Steve M.
08-03-2005, 12:22 AM
Here are several differences between the two Willy Wonka movies, and how they relate to the book:
In the 1971 movie, Mr. Bucket is dead. In the 2005 movie, Mr. Bucket is alive, just like in the book.
In the '71 movie, a Paraguayan fakes the fifth ticket. A Russian fakes the last ticket in the new movie, but in the book a Russian fakes the second ticket.
The factory tour is October 1 in the '71 movie, February 1 in the new movie, just like in the book.
Augustus is German in both movies, but his nationality is not mentioned in the book. Veruca Salt is English in both movies, while the book also leaves her nationality undetermined. Mike Teavee is from Phoenix in the old movie, from Denver in the new one. Mike Teavee is not identified as an American or anything else in the book.
One parent accompanies a child in both movies. Both parents accompany the child in the book, except for Charlie, who is accompanied only by Grandpa Joe in both movies and the book.
The Oompa-Lompas are African pygmies in the book, and they're from "Loompaland" in both movies. The new movie includes elements of both accounts in it, but only in the book are the Oompa-Loompas a tribe of men, women and children.
In the old movie, only Charlie and Grandpa Joe ride the glass elevator with Wonka; in the new movie, Mike and his father ride it too, and both Mike's parents ride it in the book.
Only in the '71 movie did Charlie and Grandpa Joe steal Fizzy Lifting Drinks - the beverage is mentioned in passing in the book - and risk losing Charlie's lifetime supply of chocolate. I don't even know why this was in the 1971 film. Charlie is supposed to be the good boy.
There was no soda-powered wagon spurting gassy goo in the book or the new movie, as there was in the old movie.
Veruca Salt enters a nut room in the book and the new movie; because the special effects couldn't reproduce the squirrels in the 1971 movie, geese laying golden eggs were substituted instead.
There was no one pretending to be Slugworth to tempt the kids in the book or the new movie, as there was in the old one.
The '71 movie made Wonka the title character. the new movie and the book made Charlie Bucket ("the hero") the title character.
The new movie made up the conflict between Wonka and his dentist dad, and only in the new movie did Wonka offer Charlie the factory on the condition that he leave his family.
In the 1971 movie, Mr. Bucket is dead. In the 2005 movie, Mr. Bucket is alive, just like in the book.
In the '71 movie, a Paraguayan fakes the fifth ticket. A Russian fakes the last ticket in the new movie, but in the book a Russian fakes the second ticket.
The factory tour is October 1 in the '71 movie, February 1 in the new movie, just like in the book.
Augustus is German in both movies, but his nationality is not mentioned in the book. Veruca Salt is English in both movies, while the book also leaves her nationality undetermined. Mike Teavee is from Phoenix in the old movie, from Denver in the new one. Mike Teavee is not identified as an American or anything else in the book.
One parent accompanies a child in both movies. Both parents accompany the child in the book, except for Charlie, who is accompanied only by Grandpa Joe in both movies and the book.
The Oompa-Lompas are African pygmies in the book, and they're from "Loompaland" in both movies. The new movie includes elements of both accounts in it, but only in the book are the Oompa-Loompas a tribe of men, women and children.
In the old movie, only Charlie and Grandpa Joe ride the glass elevator with Wonka; in the new movie, Mike and his father ride it too, and both Mike's parents ride it in the book.
Only in the '71 movie did Charlie and Grandpa Joe steal Fizzy Lifting Drinks - the beverage is mentioned in passing in the book - and risk losing Charlie's lifetime supply of chocolate. I don't even know why this was in the 1971 film. Charlie is supposed to be the good boy.
There was no soda-powered wagon spurting gassy goo in the book or the new movie, as there was in the old movie.
Veruca Salt enters a nut room in the book and the new movie; because the special effects couldn't reproduce the squirrels in the 1971 movie, geese laying golden eggs were substituted instead.
There was no one pretending to be Slugworth to tempt the kids in the book or the new movie, as there was in the old one.
The '71 movie made Wonka the title character. the new movie and the book made Charlie Bucket ("the hero") the title character.
The new movie made up the conflict between Wonka and his dentist dad, and only in the new movie did Wonka offer Charlie the factory on the condition that he leave his family.