Exploring the Enchanting Adaptations of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Date Due: Comparison of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory The films in this analysis are the classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Company produced in 1971 featuring gene Wilder and Charlie and Chocolate factory featuring Tim Burton. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory was directed by Mel Stuart. The film feels more of family film which is intended to invoke inner filling of family connection. In the producer imagining, the title of the film is original but the film sounds opposite to that of Charlie as the film is more of Wonka than it is for Charlie. In both films, the story is the same as they describe an eccentric chocolate maker who allegedly had closed his factory for many years after a spy tried to steal and copy his famous chocolate recipes. One day, the chocolate maker announces that he will be opening the company for just five individuals who will be lucky to find the five golden tickets which had been hidden in his famous chocolate bars. In both films, individuals who are able to find the tickets are from Europe and America. One of the winners is good and four are awful. The chocolate maker takes on a tour into the factory and gives them strict rules to follow within the factory. One by one they all fall foul with some of them reaching fates as worse as injuring themselves. In both films, the only individual who is able to listen to the chocolate maker simple but strict instruction is Charlie Bucket who is consequently rewarded by Wonka who is the owner of the factory. Wonka was actually holding the accrued competition with the objective of finding a heir to the factory and his life work. Eventually he invites the winner Charlie and his family and they live happy ever after. In a detailed analysis of the two films, the 1971 film follows this story roughly to a tee. It is a largely musical with most of the song sung by Oompa Loompas who are the mysterious workers of the factory. Wonka, in the film is portrayed in a comic way where he portrays both sinister and humorous characters. On the other hand, the 2005 version is rather more in-keeping with relatively intertwining and overarching stories. For instance, the London little brat end up in a nut room unlike in the classic film where she is deemed as a bad egg in the accrued chocolate...