Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Director:
Tim Burton

Writers (WGA):
Roald Dahl (book)
John August (screenplay)

Release Date :
USA 10 July 2005 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)

Genre:
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

Cast :
* Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka
* Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket
* David Kelly as Grandpa Joe
* Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Bucket
* Noah Taylor as Mr. Bucket
* Missi Pyle as Mrs. Beauregarde
* James Fox as Mr. Salt
* Deep Roy and Danny Elfman (vocals) as Oompa-Loompas
* Christopher Lee as Dr. Wilbur Wonka
* Adam Godley as Mr. Teavee
* Franziska Troegner as Mrs. Gloop
* AnnaSophia Robb as Violet Beauregarde
* Julia Winter as Veruca Salt
* Jordan Fry as Mike Teavee
* Philip Wiegratz as Augustus Gloop
* Blair Dunlop as Little Willy Wonka
* Liz Smith as Grandma Georgina
* Eileen Essell as Grandma Josephine
* David Morris as Grandpa George
* Nitin Ganatra as Prince Pondicherry
* Shelley Conn as Princess Pondicherry


Original Sound Track :
1. Golden Ticket/Pure Imagination
2. Candy Man
3. Charlie's Paper Run
4. Cheer Up Charlie
5. Lucky Charlie
6. I've Got A Golden Ticket
7. Pure Imagination
8. Oompa Loompa
9. Wondrous Boat Ride
10. Everlasting Gobstoppers/Oompa Loompa
11. Bubble Machine
12. I Want It Now/Oompa Loompa
13. Wonkamobile Wonkavision/Oompa Loompa
14. Wonkavator/Pure Imagination

Plot :
Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) is a poor boy who lives near the Wonka Candy Company. The company's owner, Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp), has for long closed access to his factory due to problems concerning industrial espionage that led him to fire all his employees, among them Charlie's Grandpa Joe (David Kelly). One day, Wonka informs of a contest, in which Golden Tickets have been placed in five random Wonka Bars worldwide, and the winners will be given a full tour of the factory as well as a lifetime supply of chocolate, while one ticketholder will be given a special prize at the end of the tour. Wonka's sales subsequently skyrocket, and the first four tickets are found fairly quickly. The recipients are Augustus Gloop (Philip Wiegratz), a gluttonous German boy; Veruca Salt (Julia Winter), a very spoiled English girl; Violet Beauregarde (AnnaSophia Robb), a competitive gum chewer, and Mike Teavee (Jordan Fry), an arrogant television and video game addict. Charlie tries twice to find a ticket, but both bars come empty. After overhearing that the final ticket was found in Russia, Charlie finds a ten-dollar note, and purchases a Wonka Bar at a news shop. At the exact moment it was revealed that the Russian ticket was forged, Charlie discovers the real fifth ticket inside the wrapper. Charlie first considers an offer of $500 for the ticket, but decides to keep it, and bring Grandpa Joe to accompany him on the factory tour.

Charlie and the other ticket holders are greeted by Wonka outside the factory, who then leds them into the facility. During the tour, each of the bad children disobey Wonka's orders after being tempted by something related to their individual character flaws, and suffer various consequences: Augustus is sucked up a chocolate extraction pipe after falling into a chocolate river from which he was drinking, Violet is turned into an oversized blueberry after chewing unstable three-course-meal gum, Veruca is pushed into a garbage chute by worker squirrels after she tries to take one as a pet, and Mike is shrunk with a teleporter that he uses on himself. Willy's employees, the Oompa-Loompas (Deep Roy) sing a song of morality after each elimination. The children later leave the factory with an exaggerated characteristic or deformity related to their demise - Augustus covered in chocolate, Violet violet-colored, Mike overstretched and Veruca covered in garbage.

Wonka then invites Charlie to come live and work in the factory with him, and reveals that the purpose of the Golden Tickets and the tour was to make the "least rotten" child the heir of his factory. The only catch is that Charlie must leave his family behind, because Wonka believes family is a hindrance while a chocolatier needed creative freedom - a philosophy Wonka developed due to his dentist father, Dr. Wilbur Wonka (Christopher Lee), denying his son candy because of the potential risk to his teeth. As his family is the most important thing in his life, Charlie refuses Wonka's offer.

Charlie and his family are now living contently, however Wonka is too depressed to make candy the way he used to, and turns to Charlie for advice. Charlie decides 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, Charlie has the chocolate factory, and Wonka has patched up with his family.


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