What if what we’re all craving right now is the world of Wonka?
Bear with me. It won’t solve the real problems, but maybe what we all need is candy, silly songs and dances, and time in a magical factory. And what’s more dreamily surreal than a foppish man creating delicious sweets in a mysterious factory? Even stranger, one staffed by an antic crew of singing and dancing Oompa-Loompas?
Willy Wonka’s absurdism has enchanted us since 1964, when Roald Dahl published Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. Seven years later, Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory arrived, a box office disappointment that later became beloved.
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