Corrected entry: Charlie's grandpa gave him a 1-pound coin to buy a Wonka Bar. So why didn't Charlie buy 10 Wonkas when he found the 10-pound note in the street? Or at least put his hand out for the change; after all his family is very strapped for cash.
Corrected entry: Willy Wonka says that the Oompa Loompa can't tolerate cold weather but they are seen later working in snow.
Correction: That's not snow, it's powdered sugar.
Corrected entry: Whenever Charlie takes a bite of chocolate in the movie it is obvious that he hasn't really put any of the candy in his mouth. There's a loud snap like he broke the bar but it's still in one piece.
Correction: In the book it says that he only takes little bites just enough to cover his tongue in a layer of rich decadent chocolate so that is what he does so it will make a snapping sound but it will also look like he didn't take anything off of it.
Corrected entry: Wouldn't Wonka and the Bucket family call the Glass Elevator a "Lift" since they live in England?
Correction: And the Russians in Hunt for Red October should have been speaking Russian all the way through. I think we can give some artistic wiggle-room in this case since many Americans (of which the target audience is) may not know what a lift is. Also, it's called an elevator in the first movie and the book as well. In fact, there's a second book called "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator".
Corrected entry: On one of the machines in the "inventing room" there is a gauge labeled "PRESSURE" that is missing the pointer.
Correction: As odd as that factory was, can we really call this a mistake?
Corrected entry: There's no reason Verruca's dad or any of the other characters for that matter couldn't have climbed over the gate to save Verruca from the squirrels without resorting to the keychain.
Correction: Had Veruca's dad or any other part of the group tried to save her, the squirrels would most likely have attacked and knocked them into the garbage chute as well. Also note, that each time something happens to the other kids, Willy doesn't do anything as he sees them as being rightly punished.
Veruca looks about 6 or 7. These are adults watching. Willy didn't know until after the song that she was not going to die. He had no excuse.
I think that you have missed the moral of the story, completely. Wonka set the entire day up, by the way, wanting to find the pure child who could run his company for the good of everyone else, not him or herself. He knew Verruca was not going to die (his crazy personality let everyone believe otherwise, though) but he wanted to punish her, of course.
Corrected entry: At the start, English-label bars are sent to Tokyo. Later in the news, however, chocolate in Tokyo is shown to have Japanese labels.
Correction: It's certainly possible to have both a native language and English bars in one country.
Corrected entry: The entrance door to the Inventing Room doubles in size when Blueberry Violet is squeezed through so she will fit.
Correction: No it doesn't. It was always a giant round door when they first walked in.
Corrected entry: The movie is set in Britain, but the people in the candy store offer Charlie "dollars" instead of "pounds."
Corrected entry: During the Mike Teavee scene, the drummer is not even touching the hi-hat Mike is hanging onto, thus he should not have been launched up in the air. (01:27:15)
Correction: You can see the drummer hit both hi-hats right after the shot changes to Mike hanging on one. After he's in the air the drummer isn't hitting them anymore.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Willie is closing the factory, from behind, you see the microphone amplifying his voice as he makes his announcement. After he says "I'm sorry", he turns to his right to leave, the microphone and the mic stand are gone. He didn't take it with him.
Correction: Nothing in the scene shows he didn't take it with him. He could have easily had the microphone in his hand, which is off screen when he turns around.
Corrected entry: The mechanism that shoots the Gobstoppers into the pool is not connected to the pool. It's almost as if the mechanism is just floating there.
Correction: In subsequent shots, you can see that the mechanism is connected to the black ceiling of the Inventing Room.
Corrected entry: When Violet begins to inflate into a blueberry, there are two Oompa-Loompas behind her. In the next shot, they are gone.
Correction: Actually they are backing up. They begin to slowly back away into the darkness where you cannot see them.
Corrected entry: When the magic gum is pressed out from the machine, it's orange but when Violet takes it, it's blueish.
Correction: The gum is two colors - an yellowish-orange and a dark bluish-orange.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: Veruca's lollipop disappears when she gets into the boat.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: 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.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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 entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
Correction: His intention was to buy one Wonka Bar and keep the change. He was too excited to remember about the change since he won the Golden ticket.
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