Corrected entry: When Augustus Gloop's parents are interviewed, the father eats the end of the microphone, but the announcer goes on to ask the mother a question with the mic still intact.
Bishop73
31st Dec 2007
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Correction: Given that there are only five golden tickets in the world, it is likely that a location where someone found one, would attract multiple reporters. It was a different mic for Augustus' mother than his father. The reporters do sound the same, but who are we to say that they were the same. They could have been just similar.
23rd Dec 2009
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Factual error: In every version of the story, including the book, in the scene where Augustus Gloop is sucked into the chocolate pipe, there's no pressure below him (it's an open river, with the pipe sticking into it) so the pressure must come from a vacuum at the top of the pipe. Augustus would have had his lungs and innards sucked out until he was thin enough to pass through the pipe. He would not have survived.
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Suggested correction: In the book Charlie ask Mr. Wonka if all the other kids would be all right and he tells him yes they will.
This isn't a valid correction because the point of the mistake is that he wouldn't survive, as shown. At best you're saying Wonka lied to Charlie.
1st Oct 2004
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Corrected entry: If the "Golden Ticket" can be found in any of Wonka's confections, why is the spoiled girl's crew only opening one kind of Wonka's candy?
Correction: The Golden Tickets are not found in just any of Wonka's confections. They are only placed in Wonka Bars, which is why they're opening only one kind of candy.
Correction: They're opening regular Wonka bars. We see in the film that there's many types of bars, and the regular seem to be the bottom of the line. So, Mr. Salt probably just bought as many of the bottom line as he could to minimize costs, and also maximize the chance of getting a ticket by the added volume of candy bars. Makes sense.
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Correction: There are two different reporters in the scene, both with their own mics. The first one we see at the beginning, who does the intro about Augustus, is wearing a black coat and blue shirt. The reporter that asks the first question to Augustus is a different reporter, he's in an olive coat and red scarf. Then the first reporter talks to Mr. Goop and has his mic bitten, you can tell because of the black coat and blue shirt. Then the second reporter, with the red scarf, then asks Mrs. Goop a question.
Bishop73