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Mr. Teevee: So can you send other things? Say, like, breakfast cereal?

Willy Wonka: Do you have any idea what breakfast cereal's made of? It's those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners.

Charlie: But could you send it by TV if you wanted to?

Willy Wonka: Of course I could.

Mike Teevee: What about people?

Willy Wonka: Well, why would I wanna send a person? They don't taste very good at all.

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At the beginning of the movie, the Golden Tickets are placed over the upside-down chocolate bars, meaning that the tickets are actually on the bottom, but later when the children find the tickets, they are now on top of the bars. See more...

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In the scene with the young Willy Wonka eating a box of chocolates, he is writing down in a notebook a description of each chocolate he eats. When Roald Dahl was at boarding school there was a Cadbury's factory nearby that used the pupils as testers for their new chocolate, and they were asked to write down their comments in much the same way. This is mentioned in his book Boy. See more...

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) - 67 corrections

Directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, Missi Pyle, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham Carter, Christopher Lee (add more)

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy

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When the magic gum is pressed out from the machine, it's orange but when Violet takes it, it's blueish. [The gum is two colors - an yellowish-orange and a dark bluish-orange.]
Edit Corrected by LorgSkyegon
The FPS game Mike plays would set the movie no earlier than the mid 1990's, yet in the retrospection scene which is said to take place twenty years earlier, everything from cars to clothes is not younger than from 1950's, which would be about 40 years earlier. [I don't believe this is actually an error, as this isn't really a movie set in the 'real world', but more of a parody of the world. As discussed in the 'making of' on the DVD, they explained that they didn't really want the place or time to be anything specifically set. Therefore there are more modern things (like the FPS game), and the older things like the 1950s stuff. It's the same reason that the money they use in the movie has been designed to look different - so that you can't identify where it's supposed to be. They never actually specify if Wonka's factory is in England or America.]
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When they show close-ups of Willy Wonka's face as an adult, you can see that he has bright blue eyes. But, when they show him as a child, he has dark, brown eyes. [Willy is wearing colored contacts. [Johnny Depp's eyes are brown in real-life, too]. It would not be out of place for the eccentric Willy Wonka to do things to alter his appearance just to be "different. Willy also colored his hair burgundy [or is wearing a wig], which is obviously different from the dark brown/black hair the juvenille Willy has.]
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Violet's clothes wouldn't be affected by the gum, but her clothes expand and turn blue. [Her sweatsuit is made of a stretch jersey, and probably has spandex in it, so it would expand around a bloating body. It also turns blue because her body is secreting blueberry juice. You can see this is happening during the transformation scene as the spots on her clothing seem to start in spots and spread out as if it is soaking up liquid.]
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When Wilbur Wonka throws the Halloween candy in the fire, some of the candies have the skeleton from "A Nightmare Before Christmas," another Tim Burton film. [I re-watched the scene, and cannot see Jack Skellington anywhere. There are come candies that have a white skull on them, but they are just generic skeletons. There's also some orange lollipops with a white face on them that looks similar to Jack's face, but, again, it's just a generic Jack-O-Lantern face.]
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When Charlie's grandfather gives him money so he can buy another Wonka bar, the coin changes position in his hand between shots as the camera cuts from Charlie's POV to his grandfather's. The "heads" side faces Charlie first, but then it's facing his grandfather when the camera switches. Unless it's a two-headed (and therefore fake) coin, that's impossible. [It looks like the head on the coin moves from being straight up to being sideways, but the shot is always from Charlie's angle, not Grandpa Joe's so there is no way to tell if it is a two headed coin or not.]
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Veruca's lollipop disappears when she gets into the boat. [She had the lollipop when she first got on the boat, she could have dropped it when the boat sped up and was getting bumpy.]
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Despite what is stated in the film, chocolate is not made from the cocoa bean. It is actually made from the cacao bean. ["Cacao bean" may be the scientific term, but "cocoa bean" is an accepted synonym.]
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When Mike, Mr. Teavee, Charlie, Grandpa Joe and Willy Wonka first enter the Great Glass Elevator, there are buttons on all sides except the door. However, almost every time we see the Great Glass Elevator from then onwards, there are buttons only on the back wall. [There are only buttons on the back wall. It looks that there are numerous buttons because of reflections.]
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In the beginning sequence of the movie, while the camera is flying over the conveyor belt it shows a bunch of fans that are used to cool the chocolate enough to be picked up without falling apart. The fans that are used to do this are upside down. The air flow created from such a fan would blow up, not down, thus not blowing any air on the chocolate. This is apparent when the camera angle is parallel to the blades. [The inverted fans are not used to "cool down" the chocolate, but rather they are "pulling" the warm air AWAY from the chocolate bars. If you place several powerful fans facing the chocolate, it would be blowing hard enough to cause the not-yet-solid chocolate bars to all be misshaped.]
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At the chocolate castle, when it begins to melt on the Prince, there is a purple umbrella next his chair, when the shot changes the umbrella is gone. [I seen the movie a million times and there is no umbrella.]
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In the scene when they are in the elevator they are falling onto the sides of it, yet no more buttons are being pushed in doing so. [This is because they only fall against the sides, and the sides have no buttons, which reveals an alternate mistake, because when we first saw the elevator there WERE buttons on the sides, but from then onwards (inculding when the passengers slam up against the walls) the buttons have disappeared from the sides, therefore making it impossible for them to press any.]
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When Charlie went up to his room, and was snowing heavily, no snowflakes were coming through the open roof. [When Charlie is in his room, and he calls down goodnight and you can see that the open roof has a clear plastic covering.]
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The movie is set in Britain, but the people in the candy store offer Charlie "dollars" instead of "pounds." [While Charlie and his family are English, it's never stated what country the film's set in - it's deliberately vaguely multicultural.]
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Throughout the movie the size of the Oompa Loompa's varies in scenes, between shots where there are full sized characters, and in shots with no full sized characters. [Maybe Oompa Loompa's are like humans, you get shorter people and taller people so this would explain the size difference.Or maybe the taller Oopma Loompa's are adults while the shorter ones are children.]
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Even though Charlie is in England, he picks up a 10 *dollar* bill. [Not a mistake. London has been an international hub since the beginning of travel across the English channel, the finding of another type of currency there is common place. Besides, I've picked up a Euro bill in Switzerland as well and we don't have the Euro as currency.]
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In the shop, the shopkeeper was getting chocolate for Charlie and he is quite far away from the counter, but still has his arm out. Unless his arm is extremely long or he is just holding it out in mid air, that's just impossible. [This may just be the camera's depth perspective problem. He is plenty close to the chocolate display to reach the bar to hand to Charlie.]
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In the wide shot of Charlie shining shoes, Willy is waiting his turn and there is no glass elevator in sight. After talking to Charlie, Willy gets up and walks only a few feet to the elevator now parked in the street. [The point of the glass elevator is to be nearly invisible, and secondly, having shown the elevator would've completely destroyed one of their physical jokes.]
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Willy is the only one that can verify the golden tickets, but we never see the Russian ticket rejected or the good tickets even looked at by him. [The are many ways by which fraud can be detected. The movie never said, nor implied that Willy Wonka was the one who determined the ticket to be forged.]
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At times it is obvious that the ship on the chocolate river is a model, given the rigidity of the people sitting on it (although computer sfx allows them to move) and given the droplets of the actual 'chocolate' water, which are too big. [The large drops of "chocolate" water on the sides are computer generated, and as chocolate is thicker than water, this makes sense. Also, none of the Oompa-Loompas appear "over-rigid" at any time.]
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