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Charlie and the Chocolate factory is a remake of the children’s classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, although the acting, setting, and story may seem silly at times, the movie actually have a logical message hidden beneath it all. The emotional connection, credibility, logic, purpose, and setting of the movie are extremely valid, and when you get past the childish cover up, it is really a serious movie.
The use of pathos is very strong in the beginning and end of the movie, first with the Character Charlie. He does not come from a privileged background, and his father (the only working parent) does everything he can to provide for Charlie and the rest of the family. When the golden tickets were announced you can see Charlie’s hope start to build, when Charlie does win the ticket with no hope or expectations, his excitement exceed most children’s and as he runs home creaming for his parents to tell him the news, you would think he wouldn’t trade the ticket for anything. After showing his parents Charlie begins to get serious and evaluates the living condition of him and his family, and states he wants to sell the ticket for money, because the chocolate cannot make living conditions any better. Children don’t normally do that kind of sacrifice, but with Charlie you can see his seriousness, and at that moment you can feel everything he is portraying, it makes you remember how much you wanted to help your own parents with the bills as a child.
Willy Wonka has his own form of pathos too, towards the end of the movie Mr. Wonka decides to see his dad whom he ran away from as a child, so he can eat candy. When Wonka ran away his father said “… I will not be here when you get back!” this is what parents say to their children i...

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...t of their dark side and really supports the use of Telos. The Factory pretty much swallows the fat German kid whole after he tries to eat the Factory, using the German kid’s passion against him. The champion kid’s passion was gum and the gum did come from the factory, but that is not a real use of kairos. Both the British kid and bratty geek get what they deserve. The British girl is kicked into the garbage shoot by a squirrel she wanted. Thinking she can get whatever she wanted, she goes after the squirrel when her father wouldn’t, and that ended with both of them in the garbage. The bratty geek’s use of kairos is strong just like the fat German boys. The Geek was trying to prove transportation but ended up really small and proved Mr. Wonka right when he said it should not be done. Like the Fat German, The bratty geek was swallowed up by the factories temptations.

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