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[[File:charlie-willy-wonka-400ds07.jpg|frame|[[Gene Wilder]] vs. [[Johnny Depp]]]]
Twice have film versions been made of [[Roald Dahl]]'s [[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory|most popular book]]
The film features [[Johnny Depp]] as Wonka, and a supporting cast that includes [[James Fox]], [[Missi Pyle]], [[Helena Bonham Carter]], [[Christopher Lee]], and [[Deep Roy]] (many many times) and is intended to be slightly closer to the book.
[[Broken Base|Fans are divided]] on which is the superior film.
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* [[Acting for Two]]: All the Oompa-Loompas, even the female ones, are played by [[Deep Roy]]. Some (jackhammer, boat-rowers) are [[Uncanny Valley|completely animatronic.]]
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Wonka's backstory and his dentist father who hated chocolate. Practically the same reasons as the '71 version to try and give the story a more complex ending.
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* [[Broken Aesop]]: Yes, children's movie, tell us all about how you shouldn't let your children watch TV at all.
* [[Busby Berkeley Number]]: The Oompa Loompas do one during the "Augustus Gloop" song.
* [[Character Exaggeration]]: Not only does Depp exaggerate the oddness and enthusiasm of the original, he also picks up on the not-quite-hidden apathy for the other children and turns it into outright dislike. He's also much more obvious in his [[Magnificent Bastard
* [[Cloning Blues]]: Not the Oompa-Loompas, but rather the actor playing them.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]:
** Grandma Georgina.
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'''Georgina''': I love grapes. }}
** Willy Wonka.
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Mike, while explaining how he got his ticket. He apparently deduced it from so many facts, then found out what store the ticket would be in. When asked about how the chocolate bar he bought tasted, he says...
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* [[The Comically Serious]]: Mike Teevee, who can't appreciate the amazing [[World of Chaos]] that is Wonka's factory and would rather point out how everything shouldn't be able to work/exist, even when zapped by the shrink ray.
* [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]]: Mike doesn't really do anything but snark, and the questions he asks and things he points out are usually justified, yet (at least, in the TV room) everyone acts like he's [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|completely wrong]] and that he deserved his fate. Then again, maybe he did.
* [[Creative Sterility]]: What seems to be Mike's problem, in addition to [[New Media Are Evil|a video-game-induced violent streak]]: he's so jaded by TV and
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Violet at the end, who is now permanently blue, but with a body that can stretch like rubber. Note that Wonka and Violet's mother are the ones who view it negatively; Violet herself reckons (and rightfully so) that this [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|"punishment"]] is [[Rule of Cool|made of win]].
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* [[The Cynic]]: Grandpa George. Ultimately subverted when he's the one who gives an idealistic speech to persuade Charlie to use the Golden Ticket, rather than sell it for cash.
* [[Mommy Issues|Daddy Issues]]: These are basically inserted wholesale into Wonka's character and aren't present in the slightest in Dahl's original book. Part of what leads to Wonka's presentation as a [[Man Child|psychotic man-child]], to some degree.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Willy Wonka and Mike Teevee.
** Veruca gets her moments, too.
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'''Veruca Salt:''' [[Brutal Honesty|You could put her in]] [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|a county fair.]] }}
* [[Depraved Dentist]]: Wonka's father.
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* [[Fantasy-Forbidding Father]]: Willy Wonka is given one of these as part of the [[Adaptation Expansion]]. Mr. Wonka, Sr., is a dentist who doesn't allow his son to eat candy, driving Willy to rebel against him to achieve his dream of being a chocolatier.
* [[First Gray Hair]]: This film provides the page quote for this trope. Willy Wonka reveals to Charlie that this made him realize he was getting old and drove him to start the Golden Ticket contest so as to find an heir to take under his wing and train up before he died.
* [[
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'''Mike Teavee's Dad:''' ''(disturbed)'' These flashbacks happen often?
'''Wonka:''' Increasingly...today. }}
* [[The Film of the Book]]
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: Because of the increase of demand for chocolate due to the contest Mr. Bucket's job (toothpaste factory) makes extra money and decide to modernize, this results in Mr. Bucket losing his job and later
* [[Foreshadowing]]: When everyone is entering the factory, Wonka seems to have trouble saying the word "Parents," which at first one might just assume is part of his eccentricity, however, it turns out to be a big plot point,
* [[Freudian Couch]]
* [[Fur and Loathing]]: Veruca's coat is fake, despite the fact that the character could easily have a real one.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]
** "Don't touch that squirrel's nuts! It'll make him crazy!"
** The ''[[Psycho]]''
* [[Hollow-Sounding Head]]: Veruca.
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: All of the bad kids go through this, more so than the previous versions, especially since Augustus, Violet, and Mike have their personal songs sung in front of them (though they mostly don't seem to be paying attention). One by one: Augustus falls into a chocolate river in front of everyone, gets sucked up a glass tube and sticks, goes through who-knows-what in the Fudge Room, then exits the factory covered in chocolate. Violet swells up and is rolled around, and ends up permanently blue. Veruca gets covered in trash. Mike is shrunk, then stretched to ridiculous proportions. All of them exit, in some demeaning fashion, filmed and being watched by presumably the ''whole world''.
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* [[I Can See My House From Here]]
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: As Charlie is shining Wonka's shoes after refusing to move to the factory:
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'''Wonka:''' ''(throws down the newspaper he's reading)'' "I do not!" }}
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Mike Teevee.
* [[Insurmountable Waist
* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]:
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'''[[Insufferable Genius|Mike Teevee]]:''' [[Hypocritical Humor|If you hate gum so much, why do you make it]]? }}
** Mike Teevee delivers another good one, just before he throws himself out of the contest: [[Reed Richards Is Useless|Wonka has invented a teleporter, but doesn't seem to see any use for it at all, beyond delivering candy bars.]]
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** There's also Violet and Veruca's unexplained dislike for each other, and Veruca's schadenfreude at Violet turning into a blueberry.
** The explanation is most likely that both girls (Veruca due to being spoiled and Violet due to being a perfectionist) feel a need to be the center of attention, and don't like sharing the limelight with one another.
* [[Large Ham]]: Johnny Depp not only chews the scenery, he gulps it down with vodka and asks for seconds.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:
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* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: Willy Wonka.
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: (to a [[The Beatles (band)|Beatles-y]] tune)
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And she will meet, as she descends, a rather different set of friends!
'''Oompa:''' A fish head, for example, cut this morning from a halibut... }}
* [[Man Child]]: Willy Wonka seems to gain this attribute in addition to some severe [[Daddy Issues]], neither of which are present in the original book or film.
* [[The Monolith]]: Featured in a demonstration of Wonka's matter transmutation device...as part of a clip straight out of ''[[2001: A Space
* [[Mouthy Kid]]: Mike.
* [[Musical World
* [[Narrator All Along]]: It turns out it's
* [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent]]: [[Johnny Depp]] as Willy Wonka, who clearly doesn't have his father Wilbur's British accent.
** However, Mrs Wonka never appears and she could have been American.
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* [[Original Cast Precedent]]: The 2005 film kept the same nationalities for the children as depicted in the 1971 film, while also [[Adaptation Expansion|giving most of them hometowns]] -- Augustus is from Düsseldorf (which suffers from a bad case of [[Hollywood Atlas|Hollywood Geography]]), Veruca is from Buckinghamshire, Violet is from [[Atlanta]], Mike is from [[Denver]], and Charlie is still ambiguously British/American. In the book, all the character's nationalities were ambiguous.
* [[Perpetual Smiler]]: Willy Wonka always seems to be cheery and perky, but [[Stepford Smiler|this is hinted to be a front to cope with his daddy issues]].
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Both this and the original film address the problem that at the moment Charlie begins the factory tour in the book, he becomes a completely passive non-entity who does nothing to earn the prize at the end outside of staying out of trouble.
* [[Production Posse]]: [[Johnny Depp]] and [[Tim Burton]].
** [[Helena Bonham Carter]] turns up, too.
* [[Regal Ringlets]]: Veruca, the upper class brat.
* [[Revised Ending]]: There's some pretty crazy [[Adaptation Expansion]] here.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Veruca Salt, and Violet's mother.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** The toothpaste factory Mr. Bucket works for is called ''Smilex''; Wonka's throne is the same one used by [[Jack Nicholson|The Joker]] during the parade scene from Burton's ''[[Batman (film)|
** "[[Hair (theatre)|The Earth says]]... [[Hello]]!"
* [[Signature Style]]: Tim Burton likes to create a contrast between places of wonder, which are bright and colorful, and mundane places, which are dark and dreary. In the context of a Roald Dahl adaptation, it works.
* [[Smug Snake]]: While Depp's Wonka has his [[Magnificent Bastard]] side to him, he's played more like this with his [[Stepford Smiler|fake smiles]] and mannerisms. He has his own introduction song sing about what a great and brilliant guy he is, and he's so certain that Charlie will abandon his own family to own the chocolate factory that he goes into a depression when Charlie refuses, [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|being unable to
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Violet's mom.
** Willy Wonka also seems to be one
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* [[Technology Porn]]: The opening sequence showing the creation of the chocolate bars.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Violet and Veruca.
* [[Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000]]: It's hard not to wonder whether Tim Burton read [https://web.archive.org/web/20110120131631/http://www.bookofratings.com/wonka.html this]. Having Mike be from [[Columbine|suburban Denver, Colorado]] was most likely just the icing on the cake.
* [[Watch Out for That Tree]]: Wonka and glass doors. *thud*
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Dr. Wonka, DDS.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: Due to the book never being clear on whether Charlie Bucket and the Factory are located in England or America, Burton purposely made it ambiguous in the film; English and American accents are thrown around indiscriminately, people drive on the right in some scenes and the left in others, and paper money consists of bluish-pink "guinea" notes.
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