This past summer when the great comedic actor Gene Wilder died, many people expressed their grief by offering up tributes to what was perhaps Wilder’s most beloved role, Willy Wonka, in 1971’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The film was based on author Roald Dahl’s famed novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a tale in which a poor young boy wins a once in a lifetime chance to tour the eccentric Willy Wonka’s fantastical chocolate factory.
Willy Wonka was so mysterious and wonderfully odd that Wilder’s portrayal of him easily made the character one of – if not the – most memorable things about the cult film. Since that 1971 film, director Tim Burton released his own version of the ...
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