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*** Very true; despite appearances, he is a very well spoken, very intelligent, very kind and empathetic individual. This is a guy who managed to get Bill Maher to shut up with his eloquence and in the wake of the Columbine shootings where people blamed his music, stated to someone who tried to ask him about it that he did not want to talk about it because he did not want to make the shooters any more famous than they already were and that people should be focusing on the tragedy of the victims not the glamorization of the shooters. He likely would have been a different but appropriate sort of Wonka.
*** I think being a High Priest in the Orthodoxy of Satan would kinda get some raised eyebrows. As well as the burning and shredding of Bibles onstage...and allowing your drummer to stick a puppy in his bass drum, pull it out halfway through dead from the concussions, and then throw it into the crowd... Sure, Manson's articulate and charismatic, but then so was Ted Bundy...
**** He also likes to dress up like a Nazi and sit around in a room decorated with Nazi memorabilia, cheated on his wife with a nineteen-year-old and then mocked his now ex-wife by making a music video where he makes out with said nineteen-year-old in a recreation of his and the ex's marriage bed, has cheated, ripped off, and stolen from practically everyone he's ever worked with, and is in general a piece of scum who is worshiped by idiots who are incapable of looking any deeper than "Oh look he's weird but he's ''articulate'' that's so ''meaningful''! #thisissoimportant"
** You have to admit, Wonka does have a very mysterious tone to his personality, which is a quality usually reserved for villains. So even if you're correct in assuming Manson thinks Wonka is evil, why would that be a miscast? It's not like, in the end, the story would be any different.
* Wonka's line in the TV Room: