Dreams Come True in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"

Charlie gets the chance of a lifetime when he finds one of five golden tickets in his candy bar wrapper. The golden ticket lets him into Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory on a tour and will give him the chance of winning a lifetime supply of chocolate. What Charlie and the other children don’t know is that their tour is actually a test; Wonka needs to find a replacement to take over the chocolate factory and has staged the contest to help him find the right person.

As the energetic Willy Wonka, Gene Wilder is outstanding and convincing as a hero with an edge of all-in-fun cruelty.

Willy Wonka: I’m sorry, but all questions must be submitted in writing.

Willy Wonka: Everything inside is eatable, I mean edible, I mean you can eat everything.

Sam Beauregarde: Don’t talk to me about contracts, Wonka. I use them myself. They’re strictly for suckers.

Willy Wonka: Don’t you know what this is?
Violet Beauregarde: By gum, it’s gum.

Sam Beauregarde: Violet, you’re turning Violet, Violet!

Veruca: I want the world. I want the whole world. I want to lock it all up in my pocket. It’s my bar of chocolate. Give it to me now.

Willy Wonka: Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple.

Mr. Salt: Wonka! Butterscotch, buttergin? You running something on the side here?
Willy Wonka: Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

Willy Wonka: It happens every time; they all become blueberries.

Mr. Turkentine: I’ve just decided to switch our Friday schedule to Monday, which means that the test we take each Friday on what we learned during the week will now take place on Monday before we’ve learned it, but since today is Tuesday, it doesn’t matter in the slightest.

Willy Wonka: Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

Mr. Turkentine: Of course you don’t know. You don’t know because only I know. If you knew and I didn’t know, then you’d be teaching me instead of me teaching you—and for a student to be teaching his teacher is presumptuous and rude. Do I make myself clear?

Willy Wonka: You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

Mr. Salt: What is this Wonka, some kind of funhouse?
Willy Wonka: Why, are you having fun?

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