical consensus states: "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is strange yet comforting, full of narrative detours that don't always work but express the film's uniqueness."[73]

In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[74] [75]

Dahl's reaction [edit]

Dahl disowned the film and was "infuriated" by the plot deviations and considered the music to be "saccharine, sappy and sentimental" including "Pure Imagination" and "The Candy Man".[10] [8] He was also disappointed because the film "placed too much emphasis on Willy Wonka and not enough on Charlie," and was cast with Gene Wilder instead of Spike Milligan as Wonka.[10] [8] In 1996, Dahl's second wife, Felicity, commented on her husband's objections toward film adaptations of his works, saying "they always want to change a book's storyline. What makes Hollywood think children want the endings changed for a film, when they accept it in a book?"[76]

Music [edit]

The Academy Award-nominated original score and songs were composed by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, and musical direction was by Walter Scharf. The soundtrack was first released by Paramount Records in 1971.[77]

Sammy Davis Jr. recorded the song "The Candy Man" which became his only number 1 hit. It would spend three weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart starting June 10, 1972, and two weeks at the top of the easy-listening chart.[78]

On October 8, 1996, Hip-O Records (in conjunction with MCA Records, which by then owned the Paramount catalog), released the soundtrack on CD as a "25th Anniversary Edition".[79] In 2016, UMe and Geffen Records released a 45th Anniversary Edition LP.[80]

The music and songs, in order of appearance, are as follows:

  1. "Main Title" – Instrumental medley of "(I've Got A) Golden Ticket" and "Pure Imagination"
  2. "The Candy Man" – Aubrey Woods
  3. "Cheer Up, Charlie" – Diana Lee (dubbing over Diana Sowle)
  4. "(I've Got A) Golden Ticket" – Jack Albertson and Peter Ostrum
  5. "Pure Imagination" – Gene Wilder
  6. "Oompa Loompa (Augustus)" – The Oompa Loompas
  7. "The Wondrous Boat Ride" / "The Rowing Song" – Gene Wilder
  8. "Oompa Loompa (Violet)" – The Oompa Loompas
  9. "I Want it Now!" – Julie Dawn Cole
  10. "Oompa Loompa (Veruca)" – The Oompa Loompas
  11. "Ach, so fromm" (alternately titled "M'appari", from Martha) – Gene Wilder
  12. "Oompa Loompa (Mike)" – The Oompa Loompas
  13. "End Credits" – "Pure Imagination"

Soundtrack [edit]

The track listing for the soundtrack, originally released on Paramount Records, is as follows:

  1. "Main Title" ("Golden Ticket"/"Pure Imagination")
  2. "The Candy Man"
  3. "Charlie's Paper Run"
  4. "Cheer up, Charlie"
  5. "Lucky Charlie"
  6. "(I've Got A) Golden Ticket"
  7. "Pure Imagination"
  8. "Oompa Loompa"
  9. "The Wondrous Boat Ride"
  10. "Everlasting Gobstoppers/Oompa Loompa"
  11. "The Bubble Machine"
  12. "I Want it Now/Oompa Loompa"
  13. "Wonkamobile, Wonkavision/Oompa Loompa"
  14. "Wonkavator/End Title" ("Pure Imagination")

In popular culture [edit]

  • The animated TV shows Futurama ("Fry and the Slurm Factory", season 1, episode 13, first broadcast November 14, 1999), Family Guy ("Wasted Talent", season 2, episode 20, July 25, 2000), and American Dad ("Jeff and the Dank Ass Weed Factory", season 16, episode 5, May 13, 2019) have all done parodies of the film, involving, respectively, "Slurm", an addictive alien drink; the "Pawtucket Pat" brewery; and a marijuana factory run by Snoop Dogg.
  • In 2001, the band Alien Ant Farm's music video to their song "Movies" paid homage to various Hollywood films and included a scene where the band members were dressed as Oompa Loompas.[81]
  • In 2017, an animated adaptation of the film with Tom and Jerry was released. Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory stars JP Karliak as Willy Wonka and is dedicated to Gene Wilder, who died less than a year before the release.
  • In the 2010s, a still from the movie has become a popular Internet meme known as Condescending Wonka.[82]

See also [edit]

  • List of American films of 1971
  • List of films featuring miniature people

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Though Dahl is the sole credited screenwriter, David Seltzer made major rewrites to the script and went uncredited.
  2. ^ Cleese, Idle, and Palin were later considered for the same role in Tim Burton's version.[20]
  3. ^ Being "a handful" was Themmen's recollection of this remark.[44]

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External links [edit]

  • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory essay [1] by Brian Scott Mednick at National Film Registry
  • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory at IMDb
  • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory at the TCM Movie Database
  • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory at Rotten Tomatoes
  • The AFI Catalog of Feature Films..Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

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