Case Study of the Film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Many movies are made for people to react to them. Some people may react in good ways or in bad. Actors are meant to portray a certain character, to make the film feel more real or to come alive per say. Movies like A Beautiful Mind, or Benny and June (1993)(Johnny Depp), or even Shutter Island (2010), have actors that play specific roles of schizophrenic characters. As for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka is an odd one for sure! In the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we are told about the story of Willy Wonka. How his factory came to be and we learn that as a child Willy was not able to eat chocolate because his father would not let him. Willy’s father was
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He has made them up in his mind. Each child reflects a stage in Freud’s theory, but Willy Wonka also inhibits a number of these features. The movie did portray the symptoms of the disorder, not only through Willy Wonka, but also through the children. To accurately show how these symptoms depict I will explain the children and their stages. These represent different forms of Willy’s schizophrenia.
Augustus Gloop, early oral stage in which the child suckles. He is always sucking/nibbling on a chocolate bar and consuming soft snacks.
Violet Beauregarde is in the later part of the oral stage, this is when children are eating and drinking. Violet is constantly chewing, chewing gum. Veruca Salt is in the anal stage of Freud’s theory. She has the need to have things, such as her pets. She is authoritative and must have her desires. Mike Teavee is sadistic, inflicts pain, noted in his video games, as well as displaying violent eccentrics. He says some hurtful words to Willy, “He thinks he is a genius, but he is an idiot.” This represents the phallic stage as well as his gaming stick to be a phallic …show more content…
As for Willy Wonka….. (“There is always a return of the repressed.” - Sigmund Freud). WIlly Wonka is at the latency stage, he has literally passed the schooling age. His repressed feelings are seeping out, throughout the movie, but with these feelings he also shows many features of the Freudian
He has made them up in his mind. Each child reflects a stage in Freud’s theory, but Willy Wonka also inhibits a number of these features. The movie did portray the symptoms of the disorder, not only through Willy Wonka, but also through the children. To accurately show how these symptoms depict I will explain the children and their stages. These represent different forms of Willy’s schizophrenia.
Augustus Gloop, early oral stage in which the child suckles. He is always sucking/nibbling on a chocolate bar and consuming soft snacks.
Violet Beauregarde is in the later part of the oral stage, this is when children are eating and drinking. Violet is constantly chewing, chewing gum. Veruca Salt is in the anal stage of Freud’s theory. She has the need to have things, such as her pets. She is authoritative and must have her desires. Mike Teavee is sadistic, inflicts pain, noted in his video games, as well as displaying violent eccentrics. He says some hurtful words to Willy, “He thinks he is a genius, but he is an idiot.” This represents the phallic stage as well as his gaming stick to be a phallic …show more content…
As for Willy Wonka….. (“There is always a return of the repressed.” - Sigmund Freud). WIlly Wonka is at the latency stage, he has literally passed the schooling age. His repressed feelings are seeping out, throughout the movie, but with these feelings he also shows many features of the Freudian