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Originally Posted by dissention
It is? 
The kids who misbehave suffer for it. In the book, one of them gets stretched like taffy and sent home that way. Actually, all of the kids ended up deformed. Wonka was a creepy dude who relished punishing bad children. 
The original movie was fantastic, IMO. It wasn't like the book, but it was incredibly disturbing. You're watching a normal movie and then WHAM, all of a sudden that unnel scene hits you like a Mack truck out of nowhere. People almost get chopped up by fans, a girl almost gets incinerated, a girl almost blows up, another kid gets permanently shrunk to the size of my big toe; it was weird, man.  |
Hence, generally, but I haven't read it since 3rd grade, so...
I read a theory somewhere that C&tCF was sort of an Anti-Semite thing. People said that Dahl was an anti-Semite, and that influenced his writing. Which makes me sad. I have no idea if he was or not -- I certainly hope he wasn't, because he's awesome and all.
Most of Dahl's books were INSANELY disturbing, if I remember right.