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IMDB rating: 7.70 Plot: Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by ‘Gene Wilder’(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by ‘Jack Albertson’ (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done? |
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Actors: Wilder Gene,Albertson Jack,Ostrum Peter,Kinnear Roy,Stone Leonard,Themmen Paris,Bollner Michael,Woods Aubrey,Battley David,Meisner Gunter,Family,Musical,Fantasy,Comedy,
Have you ever noticed how much Black Comedy is in Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory?
I’m talking about the classic film with GENE WILDER, not the newer one.
That whole scene where Willy Wonka seems to push Augustus Gloop into the Chocolate River (comedically timed so that it is hard to tell whether Gloop just falls in himself or whether Wonka pushes him in). Willy Wonka them seems to enjoy the suspense of watching him die. Watch just this one scene – and you will see what I am talking about Black Comedy here. Classic.
The whole factory seems to be a series of death traps that Wonka is luring society that he hates so much into; to die. Of course, not for real – because Wonka is ONLY the dreamer of dreams. But this is an amazing satire on society – teachers, kids, greedy businemen, and all of us actually if you think about it.
MQ: Do you like ‘We Are The Music Makers’ by Apex Twin?
That’s Aphex Twin. I mispelled the name above.
I would say it’s not just the movie, but that most things written by Roald Dahl have black comedy in, and that one is definitely a satire of society as well, particularly with the different types of kids and their parents. It was Dahl’s style to write about people-hating.
My favourite of his stories would be either George’s Marvellous Medicine (full of revenge on spiteful grandma comedy) or The Landlady (about a landlady taxidermist who kills and stuffs ANYthing).









