Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory/Awesome
- For this troper, her favorite movie to watch on her family's VCR as a tot was Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The CMoA comes when Wonka reveals the Chocolate Room to the tour group: it's a vibrantly colorful wonderland that the camera and score treat with a quiet, respectful awe. And suddenly we hear Wonka in voiceover: "Hold your breath. Make a wish. Count to three," which leads into the lovely, haunting, joyful musical number "Pure Imagination". The way he keeps holding the group back as they progress down the stairs, the little punchline involving the buttercup...even at 30 this troper can't take her eyes off the screen as it unspools. (Runner-up CMoA moment: his response to Veruca Salt asking what a snozzberry is.)
- The troper who wrote the above entry also loves the 2005 version of the novel. That Wonka gets his CMoA when Veruca adamantly continues to demand a squirrel despite his already having turned down her father's offer to buy one for her. Wonka's response? He imitates Mr. Salt perfectly ("I'm sorry, darling. Mr. Wonka's being unreasonable.") just to mock them.
- Grandpa Joe gets most of the glory since he accompanies Charlie to Willy Wonka's factory, but grumpy Grandpa George has a CMoA in the Tim Burton film when he responds to Charlie's suggestion that they sell his golden ticket by telling him, "There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket -- there's only five of them in the whole world, and that's all there's ever going to be. Only a dummy would give this up for something as common as money. Are you a dummy?...Then get that mud off your pants. You've got a factory to go to!"
- Charlie is sometimes accused of being a Pinball Protagonist, at least he actually tries to help the others when there in trouble.
- Like when he held out the giant lollipop for Agustus to grab. It may not have been all that awesome, but at least he actually tried.
- He was the first to notice that Agustus was too close to the river.
- Or when the tour was done, he asked Wonka, not about his prize, but about the other kids.
- Like when he held out the giant lollipop for Agustus to grab. It may not have been all that awesome, but at least he actually tried.