Directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, Missi Pyle, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham Carter, Christopher Lee (add more)
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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.]
Corrected by Brad
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.]
Corrected by Jazetopher
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
Corrected by Xofer
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.]
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.]
In the Television Room, when Wonka is explaining how you will be home watching television, and a commercial pops up, and it wants you to try a Wonka bar (by reaching into the TV and getting it), you can see a cameraman standing behind the camera reflected in Wonka's glasses. It might be a little hard to see (try zooming in), but it's there. [If it requires zooming in because it is "a little hard to see", it doesn't really count as a movie mistake.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
In the chocolate room, Willy Wonka exclaims that Oompah Loomphas are human / real people. He also states (when Augustus Gloop is eating chocolate,) that his chocolate isn't to be touched by human / real peoples' hand. So this means that the Oompah Loomphas are contaminating the chocolate by jumping in during their song. And by the look of the costumes they have for it, they do it often. [Real people doesn't necessarily mean "human" as we understand it. He says human hands, nothing about Oompa-Loompas touching it, so this mistake is invalid.]
At the beginning of the movie several trucks park on the dry driveway of the chocolate factory to collect the Wonka Bars. It then snows. But when the trucks pull away, there is snow underneath where they were parked. [The snow was quite heavy before the shots in the factory, to see the process of the chocolate being made, and we don't see the trucks before those shots in the factory, so it is likely the trucks had just arrived when the ground is already covered.]
Even though the Oompah Loompahs wore special swimwear, liquid chocolate from the river should have stuck to their faces and hands like it did with Augustus Gloop during the same scene. [Okay, liquid chocolate sticks to human skin. How do you know it sticks to Oompah Loompah skin?]
In the scene when they walk into the television room there are only three pairs of glasses but later all five of them have glasses on. [There are actually six pairs of glasses. Three on each side of the door.]
Corrected by scaryterri
Just after Violet Beauregarde has been rolled away by the Oompa Loompas, Willy Wonka appears next to Mrs. Beauregarde and tells her how they've tried it on several Oompa Loompas, they all ended up as blueberries and that it's "really weird." When he finishes speaking he is smiling, and the camera immediately cuts to a shot of Wonka and Mrs. Beauregard from another angle, and he's not smiling anymore, with no time to change between shots. [This is not a mistake, Johnny Depp's split second change from "creepy smile" to "repulsed stare" is part of his technique for this role.]
During the course of the film nobody's breath is EVER seen when exhaling, though it is wintertime, and clearly very cold. Though this is occasionally possible, this occurs for the duration of the film. [Although at times you can't see people's breath, sometimes you can; look closely.]
The snow on the tires of the delivery vans sticks too well (you can see it rotate on the side of the tires) - a dead giveaway of sprayed on artificial snow. [I have watched this scene and I have seen tires on trucks and cars look like that during heavy snow. The rubber on the tires makes real snow stick just like in the movie.]
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