Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory is another classic like The Wizard of Oz. Willy Wonka is a wizard who runs a food factory. He plays a pipe or flute. He strikes me as a Demiurge type figure.
Just like the Demiurge he operates a food factory and it is an addictive food (chocolate) that people can't resist. So he conducts a type of lottery with golden tickets where people can take a trip to paradise to see how it all works. The other kids that are there all have horrible traits and are characterized as bad eggs. One is sucked into a pipe that leads to the furnace.
One scene is where Willy Wonka takes them on a boat ride through a scary tunnel where they seemingly hallucinate or see projections from within. This seems an obvious allusion to the afterlife tunnel.
Then there are the Oompa-Loompas from Loompaland who are like Santa's (Satan's) elves and they help him operate the factory. Reminds me of McKenna's machine elves from DMT reports. They even attempt to teach through their songs.
In the end, Charlie ultimately passes what was a test from Wonka. Charlie gets to take over the factory... maybe becomes his own Demiurge? But he was kind and had no ego so he won or passed the test. I think he even breaks thourgh the roof of the food factory and ascends into heaven (the skies) in the glass elevator.
And what I think is key is that the song Pure Imagination is the big song.... and it talks about creating your own reality with pure imagination.
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Willy Wonka is the "candy man" and can take the sunrise and rainbows etc. cover it with chocolate and a miracle or two, and mixes it with love and makes the world taste good, satisfies childhood wishes, takes tomorrow and dips it in a dream. He separates sorrow and collects all the cream.... sure sounds like god/Demiurge to me.
Wonka is a genius with a secret recipe and he has the attention of the entire world. Charlie is twice said to want the golden ticket more than anyone else.
Charlie is told to look up to see a star and to follow it (he is looking at the moon). Charlie finds the golden ticket and is told to run straight home and not to stop until he gets there. On the way home a villain that Wonka employed to test Charlie stops him and tries to bribe him to give him an everlasting gobstopper once he has left the factory so that he can defeat Wonka.
Grandpa Joe sings "I've got a golden ticket"...... "I never dreamed that I would climb over the moon in ecstasy....chance to be"... "good morning, look at the sun"... "and with a golden ticket it's a golden way"
Wonka is a trickster..... pretends to walk with a limp and to fall down, but does a somersault. He's an illusionist....Wonka makes them sign a contract with unreadable fine print. "Is this a trick or something?" "What is this? some kind of fun house?"... "All of my dreams become realities"
"Hold your breath, make a wish, count to three."
The song Pure Imagination:
"Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination,
Take a look and you'll see into your imagination....
We'll begin with a spin traveling in the world of my creation...
What we'll see will defy explanation....
If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it,
Anything you want to, do it.....
Wwant to CHANGE the world? There's nothing to it....
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination....
Living there you'll be free if you truly wish to be"
Wonka runs a food factory of sweet, tempting, addictive candy (chocolate). He says the (water) fall is the key as they churn the chocolate.
One kid falls in the river and is sucked into a pipe that leads to the fudge or furnace.... Wonka doesn't care about him at all, doesn't try to save him, seems to actually enjoy it.
Wonka plays a pipe that calls the oompa loompas who are elves that help run the factory.
A paddle boat ferry floats up the river toward them and Wonka says "All I wish is for a tall ship and a star to sail her by". Wonka lies and tells everyone they're going to love this...an oompa loompa tolls the bell... they head into a dark tunnel where they seem to hallucinate and see projections. The ride gets scary. Not a speck of light is showing so the danger is growing. Are the fires of hell glowing? Is the grisly reaper mowing?" "Yes, the danger must be growing"....They reach the Inventing Room where Wonka's secret inventions are cooking.
Wonka is said to be bonkers (mad/crazy/insane). All the kids except Charlie are bad because they are unable to exercise any self-control. They are greedy, spoiled, rude self-abosorbed children with bad manners, and they don't listen to Wonka.
"We are the dreamers of dreams."
Charlie and Grandpa Joe drink some of the fizzy lifting drinks and float up toward a fan... 'I'm a shooting star"... "You can fly to the moon this way"... "It's pulling me in"... "I can't stop"... "We're gonna get killed".
Golden eggs are judged to be good or bad.... one of the kids was a bad egg and went down the garbage chute to the furnace.
Wonka Vision... Wonka takes an object (chocolate bar), disintegrates it into millions of pieces and reassembles them onto a television screen...one of the kids gets transmitted into the virtual reality.
Everything in Wonka's office is cut in half..."demi" urge? He won't give Charlie his lifetime supply of chocolate because he broke the contract by stealing the fizzy lifter drink.
Grandpa Joe tells Wonka, "You're a crook, a cheat and a swindler"... "build all his hopes up and then smash them to pieces"... "You're an inhuman monster."
Charlie gives his everlasting gob stopper (which looks like some kind of star tetrahedron) back to Mr. Wonka. Wonka recognizes the good deed in a weary world and tells him he won.
Wonka says, "I had to test you, Charlie, and you passed the test. You won!" He leads them to a glass elevator that can go in any direction. He has Charlie push a button and the elevator goes up and crashes through the roof of the factory, going high into the sky. In the book, the button Charlie presses in the elevator says: "Up and out". Charlie says the factory was the most wonderful place in the whole world and Wonka tells Charlie he is giving him the factory. Wonka says he can't go on forever and doesn't really want to try. He wanted to find an honest, loving child he could trust to tell all his candy making secrets and run the factory his way. Wonka tells him not to forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted... he lived happily ever after.
The movie ends with a reprise of the song Pure Imagination.
"If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it.
Anything you want to, do it.
Want to MAKE the world? There is nothing to it.
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination.
Living there you'll be free if you truly wish to be".
Johnny Depp starred as Willy Wonka in the 2005 sequel.
The golden tickets read "one of you children will receive an extra prize beyond your wildest imagination".
When the gates to the factory are opened, animated munchkin-like puppets welcome them in laughing and singing in high chimpmonk pitched voices cheering, "Hooray!". This is very reminiscent of the machine elves encountered in psychedelic DMT trips. They call Wonka a "magician" and a chocolate "wiz". An empty throne chair is revealed as parts of the display catch on fire. Wonka is standing next to them wearing a top hat, dark goggles and carrying a staff. Similar to Alice in wonderland, they enter through a very tiny door which Wonka unlocks. He acts very weirdly and seems to have major daddy issues. He makes a sick joke about cannibalism.
The Oompa-Loompas from Loompaland are "mischievous, always making jokes".
One of the children falls into the chocolate river and the Oompa-Loompas sing a song about boiling. Wonka says, "They haven't had a fresh audience in many a moon." They sing, "...The time is ripe to send him up the pipe...wheels go round and round... we'll boil him for a minute more... then out he comes, by God, by grace... " A UFO-type looking device flies over and sucks him up into a tube. Wonka compares the song the Oompa-Loompas sing to the improvization of a "parlor trick". Grandpa Joe tells Charlie the Oompa-Loompas were just "joking". The Oompa-Loompas row up to them in a boat, laughing. Wonka says chocolate releases endorphins that give on the feeling of being in love. They head into a scary tunnel. They can't see where they're going. There's no knowing where they're going. "Switch on the lights!" The tunnel has side doors that all have to do with making cream. They reach the Inventing Room, the most important room in the factory.
Violet doesn't listen to Wonka and needs to have all the juices squeezed out of her.
Veruca is a bad nut and is taken by squirrels down the chute to the incinerator, which is luckily broken.
"Why is everything here completely pointless?... It's stupid."
A super intense bright light is used to teleport a cholocate bar into a televison screen. Mike Teevee is once again transmitted into a virtual reality.
Charlie's the only child left so that means he's won. Wonka takes them to the glass elevator which can travel in any direction they want. He pushes a button that reads, "Up and Out". He gives his entire factory to Charlie.