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Author [[Roald Dahl]] adapted his own novel, [[Leslie Bricusse]] and [[Anthony Newley]] wrote a memorable musical score, and producer [[David Wolper]] wisely cast [[Gene Wilder]] as Wonka in this film musical about a contest put on by an often-sadistic candymaker. Harkening back to the classic Hollywood musicals, ''Willy Wonka'' is surreal, yet playful at the same time, and suffused with [[Harper Goff]]'s jaw-dropping color sets, which richly live up to the fanciful world found in one of the film's signature songs, "Pure Imagination." Wilder's brilliant portrayal of the enigmatic Wonka caused theatergoers to like and fear Wonka at the same time, while the hallucinogenic tunnel sequence has traumatized children (and adults) for decades, their nightmares indelibly emblazoned in memory like the scariest scenes from ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]].''
In 2005 it was remade as ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'', starring [[Johnny Depp]] as Willy Wonka.▼
''(Description copied from [https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/descriptions-and-essays/ "Brief Descriptions and Expanded Essays of National Film Registry Titles"], which the Library of Congress has placed into the public domain. See also the LOC's [https://www.loc.gov/programs/static/national-film-preservation-board/documents/willy_wonka.pdf Expanded essay by Brian Scott Mednick].)''
The film was named to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2014. ▼
▲In 2005 it was remade as ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'', starring [[Johnny Depp]] as Willy Wonka. The 2023 film ''[[Wonka]]'' is a prequel to the story (detailing a younger Wonka's origins and rise to fame) that uses the continuity of the 1971 movie.
▲The film was named to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2014.
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* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Wonka's random bursts of French and German.
** There's also a bicultural version. When Mr. Beauregarde asks Mr. Salt what business he's in, he replies "Nuts." To a Brit this may seem like a very straightforward answer, but in the US it's the equivalent of "Get stuffed."
* [[Blatant Lies]]: "You're going to love this. Just love it."
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: Wonka cares more about the production and the quality of confectionery than the safety of children. I have been told that this is not usual.
** Granted, he is testing them, so his concerns for their safety are probably nonexistent. Plus, he talks about the solutions as if they were standard emergency procedures, likely because they do have accidents like those from time to time.
* [[Book Ends]]: The DVD Commentary begins and ends with Denise Nickerson (Violet) asking for gum.
* [[Brick Joke]]:
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** Violet tells Veruca, "Can it, you nit!", and then says to her, "Stop squawking, you twit!". Finally Grandpa Joe says she won't listen to Wonka "Because she's a nitwit."
* [[Broken Aesop]]: Charlie is no more able to resist temptation than the other children. He (and Grandpa Joe) simply have 1) the good sense to not give in while everyone else is standing around and 2) the good fortune to survive relatively intact after doing so.
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*** Not that they really had had much of a chance to do so before their own personal misfortunes...
* [[Burping Contest]]: Charlie and Grandpa Joe have one to bring themselves down after ingesting Wonka's Fizzy Lifting Drinks.
* [[Call Back]]: When Wonka meets the contest winners for the first time, he says, "Come! We have so much time and so little to see!" Then he stops and says, "Wait. Strike that, reverse it!" At the end of the movie, when Charlie wins the contest, he makes the same joke.
* [[Casual Danger Dialogue]]: Wonka is pretty much like this throughout the movie. He reaches his high point when Mike decides to jump into the TV teleporter; Wonka, having given warnings to the other kids before the factory claims them, attempts to warn Mike in a tone somewhere between [[Deadpan Snarker|exhausted and bored]]. You can tell the guy's done caring by this point.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Willy Wonka.
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** Arguably, given how Veruca treats her father, he reacts to it as if he may finally be rid of her!
*** Or, alternately, the laughter could be because he's in shock.
* [[Conspicuously Light Patch]]: In an incredibly rare live-action version, the daffodil-teacup Wonka plucks and drinks from at the end of "Pure Imagination" is clearly a different color from all the other daffodils in the patch, being a much brighter yellow (and slightly translucent, to boot, where the others look more like china). This is because it was made of wax, so he could bite it, while the others were probably plaster.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Grandpa Joe.
* [[Crowd Song]]
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* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Veruca Salt.
* [[Enforced Method Acting]]
** The cast wasn't allowed to see the Chocolate Room set until the moment when
** Similarly, the scene when the Oompa Loompas walk out for the first time was unscripted; all the reactions that the actors have to them are real.
** Charlie's reaction to Wonka declaring he would get nothing due to defying the contract ("''Good day sir!''") is also genuine; in rehearsals Gene Wilder (Wonka) intentionally held back how angry he would be so Peter Ostrum (Charlie) would be surprised.
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* [[Food Porn]]: The opening, for those who love chocolate.
* [[Free Prize At the Bottom]]: The golden tickets being hidden inside candy wrappers is a variant of this trope.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Unlike the novel, Wonka does not even try to hide the fact that Butterscotch and Buttergin are alcoholic beverages, telling Mr. Salk (who inquires about them) that "Candy is dandy, [[But Liquor Is Quicker|but liquor is quicker]]!"
* [[Greek Chorus]]: The Oompa-Loompas.
* [[Good All Along]]: "Slugworth" turns out to be Wonka's employee, posing a [[Secret Test of Character]] to the contest winners.
* [[Grumpy Old Man]]: Grandpa George.
* [[Hollywood Law]]: Wonka makes the children sign a contract before the factory tour. A minor cannot legally enter into a contract. In real life, their parents (or, in Charlie's case, Grandpa Joe) would have had to sign for them.
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* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: "Spitting is a dirty habit." As she's picking her nose.
{{quote|'''Wonka:''' I know a worse one.}}
* [["I Am" Song]]: Played with: "The Candy Man" celebrates a title character who hasn't been seen in years and who turns out to be more eccentric and tricky than the song implies. Wonka himself sings "Pure Imagination", which not only fits better, but has some of the best "I Am" ''
* [[I'm Thinking It Over]]: "It's your husband's life or your case of Wonka Bars!"
* [["I Want" Song]]: Veruca has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRTkCHE1sS4 "I Want It Now"], appropriately enough, which crosses this over with [[Villain Song]].
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* [[Oktoberfest]]: During the scene where we first meet Augustus Gloop.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]
** Several examples during the world-wide scramble for the golden tickets, but the standout is probably the English comedy-actor [[The Goodies|Tim Brooke-Taylor]] as a... peeved... computer operator. (See [[{{PAGENAME}}/Radar|Getting Crap Past the Radar]]
** David Battley as the teacher Mr. Turkentine...who can't seem to do a lick of math (or chemistry). The director mentioned that Battley's part was originally going to be very small, but was expanded slightly because he did such a wonderful job.
* [[One-Book Author]]: Peter Ostrum, who played Charlie, never acted again after this movie. He's now a veterinarian.
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* [[Read the Fine Print]]: Part of the ''"You lose!"'' rant points out a clause concerning Fizzy Lifting Drinks. A very ''small'' clause.
* [[Recognition Failure]]: Mrs. Teevee confidently identifies the theme from Mozart's ''Magic Flute'' that Wonka uses for a [[Songs in the Key of Lock|passcode]] as a composition by Rachmaninoff.
* [[Secret Test]]: The Slugworth plot, which serves to show that at least some of Wonka's quirkiness was [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] so that no one formed any outside attachment to him.
* [[Shrink Ray]]: The Wonkavision TV camera that shrinks down thing (and people).
* [[Solid Gold Poop]]: The geese that lay [[Squick|golden chocolate eggs]].
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The bratty kids, especially Violet.
* [[Too Many Halves]]: Willy says "Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple." Mrs. Teevee points out that that adds up to 105%.
* [[Truth In Television]]: While most of Mr. Wonka's factory is pure fantasy, his statement that he's making the geese work even through Easter in over to stock up for next year is, in fact, standard operating procedure for any product that is only sold during a holiday season. A company has to manufacture it all year and store it, because the demand for it during the month or so when it's sold is overwhelming.
* [[Unreliable Expositor]]: Wonka himself.
* [[What Is This, X?]]: During the boat ride:
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