Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Coming to Blu-ray October 20, 2009
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Blu-ray Book Blu-ray 1971
A musical film adaptation of Dahl’s book Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, directed by Mel Stuart and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, was released in 1971.[1] It was originally a box office flop, but has since come to be considered a classic, hailed a children’s classic by critics, and has attracted a worldwide audience.
This film added some dialogue with references to poetry, including Shakespeare, that were not in the novel. The film also included a rival chocolate maker offering the children money if they betrayed Wonka and provided him with an ‘Everlasting Gobstopper‘, but this turns out to be a morality test set by Wonka to determine the finder’s worth. Another departure from the novel had Charlie disobeying Willy Wonka with the encouragement of Grandpa Joe, allowing Wonka to deny Charlie’s prize at the end of the tour. Also, Veruca Salt’s “elimination” involved a room full of golden-egg-laying geese of which she wanted one. When she went to stand on one of the egg-testing machines, she was pronounced a “bad egg” and dropped down the garbage chute. This is different from the book (and 2005 film) where Veruca went after a squirrel, got tested by a squirrel, and thrown down the garbage chute by the squirrels because “her head sounded hollow.” http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: Blu-ray Trailer
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: Welcome to the Factory
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: Forbidden Gum
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