Tyler Durden Tyler Durden 9, 9 9 gold badges 44 44 silver badges 88 88 bronze badges. Because he's eccentric? It's all right. Nothing sinister.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Because he's a nutter. The director, Mel Stuart, answered this in his book Pure Imagination: The Making of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory , where he said: the reason everything in Willy's office is cut in half was because Stuart couldn't bear the thought of - after having gone through all the whimsical and creative rooms in the factory - ending the movie in an ordinary office.
Thinking about it a little more deeply, it could also be a reference to the halved pieces of crockery found in the Disney adaptation of Alice in Wonderland : Both Alice in Wonderland, and Charlie in the Chocolate Factory, are examples of the trope of an ordinary child whisked into a fantastic world and shown incredible things. Oh and just for fun, from IMDb's trivia page : During the construction of Willy's office, in which everything is cut in half, one of the prop men accidentally sawed in half a non-prop coffee pot that someone had put in the work area.
Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Rand al'Thor Rand al'Thor 7, 3 3 gold badges 42 42 silver badges 72 72 bronze badges. A further study of the relationship between Alice and Wonka is beyond the scope of this answer, but suffice to say, Wonka's factory is very much Charlie's version of Wonderland, and the movie knows it. He had this to say:. Everything was cut in half to make the room look more Wonka-esque.
I have actually given this some thought. My personal view is that Willy has always been half of man, missing that which will make him a complete person, namely someone to love.
I have always thought that it was symbolic to his work space. Where he has a lot of ideas but just hasn't finished them yet. So there's a lot of half things because there's only half ideas in his office. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?
Learn more. When you look at his tour with a critical and maybe slightly cynical eye, what seems like a bit of carnival barker fun suddenly becomes an incredibly spooky piece of foreshadowing. These kids were being set up to fail — and the seats are going fast because the children are. Wonka reveals by the end of the film that the factory tour was always about finding one special child to inherit everything.
That's all well and good, but what did he intend to happen to the losers of the contest? It's a question that's especially haunting when you consider that — unlike Roald Dahl's original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory book or the Tim Burton version — the film never shows the young victims again at the end of the story.
Maybe, just maybe, this vehicle situation was a mistake or a choice made by the production for the sake of convenience. Willy Wonka was soon depressed, and as a result, his candy production started to go down.
Wonka secretly met with Charlie while Charlie was shining his shoes. He asked Charlie about what made Charlie happy. Charlie replied that his parents made him happy. But Wonka disliked the idea of reuniting with his father, due to his childhood reasons. After some persuasion, he went with Charlie to his father's house.
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