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Warning: Contains spoilers.
It's everybody's non-pollutionary, anti-institutionary, pro-confectionery factory of fun! It's Scrumdiddlyumptious!
This 1971 movie uses many references to the American candy culture. The movie is based on the very successful children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, written by Roald Dahl.
When Willy Wonka decides to allow five extremely lucky people to tour his factory and discover the secrets of his famous and much-loved candy, the world goes wild with excitement. Their excitement is only exhausted by the fact that he is also offering one of those lucky people a lifetime's supply of his chocolate.
Charlie, a poor boy who struggles to even support his family, really wants that prize. As luck would have it, he wins the opportunity to join four self-centred children for an adventure in a magical land made of candy. He grabs Grandpa Joe out of bed to join him, a difficult task when the old man hasn't been out of bed for many years.
Meanwhile, a stranger named Arthur Slugworth tempts the five winners. He offers them wealth for a single piece of Willy Wonka's candy.
Charlie and Grandpa Joe are taken by Willy Wonka with four other children on a grand tour of the factory. A boy named Augustus is the first to mysteriously disappear, falling into a river of chocolate. Another girl, Violet, eats a chewing gum and turns into a blueberry. Veruca, who wants a golden goose, is rejected as a "bad egg." Mike, who remains on the tour with Charlie, is shrunk when transmitted into a television. Only Charlie remains.
Willy Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, claiming Charlie and Grandpa Joe had been drinking a product without his permission. Devastation spreads across the face of the poor Charlie and he must prove he deserves the money.
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