away from the rest of society which heightens the intrigue for charlie and the reader as no one can tell them what's in there before they get there how does willy wonka run his factory without workers he has oompa loompas imported direct from lumpa it's also a plot point that really brings together a full picture of what kind of person willy wonka is and why our reaction to him as a character is so strange and interesting because we are on some level meant to react with a level of awe and wonder at wonka that's what everyone in the story is doing and everyone who gets frustrated with him throughout the film is immediately comically punished leaving wonka always looking like the victor but again wonka fired all of his workers just to maintain intellectual property and then he replaced them with slaves all of the wealth the factory produces is wealth that he extracts from society without putting anything back in the form of jobs you want to skewer grandpa joe because he allegedly doesn't provide for his family while feigning sickness well why is charlie's family impoverished in the first place it's because grandpa joe used to work at the chocolate factory and then was one of the people wonka fired you're living in poverty charlie just so this rich PROFANITY_TOKEN can profit off the chocolate you love rather than a different rich oh let's uh pump the brakes a little bit here these are just movies and these are just memes but what i find interesting about all of them is that it points to a way of viewing the world that is pretty common memes are in some sense true they become popular because they strike a chord with us not just as a piece of humor but as a representation of our values you do not need to search very hard for examples of people blaming the poor for their poverty and calling them lazy while turning around and portraying billionaires as eccentric and brilliant i suppose this is actually one of the things i like about the burton remake even though the NUMBER_TOKEN film is in my opinion much more fun to watch the portrayal of wonka as this intensely socially awkward germaphobic shut-in with deep-seated daddy issues that everyone like pretty much uniformly hates is a hilarious inversion of what we've come to expect of the mythical industrialist genius meanwhile in the wilder film they're glorifying wonka right up until the credits it always feels very strange and a little bit uncomfortable that the way charlie wins is just that he gets to have the factory but only on the condition that he runs it the way wonka wants it to be run it doesn't feel like a victory it feels like child abuse but the movie still uncritically looks up to wonka i think it's really easy to fall into the trap of thinking about the world in these easy tropes and when i watch willy wonka and the chocolate factory i wish we could resist the urge to condemn people as grandpa joes and be a little more skeptical of people trying to be willy wonka if you're not greedy you will go far this video is brought to you by mubi a curated streaming service showing incredible films from all around the world if you watch my channel you probably love movies and are thirsting for something that feels new that's where movie shines every
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