Theory Snowpiercer Is A Sequel To Willy Wonka

Theory: Snowpiercer Is A Sequel To Willy Wonka

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Snowpiercer is a sequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory some are saying, and, despite their differences, it may not be as crazy as it sounds.

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Theory Snowpiercer Is A Sequel To Willy Wonka

Snowpiercer (2013) is a sequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) some are saying. Really? Bong Joon-ho’s (who recently won an Oscar for Parasite) post-apocalyptic action movie is a sequel to the beloved children’s classic? Actually, it may not be as crazy as it sounds.

For starters, both Willy Wonka and Snowpiercer (soon to be a TV show) are about groups of people traveling through a fantastic structure. One by one, in each room, someone is lost and the group is forced to continue without them until only one person remains. That person then finds out that the entire journey was a test elaborately concocted by a wealthy industrialist who needed a successor. In Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket is the one who makes it through in order to inherit a chocolate factory and the vast fortune that comes with it. In Snowpiercer, Curtis Everett makes it to the end where Wilford offers him his role as caretaker of the train’s engine.

Although Willy Wonka is colorful and fun while Snowpiercer is dark and violent (and inspired by a French graphic novel), they both have a lot in common. For instance, they both deal with economic class structure. Charlie Bucket comes from a lower-class family where he watches the golden tickets being found by rich and overprivileged children. Similarly, Curtis Everett comes from the end of the train where its dark, crowded, and the only thing they have to eat are energy bars made from cockroaches, while the higher-class people at the front of the car indulge in comfort and luxury. What’s more, both deal with food and both feature children. However, even more interesting is the fact that Snowpiercer seems to be a direct sequel to Willy Wonka, with Ed Harris playing the role of a grownup Charlie Bucket, who now goes by the name of Wilford.

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Is Snowpiercer A Sequel To Willy Wonka?

The theory is this: Willy Wonka has built a completely isolated factory from the outside world, meaning it is entirely self-sustaining. In addition, he specializes in producing unusual foods and experimental modes of transportation. These are skills that he passes on to Charlie Bucket, who is to continue Wonka’s legacy. This leads Charlie to abandon his original name and take on that of Wilford Wonka to honor his mentor. Years later, during the time Snowpiercer takes place, he builds a self-sustaining train, foreseeing the devasted effects of the CW-7 gas that is the cause of the eternal winter in the film. However, in order to keep the train self-sustaining, he has to go to extreme measures to maintain the population, ordering the execution of certain percentages when it gets too high or orchestrating revolts to maintain, as Wilford says, “anxiety and fear, chaos and horror in order to keep life going.”

With this in mind, Charlie Bucket, who is now known as Wilford Wonka, has used tactics and skills he’s learned from his mentor (as seen in the tunnel scene in Willy Wonka) to create a world of decadence and imagination on a train, just as Wonka once did with his factory. He then goes even further by borrowing Wonka’s method for finding a successor by hiding messages in food, in his case in the eggs meant for Curtis, just as Wonka put golden tickets in chocolate bars.

Nevertheless, if this theory is true, where are the Oompa Loompas from Wonka’s factory, the tiny people that were responsible for running and maintaining his machines? Interestingly, Wilford mentions that whatever kept his train’s engine running “recently went extinct,” forcing him to employ small children, as he does in Snowpiercer. Not only does this explain the absence of the Oompa Loompas, but also thematically highlights the endings of both films: that children will inherit the future.

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