What if Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was real?

The Bucket of Salt fanfic (set in 2019, 14 years after the events of the 2005 film) I am reading already has Wonka truthers who aren't entirely wrong. Who knows if Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregard, and Mike Teavee went on to rant what happened in the plant.

The 24-year old Charlie Bucket has to shoot down all those claims about the Wonka Factory almost killing four children. He feels guilty with it because he knows that would make in complacent in Wonka's schemes. Charlie fears that he would get a visit from the British labor officers and the Metropolitan police.

Even as a 24-year old, Charlie's relationship with Wonka has started to deteriorate. Now as I am reading it, Charlie is hiding form Wonka that he has a platonic relationship with Veruca Salt.

I'm still half-way into the fanfic. I'm sure at some point, Wonka will find out Charlie is dating Veruca and some fringe conspiracy theorist will prove something sinister happened to the four Golden Ticket Winners.

Re: 2005 film setting or setting as a whole

It's meant to be an allegory of how people in the 1930s-60s viewed anything saccharine. The 2005 version which was directed by Tim Burton likes to keep things rather symbolic. The black and white hue is meant to symbolize the poverty the family of Charlie is experiencing. Hence, we get Charlie's ambiguous town that looks straight from the Great Depression but the world is in the 21st Century as we see Atlanta, New York, Denver, and Tokyo being modern. Marrakesh, Morocco is briefly shown in one scene but it resembles on how Indiana Jones portrays North Africa during the interwar era.

The Bucket of Salt fanfic has Charlie's home being adjusted to East London.

Re: 1971 version.

So many theories show that Grandpa Joe is the villain. Nice theories, but who knows? It's all fan theories after all.

Some even say Wonka rigged the whole thing and knew that Charlie the Good Boy would be the winner.

As for the Tom and Jerry version, it's a mix of 1971 and modern-day. I'm one of the few that actually loves that crossover whereas most of the ratings have it negative.

The Bucket of Salt fanfic mentions that Dr. Wilbur Wonka (father of Willy) married a Czech refugee who escaped to Britain in 1939. Wonka would only be born in 1961 as he is stated to 58 in the fanfic, which is set in 2019.

WWII still likely occurs in all variants of the media, be in 1964 novel, the 1971 movie, or the 2005 Tim Burton Musical.

I edited my post. The Willy Wonker prequels show that Wonka probably had a good childhood, at least without considering any additional movies or other content. The film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory shows the darker side of Willy Wonka, including his childhood.

This troubled childhood, perhaps, is combined with the father not being present during her death. Wonka perhaps feels his father could have done more to support the family, such as providing dental care. Then Wonka arrives in Europe, most likely in the UK, and tries to fit in. his father, being a dentist even before the massive braces, is still scared to disappoint his father. Perhaps Willy tries not to think about his mamma's chocolate because it would trigger the happiness he longs for.

Then, after a really long time, he tries chocolate, and he realizes how good his mother's candy was,but he knows better than to make chocolate at home, so it has to be a secret. He runs away becoming a sailor eventually and decided to forget his father by honoring mom through her candy

Ice cream that doesn’t melt here you are. I wonder if Willy Wonka has his own Oompa Loompa plantation harvesting chocolate beans sugarcane and coconuts and other fruits you know fun fact about Britain once upon a time they grew its own food at a more sustainable rate but by the time of the 1900s sheep were largely been exported t from Australia and other foods from the empire to be consumed. For so many years the US main export was grain which was sometimes called edible gold. Four to the grain farmer that grain of theirs was their gold to them .During World War II into a lesser extent World War I Britain had to go back so many years ago when Britian was a custom to growing their own food as they became so used to importing foods.

Churchill looked at rationing for his people he replied the plate of food which I believe is the equivalent of meat for a burger his reply that’s a nice meal oh no Churchill that food is for an entire week he replies my people have suffered! It does appear that World War II rationing may have affected British cuisine even when food was becoming more affordable during the 50s.

One thing to notice in neither film do the buckets have a car

Inside the life of Augustus gloop. Verruca salt character was performed best in the firstrendition of Willy, Wonka and the chocolate factory.

In today’s currency, they at least spent $700,000 worth of candy bars. Not to mention if the workers are going to work from dawn to dusk, they are all doing overtime whatever the standards were in the United Kingdom.

Considering verruca salt, almost Got them to work on nights. Whatever a 1 pound bonus in their pay packet wonder if that means per hour ? Perhaps they were all given a raise or at least a bonus after the golden ticket 🎫 was found in the candy bar.

Considering the father didn’t have a backbone at least toward his children anyway, I can imagine that he has a character was nice and doesn’t give me the qualities of a bully. So I can imagine it would be beneficial for the workers to find this golden ticket.

wonka.fandom.com/wiki/Scrumdiddlyumptious
Although it’s not mentioned in the book, I recall, I could imagine that a scrumdiddlyumptious bar could still appear in Charlie and the chocolate factory movie universe. Perhaps Charlie helped invent the new scrumdiddlyumptious bar.

At the bottom here is a crazy fan theory!!