Charlie and the Chocolate Factory a kids fantasy

As a child growing up this was my favourite movie and I believe many young kids felt the same way about Charlie and the chocolate factory. It gave children so much joy and hope and not to mention hunger and craving for sweets (Ha ha) by the way (Dentists hate/love this movie ) everybody wanted to be Charlie not to be poor I mean although that is the story but to own their own Chocolate factory.

Now I have grown up and my children love the same movie it brings back memories to be good ones and now my kids hassle me for lollies during the movie. Alot of young people have never heard of the first Charlie and the chocolate factory which was made in 1971 starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka only the 2005 version that was directed by Tim Button as a remake with Johnny Depp as Willy wonka .

OK for those who never heard of Charlie and the chocolate factory I'll explain to you. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is an academy award nominated family film based on the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Charlie Bucket is a young boy who comes from a poor but loving family and would love nothing more than to find a golden ticket to enter the amazing chocolate factory run by inventor and owner Willy Wonka. As luck would have it, Charlie finds the last golden ticket and goes on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure with his grandpa Joe. Among the other four winners are Veruca Salt a spoiled rich girl, Augustus Gloop a gluttonous kid who stuffs his face with everything, Violet Beuragarde a champion trophy gum chewer and Mike Teavee a kid who spends more time watching TV and playing video games than anything else. Most fascinating is the mysterious Willy Wonka who in turn had a troubled childhood and has a special grand prize at the end for one of the kids. Also along the tour are Wonka's staff the singing, working Oommpa Loompas.

With the Tim Button one it has a different style than the 1971 one as you know Tim button has kind of a Gothic theme going eg Batman, Edward Scissors Hands but based on the same lines but more of a Gothic feel to it personally I like the older one better but that's just me I'm a little biased. This movie has some good morals the Oommpa loompas sing song when ever one of the kids do something bad in the wonka factory and that song with a catching tune is to remind us not to be be a pig and eat to much or always want things like a spoilt brat does.

Here are some of the movie facts that I bet you didn't know.

Willy wonka and the chocolate factory the first one was a complete box office disaster it is now know as a cult movie .

Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) was present at the opening in New York City along with the Wonkamobile. Free ice cream and chocolate bars were given to all. The song Candyman originally appeared in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Sammy Davis Jr made a hit record of the song. In fact, it was his only #1 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1972. Double dose of chocolate Milton Hershey was born September 13th in 1857. Founder of the Hershey Foods Corporation in Hershey, PA. In addition Roald Dahl, author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", was also born on this day in 1916. What a coincidence! Reasons why Charlie (not others) won the chocolate factory, Augustus fell into the river of chocolate. Violet ate 3-course meal gum and turned into a blueberry. Veruca wanted a golden goose and was rejected as a "bad egg." Mike was shrunk when transmitted into TV. What did the Golden Ticket say WONKA'S GOLDEN TICKET Greetings to you, the lucky finder of this Golden Ticket from Mr Willy Wonka. Present this ticket at the factory gates at ten o'clock in the morning of the first day of October and do not be late. You may bring with you one member of your own family and only one...but no one else. In your wildest dreams you could not imagine the marvelous SURPRISES that await YOU! Shock Rocker Marilyn Manson is a huge fan of the movie and includes the dialogue from the boat scene. "Is it raining is it snowing is a hurricane a-blowing"...on one of his albums. He also uses the Willy Wonka style font on most of his albums, stickers, and posters. Although I am not a fan of Marilyn Manson, I think this fact deserves a spot here at Wonka Facts. What where the ages of the kids when the movie was being shot? Well, Peter Ostrum was 12, Denise Nickerson was 11, Paris Themmen was 11, Julie Dawn Cole was 13, Michael Bollner was 12. Tim Button 2005 fun facts Wonka's Chocolate Room - 007 Stage 206,563.48 US gallons of fake chocolate was made for the River area. 38,430.41 US gallons of fake chocolate were made for the waterfall. Total on stage 244,993.89 US gallons of fake chocolate Fake and real chocolate bars110,000 plastic candy bars were made and wrapped by Nestle. These were mostly used for Mr Salt's Nut Factory when his 500 employees ripped the wrappers off to find the Golden Ticket for his daughter Veruca. 1850 real chocolate bars were made by Nestle for the film. A special walk-in trailer was acquired to hold all the chocolate. It was kept at a certain humidity to preserve and safe guard the chocolate. All chocolate was made with real ingredients. Other real candy made for the film included. All the lollipops on the trees the giant pink sugar canes, the giant humbugs and the red & white swirls of the sweeping tree were all real. The Nut Room Animal trainer Michael Alexander and his team spent 19 weeks training 40 squirrels for the squirrel room scene. The squirrels were trained to sit on stools while they opened nut shells and dropped the nuts onto a conveyor belt The Glass Boat used on the Chocolate River Measuring 30 ft x 9 ft, the boat took 20 weeks to build. It was designed to float on the chocolate river and later put onto a track for the tunnel scene.