Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 American musical fantasy film directed by Mel Stuart and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. It is an adaptation of the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate factory by Roald Dahl. It received generally positive reviews and earned USD 4 million by the end of its original run. 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.
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 American musical fantasy film directed by Mel Stuart and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. It is an adaptation of the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate factory by Roald Dahl. Dahl was credited with writing the film’s screenplay; however, David Seltzer, who went uncredited in the film, was brought in to re-work the screenplay against Dahl’s wishes. The musical numbers were written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley while Walter Scharf arranged and conducted the orchestral score. The film was released by Paramount Pictures on June 30, 1971. It received generally positive reviews and earned USD 4 million by the end of its original run. 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, but both nominations lost to Fiddler on the Roof. In 2014, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ‘culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant’ and has since been covered by numerous artists. The song ‘The Candy Man’ went on to become a popular hit when recorded by Sammy Davis Jr. and has been covered since by numerous artist. The movie has a cult following and became highly popular in part through repeated television airings and home entertainment sales. The factory’s labor force is known as Oompa-Loas, small men known as Wonka’s labor men.
The first four tickets are found by the gluttonous Augustus Gloop, the spoiled Veruca Salt, the gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde, and the television-obsessed Mike Teavee. A subsequent news report reveals the fifth ticket was found in Paraguay by a millionairecasino-owner, causing Charlie to lose hope. The next day, Charlie chooses Joe, who, in excitement, rises out of bed for the first time in 20 years, as his chaperone. The remaining guests take a surreal boat ride, leading to the Inventing Room, where Violet blows up into a large blueberry after chewing an experimental piece of blueberry chewing gum. Wonka takes the remaining guests on a surreal ride, where they ignore some warnings and reach the Fizzy Lifting Room and inhale some Drinks. The last group to take a ride on the boat is a group of children from around the world, known as the Lizzy Gang. The final group includes a small boy named Charlie Bucket, who finds a Golden Ticket in a chocolate bar and goes to the factory to win a lifetime supply of chocolate. Charlie Bucket wins the Golden Ticket and goes home to his widowed mother and bedridden grandparents. He tells his Grandpa Joe what the tinker said, and Joe reveals that Wonka locked the factory because other candy makers, including his rival Arthur Slugworth, sent in spies to steal his recipes. After three years, Wonka shut down the factory but resumed selling candy after three years.
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