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The children in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are greedy, nasty and bad to the bone. And they get magnificently punished by Willy Wonka for their transgressions inside the factory. The whole scenario is so at odds with contemporary attitudes to children and parenting that it provokes a hilarious level of mind-blowing dissonance.
Roald Dahl was not keen on adaptations. He roundly dismissed the now beloved 1972 film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as “saccharine, sappy and sentimental”, and reckoned Spike Milligan would have been a better Wonka than Gene Wilder. He’d certainly have made a madder one.
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