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[Upbeat music playing] If you're a fan of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” then stick around
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because you're about to discover 15 behind the scenes facts about the 2005 remake of Roald Dahl's novel.
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Real and fake chocolate bars were used in the film.
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Nestle provided 1,850 real chocolate bars for the movie
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and an additional 110,000 plastic ones were packaged in Wonka wrappers.
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The town where the movie takes place was actually a model built to 1/24 real scale
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and it took over 6 months to construct.
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The marionette machine was both amazing and awful to work with.
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60 marionettes were made for this sequence.
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30 of them were flame resistant, but the other 30 were made out of wax gelatin so they could melt.
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The crew spent so much time shooting this scene that the song got stuck in everyone's heads
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and they all couldn't wait to burn the machine to the ground.
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Wonka's snide remark about Veruca's name is true,
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because "verruca"–spelled with two R's– is another name for plantar's wart.
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Another interesting connection about her name is that “Veruca Salt” is an anagram for “A Vast Ulcer”.
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The colors in beginning of the movie were muted on purpose
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to create a rush of color when the characters enter the chocolate room,
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which was a direct callback to the change in color from “The Wizard of Oz.”
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“Augustus” wasn't really obese.
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The German actor, Philip Weigratz, was actually wearing a fat suit,
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and it was specially designed to avoid soaking up liquids and to prevent leaks
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so the actor wouldn't sink down to the bottom once he fell in.
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The chocolate river was real,
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and it did have chocolate in it, but it also contained thickening agents and colorants.
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They experimented for months to find the right texture,
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and it took five days to fill the chocolate room set with more than 50,000 gallons of the mixture.
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Most of the chocolate room set was edible,
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but the fake parts were so convincing that the actors had to constantly ask what was safe to eat.
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In the beginning the actors were all very excited to eat candy on the set,
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but after a few days they all got pretty sick of it.
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Deep Roy probably had the hardest job in the movie.
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Filming the musical numbers required the actor to perform up to 60 takes per song
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to create all of his duplicates in one shot.
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On top of that, they had to stop and check the timing of the choreography after each take
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to see if Deep Roy's dance steps and vocals were in sync with all the previous takes.
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The baby in the stroller was Tim Burton's son Billy,
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which the director said was his first and only movie appearance.
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Real make up was going to be used for Violet's transformation,
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but ultimately the decision was made to do it all with CG
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so Violet's size and shape would match the huge scale of her transformation in the book.
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The 200 sorting room squirrels were filmed using a combination of CGI, animatronics,
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and 40 trained live squirrels.
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The real squirrels were trained for months,
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which was reportedly a very difficult process
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because it took at least 2,000 repetitions for the smartest squirrels
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to learn how to put a nut in a bowl.
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The glass elevator was real.
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It didn't travel around, but they did build a big glass box,
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and it scared Johnny Depp to be inside of it
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because the actors were filmed while being suspended 50' up in the air.
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This version is intentionally darker than the original movie
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because Tim Burton said he didn't want to be politically correct by softening the demise of each kid
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in order to be faithful to the book's darker tone.
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Wonka's backstory wasn't in the book and it was inspired by Tim Burton's real life.
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And just before his mother died Burton went to her house
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and saw that she had posters of his movies hanging up on her wall,
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which nearly brought him to tears.
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