The first four tickets are found by Augustus Gloop, a gluttonous German boy Veruca Salt, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy English father and two Americans, Violet Beauregarde, who chews gum constantly, and Mike Teevee, who is obsessed with television. Finders of the tickets will receive a factory tour and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Wonka announces that he has hidden five Golden Tickets in chocolate Wonka Bars. Production resumed three years later, but the gates remained locked, and to prevent more sabotage, the original workers were not rehired, leaving their replacements a mystery. Charlie's bedridden Grandpa Joe reveals that Wonka had shut down the factory because rival confectioners sent spies to steal his recipes. Going home one evening, he passes Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, where a tinker tells him that nobody ever goes in or comes out. In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".Ĭharlie Bucket is a poor paperboy who often looks inside a candy shop but cannot afford to buy sweets. The film has since become highly popular on repeated television airings and home video sales. The film also introduced the song "The Candy Man", which went on to be recorded by Sammy Davis Jr. In 1972, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score, and Wilder was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. With a budget of $3 million, the film received generally positive reviews but was not a big financial success, only earning $4 million by the end of its original run. The film was released on June 30, 1971, by Paramount Pictures. The musical numbers were written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley while Walter Scharf arranged and conducted the orchestral score. Against Dahl's wishes, changes were made to the story, and other decisions made by the director led Dahl to disown the film. Dahl was credited with writing the film's screenplay however, David Seltzer was brought in to do an uncredited rewrite. The film tells the story of a poor child named Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) who, upon finding a Golden Ticket in a chocolate bar, wins the chance to visit Willy Wonka's chocolate factory along with four other children from around the world.įilming took place in Munich from August to November 1970. It is an adaptation of the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 American musical fantasy film directed by Mel Stuart and starring Gene Wilder as candymaker Willy Wonka.
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