Charlie and Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory

Story Treatment by Christopher Peterson

In an unnamed town, Charlie Bucket (decked in Depression-era attire themed to rock candy to
represent the poverty he's going through) stands outside the gates of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory; a
purple and blue, castle-like structure that seems to be untouched by time. A mysterious tinker recites
the first lines of William Allingham's poem "The Fairies", and tells Charlie, "Nobody ever goes in, and
nobody ever comes out." Charlie rushes home to his widowed mother and bedridden grandparents.
After telling Grandpa Joe about the tinker, Joe reveals that Wonka locked the factory because other
candy makers, including rival Arthur Slugworth, sent in spies to steal his recipes. Wonka disappeared,
but for three years resumed selling candy; the origin of Wonka's labor force is unknown.
Wonka announces a contest whereby children that find Golden Tickets hidden in five Wonka
bars will be given a tour of the factory and one a chance to be presented with an unknown grand prize.
Four tickets are quickly found: the greedy and gluttonous Augustus Gloop (clad in Aachener Printen-
themed German clothes to represent his love for food) from Dsseldorf; the spoiled and rotten Veruca
Salt (wearing a school uniform themed to Red Hots, representing her ill temper) from
Buckinghamshire, the competitive and boastful Violet Beauregarde (dressed in a bubblegum pink
jumper to represent her being world record holder in chewing gum) from Atlanta, and the arrogant and
aggressive Mike Teavee (clad in 1990s attire themed to SweeTarts to represent both his sour behavor
and his love for television) from Denver. To his surprise, Charlie, on finding some money in the street,
just intends to enjoy one chocolate bar when he finds the bar he just bought has the last Golden Ticket!
Bystanders attempt to separate him from it, only for the shopkeeper to see that he keeps the ticket and
gets back home with it.
The next day, Wonka (clad in a zoot suit themed to Fun Dip to represent his childishness) greets
the ticket winners and their parents and leads them inside, where they must fallow the rules of the tour
(four of which forshadows the fate). The first stop on the tour the the factory's Candy Garden, where he
introduce them to the Oompa Loompas, tiny elf-like beings (who are clad in jumpsuits themed to
Candy Apples, Unicorn Pops, Lemon Drops, Peanutbutter Cups, and so on to represent their job at
Wonka's factory) who became Wonka's workers after he saves them from cat-like Hornsnozzlers,
snake-like Snozzwangers, and gelatinous Whangdoodles. Augustus can't resist drinking from the
room's chocolate river (much to his mother Mrs. Gloop's Wonka's disgust), and falls right into the thing
(and was sucked towards verious pipes, which, according to Wonka, leads to verious other rooms of his
factory). Charlie jumped at the meer sight of it and (in doing so) hit his elbow on a button. Wonka
warned Charlie about what he has done as a rusty pipe appears from above. Wonka recognized it and
assures the others that the pip leads to a room where the chocolate was cleansed. Augustus meets a
painful demise as he is sucked up a chocolate pipe leading said room shouting that he doesn't know
where he's going. The Oompa Loompas sings August's exit song as Mrs. Gloop exits (the exit songs for
this film is the four Oompa Loompa songs from the 1971 film based on Roald Dahl's book).
The group rides a boat (that some Oompa Loompas are rowing) down the chocolate river into a
tunnel where, after being asked if the Oompa Loompas can see where they're going, Wonka retorts in
rhyme: 'There's no earthly way of knowing/ Which direction they are going!/ There's no knowing
where they're rowing/Or which way the river's flowing!/Not a speck of light is showing/So the danger
must be growing/For the rowers keep on rowing/And they're certainly not showing/Any signs that they
are slowing . . .' before the lights came on in a dazzling array of colors. Mrs. Teavee (Mike Teavee's)
proclaimed that she thinks she's going to to get seasick, but an image of a jack-in-the-box surprises her
and makes her vomit. Seeing what she's done, Mrs. Teavee announces that she is getting seasick.
Wonka hears offers her some Rainbow Drops (she can suck them and spit 9 different colors). Violet
comments that spitting is a dirty habbit, which Wonka responds that chewing gum is also disgusting.
After passing doors reading "STOREROOM NUMBER 54 ALL THE CREAMS DAIRY CREAM,
WHIPPED CREAM, VIOLET CREAM, STAWBERRY CREAM, COFFEE CREAM, PINEAPPLE
CREAM, VANILLA CREAM, AND HAIR CREAM", "STOREROOM NUMBER 71 WHIPS ALL
SHAPES AND SIZES" and "STOREROOM NUMBER 77 ALL THE BEANS, CACAO BEANS,
COFFEE BEANS, JELLY BEANS, JUMPING BEANS, AND HAS BEANS" as well as more suprise,
Wonka Stops the tour outside the Inventing Room.
Once inside, the tour find themselves before a giant mixer. The mixer first makes Everlasting
Gobstoppers, but after Violet Beauregarde says she want to chew, it makes Sunday Dinner Gum, a
chewing gum meal consisting of tomato soup, roast chicken, potatoes and gravy, Fi zzy Orange, cheese
and crackers and blueberry pie. Violet begins to love this and (despite Wonka's warning to be careful,
'cause the gum is slightly unstable) proceeds to chew the gum. As she does she turns blue, and each
time she reached each meal flavor, she get bluer and bluer until she reaches the bluebery pie. At this
point her body explodes into a spherical shape. Wonka assure her that she turned into a blueberry now
that there is an excess of fructose in Violet's fluid sacs. Her father, Mr. Beauregarde, demand that Violet
should return to her normal, and Wonka orders Violet to go to the Juicing Room to be juiced. The
Oompa Loompas sing Violet's exit song as Violet and her father leaves. Then the tour goes on.
After an exhausting jog down a series of corridors, Wonka allows his guests to rest outside of
the Nut Room, but refuses them entry. Through the window the ramaining memebers of the group
watch as verious multicolored Loompaland Squirrels put the walnuts into a device that sort good nuts
from bad nuts. Veruca demands a squirrel, but Wonka refuses. Veruca warns Wonka that she shouldn't
have made angery before invading the Nut Room, where she dissapeared into the nut-sorting device,
with her father, Robert Salt, fallowing after. The Oompa Loompa sang their exit song, then Wonka
explains that they're plummeting down the garbage chute to the Garbage Dump.
Mike coomplains that he's tired so it's off to te Wonka-Port, where they take board Wonka Cart.
With Mike wondering if there's a television room in the factory, Wonka says there is and instructs Mike
to operate the vehicle. Mike does so and the group head into Wonka-RKO, where the Oompa Loompas
are hard at work on the Television Chocolate Camera, a movie camera that sends chocolate through
airwaves. Mike was excited and despite Wonka's warning, he uses it on himself, causing him to end up
the size of a doll. He was escorted to the Factory's Taffy Stretching Room by his mother (at Wonka's
request) while the Oompa Loompas sing his exit song.
With only Charlie remaining, Mr Wonka congratulates him for "winning" the factory and, after
explaining his true intentions and the reason behind his golden tickets, names Charlie his apprentice.
They ride the Great Glass Elevator to Charlie's house while the other four children go home after their
demises (Augustus squeezed thin, Violet all blue in the face, Veruca covered in garbage, and Mike
stretched ten feet tall). Afterwards, Mr Wonka invites them to come live with him in the factory.