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Willy Wonka is a fictional character appearing in British author Roald Dahl 's 1964 children's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, its 1972 sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and several films based on those books. He is the eccentric founder and proprietor of the Wonka Chocolate Factory. [1]
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Willy Wonka is a character in the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, its sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and the 1971 and 2005 film adaptations of the former.
The book and the film depict an odd Willy Wonka, a phoenix-like man arising from his creative and eccentric genius. He bewilders the other characters with his antics, but Charlie enjoys Mr. Wonka's behaviour. In the 2005 film adaptation, Willy Wonka's behavior is viewed more as a sympathetic character flaw, but in the 1971 film adaptation, Wonka tells Charlie "I can't go on forever, and I don't intend to try", so he wanted to find a sweet child to who he could entrust his candy making secrets. He is also very clever.
1971 film adaptation
Candy-maker Willy Wonka hid five Golden Tickets amongst his famous "Wonka Bars". The finders of these special tickets would be given a full tour of his tightly guarded candy factory as well as a lifetime supply of chocolate. The contest set off a global craze, with everyone desperately seeking the tickets. They were eventually found by five children from around the world: Augustus Gloop from West Germany, Violet Beauregarde and Mike Teavee from the United States, and Veruca Salt and Charlie Bucket from the United Kingdom.
Mr. Wonka invited the children and their guardians into the factory, during which he gave them a tour of the factory. They soon came across Willy's chocolate river which Augustus started drinking out of (despite Wonka's attempts to stop him) and ended up with the greedy boy falling into the river and being sucked through the chocolate pipe, eventually leading him to the Fudge Room which Willy sent Augustus' mother to so she could retrieve him.
After a terrifying boat ride, Wonka took the party to the Inventing Room. The room is home to Wonka's new (and still insufficiently tested) candies, such as Everlasting Gobstoppers, exploding candy and Wonka's greatest idea so far, The Three-Course Dinner Chewing Gum. This gum is a three course dinner all in itself, "Tomato Soup, Roast Beef & Baked Potato, and the dessert, Blueberry Pie". However, once the chewer gets to the dessert, there is a side effect: they turn into a giant "blueberry". This is revealed when Violet ended up trying the gum, only to turn purple and become a giant blueberry, which led to her being subsequently taken to the Juicing Room to be squeezed before she explodes. The tour then left the Inventing Room to view the lick-able wallpaper and then into the bubble room where fizzy lifting drinks are produced. Wonka refused to allow the children to sample some due to them being "still too powerful", but Charlie and Grandpa Joe disobeyed Wonka's directive rule and sample some; they floated to the ceiling and nearly get sucked into a turbine fan before burping back to the ground.
Next, the tour visited the room containing geese that lay golden chocolate eggs. Veruca Salt tried to take one for herself, singing her musical number "I want it now!", but fell down the eggdicator and to the garbage chute. Her father ran to see what had happened, but tripped and fell down the chute after his daughter, both of them judged "bad eggs". The tour then rode the Wonkamobile through the factory while being sprayed by foam.
The tour then visited the television room where a television invention called Wonkavision produces unusually large chocolate bars into a picture on a television screen that the person at home can take out of the screen. Mike Teevee disobeyed Mr. Wonka's orders and allowed himself to be shrunken and put on television by the Wonka camera. To Mike and his Mum's horror, Mr. Wonka revealed that the damage done to Mike was unfixable and the only way to make him normal again was stretching him from the "Taffy puller".
9318922. Followed by. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka.
- Roald Dahl
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