Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film): Difference between revisions

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[[File:charlie-willy-wonka-400ds07.jpg|frame|[[Gene Wilder]] vs. [[Johnny Depp]]]]

 

 

[[Broken Base|Fans are divided]] on which is the superior film.

 

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Cloning Blues]]: Not the Oompa-Loompas, but rather the actor playing them.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]:

* [[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.

* [[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]].

* [[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.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Willy Wonka and Mike Teevee.

** Veruca gets her moments, too.

'''Veruca Salt:''' [[Brutal Honesty|You could put her in]] [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|a county fair.]] }}

* [[Depraved Dentist]]: Wonka's father.

* [[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.

{{quote|'''Wonka:''' ''(in a dazed way)'' I'm sorry, I was having a flashback.

'''Mike Teavee's Dad:''' ''(disturbed)'' These flashbacks happen often?

'''Wonka:''' Increasingly...today. }}

* [[The Film of the Book]]

* [[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!"

* [[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''.

'''Wonka:''' ''(throws down the newspaper he's reading)'' "I do not!" }}

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Mike Teevee.

* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]:

{{quote|'''Wonka:''' That's what you get from chewing gum all day. It's just disgusting.

** 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]]:

'''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.

* [[Mouthy Kid]]: Mike.

* [[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.

* [[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]].

* [[Production Posse]]: [[Johnny Depp]] and [[Tim Burton]].

** [[Helena Bonham Carter]] turns up, too.

* [[Revised Ending]]: There's some pretty crazy [[Adaptation Expansion]] here.

* [[Rich Bitch]]: Veruca Salt, and Violet's mother.

* [[Shout-Out]]:

** "[[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.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Violet's mom.

** Willy Wonka also seems to be one

* [[Technology Porn]]: The opening sequence showing the creation of the chocolate bars.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Violet and Veruca.

* [[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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