Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

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Movie
German title Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Original title Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Country of production USA , UK , Australia
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 6
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Director Tim Burton
script John August
production Brad Gray , Richard D. Zanuck
music Danny Elfman
camera Philippe Rousselot
cut Chris Lebenzon
occupation
synchronization

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a screen adaptation of Tim Burton in 2005 after the children's book by Roald Dahl . The film opened in Austrian and German cinemas on August 11, 2005.

action

Charlie Bucket, around 10 years old, lives with his parents and grandparents in a crooked and dilapidated house on the edge of a big city. Despite great poverty, the family is happy and in a good mood. Charlie's greatest idol is Willy Wonka, a creative manufacturer of sweets, some of the most unusual, who runs a huge and mysterious chocolate factory in town.

Charlie's grandfather Josef says that he used to work in the factory and knew the shy Willy Wonka personally. He was fired when Wonka had to shut down his factory after his secret recipes were spied on. The factory later resumed and has been producing fairytale sweets ever since, but no one has seen anyone go into the factory or come out since.

At the beginning of the film, Wonka announced that he had distributed five golden tickets worldwide in his chocolate bars. The children who find these tickets are allowed to visit the factory for a day and take as much chocolate as they want with them. A worldwide hype about the cards sets in.

The first four tickets are found by:

  • Augustus Glupsch, an overweight boy from Germany who is addicted to eating
  • the completely spoiled Veruca Salt from England, who terrorizes her wealthy parents with fits of anger. Her father, also a factory owner, had bought huge quantities of Wonka's chocolate and had his workers unpack it until a gold ticket was found.
  • Violetta Beauregarde from Georgia, an ambitious martial artist and reigning champion in chewing gum, who, encouraged by her equally ambitious mother, wants to win anytime and anywhere.
  • Mike Teavee from Colorado, tech-savvy, video game and television addict. He had seen through the distribution system and only had to buy a single board.

Charlie doesn't think he has a chance of getting the fifth card, but finds it when he buys a bar of chocolate for the consolation of the money he has found. He suggests that his family sell the card for a fortune in order to get out of their poverty, but is convinced by his other grandfather that he shouldn't miss this unique opportunity and visits the factory with grandfather Josef.

Instead of the expected industrial plant, the factory presents itself to visitors as a bizarre fairy-tale land. All of the employees there come from a small people from the tropical Loompaland , the Oompa-Loompas , with whom Wonka made friends on a research trip and invited them because of their obsession with chocolate. to live and work in his factory. They work there in all functions, from simple workers to Wonka's personal psychiatrists, and look indistinguishably the same.

During the tour, the first four children are confronted one by one with their weaknesses and succumb to temptation :

  • In a landscape made entirely of sweets, Augustus Glupsch falls into a river made of chocolate mass and ends up in the chocolate processing department via a transport system.
  • Violetta Beauregarde tries a freshly made 3-course chewing gum in a test room against Wonka's warning, the third course of which (blueberry cake with ice cream) makes her swell into a huge blueberry.
  • Veruca Salt tries to grab one of the squirrels who crack walnuts at Wonka. She is attacked by all the squirrels and thrown into the waste hole.
  • Mike Teavee recognizes the potential for teleportation in Wonka's latest invention, the transmission of chocolate via television program, and teleports himself, whereby, however, like everything on television, it is greatly reduced in size.

These events are annotated by a group of Oompa-Loompas in elaborately choreographed shows. The person of Wonka remains ambivalent : On the one hand, he seems amiable and fascinating, on the other hand, he seems to be amused by what happens to the children. Only when he is asked about his family - a word that he cannot utter himself - he suddenly becomes emotional and receives several flashbacks , which in turn irritates his visitors.

Finally, Charlie wins the grand prize as the last remaining visitor: Wonka declares him partner and successor and says he wanted to sort out the spoiled children beforehand. These leave the factory disappointed in a different form. Charlie's enthusiasm for the award fades when Wonka expects him to leave his family for it. He refuses, whereupon Wonka, utterly amazed, leaves him at home.

But the encounter with Charlie and his bond with his family is Wonka and he feels worse and worse, which has a direct impact on the quality of his products. When the two meet again in town, Charlie suggests that Wonka make up with his father, an anti-candy dentist he quarreled as a child. After this reconciliation has been successful, Charlie becomes a partner on the one hand and is also allowed to keep his family on the other: The shack they live in is moved to the factory.

background

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's fifth film project together alongside Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999) and Burton's second full animated film, Corpse Bride (2005) . In the film Corpse Bride, Depp and Tim Burton's former partner Helena Bonham Carter, who plays Charlie's mother in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , gave the main characters their voices.

Lead actor Johnny Depp personally campaigned with director Tim Burton to ensure that Freddie Highmore got the role of Charlie. He had previously worked with him in the film When Dreams Learn to Fly and loved it. When casting the children, special emphasis was placed on ensuring that they correspond to the characters in the novel. So the actress of Veruca comes from London not only in the film, but also in real life. With Philip Wiegratz , a German was actually engaged to play the role of the German child Augustus. His mother is played by the German actress Franziska Troegner .

Tim Burton has filmed a book by Roald Dahl for the second time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory . In 1996 he realized the book James and the Giant Peach as an animated film. Both in 1996 and on this film, he worked closely with Dahl's widow Felicity Dahl , since no one is allowed to film Roald Dahl's books without her consent.

Burton's version is the second film adaptation in history. Dahl's original was so much rewritten for the first film adaptation, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (German DVD title Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ) from 1971 with Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, that it was a possible film adaptation of the sequel Charlie and the Big Glass Elevator prevented. It was therefore important for everyone involved in the remake to emphasize that it is not a remake of the film with Gene Wilder, but a slightly modernized adaptation of the original children's book by Roald Dahl.

Christopher Lee , who had worked with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp on Sleepy Hollow in 1999, liked the atmosphere on set so much that he was in the next Burton film Corpse Bride that same year .

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was nominated for an Oscar in the Costumes category. For the scenes with the squirrels , CGI and animatronic squirrels were used as well as several trained animals that sorted the nuts. The report scene from the home of the German winner child was shot in the historic old town of Gengenbach in the Black Forest , but is subtitled in the film with Düsseldorf, Germany . In the German dubbed version you can also hear Bavarian dialect.

The budget for this film was $ 150 million. The gross profit was around $ 475 million.

synchronization

The German dubbing was also created in 2005. The dialogue book was written by Klaus Bickert , who was awarded the German Dubbing Prize for it. The dubbing was directed by Oliver Rohrbeck , who himself also took on the small role of a walker with a dog.

role actor Voice actor
Willy Wonka Johnny Depp David Nathan
Charlie Bucket Freddie Highmore Christian Pointer
Grandpa Joe David Kelly Hasso Zorn
Mrs. Bucket Helena Bonham Carter Melanie Pukass
Mr. Bucket Noah Taylor Peter Flechtner
Mr. Salt James Fox Reinhard Kuhnert
Violetta Beauregarde AnnaSophia Robb Friedel Morgenstern
Veruca Salt Julia Winter Ingrid Sinell
Mrs. Glupsch Franziska Troegner Franziska Troegner
Augustus Glupsch Philip Wiegratz Philip Wiegratz
Dr. Wilbur Wonka Christopher Lee Otto Mellies
Mike Teavee Jordan Fry Maximilian Artajo
Prince Pondicherry Nitin Ganatra Rajvinder Singh
Mrs. Beauregarde Missi Pyle Cathlen Gawlich
Mr. Teavee Adam Godley Hans-Jürgen Dittberner
Grandmother Georgina Liz Smith Hannelore Minkus
Grandmother Josephine Eileen Essell Luise Lunow
teller Geoffrey Holder Jochen Schröder
Oompa Loompas (vocals) Danny Elfman Andreas Hommelsheim

Reviews

The Wiesbaden Film Evaluation Center praised the film as “a wonderful and sugar-sweet fairy tale adventure that can enchant the whole family” and awarded it the title “particularly valuable”.

“Sugar-sweet film fairy tale based on a template by Roald Dahl. Thanks to the self-parodic traits, the overflowing imagination and the charismatic main actor, an emotional, but also an intellectual rollercoaster ride succeeds that is equally fascinating for children and adults. "

- Lexicon of international film

“The fourth joint work by Tim Burton and Johnny Depp once again proves to be a visually powerful, detailed and extremely playful fantasy work. The template is based on the classic children's book of the same name by Roald Dahl, whose bizarre worlds are adequately visualized by Burton: colorful, weird and funny. An original strip that you can watch several times as you will always discover something new. The story was filmed with Gene Wilder back in 1971, but what Burton makes of it is just great. [...] a successful variant with the outstanding Johnny Depp. "

- prisma.de

“Of all things, this film about low-nutritional sweets has not become a simple popcorn cinema. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is, with all its wit and madness, ultimately an astonishingly radical plea to give children the right to be childish with dignity. "

- The mirror

“With Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton once again succeeds in creating a fairytale parable about the power of love, be it between man and woman as in Big Fish or, as in the case of Charlie, that of the family. In addition, he staged great visual scenes, such as the Umpa Lumpa water ballet in the chocolate river, and finds a very unusual use for Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra . "

- critic.de

Awards

Oscar 2006

Golden Globe Awards 2006

British Academy Film Awards 2006

Saturn Awards 2006

Satellite Awards 2005

  • Nomination in the category Best Camera for Philippe Rousselot

The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the film the title “particularly valuable”.

literature

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Certificate of Release for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2005 (PDF; test number: 103 123 K).
  3. ↑ Age rating for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory . Youth Media Commission .
  4. ↑ dvd-forum.at: Charlie and the chocolate factory ; accessed on February 10, 2020
  5. ^ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the German synchronous file ; Retrieved October 21, 2008
  7. ↑ a b fbw-filmbeval.com: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  8. ↑ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 12, 2012 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  9. ↑ prisma.de: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
  10. ↑ prisma.de: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
  11. ↑ Treats from the anarchist. Der Spiegel , accessed July 12, 2012 .
  12. ^ Film review. critic.de, accessed on July 12, 2012 .
  13. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367594/awards

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