Okay, this is so far fetched but also so bizarre that I felt
the need to share.
So, I was looking up some facts about Dante’s Inferno just
to see if some eclectic fact sparked my curiosity, and I came across this out-there fan
theory concerning Willy Wonka.
So, apparently the 1971 film adaption has some crazy creepy
similarities to Dante’s inferno. Firstly, there is Charon and his boat that
lead Dante and Virgil into hell, and, if you recall, in Charlie and the
Chocolate factory there is that scene on the boat where Gene Wilder sings/yells
about rain, snow, hell, and reapers. (I went back and watched it and it is
actually pretty disturbing).
Also, all of the kids who go into the factory have some kind
of vice (greed, pride, gluttony, sloth, and even Charlie could be accused of
envy), and have fates that generally line up with their sins.
The theory is pretty outlandish, but I think it is just
eccentric enough to be pretty entertaining.
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