Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: Book vs. Movie
Mel Stuart's 1971 musical Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory adapts Roald Dahl's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Gene Wilder plays Wonka, with Peter Ostrum as the boy who wins a visit to his factory.
From Books Adapted
How much of the book it covers
The movie finishes the first Charlie book
It adapts Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a complete story. Dahl's follow-up, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, appeared in 1972, after the movie had been made. Its later adventure is not part of this adaptation.
What changed from the book
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Charlie has to pass a new test of honesty
The movie follows Dahl's book through Charlie inheriting the factory, but changes how he earns it. Charlie and Grandpa Joe break the rules by trying the Fizzy Lifting Drinks. Wonka later uses that breach to tell Charlie he has lost his prize.
The apparent offer from Slugworth to buy an Everlasting Gobstopper adds another test. Charlie returns the sweet instead. Slugworth, the drink and the Gobstopper are mentioned in the book, but the movie builds them into this connected trial of Charlie's character.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Roald Dahl
- Year
- 1964
- Pages
- 192Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 3 hr 18 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Douglas Hodge
Charlie Bucket lives with his parents and four grandparents in a house where food is scarce and chocolate is an occasional treat. Finding one of Willy Wonka's five golden tickets lets him and Grandpa Joe enter the factory he has long watched from outside. Inside, Charlie encounters inventions that seem impossible, while the other visiting children struggle to keep their appetites and demands in check.
- Director
- Mel Stuart
- Writer
- Roald Dahl, David Seltzer
- Year
- 1971
- Runtime
- 1 hr 40 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear
- Genre
- children's, Drama, Family, Fantasy, musical
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
A worldwide search for golden tickets gives Charlie Bucket an unlikely chance to visit Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Before the tour begins, a stranger offers money for one of Wonka's secret sweets, making the invitation more complicated for a boy whose family is desperately poor. Inside, Charlie and Grandpa Joe encounter a host whose wonderful inventions come with rules the visiting children struggle to follow.
Other adaptations of this book
Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryMovie · 2005Details
- Director
- Tim Burton
- Writer
- Roald Dahl, John August
- Year
- 2005
- Runtime
- 1 hr 55 min
- Cast
- Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter
Charlie Bucket lives with his family in a cramped house beside a chocolate factory that has shut out the world. A golden ticket brings him inside with Grandpa Joe and four other children, where Willy Wonka unveils edible landscapes and strange inventions. The tour becomes a series of tests, while the secretive owner struggles with ideas about family that Charlie takes for granted.
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