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Willy Wonka

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Willy Wonka is a fictional character in Roald Dahl's 1964 children or teens novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, its sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and the film adaptations of these books that followed. [1]

63 relations: Alan F. Horn, Andrew Sarris, Beetlejuice, Blair Dunlop, Chaim Topol, Character flaw, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical), Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Chocolatier, Christian Borle, Citizen Kane, Creativity, Dental braces, Douglas Hodge, Ed Wood (film), Entertainment Weekly, Faber and Faber, Father figure, Fiddler on the Roof, Gene Wilder, Genius, George W. Bush, Greg Dean Schmitz, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Howard Hughes, IGN, Industrial espionage, Inheritance, James Arnold Taylor, Jim Carrey, Joaquin Phoenix, John August, Johnny Cash, Johnny Depp, List of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory characters, Los Angeles Times, Michael Jackson, Mick LaSalle, New York Observer, Nicolas Cage, Owen Gleiberman, Peter Travers, Prosthetic makeup, Roald Dahl, Roger Ebert, Rolling Stone, San Francisco Chronicle, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, ..., The Mail on Sunday, The Washington Post, Tim Burton, Tom and Jerry, Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Tom Shadyac, Tooth decay, Variety (magazine), Walk the Line, White House, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Wonka Bar, Yahoo! Movies. Expand index (13 more) »

Alan F. Horn

Alan Frederick Horn (born on February 28, 1943) is an American entertainment industry executive.

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Andrew Sarris

Andrew Sarris (October 31, 1928 – June 20, 2012) was an American film critic, a leading proponent of the auteur theory of film criticism.

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Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice is a 1988 American comedy-fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, produced by The Geffen Film Company and distributed by Warner Bros. The plot revolves around a recently deceased young couple (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) who become ghosts haunting their former home, and an obnoxious, devious ghost named Betelgeuse (pronounced "Beetlejuice", portrayed by Michael Keaton) from the Netherworld who tries to scare away the new inhabitants (Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones, and Winona Ryder) permanently.

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Blair Dunlop

Blair Dunlop (born 11 February 1992) is an English musician and actor.

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Chaim Topol

Chaim Topol (חיים טופול, born September 9, 1935), also spelled Haym Topol, mononymously known as Topol, is an Israeli theatrical, film, and television actor, singer, comedian, voice artist, film producer, author, and illustrator.

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Character flaw

In the creation and criticism of fictional works, a character flaw is a limitation, imperfection, problem, phobia, or deficiency present in a character who may be otherwise very functional.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 musical fantasy comedy film directed by Tim Burton and written by John August, based on the 1964 British novel of the same name by Roald Dahl.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a stage musical based on the 1964 children's novel of the same name by Roald Dahl, with book by David Greig, music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl.

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Chocolatier

A chocolatier is a person or company who makes confectionery from chocolate.

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Christian Borle

Christian Dominique Borle (born October 1, 1973) is an American actor in theatre, television, and film.

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Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American mystery drama film by Orson Welles, its producer, co-screenwriter, director and star.

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Creativity

Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed.

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Dental braces

Dental braces (also known as braces, orthodontic cases, or cases) are devices used in orthodontics that align and straighten teeth and help position them with regard to a person's bite, while also aiming to improve dental health.

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Douglas Hodge

Douglas Hodge (born 25 February 1960) is an English actor, director, and musician who trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

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Ed Wood (film)

Ed Wood is a 1994 American biographical comedy-drama film directed and produced by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the eponymous cult filmmaker.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the United Kingdom.

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Father figure

A father figure is usually an older man, normally one with power, authority, or strength, with whom one can identify on a deeply psychological level and who generates emotions generally felt towards one's father.

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Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in 1905.

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Gene Wilder

Jerome Silberman (June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016), known professionally as Gene Wilder, was an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, singer-songwriter and author.

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Genius

A genius is a person who displays exceptional intellectual ability, creative productivity, universality in genres or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of new advances in a domain of knowledge.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Greg Dean Schmitz

Greg Dean Schmitz (born August 18, 1970) is an American online film critic known for his movie news website, Upcomingmovies.com (1997 to 2002), and its second version as Greg's Previews of Upcoming Movies as part of Yahoo! Movies (2002 to 2007).

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Hollywood Foreign Press Association

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) is a non-profit organization of journalists and photographers who report on the entertainment industry activity and interests in the United States for information outlets (newspaper, magazine and book publication, television and radio broadcasting) predominantly outside the U.S. The HFPA consists of about 90 members from approximately 55 countries with a combined following of more than 250 million.

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Howard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.

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IGN

IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis wholly owned by j2 Global.

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Industrial espionage

Industrial espionage, economic espionage, corporate spying or corporate espionage is a form of espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of purely national security.

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Inheritance

Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, titles, debts, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual.

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James Arnold Taylor

James Arnold Taylor (born July 22, 1969) is an American voice actor, known for portraying Ratchet in the Ratchet & Clank franchise; the main character Tidus in Final Fantasy X; and Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars animated features such as Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the franchise's video games.

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Jim Carrey

James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, musician, producer and painter.

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Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquín Rafael Phoenix (né Bottom; born October 28, 1974) is an American actor, producer, and activist.

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John August

John August (born August 4, 1970) is an American screenwriter, director, producer and novelist.

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Johnny Cash

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author.

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Johnny Depp

John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, producer, and musician.

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List of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory characters

The following is a list of characters in the Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and the former's film adaptations, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.

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Mick LaSalle

Mick LaSalle (born May 7, 1959) is an American film critic and the author of two books on pre-Hays Code Hollywood.

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New York Observer

Observer is an online newspaper originating in New York City.

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Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7, 1964), known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor, director and producer.

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Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman (born February 24, 1959) is an American film critic, who has been the chief film critic for Variety since May 2016.

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Peter Travers

Peter Travers is an American film critic and journalist, who has written for People and Rolling Stone.

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Prosthetic makeup

Prosthetic makeup (also called Special make-up effects and FX prosthesis) is the process of using prosthetic sculpting, molding and casting techniques to create advanced cosmetic effects.

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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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The Ellen DeGeneres Show

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (often shortened to Ellen and stylized as ellen) is an American television comedy talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.

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The Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, published in a tabloid format.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Tim Burton

Timothy Walter BurtonTim Burton's middle name is cited as Walter by the Museum of Modern Art on its and covering Burton's career as an artist and filmmaker, though it is cited as William by other sources, such as the (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator.

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Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry is an American animated series of short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

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Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a 2017 American direct-to-DVD animated musical comedy film featuring the characters Tom and Jerry, produced by Warner Bros. Animation.

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Tom Shadyac

Thomas Peter Shadyac (born December 11, 1958) is an American director, screenwriter, producer and author.

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Tooth decay

Tooth decay, also known as dental caries or cavities, is a breakdown of teeth due to acids made by bacteria.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Walk the Line

Walk the Line is a 2005 American biographical drama film directed by James Mangold.

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White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States.

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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 American musical fantasy family film directed by Mel Stuart, and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.

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Wonka Bar

The Wonka Bar is both a fictional candy bar, introduced as a key story point in the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, and a type of consumer product candy bar inspired by the fictional confection.

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Yahoo! Movies

Yahoo! Movies (formerly Upcoming Movies), provided by the Yahoo! network, is home to a large collection of information on movies, past and new releases, trailers and clips, box office information, and showtimes and movie theater information.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Wonka

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