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Willy Wonka Movie Comparison

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) is based on the children’s book, which came out in 1964. However, this film is not the first film to come out based on the novel, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) was also filmed. Both films were pretty good to me. In the 2005 version, the famous Johnny Depp stars as Willy Wonka, an unusual and successful chocolate and candy maker who owns an enormous magical factory. Freddie Highmore stars as Charlie Bucket, a young and poor innocent boy who lives near the chocolate factory with his very loving family and is fascinated with Willy Wonka and his candy.
Willy Wonka and his chocolate factory was at its prime, selling thousands and thousands of his famous candy bars all over the world. However, …show more content…

I feel as if they made him look to pale, which made him look like Michael Jackson and Johnny Depp’s Edward Scissorhands in a sort of colorful suit. To me and the children Willy Wonka is supposed to full of life and fun. Johnny Depp’s makeup made Wonka look very black and white and like a creepy guy. Quick fact: Burton always viewed Johnny Depp as his Willy Wonka however, his back up was Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Johnny Depp’s Willy Wonka was very puzzling and difficult to understand. The director Tim Burton and Johnny Depp’s acting, made Willy Wonka seem like a weirdo and ignorant person who only cared about himself. Since Willy Wonka ran away from home at a young age due to his strict dentist father, they make his character a little too childish. His interactions with the five children and their parents were almost always awkward and it seems like as if he hated human beings due to what has been done to him through his life. Like having a strict father not let him be creative and free, people trying to steal his recipes, and he was bullied for wearing an enormous mouth brace (like Jimmy from the cartoon ‘Ed, Ed, and Eddy’, but way bigger). This version of Willy Wonka seemed dark and compared to the Willy Wonka from the original movie in …show more content…

It shows how a whole community revolved itself around chocolate and candy factory. Back in the days where people worked in Willy Wonka’s factory, everything was wonderful, jolly and colorful. People had jobs because of his candy. However that all changed when Willy Wonka closed his factory, every scene after that in the village where the factory was located it was snowing and very dark. People were dressed in darker clothes, the streets were empty and gloomy. This shows the importance food can have on a town. Chocolate was also important to family life as shown in Charlie’s family. Once Charlie ran home with the golden ticket he refused to go to the factory because some people were willing to pay a lot of money for it and he knew his family really needed the money. However, they convinced him to go to the factory with his grandpa Joe, who used to work for Wonka and always tells Charlie of his happy days working at the factory decades ago. People all over the world loved Willy Wonka’s Chocolate bars. They made the chocolate seem so good, that it made me want to have a bar myself. Although in the film you do not really see much people eating Willy Wonka’s candy besides the fat kid. I believe the main character Charlie, only eats about 2 bars the whole movie. In one scene Wonka wanted Charlie to try some of his teleported Wonka bar and Charlie only takes a little tiny bite of it, which surprised me. Due to the fact that

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