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Comparison Of Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

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Everyone grows up with their favorite childhood movies. Whether born in the 1970s or the 2000s, you were able to enjoy Roald Dahl’s, Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. Dahl originally wrote the book in 1964, which sold over twenty million copies worldwide. With such huge success with his book he wrote the 1971 screenplay as well. The 1971 screenplay was Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, as it focused more on the Charlie’s life than Willy Wonka, but the film used Willy Wonka for the title because Quaker Oats was financing the movie and wanted to release their Wonka bars at the same time as the movie (Paur). Shortly after the 1971 film was released, Dahl revised his book and re-released it. Unfortunately, Dahl was unable to see the creation …show more content…

“In 1971 there were not as many special effects which forced them to make things from scratch, making the factory much more authentic and beautiful” (Tauchert). But because of the lack of special effects there were a few negative side effects to the things that were used in the movie. The “Wonka Wash” scene needed some type of thick soap like substance to spurt out of the machine. The foam they used was from basic fire extinguishers, which they later discovered was a potent skin irritant. After shooting the scene the actors required several days of medical treatment to recover from their puffy skin irritation. Not only did they have issues with this scene but Denise Nickerson, the girl who played Violet, had blue pigment in her pores from the makeup they used several days after they filmed the blueberry scene. They decided against using fake chocolate for the river and actually created a chocolate river made of chocolate, water, and cream, that unfortunately after a few days smelled awful. (Paur) Overall the lack of special effects caused a few issues for the movie, but luckily did not have long term effects on the …show more content…

He wanted the film to be an authentic candy world, that if you watched the film you would smell the smells of candy and taste the delicious flavors on your tongue that were being displayed on the screen Like the 1971 film, they also made a real chocolate river but unlike the 1971 film the chocolate was thick like real melted chocolate instead of a water mixture. The film also used real lollipops in the trees, giant pink sugar canes and also had real giant humbugs. Unlike the original movie, Veruca Salt wanted a squirrel instead of a golden egg. In this scene forty squirrels were trained to crack nuts and pounce on Veruca. (Trivia) To continue to ensure authenticity,“In the same room, as the machine that makes the ‘three-course meal gum, there are large rotating drums that look like bowls filled with colored balls. These are real machines, that make large jawbreakers, or Gobstoppers, which are sold under the Willy Wonka brand” (Trivia). Burton takes it a step further and makes sure that a lot of the trees and flowers featured in the movie were candy, they were created by a chocolate shop called Choccywoccydoodah which is in Brighton, England. It does not end there, the pink viking inspired row boat was also made of candy and took over twenty weeks to build and get to float on the chocolate river. As hard as they tried there were a few things that

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