"inside the factory, giving Wonka an idea. Charlie returns to the decrepit shack he lives in, which he shares with his mother and four bed-ridden grandparents: Grandpa George, Grandma Georgina, Grandpa Joe, and Grandma Josephine. Charlie and Grandpa Joe play a pretend, game recalling how the latter became Wonka's security guard (""Charlie, You and I"") before his mother comes home, giving Charlie an old notebook for homework. Charlie daydreams and scribbles a letter to Willy Wonka, suggesting new candies he should consider inventing, before folding it into a paper airplane and tossing it out the window into the night (""A"
"contains a three-course meal. Violet and her father are overjoyed, as they believe the new product can catapult Violet into gum superstardom. Despite Wonka's warning that there is a problem with the dessert course and the gum is not yet safe to chew, Violet takes the gum and accidentally swallows it. The excess of juice in the gum causes her to swell up and turn into a human blueberry. Wonka sends Violet and her father to the Oompa Loompas for help, and is quickly distracted from the situation by Mrs. Teavee asking about the origin of the Oompa Loompas. Wonka"
"Wonka exudes none of the gravity required for the role. It's as though he didn't take the role seriously. Rather than an intimidating candyman teaching brats a lesson, this Wonka is simply a freak."" Depp received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his role as Willy Wonka, but lost to Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in ""Walk the Line"". Willy Wonka Willy Wonka is a fictional character who appears in Roald Dahl's 1964 children's novel ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" and its sequel ""Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"". In"
"frightening projected images (""There's No Knowing""). Wonka laughs maniacally and the others scream with horror until the boat abruptly vanishes and the party finds themselves in Wonka’s Inventing Room. In the Inventing Room, Wonka reveals one of his creations. A three-course meal in a piece of gum. Heedless of Wonka's half-hearted warnings that the gum is not yet perfected, Violet is unable to resist it (""Chew It"") and blows up into a blueberry and is taken to the Juicing Room to be squeezed before she explodes. The Oompa-Loompas share a warning about the evils of excessive gum-chewing (""Oompa-Loompa Two""). Wonka"
"and personalities. Augustus gets sucked up the pipe after falling into the Chocolate River in the Chocolate Room, Violet blows up into a giant blueberry after sampling an experimental three-course chewing gum meal in the Inventing Room, Veruca is thrown down the rubbish chute in the Nut Room after the nut-testing squirrels consider her a ""bad nut,"" and Mike gets shrunk after he tries to be the first person to be sent by television in the Television Room's Television Chocolate Technology. With only Charlie remaining, Wonka congratulates him for ""winning"" the factory and, after explaining his true age and the"
"a chocolatier's creative freedom, a philosophy he developed due to his dentist father, Dr. Wilbur Wonka, denying his son any candy because of the potential risk to his teeth and forcing him to wear a large and hideously clunky set of braces. After secretly sampling some candy, Wonka was instantly hooked and ran away to follow his dreams. After Charlie refuses his offer, Wonka falls into a state of emotional depression and returns to Charlie to seek advice. Wonka soon reunites with his estranged father and allows Charlie's family to live in the factory, forever. In 2013, an adaptation of"
"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 American musical fantasy family film directed by Mel Stuart, and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. It is an adaptation of the 1964 novel ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" by Roald Dahl. Dahl was credited with writing the film's screenplay; however, David Seltzer, who went uncredited in the film, was brought in to re-work the screenplay against Dahl's wishes, making major changes to the ending and adding musical numbers. These changes and other decisions made by the director led Dahl to disown the film. The"
"Everlasting Gobstopper The Everlasting Gobstopper is both a fictional brand of candy and an actual confection named after the fictional product in the actual film. According to Roald Dahl's book ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", the fictional Everlasting Gobstopper is a candy that not only changes colors and flavors, but can never be finished, and never even gets smaller. It is implied that they may also be indestructible. Factory owner Willy Wonka explained that they were ""for children with very little pocket money"". Although only briefly mentioned in the book and its 2005 film adaptation, the 1971 film adaptation ""Willy"
"into his factory, where he then tempts each of them with a weakness. Finally, only Charlie is left. Willy Wonka and Charlie board Wonka's ""Great Glass Elevator"" which takes off over the audience. Early on in the production of the 2005 film, Nicolas Cage was under discussions for portraying Willy Wonka, but lost interest. Warner Bros. president Alan F. Horn wanted Tom Shadyac to direct Jim Carrey as Willy Wonka, believing the duo could make ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" relevant to mainstream audiences, but Roald Dahl's widow Liccy Dahl opposed this. After Tim Burton was hired as director in"
"on the top left corner. The Willy Wonka Candy Company was first imagined in the pages of Roald Dahl's ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"". The ""Wonka"" property was licensed to film director Mel Stuart; his 10-year-old daughter read ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" and asked her father to make it into a film, obliging him to get ""Uncle Dave"" (producer David L. Wolper) to produce it. Stuart showed the book to Wolper, who was engaged in talks with the Quaker Oats Company. Wolper convinced the Quaker Oats Company into signing the deal for up to $3 million to finance the"
"""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" was released to critical praise and was a box office success, grossing approximately $475 million worldwide, but received mixed to negative reviews when compared with the original 1971 film. A direct-to-video animated crossover film adaptation starring Tom and Jerry, entitled ""Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"", was released in 2017. It stars JP Karliak as Willy Wonka and is dedicated to Gene Wilder, who died less than a year before the release. In October 2016 it was confirmed that Warner Bros are planning a prequel film depicting Willy Wonka's ""early adventures"" prior"
"film version in exchange for the candy bar tie-in. Quaker, who had previous experience in the film industry, bought the rights to the book and financed the picture for the purpose of promoting their new ""Wonka Bar"". The name of Dahl's ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" however was renamed to ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"" for promotion purposes. The new brand was produced by Chicago-based company Breaker Confections (a subsidiary of Quaker Oats), which in 1975 was acquired by Sunmark Corporation of Saint Louis, Missouri. The original Wonka Bars never saw store shelves due to factory production problems prior"
"time and chocolate."" Before going, Charlie confesses that he and Grandpa Joe tasted the Fizzy-Lifting Drinks, and states that he therefore doesn’t deserve the lifetime supply of chocolate he was promised. He apologizes to Wonka and thanks him for the tour. Wonka stops Charlie from leaving and announces that the entire competition was devised with the goal of finding his successor, and that Charlie's behavior and performance prove that he should take over the factory. Wonka then takes them for a ride in the Great Glass Elevator (""Flying"", reprise). Augustus, Violet, Veruca and Mike appear, restored to their former selves,"
"on Call"", funded by Pfizer, highlighting the work of large animal veterinarians. Peter Ostrum Peter Gardner Ostrum (; born November 1, 1957) is an American veterinarian and former child actor whose only film role was as Charlie Bucket in the 1971 motion picture ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"". Ostrum was 12 years old when selected by talent agents for ""Willy Wonka"". Though he enjoyed the experience of shooting the film, he opted not to sign a three-film contract when it was over. After eschewing a career in film and theatre, Ostrum became reluctant to speak about his one starring"
"adaptation of the book of the same name by Roald Dahl. Starring Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and Deep Roy as the Oompa-Loompas, the film generally took a more faithful approach to the source material than the 1971 adaptation, ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"", although some liberties were taken, such as adding Wonka's issue with his father (played by Christopher Lee). ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" was later nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. The film made over $207 million domestically. Filming proved difficult as Burton, Depp, and Danny Elfman had"
"unable to stop inventing, even if it means breaking the rules. Wonka tells Charlie that he has won, and ushers him into his ""Great Glass Elevator"". The two soar above town in the Great Glass Elevator, and Wonka tells Charlie that his grand prize is the chocolate factory (""The View From Here""). He reaches into his pocket and reveals that he received Charlie's letter after all, and wants to begin working on some of Charlie's inventions. As they land back outside the factory, Wonka is immediately ready to begin working but Charlie is concerned about what will happen to his"
"giant strawberries, Will and Holly find a baby apatosaur (or ""brontosaur""). Together they name the dinosaur ""Dopey"". When Holly offers Dopey a strawberry, the apatosaur begins to chase after them and ends up stuck between two trees. It begins yowling and attracts the attention of numerous dinosaurs around the jungle, including the tyrannosaur Grumpy. Will and Holly run, assuming that Dopey will be eaten. They return later to fetch their wagonload of strawberries, and soon find themselves followed by Dopey, who has survived. Rick agrees to let Dopey stay with them at the bluff. Holly trains Dopey to pull a"
"expansion, followed by cows being held captive in small metal boxes while machines continuously milk the cows forcefully. Scarecrow returns to his small farm, seemingly upset by what he witnessed during the workday. He picks a red pepper, which inspires him to harvest other vegetables and open a burrito stand in the city. Above his stand is a banner that reads ""Cultivate a Better World"". The computer-animated film features a cover version of ""Pure Imagination"" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) by Fiona Apple, a song originally performed by Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in the film ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate"
"to help Wonka confront and reconcile with his estranged father; Wonka finally realizes the value of family, while his father learns to accept his son for who he is, and not what he does. In the end, Wonka finally allows Charlie's family to move into the factory. Author Roald Dahl disapproved of the 1971 film adaptation and declined the film rights to produce the sequel, ""Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"". Warner Bros. and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment entered discussions with the Dahl estate in 1991, hoping to purchase the rights to produce another film version of ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory""."
"Company, a division of Nestlé. These bars were discontinued in January 2010 due to poor sales. In Roald Dahl's novel ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" and its film adaptations, a Wonka Bar is a brand of chocolate made by Willy Wonka, and is said to be the ""perfect candy bar"". The wrappers of the 1971 version are brown with an orange and pink border with a top hat over the ""W"" in Wonka, similar to the film's logo, and the candy bars resemble Cadbury Dairy Milk candy bars. In the 2005 version, the wrappers feature different shades of a color"
"Grandpa Joe angrily berates him for destroying the hopes of his grandson. But Wonka snaps him down by losing his patience, yelling in frustration that he said ""Good Day!"". Grandpa Joe vows to get revenge on Wonka by selling the Everlasting Gobstopper to Slugworth (Wonka's rival), but Charlie decides to return the gobstopper to Wonka's desk. Wonka joyfully tells him he's passed his test, reinstates his grand prize, apologizes for putting Charlie through that test, and reveals that ""Slugworth,"" who had been spying on the kids, was actually an employee of his named ""Wilkinson."" The trio enter the great glass"
"The Scarecrow (2013 film) The Scarecrow is a 2013 animated short film and advertisement by the American restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill. The film features Fiona Apple singing a cover version of ""Pure Imagination"", originally performed by Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in the 1971 film ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"". In a dystopian world, the main character, Scarecrow, starts work at the ""smoke-spewing"" Crow Foods Incorporated. He sees a tube extracting a substance labeled ""100% Beef-ish"", but being marketed to consumers as ""all natural"". He then witnesses a robotic crow injecting a chicken with green fluid to promote"
"he does (""Pure Imagination/The Golden Age of Chocolate). Wonka, acting as narrator, introduces the impoverished Bucket family: Mr. And Mrs. Bucket, their young son Charlie, and Charlie's four bedridden grandparents, Grandpa George, Grandma Georgina, Grandpa Joe, and Grandma Josephine. Grandpa Joe assures Charlie that he is destined to work for Wonka making candy, just like he did when he was younger. Unfortunately, Wonka fired all his workers years ago after one of his candy recipes had been stolen and sold to his competitors and locked the gates of his factory forever. Mysteriously, however, the factory has continued to produce candy."
"""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"" (1971) led to a real Willy Wonka candy company, established soon after the film's release. In 1949, Crazy Eddie was created as a fictional car dealer in the film ""A Letter to Three Wives"". That name, bestowed in 1971 upon a real-life electronics chain in New York City, appeared in 1984 in an ad in ""Splash"". Crazy Eddie's memorable ads are parodied in ""Howard the Duck"", featuring a duck version of the famous pitchman, and ""UHF"", as ""Crazy Ernie"", a used car salesman, threatens to club a baby seal if nobody comes in to"
"Rusty Goffe Rusty Goffe (born 30 October 1948) is an English-born actor with dwarfism. Goffe was born and raised in Herne Bay, Kent. He attended Sturry Secondary Modern School. He was married to Sarah Gofee and had 2 children Ben and Jack Goffe. Goffe appeared as an Oompa-Loompa in the 1971 version of ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"" and as a Jawa in """", among a few other aliens. He also appeared in the films ""Willow"" and ""Flash Gordon"". He played Le Muff in the film ""History of the World Part I"" and also played Goober, a purple gremlin"
"Wonka Bar The Wonka Bar is both a fictional candy bar, introduced as a key story point in the 1964 novel ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" by Roald Dahl, and a type of consumer product candy bar inspired by the fictional confection. Wonka Bars appear in both film adaptations of the novel, ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"" (1971) and ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" (2005), and the play ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical"" (2013) each with different packaging. Varieties of Wonka Bars were subsequently manufactured and sold in the real world, formerly by the Willy Wonka Candy"
"""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"" in 1971) began in 1991, which resulted in Warner Bros. providing the Dahl Estate with total artistic control. Prior to Burton's involvement, directors such as Gary Ross, Rob Minkoff, Martin Scorsese and Tom Shadyac had been involved, while actors Bill Murray, Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey, Michael Keaton, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Adam Sandler, and many others, were either in discussion with or considered by the studio to play Wonka. Burton immediately brought regular collaborators Depp and Danny Elfman aboard. ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" represents the first time since ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"" that"
"is actually Mr. Wilkinson, an employee of Wonka, and the offer to buy the Gobstopper was a morality test that only Charlie passed. The trio enter the ""Wonkavator"", a multi-directional glass elevator that flies out of the factory. Soaring over the city, Wonka reveals that his actual prize is the factory; Wonka created the contest to find an heir worthy enough, and so Charlie and his family can immediately move in. Wonka then reminds Charlie not to forget about the man who suddenly received everything he ever wanted. Charlie asks, ""What happened?"" to which Wonka replies, ""He lived happily ever"
"Peter Ostrum Peter Gardner Ostrum (; born November 1, 1957) is an American veterinarian and former child actor whose only film role was as Charlie Bucket in the 1971 motion picture ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"". Ostrum was 12 years old when selected by talent agents for ""Willy Wonka"". Though he enjoyed the experience of shooting the film, he opted not to sign a three-film contract when it was over. After eschewing a career in film and theatre, Ostrum became reluctant to speak about his one starring role. In 1990, he began an annual tradition of speaking to schoolchildren"
"at how tall she grew. In the first episode of ""The Electric Company"", Judy Graubart grows into a giantess while holding up a sign for the kid audience to read that says ""giant"". In the ""Dexter's Laboratory"" episode ""The Big Sister"", Dee Dee becomes a 65 foot giantess after eating an experimental cookie. The ""Animaniacs"" character Katie Ka-Boom sometimes grew giant sized before she turned into a monster. In the ""Phineas and Ferb"" episode ""Attack of the 50 Foot Sister"", Candace Flynn grows into a giantess after she uses some of Phineas and Ferb's growth potion. In the episode ""Pony"
"to buy the rights to the book and finance the picture for the purpose of promoting a new Quaker Oats ""Wonka Bar"". David L. Wolper and Roald Dahl agreed that the film would be a children's musical, and that Dahl himself would write the screenplay. However, Wolper changed the title to ""Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"". Screenwriter David Seltzer conceived a gimmick exclusively for the film that had Wonka quoting numerous literary sources, such as Arthur O'Shaughnessy's ""Ode"", Oscar Wilde's ""The Importance of Being Earnest"", Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" and William Shakespeare's ""The Merchant"
"derivative of his shrink ray which could make objects grow. He tests it out on Adam's favorite toy, Big Bunny. However, when his and Nick's backs are turned, Adam attempts to retrieve it and is zapped by the machine, which appears to short circuit and not enlarge the targeted object. Back home, Adam and Big Bunny are exposed to electrical waves from the microwave oven and grow in size, now seven feet tall. Wayne and Nick try to take him back to the lab to reverse the process, but are caught by Wayne's coworker, Dr. Charles Hendrickson, who dislikes him,"
"large pipe. Wonka, with little apparent concern, directs the Oompa-Loompas to take Mrs. Gloop to the Strawberry-Dipping Room and retrieve Augustus. The Oompa-Loompas share a moral message about the dangers of gluttony (""Oompa-Loompa One""). Wonka and the remaining guests board a pink candy boat. Veruca Salt demands that her father buy her both the boat and one of the Oompa-Loompas. Salt attempts to buy them from Wonka, but Wonka is unimpressed. The boat ride then turns into a psychedelic nightmare as Wonka navigates them through what appears to be a tour of the darker aspects of human imagination, complete with"