Willy Wonka Makes an Oompa Loompa 

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Wait I just noticed the child's father calls minds "loompa" in the flashback and he calls drowning "oompa", so "Oompa Loompas" is "drowned minds" damn

The absolute silence as the baby slinks from the Oompa Loompa’s arms is the true definition of horror.

Love the symbolism behind the baby at 5:22 (that being their history and culture stripped from them, before being replaced with one that better suits Wonka’s narrative and that allows him to turn them into “willing” workers).

For me, the part that absolutely shook me was when Wonka first met the people. The whole start of the film was a slow, windup showing the life of the life of the person before they had their identity stripped away from themselves. It lulls the viewer into a sense of calmness before being plunged into a frigid water of shock. The moment of silence when the infant was dropped into the water too was absolutely brilliant. That moment was the tipping point to me of the whole thing. A horrific yet beautifully executed piece of media. Great friggin job.

The fact that wonka corrupts their memories into believing they lived in some kind of savage harsh land is horrifying.

"And like a fish clings to the water, or a bird to the skies. You, oompa loompa, are mine. Nothing less... And nothing more." This a bone chilling line

I love how wonka says "dream big" and then laughs. He made a joke about oompa loompas being small😭

I love how we have a juxtaposition here with the Elder Villager's speech and Wonka's speech. While the Elder's is a profound travel through their cultural way of living in harmony, Wonka' speech is just terrorizing, condescending, patronizing, and just really creepy in all the senses of the word. He reduct every villager's lifes has a mere dream so he can more easily substitute to another "way of living" that is nothing more than just mere "false reality", or for the lack of better words, "dreams". They probably didn't even call themselves "oompa loompas", that's probably the name Wonka gave to them.

The fact you could write an essay on the themes and symbolism of this is insane.

Not many people mention it, but the sound design in all of these is ASTOUNDING. It's a big part of the creepy factor and you hit the nail on the head

i feel like the baby is both real and metaphorical; simultaneously a lost baby and a representation of the loss of innocence, culture and a free future for the oompa loompas. crazy

Is it just me, or does this less than 10 minute random RU-vid video is more entertaining/ thought-provoking than most TV shows episodes nowadays. The music, the dialog, edits, the close ups, hidden messages, all great and enjoyable.

The yelling/almost screaming of Wonka's speech at the end being exactly how he talked to the children on the boat is fantastic. Jesus Christ.

Bro just casually dropped the Oompa Loompa lore

7:43-7:56 is so bone chilling. Just seeing how soulless they have become and how different they look just really adds to the horror

I genuinely love the themes and symbolism here. Lofti was born from the waters and now he and his people drown in it. They will not join the stars with the elderly man once told. Its like when that happened something was lost. And then immediately after, the ship shows up. "Feel the rivers flow" (All of the inhabitants dying or being under Wonkas control), feel their mind drift in the dream. Wonka snickers when he tells Lofti to dream big. On one had they are "Pygmies" being small trying to dream big (when they die they join the stars). A sort of dark comedy. And on the other hand, Wonka thinks they live in a small hostile environment which juxtapose from what we saw in the Elderly Man's speech. They were fine there but to Wonka they were already "Oompa Loompas". Ready to work for him.

Oompa loompa doopaty doo ive got a tragic tale for you 💀

That entire "let it all... go." segment is some of the most horrifying, masterful cinematography I've ever seen. Unironically, this is incredible.

I've seen a lot of symbolism analysis in the comments, but for some reason I haven't seen anyone point out that the "Vermicious Knid" (the bird) is seemingly the Loompas representation of death, and at 3:50 when the father(?) is eaten/carried off to the horizon by the bird (dying), the next thing the Loompas see if Wonkas ship on the horizon approaching their island. This visualization therefore presents Wonka either as *being* Death, or that he comes from the Land of Death and intends to take them all there. I know it's probably not the most mind-blowing connection to point out, but since I hadn't read any comments that mention it I wanted to make sure it doesn't go unnoticed.

The Knid originally being a species of bird their people venerated as an divine entity they would use in 'sky burials' so their dead would be carried to the stars, and Wonka changing and degrading it's significance to a 'vicious beast', is such a strong piece of revisionist work. That something they thought once thought as connecting them to God and the after life, was stripped down of all it's cultural context to the point that the Knid is remembered as a horrific monster that "ate them" - deliberately so Wonka can make their past more of a painful memory.

Gotta say that’s super smart to make the river boat a brain wash chamber, makes you think those kids got off easy

this video has better writing than most Marvel movies

Wonka,with his knowledge of hypnogogic power created the perfect workers,drones with no will to break,no minds that would allow them to be bribed by his competitors,the world was his,or so he thought,as the ever turning hands of time were quickly catching up to him,he was growing quite old and with no children of his own there would be no one to inherit his wealth and legacy,that's when he got an idea,he would invite 5 children on a "tour" of his factory and using a similar technique that was used on the oompa loompas,turn them into the perfect little heirs,when he was gone they would be just like him,and they would bear and sire children that would carry on his legacy onto eternity,however he did not anticipate his plan would be foiled by one little boy named Charlie...

Ironically one of the best pieces of media to depict the horrors of slavery

In all honesty the Oompa Loompas being enslaved to work at a chocolate factory against their will is very close to the canon of the original book

This is such a great depiction of hypnosis/brainwashing: the sudden, fearful awakeness and alertness in the beginning with Wonka being the only one standing, the flute being an auditory cue for trauma/stress, the footage of the primal, peaceful life to be later shown as dangerous and terrible, and finally, Wonka showing himself to be the savior from all their woes.

The fact you did the Gene Wilder version for the animation makes this perfect.

I mean....the fact that this wasn't some big production company backed by investors and ceos.....just you doing your thing and creating something truly amazing.... bravo. Seriously good stuff. Seriously

So, given the vocabulary we were granted, Oompa Loompa translates to "Wandering Mind", basically meaning that they dream at all times with him, as shown. Nice touch, i'd say.

Growing up is realizing that Avocado Animations can build up better horror and a perfect story without having to make it oddly creepy at first as it slowly builds up and decides to hit the core gently before starting to build up strength.

The fact that the piccolo jingle being used as a control is just such a interesting detail and it’s just bloody incredible to think about the movie in this context

Just thought you might want to know that I’m citing this animation as part of a screenplay module at university, I think the images and the way they are put together is exceptional and it has inspired me in my writing! Thank you!

He came. He takes everything. He conditions you to believe you had nothing worth holding onto. Then he promises you a better future in servitude to him. And every step of the way -- you had no choice, no agency in the matter. Only now... You're too far gone to care.

This raises genuinely fascinating connections between colonist ideals and the depiction of Oompa Loompas as a sort of “tamed savage” made to work in an industrial environment. Especially in how their servitude is depicted as liberation from a life of savagery and into a more “noble” or “happy” life as unquestioning workers.

The War Thunder ads are the only comedic relief here

The original story has the Oompa Loompas living in a savage hellscape, a metaphor for the White man coming and saving the African and Native peoples of the world from nature and hardships, which was a lie since they were very much in control of their own environment. A lie to justify genocide slavery and exploitation. The offer of Candy in exchange for their lives is another metaphor for how the White man offered processed goods that brought happiness to natives. This also echos the historical exchange of petty glass baubles for real gold and treasure that the advanced Spanish used to "barter" with native Americans... before they outright enslaved them. It is good to see these metaphors being thoroughly broken apart by this animation, with a far more realistic truth. It takes a well-told story to make people dream. It takes a well-told story to wake them up.

It’s kind of sad not to see such quality, storytelling and cinematography in some big-budget psychological horror, I think it’s highly underrated. Let him cook!

What i love is how Wonka's expression rarely changes and is never exaggerated and just remains monotone. He still is a monster, yet there is no hint of malice in his voice, nor hate behind his eyes, nor desire to hurt or need for power and control. There is nothing behind those eyes just a void.

7:23 "And there is no dream sweeter than that of..." My thoughts: slavery

I love that the “vicious” knid is the being that Shepards them to their afterlife. This is great story telling.

Wonka’s head being tilted throughout the entire video is… unsettling. To say the least.

Never in my life do I think an avocado could be this good at drawing.

Wonka here is a more terrifying villain than 90% of media antagonists today.

I think this has singlehandedly warped my perception to an unsalvageable degree. I've been coming back to this video just to watch it again. Seriously great talent.

I love how masterfully made this animation. Not only you take a simple concept of "what if wonka took oompa loompas as slaves" and greatly expanded apon it, you also make it extremely authentic to the first wonka movie. I could totally see the first willy wonka do this. He always had that sort of edge to him. Like he's gonna break into a psychopathic rampage at any moment. This is gonna be in my head cannon now and thank you for making such a masterpiece.

4:35 The way his smile ever so slightly falls and makes him go from happy to deranged. The subtlety in this animation is top tier.

In 2:57 and 3:06 we here the word "loompa". In the translation on the the word mind/minds and wanders/wandering repeat themselves. But sinde in 3:23 we don't hear anything close to loompa, when he says "You never need to wander" it's most likely the word mind or the plural minds that means Loompa. 3:15 we hear the word "Oompa" which is directly translated to drown. So Oompa Loompa would mean a combination of the words Mind/Minds and Drown in some form. So we have a few possible translations (since we don't really know how the Oompa Loompa Language works): -Drown (your) mind(s) -Drowning mind(s) -Drowned mind(s) And thats how you make a funny sounding name like Oompa Loompa some really really dark irony.

So Willy wonka is some chocolatey Christopher Colombo

6:07 His skull is still crying after dropping his kid/losing his dream, his life, his memories and identity

I think I find Wonka's dead stare the best part of this whole clip. Just gives off that vibe that he doesn't even care about the lives those oompa loompa's lived before he came through.

This is a great video regarding trauma and colonization. The fact that nigh no one in the comments is talking about the over minute long warthunder ad that doesn't remotely fit with anything else in the video is a testament to how engrossing everything else in this video is

I really like that some of your animations tell a story, like crazy psycho shit posts are cool but i like it when you take an extreme version of a character like this and play it straight, not caring how absurd it may be. Youre awesome dude

I like the detail of how his memories are being modified replacing parts of his memory to fit with what Wonka is saying

I’m convinced that this dude locks himself in his room watching every top tier physiological horror movie to ever exist to make this

What I like compared to Flashgitz and MeatCanyon is that your character seems cheery and happy but very tragic, while other already creepy to begin with

I've re-watched this so many times, the sheer emotion of Lofty and his loss. Hits me every time, very deep my friend.

The way hia father says "Lofti". And the way Wonka just snickers after "dream big". It's perfectly horrible bittersweet......

Willy really said, I only kidnap tiny people, someone: so little kids? Willy: no……. Tiny. People. Edit : thanks for a lot of likes :)

If you listen closely to Wonka's poetic yet terrifying speech, it's like he's singing "Pure Imagination," but it's the the melody we know, but an upside down version of it, a more evil and darker version of that song.

Wtf, this is a masterpiece

I think avocado is the only one who can actually make me want to play a game due to a sponsor.

The moment he desperatly looked for a baby in that water and could not find it is the most of therror I could feel emitting from a video in my life

As an brazilian who knows the history of my country... the history of slavery and drowned dreams... that hits hard....

The parallel of Wonka arriving and conquistadors landing on ialand nations, taking their families, their culture, and their lives away from them hits so hard.

Another banger video man. The visuals and the storytelling is beautiful.

7:14 After making those people forget what those dreams were, then altering their memories and making them forget who they are, Wonka put them in tanning beds for hours, prob had mass machinery to dye all of their eyebrows and hair green, gave all of the men and women the same hair cuts, dressed them all in the same clothes and put them to work around the factory.

Does nobody else hear the baby crying in the background from 6:52 to 6:55? Because it would line up with the theory that Lofti is secretly behind Willy Wonka becoming insane in a bad way as revenge for taking away his people's lives as well as their memories.

Just watch their eyes change to the white two dots mstching Wonkas. The change from yhe beginning is such a beautiful detail!!

HOLY CRAP!! Dude!! That was so dark and amazing!! I love the subtle effects of the camera shaking wonkas hair but his face is rock solid. SO much cool stuff in this art piece!!

This depiction of Willy Wonka makes villains like Thanos and Joker look like complete saints

You are safe with Willy. No more suffering.

Don’t know how many people caught this. But if you pay close attention to what is being said by the father Oompa Loompa in his monologue, you realise that the word ‘loompa’ means ‘mind’ in their language. I didn’t catch what’ oompa’ means and I’m not sure it’s featured in his monologue. But it’s very possible that Wonka gave them the name Oompa Loompa meaning ‘broken mind’ or ‘lost mind’ in their own native language. Since they likely wont remember their pasts and likely their language, it gives me chills to think that the Oompa Loompa’s brainwashing has been right in front of their faces the whole time. And no one but Wonka will know.

The fact this is kinda canon in the book is terrifying

Wow. your animations are always so stunning. You have so much talent behind all the humor haha. Your videos never fail to amaze. Keep going, take breaks, and such.

I never was cared about the "sadness" of chattel slavery, this video actually made me think about it

Your ability to take a silly story like Willy Wonka and give it an origin story like this is nothing short of extraordinary writing. If you ever write a book, just know I'm buying.

Their story of freedom begins with Wonka's death, and Charlie in charge of the factory. Charlie, a pure heart that was naive to Wonka's misdeeds. Completely unprepared for his position, he turns to the 'workers.'

Genuinely incredible work, writing, animation, sound-design all of it. 10/10

My dad really loves the charlie and the chocolate factory movies and i wonder what would happen if i send him this

You have some real skill Avocado. This is actually very impressive

willy will never admit its quite literally slavery

My drama class had us perform a bit from a piece if media we liked 2 days after I watched this clip. You already know I did read this to my class

This is a cinimatic masterpiece, from the animation and sound design to the incredible voice acting, its just so high quality its crazy. Director needs a raise

The references of the colonisation of congo with some of the villagers hands cut off was crazy

Certified "rule Britannia" moment

Willy Wonka: Now, I tell you what... I likes ya and I wants ya. Now we can do this the easy way, or we can do it the hard way - the choice is yours. 4:32 Willy Wonka: Ok, I see you choosing the hard way.

The VOC that handels in candy in place of spices

This is one of the most beautiful and horrifying animations I've seen, probably ever. The depiction and details of the tribe and how beautifully they lived, and taught their children the ways of the world, and loved each other and their home. The very real and very brutal depiction of colonialism and slavery, and the total, utter destruction of the mind and spirit of a human through torture and trauma. The flashback of that man losing his baby, desperately, frantically trying to get his child back, and dissolving into nothing with wonka towering over him, still talking as if he's their savior while twisting their minds and distorting their memories is insanely powerful. And even scarier is the reveal from hearing the father speaking in their native language that "oompa loompa" isnt the name these people called themselves in the tribe. "Oompa" meant mind, and "loompa" meant drowned. When they call themselves that, they're called themselves the "drowned minds". And thats the only words we hear them say in that language. The only thing they have from their old lives is an expression of agony. They should genuinely show this in history classes.

Never let Willy Cook again

This is it. One of the finest pieces of cinema, right here, in a RU-vid video.

BRO AVOCADO JUST MAKE A MOVIE AT THIS POINT

a week ago I just figured out that my passion for writing and painting can be combined into animation. I saw your videos, found you through your ig account and now I'm inspired. I see no future where i live, no future in my job. I can't figure out what am i into because i feel like I'm sinking in a world where I'm born poor and predestined to be an slave. Honest job doesn't pay off, creativity doesn't pay off when every dream you touch just turns into ash. in the shittiest country in the world where everyday feels like paying for a bigger cage and painting your own cell. You inspired me to use my potential with mr beast blinding 10000 people. Sorry if my English isn't that good, just felt excited and wanted to express myself and appreciate your videos

5:15 Everything is quiet then Lofti drops his baby then he screams in horror is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen and heard... it's even a lot more terrifying when I listen to this scene pretty loud while I'm in the dark with my eyes closed and standing...I also love the peaceful music at the end 7:31 awesome job on this video bro, keep up the good work😊

“And like a fish clings to water, and a bird to the skies, you Oompa Loompa, are mine. Nothing less, and nothing… more. And there is no dream… sweeter… than that.”

the intros always get me💀💀😭😭 spectacular and beautiful animation as always dude! let em know!!

Such magnificent story telling Avocado. The sense of tension and horror is palpable

6:46 actually changed the deer being eaten to a person

I hope a kid stumbles across this video when trying to find fun Willy wonka animations

this is very very nicely done, things like this show that passion for projects makes gems