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** Not to mention "The Candy Man", which became a huge hit and SignatureSong for Sammy Davis, Jr.
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* FirstInstallmentWins: As evidenced by the thirty-four year head start, the NostalgiaFilter, VindicatedByCable, a soundtrack full of [[EarWorm Ear Worms]], a higher score on the Tomatometer (especially among general audiences), a career highlight performance from GeneWilder (even the most ardent JohnnyDepp fans will usually concede that he was miscast as Wonka), and being the basis of [[CharlieAndTheChocolateParody an entire parody trope]]... the ''only'' edges that the modern adaptation has is being more faithful to the book, the box-office grosses, which is a pretty decent consolation prize for the studio.
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* UnfortunateImplications: Wonka uproots an entire tribe of beings and moves them to his factory to work there... The Oompa Loompas may or may not be paid, but they're certainly not allowed to leave.
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** There were a few candy bars, all from 1999-2010. They were: the original Wonka Bar, which had graham crackers; the Xploder Bar, with Pop Rocks; Wonka Donutz (exactly what it sounds like); and the Wonka Exceptionals line of upscale treats.
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*** There might also be something to the fact that Charlie was the only one that was '''led''' to temptation instead of leading himself there. Augustus drank the chocolate river, Violet grabbed the gum from Wonka, Veruca threw the tantrum and stood on the scale, Mike turned on the Wonkavision remote control, ''Grandpa Joe'' suggested drinking the Fizzy Lifting Drinks. Charlie merely followed along. It's likely that Charlie wouldn't have done anything if not for Grandpa Joe (he was already on his way to the next room,) whereas Augustus, Veruca, Violet, and Mike all committed their "sins" all on their own. Had it merely been the kids on the tour without their guardians, Charlie wouldn't have done anything.
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*** And we're just supposed to assume that none of the other kids (well, except [[SpoiledBrat Veruca]]) would have done the same had they made it to the end? While the 2005 adaptation plays up the other kids as being jerks in order to make it clearer that Charlie is the only good kid, this film doesn't really show anything wrong with, say, Mike except for the fact that he watches too much television, and the only difference between Mike going into the TV and Charlie drinking the fizzy drinks is that Mike couldn't just miraculously ''burp'' his way out of the TV. Instead, the only reason we're supposed to assume that Charlie would have given back the gobstobber and Mike would not have is because Charlie is the DesignatedHero of the film and Mike isn't.
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* FirstInstallmentWins: As evidenced by the thirty-four year head start, the NostalgiaFilter, VindicatedByCable, a soundtrack full of [[EarWorm Ear Worms]], a higher score on the Tomatometer (especially among general audiences), a career highlight performance from GeneWilder (even the most ardent JohnnyDepp fans will usually concede that he was miscast as Wonka), and being the basis of [[CharlieAndTheChocolateParody an entire parody trope]]... the ''only'' edge that the modern adaptation has is the box-office grosses, which is a pretty decent consolation prize for the studio.
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** Not quite, he does realize his actions and gave back his everlasting gobstobber as an apology.
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*** Also comes into play during the emotional climax; when Wonka is angrily reading back the fine print of the contact Charlie signed, he interjects ''et cetera, et cetera!'' every couple of words because ''the copy of the document is also in half!''
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** [[FridgeBrilliance She wanted too much. Charlie only wanted his family to have enough to eat and a nice place to live.]]
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Let me just make this clear... I love the book, but there\'s a ton of problems that bug me about this film adaptation.
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** Is Charlie really any better than the other kids? See DesignatedHero below.
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* BrokenAesop: Wonka's final line in the film. "You remember what happened to the boy who got everything he wanted? He lived happily ever after." Oh, okay. So when the ''girl'' gets everything she wants, she is a SpoiledBrat and gets punished for it?
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* DesignatedHero: In a scene that [[AdaptationExpansion was not in the]] [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory original book]] (nor was included in the 2005 adaptation), Charlie gives in to temptation and drinks the fizzy lifting drink behind Wonka's back, and ends up in danger because of it. Just like all the naughty kids do (Augustus with the chocolate, Violet with the gum, etc.). The only reason that Charlie, not Mike, becomes the last kid standing? He just happened to ''burp'' before he got shredded by the ceiling fan. Burping does not make Charlie any better than the other kids. This would be as if the pipe that sucked up Augustus just happened to break and drop him off on dry land next to Wonka and the other kids. It was not Charlie's character which saved him from sharing the same fate as the other kids... it was just pure luck and conveniently well-timed belching. ''Yes'', Charlie ''did'' pass the SecretTestOfCharacter at the end, but that's because he was the last kid standing... if any of the other kids (except maybe [[SpoiledBrat Veruca]]) made it to the end, how are we supposed to know that they ''wouldn't'' have passed the test? Just because they didn't have the same luck as Charlie when they gave in to the same temptation that he did? tl;dr, Charlie is not a hero because he was a strong character who resisted temptation; he's a hero because he gave in to temptation and simply got lucky enough to escape without consequences.
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* MemeticMutation: '''''"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDEdKzAZgko You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!]]"'''''
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* MemeticMutation: '''''"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDEdKzAZgko com/watch?v=M5QGkOGZubQ You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!]]"'''''
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* MemeticMutation: '''''"[[http://a953.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/62/l_e1874c871070585b55e33121dd33c290.gif You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!]]"'''''
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* MemeticMutation: '''''"[[http://a953.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/62/l_e1874c871070585b55e33121dd33c290.gif '''''"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDEdKzAZgko You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!]]"'''''
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** The Half Room, Wonka's office, is a visual treat. Wonka's balancing on half a chair, retrieves papers from half a safe, even the wallpaper is in half strips.
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** It's also a DisneyAcidSequence and total NightmareFuel.
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*** The "Condescending Wonka" snark humor account on {{Twitter}} has grown popular as well.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Pure Imagination". Among other things, it was repurposed for an ad for some high-tech product recently...
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Pure Imagination". Among other things, it was repurposed for an ad for some high-tech product recently...AT&T.
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* FirstInstallmentWins: As evidenced by the thirty-four year head start, the NostalgiaFilter, VindicatedByCable, a soundtrack full of [[EarWorm Ear Worms]], a higher score on the Tomatometer (especially among general audiences), a career highlight performance from GeneWilder (even the most ardent JohnnyDepp fans will usually concede that he was miscast as Wonka), and being the basis of [[CharlieAndTheChocolateParody an entire parody trope]]... the ''only'' edge that the modern adaptation has is the box-office grosses, which is a pretty decent consolation prize for the studio.
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* VindicatedByHistory / VindicatedByCable: A box-office disappointment when initially released, it found its audience through TV and home video, becoming the 1970s equivalent of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. (Curiously enough, RogerEbert's original review outright praised it as being the best kids' film since ''Oz''!)
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* VindicatedByHistory / VindicatedByCable: A box-office disappointment when initially released, it found its audience through TV and home video, becoming the 1970s equivalent of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. (Curiously enough, RogerEbert's Creator/RogerEbert's original review outright praised it as being the best kids' film since ''Oz''!)
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** Not to mention "The Candy Man", which became a huge hit and SignatureSong for Sammy Davis, Jr.
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** Charlie himself is another example. Poor, broken family, can barely afford the chocolate that gets him in the family, well-meaning but admonished by Wonka for the [[spoiler:Fizzy Lifting Drinks]] incident. [[EarnYourHappyEnding He does win out in the end, though]].
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* InformedWrongness: Wonka is portrayed as cold and heartless for denying Charlie the factory and Grandpa Joe begins shouting at him. Except... Wonka has every right to deny Charlie his prize because Charlie did drink the soda. The worst thing is, is that it was Grandpa Joe's idea!
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* TheyJustDidntCare: The HDDVD and BluRay transfer. (Fits some elements of DigitalDestruction, minus the digital causes.) The movie was shot using the entire 35mm film frame, including the portions on the left reserved for the soundtrack, but framed for the usual width (not including the left), so that extra stuff on the left is not intended to be seen. The new HD transfer uses the entire film width, meaning that everything that should be centered is off to the right; more is not always better. (Other sections, such as the main title and certain Oompa Loompa songs, didn't have that extra space but are transferred at the same size, then windowboxed! That is, the movie starts out obviously sloppy.) WB has not shown any interest in fixing this.
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*** The commentary even points out that there was already a news crew waiting for one of Mr. Salt's workers to find a ticket.
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** Also Grandpa Joe accuses Wonka of being an [[CompleteMonster inhuman monster]] for crushing Charlie's dream.
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* CueIrony: Julie Dawn Cole, who played the rich SpoiledBrat Veruca Salt, actually comes from a very poor family, she and her sister being raised by a single mother.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The 1971 film is more familiar to many people than the book -- to the point that there were complaints about the 2005 film making stuff up when what it was actually doing was restoring things that were in the book but left out or changed for the 1971 film.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Was Wonka's infamous rant (under MemeticMutation) an OutOfCharacter moment, or a [[HiddenDepths subconcious]] BerserkButton?
** Some people think Grandpa Joe is a selfish jerk. He says that he'd help Charlie support the family if he could get out of bed, but the only time we actually see him trying is so he can go to the chocolate factory. Him taking the fizzy lifting drinks and willingness to sell out to Slugworth after Wonka's rant are also sometimes held against him.
** Also Grandpa Joe accuses Wonka of being an [[CompleteMonster inhuman monster]] for crushing Charlie's dream.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Pure Imagination". Among other things, it was repurposed for an ad for some high-tech product recently...
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The tunnel scene, which comes and then is never mentioned again, even though realistically such an event would likely cause the characters to ''demand to be let out of this factory''. Ironically, it's probably the movie's most famous scene.
* CoveredUp: "The Rowing Song", whose cover as "Prelude (The Family Trip)" was made [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning a bit more disturbing]] by Music/MarilynManson.
* EarWorm: "Oompa-Loompa-Doopa-de-do, I've got another puzzle for you..."
* GeniusBonus: After Wonka plays the musical lock, Mrs. [=TeeVee=] says "Rachmaninoff" knowledgeably. The joke is that the music is actually from the overture to Mozart's opera "Le nozze di Figaro", a rather obscure reference to non-musicians/opera fans.
** The man from Paraguay who gets caught counterfeiting a Golden Ticket is represented by a picture of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bormann Martin Bormann]], the former chairman of the Nazi Party, who at the time was widely believed to be living under an assumed name in South America.
* HilariousInHindsight: Despite being known as "the amazing chocolatier", the most popular {{defictionaliz|ation}}ed Wonka-brand candy is fruit flavored, like Runts and Nerds (especially the banana Runts- fans apparently lobby Wonka all the time for a banana-only box). You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who's eaten a Wonka bar, and the other candy mentioned in the book, the Everlasting Gobstopper, seems to have seriously dipped in popularity since the 1990s.
* MagnificentBastard: Wonka takes sadistic delight in punishing children in his whimsical death-traps and then mocking parents afraid for their offspring's lives.
-->'''Mrs. Gloop:''' ''(as her son drowns in a river of chocolate)'' He can't swim!
-->'''Wonka:''' [[DeadpanSnarker There's no better time to learn.]]
** 'Slugworth''s prompt appearance wherever the tickets were found seemed to imply that Wonka knew where said tickets were going to go. Now true, the first four tickets were filmed, so time could have passed between the finding and the news report, but 'Slugworth' appearing in Charlie's path stretches coincidence a bit far unless Wonka planned for the tickets to be placed in certain locations.
*** The commentary even points out that there was already a news crew waiting for one of Mr. Salt's workers to find a ticket.
* MemeticMolester: The candyman...the candyman can? Seriously, kids, haven't you learned not to take candy from strangers? Why can't he just sell them and be done with it? No...he has to practically seduce these kids with SUGAR and dance around them very suspiciously.
* MemeticMutation: '''''"[[http://a953.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/62/l_e1874c871070585b55e33121dd33c290.gif You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!]]"'''''
** Commonly used in the [[http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/207/234/you-must-be-new-here-willy-wonka.jpg "You Must Be New Here" meme.]]
* OlderThanTheyThink / WeirdAlEffect: Many people attribute the literary quotes by Wonka to this film.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Was Wonka's infamous rant (under MemeticMutation) an OutOfCharacter moment, or a [[HiddenDepths subconcious]] BerserkButton?
** Some people think Grandpa Joe is a selfish jerk. He says that he'd help Charlie support the family if he could get out of bed, but the only time we actually see him trying is so he can go to the chocolate factory. Him taking the fizzy lifting drinks and willingness to sell out to Slugworth after Wonka's rant are also sometimes held against him.
** Also Grandpa Joe accuses Wonka of being an [[CompleteMonster inhuman monster]] for crushing Charlie's dream.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Pure Imagination". Among other things, it was repurposed for an ad for some high-tech product recently...
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The tunnel scene, which comes and then is never mentioned again, even though realistically such an event would likely cause the characters to ''demand to be let out of this factory''. Ironically, it's probably the movie's most famous scene.
* CoveredUp: "The Rowing Song", whose cover as "Prelude (The Family Trip)" was made [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning a bit more disturbing]] by Music/MarilynManson.
* EarWorm: "Oompa-Loompa-Doopa-de-do, I've got another puzzle for you..."
* GeniusBonus: After Wonka plays the musical lock, Mrs. [=TeeVee=] says "Rachmaninoff" knowledgeably. The joke is that the music is actually from the overture to Mozart's opera "Le nozze di Figaro", a rather obscure reference to non-musicians/opera fans.
** The man from Paraguay who gets caught counterfeiting a Golden Ticket is represented by a picture of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bormann Martin Bormann]], the former chairman of the Nazi Party, who at the time was widely believed to be living under an assumed name in South America.
* HilariousInHindsight: Despite being known as "the amazing chocolatier", the most popular {{defictionaliz|ation}}ed Wonka-brand candy is fruit flavored, like Runts and Nerds (especially the banana Runts- fans apparently lobby Wonka all the time for a banana-only box). You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who's eaten a Wonka bar, and the other candy mentioned in the book, the Everlasting Gobstopper, seems to have seriously dipped in popularity since the 1990s.
* MagnificentBastard: Wonka takes sadistic delight in punishing children in his whimsical death-traps and then mocking parents afraid for their offspring's lives.
-->'''Mrs. Gloop:''' ''(as her son drowns in a river of chocolate)'' He can't swim!
-->'''Wonka:''' [[DeadpanSnarker There's no better time to learn.]]
** 'Slugworth''s prompt appearance wherever the tickets were found seemed to imply that Wonka knew where said tickets were going to go. Now true, the first four tickets were filmed, so time could have passed between the finding and the news report, but 'Slugworth' appearing in Charlie's path stretches coincidence a bit far unless Wonka planned for the tickets to be placed in certain locations.
*** The commentary even points out that there was already a news crew waiting for one of Mr. Salt's workers to find a ticket.
* MemeticMolester: The candyman...the candyman can? Seriously, kids, haven't you learned not to take candy from strangers? Why can't he just sell them and be done with it? No...he has to practically seduce these kids with SUGAR and dance around them very suspiciously.
* MemeticMutation: '''''"[[http://a953.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/62/l_e1874c871070585b55e33121dd33c290.gif You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!]]"'''''
** Commonly used in the [[http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/207/234/you-must-be-new-here-willy-wonka.jpg "You Must Be New Here" meme.]]
* OlderThanTheyThink / WeirdAlEffect: Many people attribute the literary quotes by Wonka to this film.
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* VindicatedByHistory / VindicatedByCable: A box-office disappointment when initially released, it found its audience through TV and home video, becoming the 1970s equivalent of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. (Curiously enough, RogerEbert's original review outright praised it as being the best kids' film since ''Oz''!)
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Augustus Gloop and the tunnel sequence.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The reason why it has earned a reputation as a StonerFlick.
* TheWoobie: A minor example in Mr. Salt. Did he and his wife spoil Veruca? You bet. Are they responsible for her monstrous personality? No doubt. Even knowing this, does the look on his face when she calls him a "rotten mean father" (As though he were about to burst into tears) make you feel legitimately bad for the guy? Absolutely.
* VindicatedByHistory / VindicatedByCable: A box-office disappointment when initially released, it found its audience through TV and home video, becoming the 1970s equivalent of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. (Curiously enough, RogerEbert's original review outright praised it as being the best kids' film since ''Oz''!)
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Augustus Gloop and the tunnel sequence.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The reason why it has earned a reputation as a StonerFlick.
* TheWoobie: A minor example in Mr. Salt. Did he and his wife spoil Veruca? You bet. Are they responsible for her monstrous personality? No doubt. Even knowing this, does the look on his face when she calls him a "rotten mean father" (As though he were about to burst into tears) make you feel legitimately bad for the guy? Absolutely.
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** Several examples during the world-wide scramble for the golden tickets, but the standout is probably the English comedy-actor [[Series/TheGoodies Tim Brooke-Taylor]] as a... peeved... computer operator.
** 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.
** Several examples during the world-wide scramble for the golden tickets, but the standout is probably the English comedy-actor [[Series/TheGoodies Tim Brooke-Taylor]] as a... peeved... computer operator.
** 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.
