Charlie has won a contest at having a tour of Willy Wonka's Factory, while also competing to win a lifetime supply of chocolate. www.faithalivelc.org/ For entertainment purposes only.
Except in Wonka's case, it was a test of character. He wanted to give the factory to someone who demonstrated the honesty that Charlie showed in admitting to breaking the rules and returning the Fizzy Lifting Drink.
HotWax93 also was a test to see if somebody really would dedicate themselves to his Chocolate Factory. He gives it away he's not going to give it to some kid who would sale it to the next highest bidder.
Grandpa Joe:“You’re a crook. You’re a cheat” Also Grandpa Joe: Pretended to be disabled for 20 years when his family was in poverty, and only got up to dance at the opportunity for free chocolate
I know it still makes me laugh " how could you do a thing like this all I ever did was scam my daughter out of housework and my grandson taking partime jobs to support my greedy behind.
I was always impressed on the fact Charlie asked Willy Wonka about the well being of the other kids BEFORE ever even asking ANYTHING about any grand prizes...
Because people cared in the past, unlike today. I was born during a time when any person would drop their problems (Big, or small) to help someone in need. And now, people just don't care about much of anything anymore.
@@MrArcadia2009Sorry to break it to you, but the world isn’t black and white like that. There’s been evil people for centuries just as much as there have been good people that care to this day.
+Tom Mantle That was very weird when he said that since because, he was the one who made the decision to tour the factory with kids. I guess he only said "whole day wasted" just to get rid of Charlie and Grandpa Joe.
"Whole day wasted" was meant to illustrate no one passed his test, that his efforts at finding a successor were in vain. It's not weird at all. But it is savage af
I think Wonka only yelled at Charlie and Grandpa Joe because he wanted Charlie to win all along. He knew the other children would inevitably fail, and so he wouldn't want any of them to win anyway. But when Charlie and Grandpa Joe took those drinks they betrayed Wonka's trust, and it hurt him more than anything the other children did.
Mia He knew Charlie was good at heart just curious. The fuzzy lifting drinks didn't seem that big a deal for him Bc everyone makes mistakes. The point is he was testing Charlie and he passed.
People miss the point, Grandpa Joe isn’t evil or a mistakenly written character, he’s intentionally representative of the adults who are jaded and have given up hope on the world. Meanwhile Charlie represents purity and optimistic faith and goodness, and it’s his act of selflessness that continuously rewards him and teaches the old (Grandpa Joe) how to have hope again. It’s a brilliant contrast of characters two generations apart bonded by family. Dahl’s good writing shows because Grandpa Joe doesn’t completely snap out of it right away (not after the golden ticket, not after entering the factory, not after being treated, etc) because he’s still an adult and his jaded adulthood and selfishness is what creates conflict for Charlie. But in the end, you see Grandpa Joe finally understand the reward of true selflessness. The bad guys are the families who lose, and the spoiled children who are born rotten and have little hope of ever being good, only ever failing upwards in life. It seems like Ronald Dahl write this book from the perspective of Wonka. Working hard his whole life and maintaining his childlike hopefulness at his core through candy (or for Dahl, children’s books). The message of this movie resonates with a lot of kids whether you’re a Charlie or a spoiled brat. And for adults, they relate to Grandpa Joe but their jadedness is tested by Charlie. Dahl/Wonka are the puppeteers of the world in this story, engineering the outcome so that good triumphs in the end.
Wonka was not mad at Charlie. He was pointing and yelling at Grandpa Joe because he had Charlie break the rules. Wonka wanted Charlie to win the whole time.
Why did Charlie have to be involved? I didn't think about it until now, but I would think that, when Grandpa Joe said "I'm gonna find out.", it was just going to be him and Wonka talking privately about what happened. (like it was none of Charlie's business) I think a better (less traumatic) way to do the scene would have been just those two yelling, with Charlie out of the picture so he wouldn't hear them. Then, after they were done yelling, Grandpa Joe would walk out of the room, close the door and say everything he said before Charlie turns around and gives Wonka the gobstopper. "Come on, Charlie, let's get out of here..." Then Charlie would enter the room and give Wonka the gobstopper. Gene couldn't warn Peter about the yelling. But if they did it this way, it would be sort of a subtle warning. (Before Grandpa Joe entered the room, he would say something like "Charlie, you wait out here while I talk to Wonka.".)
not really though,he was judging the kids as actual people,so when Charlie breaks the rules,he is not being better than anyone else,and Wonka shouting here is proof of that,what makes him a good kid is that he has no intention of harm to Wonka,he has respect for him,grandpa Joe is already a product of society,as much as every other parent,he however thinks highly of his grandson and knows that you shouldn't do that to a kid...build up his dreams only to make it fall under a line of a contract,like a scheme...
Wonka was pretending to be mad, just to see how Charlie would react, if he would be a good sport, or be a bad sport and try to give everlasting gobstopper to Slugsworth. Charlie was a good sport, which made him pass the test and won!
Does anybody besides me compare this movie to our elections? My mom (and I'm pretty sure other people) said rich people and corporations knew from the beginning exactly who would be the nominee, just like Willy Wonka knew from the beginning that Charlie was going to be the winner. This movie doesn't really make me think about that, because Charlie almost lost. But the 2005 movie does.
"So shines a good deed in a weary world..." Rest in Peace, Mr. Wilder. The world is wearier without your gentle smile, your hilarious hysteria, and your dewy-eyed tenderness. You showed us how the purest heart can come from the most humble beginnings. You taught us that monsters are often just misunderstood (and often the funniest dancers). You delighted us on stage and screen, and though you left us today, we've missed you for a very long time. I can't open a chocolate bar without the kid in me searching fruitlessly for a shimmer of gold. I can't listen to a violin without thinking about how its strains can tame the most frightening creatures. You can entertain an audience once, but you can make them laugh for a lifetime. Mr. Wilder, generations will be laughing forever as they take a tour in your world of pure imagination. Adieu, Mr. Wonka, and thanks for the memories!
You know, as much as people may not like it, Willy Wonka was right. Charlie was the only one who broke a rule and got off scott-free. Fortunately, he was wise enough to recognize what he did wrong, and gave the thing back to him.
It's not that wonka wasn't wrong, but that he did in such an angry and vindictive way. Especially considering he responded to the other kids' behavior with simple disinterest.
+George Liapes I love the way he did that, when Mike Teevee zaps himself through the TV, Wonka says "stop, don't come back!" in such a sarcastic, "ugh, I don't give a S***" tone, lol.
The look in Wilder’s eyes is so pure after Charlie returned the gobstopper. One of the greatest lines ever uttered in the English language, first by Shakespeare in the Merchant of Venice “So shines a good deed in a weary world”.
He did but at the same time Wonka was only pretending to be overly angry to see if Charlie would have given into temptation or do the right thing. Wonka knew that all contestants would make mistakes but only one of them would make up for it in the end.
Wonka is more furious that Grandpa Joe suggested they steal the drinks and leading Charlie to do the same. Joe didn’t think it was such a big deal but rules are rules.
"They'll be completely restored to their normal, terrible old selves." The way he effortlessly delivers that line, judging these kids without any hint of emotion, almost like he's deadpanning, just makes Gene Wilder's performance perfect.
+joseph stanford I'll try my best but even this rant doesn't do the topic full creative justice. This adaptation of Dahl's book has heavy jewish allegorical cultural references due to director and actors heritage. From oompa loompa songs with bits of solomons wisdom. to artsy 3/4 (numbers reference) waltz imagination song crouching back to stature of child. Satan (mr slugworth is the polar opposite of wonka) but works for Wonka too despite his seemingly nefarious purpose. everything is halved in wonka because we are wired to only see half the truth. the whole thing is loaded with symbolism and the gobstopper is like the pinnacle of science where we "bump into the ceiling" because getting high and alcohol. Then Charlie sees the fan drawing near, panics and burps back down sobering up (Grizzly Reaper Mowing allegory). I'd wager this is fractal geometry that is infinite and manifests itself in the Lord's creation patterns (rivers, veins, lightning, wind, beaches, ferns, branches, roots, black holes, etc...) all have it. So by giving back to God his knowledge and not seeking to manipulate its natural laws for profit (slugworth) we can return to a state of paradise. A psychedelic tunnel ride into our minds reveals the light at the end of the tunnel. wonkavision is ultimately a symbolic 4D teleporter which is a God concept too. metaphorically its like if humans could observe a sim city universe develop with machine learning AI given free will and an instruction manual of riddles that no one person could ever solve on his own but rather takes a group of earths wisest men a predictably long time to sort out. The artists of today are capturing the theme well to an open third eye observer. They are the Music Makers and the Dreamers of Dreams. If you watch Mr robot at all, Abrahamic allegory show up a lot too. Dog returning to vomit proverbial scene and more by Sam Esmail.
+Fabisch Factor but that defeats the purpose of the illustration. the fine print copy of the contract is the law of the holy books. its really a well disguised theater scene of allegorical wisdom. and as always perspective is key that is it unlocks the safe.
People keep joking about everything being chopped in half because of a divorce. Wonka: You get nothing! Grandpa Joe: Well, at least you got half. Hehe.
The older I get, the more I appreciate Peter Ostrum's performance as Charlie. He exudes innocence from his eyes. It doesn't come off as fake. Great casting.
The reason why Willy Wonka has half of everything in his office is that director Mel Stuart couldn’t bear the idea of ending the film in an ordinary, boring office after the whimsical and extraordinary rooms in the rest of the factory, so they created the ‘Half-Office’ to give Wonka that extra dose of eccentricity. Later on the Wonka website, this would summarised by Wonka saying “Half an office is better than none.”
@@tonycanabal1659a genius never gets tired of inventing. He wasn’t tired of running the factory, you know. He gave it to Charlie because he had grown old, and he didn’t want his legendary factory to fall apart when he died. He needed someone to run it when he wasn’t there to do so. The half office was just a display of his eccentricities.
The acting was so good, not a single emotion seems forced or faked at all. Half the time during the film the kids didn't know what Wilder would do because he wanted all of the kid's reactions to be genuine fear or joy. R. I. P. Gene Wilder, but damn did he live a life.
yup, on the psychedelic boat ride the girl who played Violet thought Gene actually went mad when he started saying the poem. And in this scene, nobody knew what Gene was gonna do and the boy who played Charlie was really shaken up. He wanted to tell Peter (who played Charlie) he was only acting but the director wanted Charlie's reaction to be real.
@@stevarino1989 Oh, Charlie's reaction was real alright.If I was Gene Wilder, I would have let the director have it, the same way Wonka let Grandpa Joe and Charlie have it. Look what you did to my good friend Peter! You wanted a real reaction? You got one! I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, ASSHOLE!!!!!!
@@caedward2010 fair play but I enjoyed Johnny Depp's performance in the "reboot". I always saw it as a follow up. Not a direct follow up but like this a New Willy Wonka comes in, old one goes out. Hits retirement and repeat until everything goes up in smoke..
You know Wonka was right in the contract (Latin was correct too) but he let a good deed in a dreary world overlook the contract and give him his dreams. Makes me cry every time when I see the ending. Gosh, great film from the 70s.
I'm more surprised ruining a child's dream of getting a lifetime's supply of chocolate, which is a horrible thing to take from a child BTW, is undercut by him allowing children to break his rules and literally mutate when he had plenty of opportunities to stop them. Seriously, Oompa loompas are clumsy. Why is there not a fence in front of the river?
2:12 How dare Grandpa Joe say that! It was his idea to drink the fizzy lifting drinks even though Mr. Wonka told him not to. Then he calls him a crook because he thinks they didn’t break any rules!
You’re right. He didn’t even heed his rules when the contract distinctly said so.(even tho the rest of the texts were Latin and microscopic…) Damn… now that I think about it, That old man Joe’s to blame.
Fun Fact: The actors playing Charlie and Grandpa Joe were not informed of Gene Wilder's furious, enraged refusal to give Charlie his reward beforehand, so all of their reactions are essentially genuine and unscripted. Wilder and Peter Ostrum (The actor who played Charlie) had become close friends during filming and Gene really wanted to let Ostrum know beforehand he was just acting, but the director refused to let him.
Believe me if I was Gene I would've also been really afraid to blow up at my friend and startle him like that, even if it was just acting. I always thought it was Gene's idea not to tell anyone what he was going to do. What a wonderful man.
To his credit even though Wilder couldn't forewarn Ostrum about what was about to happen, he keeps his rage focused on Grandpa Joe (both because Joe was an adult and could handle being yelled at, and ultimately because it was his idea to steal the drinks and should've known a lot better)
Charlie breaking the rules is part of what cements him being a kid. Others broke the rules in a selfish way, Charlie did it with a glimmer of love for the factory. So much, he did what he did in the end. 🍬
Not really since Wonka made it explicitly clear that no one should drink the fizzy lifting drinks. Charlie disobeyed and if he didn't give up the gobstopper, he likely would've gone empty handed
Perfectly summed up! That goes to show you that even good people make mistakes and can give into temptation. Charlie is the only kid with good behavior but he’s not meant to be perfect.
@@armorpro573Charlie did break the rules, I agree with you. And yeah, Willy Wonka had the right to dismiss him like he did. But Charlie was very nice and well-behaved unlike the other four kids. He knew what he did wrong, felt bad about it and gave back what was given to him. And Wonka extended his grace and gave Charlie the prize.
"Fax mentis incendium gloriae" = The torch of glory kindles the mind. "Memor bis punitor delictum" = I am mindful that the crime is punished twice. :) GOOD DAY SIR
Loosely translates, what Wonka was reading from the contract meant, "I'll gladly forfeit my rights to the lifetime suppply of chocolate if I break any rules, as I am aware that all misdeeds go punished and I wish learn from my mistakes.
Thanks for translating that. Hard to find good translations for Latin since it’s a dead language. A lot of online translators for Latin that I find tend to slip towards Italian.
@@jamesbudd1022I wonder if the Charlie from the 2005 movie was concerned about their wellbeing as well especially since violet called him a loser and took the candy apple he was reaching for
+Devin Tariel Two random quotes strong together, with the second being flat wrong. Memor non bis punitur peccatum is probably what he meant. I like to think t was likely garbled intentionally to sound more like legalese or maybe Wilder got it wrong, and they said screw it. Wonka's dialogue is loaded with literary references-- like Shakespeare in this seen. The screenwriters and directors for this film weren't dummies.
+Lord Prince Zuko The remake was pretty trash but I like remake Charlie better than original Charlie. Both play pretty one dimensional characters but the remake charlie does it better.
This film taught me as a young boy the value of moral beliefs, Charlie Bucket was one of my favorite role models. If only kids today took to his example.
I was born in 1993 and I was raised on the 1971 version(The best version). 😎👍🏼. Actually I grew up with AMC and other channels that had old TV shows. Plus I Enjoyed 80s-early 2000s cartoons. Johnny Depp was cool but something about his version of Willy Wonka kind of creeped me out a bit.
+daddyland That's true. However, once Charlie placed the gobstopper on Mr. Wonka's desk, I guess Mr. Wonka thought to himself "I don't care about the rule about the fizzy lifting drink" especially since that was just a joke that Slugworth wanted a Gobstopper since that wasn't his name where he only used the name Slugworth to keep his name hidden where he was just Mr. Wonka's employee and it was only a test to see which child was honest which Charlie took seriously.
Which is why I'd say the "stealing" of fizzy lifting drink is a purposeful red herring. Wonka wants them to think they've failed because of the drinks, not because of the gobstopper Charlie has in his pocket (which Wonka is aware of). Thus, when Charlie returns the gobstopper (the true reason he would fail), Wonka says Charlie passed the test. It's also why he says "I knew you'd pass, I just knew you would. Sorry for putting you through this." "This" being the fizzy lifting drink ruse where he pretends to be angry and upsets them.
Why did Charlie have to be involved? I didn't think about it until now, but I would think that, when Grandpa Joe said "I'm gonna find out.", it was just going to be him and Wonka talking privately about what happened. (like it was none of Charlie's business) I think a better (less traumatic) way to do the scene would have been just those two yelling, with Charlie out of the picture so he wouldn't hear them. Then, after they were done yelling, Grandpa Joe would walk out of the room, close the door and say everything he said before Charlie turns around and gives Wonka the gobstopper. "Come on, Charlie, let's get out of here..." Then Charlie would enter the room and give Wonka the gobstopper. Gene couldn't warn Peter about the yelling. But if they did it this way, it would be sort of a subtle warning. (Before Grandpa Joe entered the room, he would say something like "Charlie, you wait out here while I talk to Wonka.".)
This whole film is a masterpiece. I don’t care what anyone says!! The whole point of this film was for wonka to find a successor and I love every moment of it!!!
Personally, I wouldn't call it a masterpiece. I think the film is flawed with its share of good and bad qualities. However, this scene and Wilder's performance are definitely in the good
I really love the original Willy Wonka, Gene Wilder really showed us how upset and troubled Wonka was but how he changed his mind when saw the purity of Charlie returning the gobstopper, the final scene in the elevator was so incredibly magical and heartwarming as a child, RIP Gene Wilder
Except for Grandpa Joe being greedy!! “What’s in it for me??” That’s the point Wonka should have thrown him out of the elevator onto the cold hard floor he claimed was the reason he couldn’t get out of bed!! 😂
This scene demonstrates a powerful life lesson for all of us: to be responsible and to do the right thing. Wonka wasn’t mad at Charlie, he was mad at Grandpa Joe for not being a responsible guardian because he urged Charlie to break the rules by drinking the Fizzy Lifting Drinks. Charlie was unaware what they were doing was wrong. Unlike the other kids, Charlie wasn’t selfish or spoiled and that’s why Wonka wanted Charlie to win. He blew up like this because he wanted to test Charlie if he would do the right thing. Charlie had an easy out where he could’ve walked out with the Everlasting Gobstopper’s secret recipe and made so much money. So much he could’ve gotten his entire family out of poverty, but he didn’t. He chose to do the right thing and therefore was rewarded. Doing the right thing is never wrong. What you put out there in life will come right back at you.
Correction, Charlie knew what he did was wrong because He knew Wonka told them not to drink it. But instead of listening to him, he listened to his grandpa and trusted him that it would be fine to rebel. Sure the grandpa urged and tempted him to do it but He still was also at fault. Wonka was disappointed in Charlie and mad at the grandpa. The rest of what you said though was correct.
Ain’t no way Michael Scott said it first 💀 firstly, it’s a quote from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, and secondly, this movie was made in 1971.
Fun fact: Grandpa Joe’s script had Willy having a serious conversation without yelling. When they filmed the scene and Gene started yelling, his face of confusion when he says “You’re a crook” is genuine. He was not expecting Gene to react like that since he knew he hated yelling. This scene is amazing.
My interpretation of this is that Wonka clearly saw before the tour that Charlie was most likely to be the good one of the five. Beforehand he would have watched the news and seen the kind of kids that were coming to his factory and thinking "God, I can see they're going to cause trouble" and his blasé uninterested reaction when they suffered their fates confirmed he really expected nothing else of them. However, he clearly saw Charlie as being the good guy, so when he stepped out of line with the fizzy lifting drinks, that would have particularly upset him. However, Charlie proved that Wonka was really right all along by handing back the gobstopper, hence the happy ending.
And he did. After filming this scene, Gene hugged it out with Peter Ostrum (the boy who played Charlie), apologising for what happened. Because, as it turns out, the director, Mel Stuart, refused to let Gene tell Peter that it was only acting.
@@quantasium I consider selfishness to be an accomplishment. I define it as the process of using your mind to take care of yourself, long term. If everybody did that then the world would be a much better place.
@@zr3755 If you must know: I am an atheist, I have read Ayn Rand, my age is unimportant. I would not consider myself edgy, I simply consider most people to be left behind (through no fault of their own). There’s nothing particularly special about me, other than my appreciation for reason and individualism-which is rather hard to find in this world.
Swear theres something almost golden about 60/70s movies. Maybe its the clothes and colours everyone wore then or that it was shot on film. Everything just looks mad vibrant you know
I always loved this movie as someone born in the 90s I always admired Gene as an actor even as a child you can feel the genuineness in his voice for this film.
