Willy Wonka: Capitalism for Kids!

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Willy Wonka is a beloved children's fiction character. But is he actually as sweet as he appears? Or is there a bitter darkness that lurks beneath his sugary surface?

Let's talk about it.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
04:05 - Part 1: The Candyman
09:00 - Part 2: The Tycoon
17:25 - Part 3: The Trickster
25:22 - Part 4: The God
37:50 - What Does it All Mean?
58:53 - Conclusion
01:02:56 - Outro, Poem, & Bloopers

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--- Aranock (   / aranock  )
--- Mainely Mandy (   / mainelymandy  )

Wonka Post-Mortem Livestream:    • Wonka Post-Mortem Stream  

Primary Sources:
--- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (book, 1964)
--- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (video game, 1985)
--- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film, 2005)
--- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (video game, 2005)
--- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Broadway musical, 2013)
--- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride (Alton Towers, England)
--- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (book, 1972)
--- Charlie in the White House (book, unreleased)
--- Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka (stage musical, 2004)
--- The Golden Ticket (opera, 2010)
--- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (film, 1971)
--- Wonka (film, 2023 [TBD])


SECONDARY SOURCES:
--- "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Other Excremental Visions" by Hamida Bosmajian
--- CRITICAL APPROACHES TO FOOD IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE (ed. Kara K. Keeling and Scott T. Pollard)
------ "A Consuming Tradition: Candy and Socio-religious Identity Formation in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Robert M. Kachur
--- "Deconstructing Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory: Race, Labor, and the Changing Depictions of the Oompa-Loompas" by Chryl Corbin
--- "Economic Liberty 'In A World Of Pure Imagination': A Theoretical Analysis Of Willy Wonka, Natural Rights, and The New Age Of Innovation" by Tammy M. Eick
--- ROALD DAHL AND PHILOSOPHY: A Little Nonsense Now and Then (ed. Jacob M. Held)
------ "Epicurus and the Chocolate Factory" by Benjamin A. Rider
------ "'He Will Be Altered Quite a Bit': Discipline and Punishment in Willy Wonka’s Factory" by Marc Napolitano
------ "On Getting Our Just Desserts: Willy Wonka, Immanuel Kant, and the Summum Bonum" by Jacob M. Held
------ "'Who Is This Crazy Man?': Willy Wonka’s Uneasy Predicament" by Cam Cobb
------ "Willy Wonka and the Imperial Chocolate Factory" by Ron Novy


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