Willy Wonka (1971)
Main Focus: The main focus behind Willy Wonka is teaching children who were given the opportunity to visit his candy factory, life lessons on how to be humble, caring, and honest.
Genre: Comedy, drama, fantasy, musical
Social History: The movie is a lesson that is supposed to teach viewers of all ages that you will be rewarded for good things, deeds, and actions within your lifetime. This is taken upon even years from then when the film can still be watched in 2023.
Ideology: The 1971 film by Roald Dahl, is showing viewers that if you are humble, honest, and kind, you will be rewarded for your good deeds, and if rude or not kind, you will not be.
Charlie in the Chocolate Factory (2005):
Main Focus: The 2005 film by Tim Burton, Charlie in the Chocolate Factory shows viewers the distinction between poverty and wealth.
Genre: Musical, comedy, fantasy
Social History: In the 1971 Willy Wonka film, the message that Roald Dahl showed viewers was related to good deeds and how that will benefit you better than being rude and unkind. In the 2005 version by Tim Burton, the lessons taken from the 1971 film are infiltrated and shown to viewers from a different perspective. For example, money does not buy happiness; and you can see that from Charlies' Point of view during the film.
Ideology: Money does not need to buy happiness.
For me Willy Wonka has always had communistic themes. For me a possible thesis would be how do Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Willy Wonka portray aspects of communism. Both movies have this feeling that if you do everything right, do what your told, contribute to the system, then one day the “man” will pick you to be rich and powerful, which itself is not communistic, but seems like propaganda that if you work hard and give to the system than you can go from poor to rich.
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