One Wonka Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight, please.
I know they'd been developing the project for some time.
It's a Golden Ticket.
There's lots of other drafts trying different things like,
"The father doesn't really do anything", "Maybe we should get rid of the father because...
...Willy Wonka is like a father figure" and I go, "Well, Willy Wonka is not a father figure".
Mr. Wonka, I'm Violet Beauregarde.
I don't care.
I certainly wouldn't want him as a father figure and that's not really the point of him as a character.
Here!
Try some of this, it'll do you good.
You look starved to death.
They were always trying to make Charlie special in some way and...
...the whole point of him as a character is that he's not special.
He's like ninety percent of us kids in school that nobody ever noticed.
We just decided, when I got involved with it, just to kind of go back to the base and try to be as true to the book...
...as we could be.
How is it, honey?
It's amazing!
Tomato soup, I can feel it running down my throat!
Yeah. Spit it out.
Roal's works are extremely subversive...
...and there is a darkness in some of them.
Daddy!
Where are they taking her?
Where all the other bad nuts go, to the garbage chute.
Where does the chute go?
To the incinerator.
And the perverse kind of twists in everything, you know. It's going one direction and then, you know, it slams with another rout.
You just press every button and woosh, you're off. *laughs*
He was to me one of the first writers...
...who captured the mixture of light and dark and...
...humorous and being politically incorrect and, you know,
all those things you kind of love as a child and as an adult.
*laughs* Wasn't that just magnificent?
I think there's more than just a children's book.
I think it has deeper, emotional implications.
Nothing's impossible, Charlie.
A lot of what Roal says about children, his perspective on life...
...that was things I heard Tim say.
Bizarrely.
You say, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton"...
...and it's a natural match.
If you look at much of Tim's work, there's a childlike...
...quality to quite a bit of it, you know,
and he brings this whimsy to that.
Cut!
What's great about Tim is, he can draw.
So a lot of stuff he would draw himself.
The script describes like really, you know,
"He had terrible braces and terrible orthodontic head gear"...
...but then when you see Tim's drawing of that,
you know exactly how it's gonna feel on screen.
Little Willy Wonka.
The character of Willy Wonka, I mean, he's an eccentric...
...but you can kind of make up your own mind about him.
Do you even remember what it was like being a kid?
Oh boy do I.
When I sat down to talk with Johnny about the character...
...and as we were looking through like the last few sort of dialog changes,
what I loved so much is that he pulled out his Roal Dahl book...
...and wanted to go through and like add in a few extra lines...
...from Dahl's original book.
If television can break up a photograph into...
...millions and millions of tiny little pieces...
...and send it whizzing through the air...
...then reassemble it on the other end...
...and why can't I do the same thing with chocolate?
That was important to Johnny to just be...
...as true to the book as possible.
With the things that we added,
we always tried to at least channel the spirit of Roal Dahl.
In the book it's explained that he wants a heir but sort of,
"Why does he want an heir?", "What is the motivation for him to suddenly...
...open up his factory and get all these kids in there?".
Why did you decide to let people in?
Oh so they can see the factory, of course.
But why now and why only five?
So we spent a lot more time on who Willy Wonka is,
how he got to be this candy magnate...
...and sort of why he shut his factory doors for twenty years.
I used to work here in the factory.
Were you one of those despicable spies...
...who everyday tried to steal my life's work...
...and sell it to those parasitic copycat candy-making cads?
No, sir.
Then wonderful. Welcome back!
If you read about certain creative people who are...
...kind of geniuses and they have deficiencies in other areas, I mean...
...he's somebody who lives with a bunch of Oompa-Loompas and, you know,
that's bound to make anybody a little strange.
You're very good.
Scriptwise, the biggest change we made from...
...the original book to our movie is...
...sort of continuing the story on a little bit more at the end.
*screams*
As an audience, we sort of know that...
...Charlie's in a persevere and that he's gonna get the factory...
...so we need to add a little extra complication to that.
Are you ready to leave all this behind...
...and come live with me at the factory?
I mean, if it's alright if my family comes too.
Oh my dear boy, of course they can't.
All books have to be changed for making a film...
...and these certainly enhance the book.
All these years...
...and you haven't flossed.
Not once.
It's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" but it's also...
...Tim Burton's vision of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
It takes place within sort of the universe of his movies.
It's fun to watch Tim take that book...
...and turn it into this visual and emotional, uh, feast.
It's hard to say where Roal ends and Tim begins.
It's a happy blending.
The story of Wonka.
He was a genius...
...in invention of chocolates...
...and I think Tim Burton has those qualities in himself.