WONKA: The EVIL Oompa Loompa Theory

What is Lofty the Oompa Loompa hiding?
Lets find out...

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Written and Narrated by Luke Palmer
Wonka / Lofty by Barrett Leddy

00:00 - Wonka Introduction
06:12 - Part 1: Establishing the Continuity
12:18 - Part 2: Lofty the Banished
16:03 - Establishing a Timeline
20:19 - Part 3
23:00 - Part 4
35:00 - Part 5

SPECIAL THANKS:
SHELBY, ANDI, FELICIA, ELIANE, SARAH, WILLOW, L.A.R ALEX BALE, NOMADIC KONG, MOM MARYESSMART, CYBER WONKA AND HARPER GOFF

[RhinoStew]

IN ADVANCE:

I have only now become aware that cherries are in fact Stonefruits and not Berries.

And Zebedee is in fact a Biblical name! It was the original version of Zebedaiah. I had never heard it pronounced that way.

Apologies for the inaccuracy / oversight!

[Swd_rs]

My head cannon is that lofty and wonka go on to make a massive chocolate factory, they get stolen from, they shut down, lofty convinces wonka to go back to loompa land, he hires the oompa loompas, but then lofty dies and it makes wonka into the gene wilder incarnation and it's lofty dieing that makes him realise that he needs an heir

[trystenryder]

Fun fact, Gene Wilder said that in the original the whole point of him walking out with a cane and then dropping it into a somersault was to signify that he cannot be trusted

[TheEgoChallenge]

I would have just guessed that Wonka accidentally invented some form of Mind-Swapper Chocolate, and lofty used it to steal his body, which would explain why future Wonka acts like Lofty.

[coco-ongelzela]

Where was the unknown, everyones favourite Wonka character who lives in the walls

[hdwlf]

Wonka being a fool acting the part of a genius explains why he acts like Charlie from It's Always Sunny, when a couple of guys "give him pills that increase his intelligence but make him frail"

[Raphsophomes]

This makes the snowpiercer parelel so much more valid

[maxzapsgamingzepzeap]

Honestly rather interesting. I’ve seen like dozens of theories saying Wonka enslaved the Oompa Loompas, but this is the first time I’ve seen a theory that the Oompa Loompas basically enslaved Wonka

[silkysketcha]

In the movie wonka explains he didnt learn to read and always just trusted in the kindness of people.
In the movie you see that he begins to realise that not everyone is kind and caring like him....The cartel stopping him, the public destroying his shop, the corruption of the chief, scrubbit, bleacher etc.
I think over time wonka kept putting his trust in peoples kindness and people kept taking advantage of him untill he eventually snaps and shuts down the factory. After a while wonka (wilder) realises he needs someone to take over and as he doesnt trust people anymore he puts out the gold tickets and then puts the kids through numerous brutal trials to see if there is anyone left in the world who is kind and caring enough, like wonka himself used to be, to take over his legacy and hopefully put the love back into the chocolate.
The candyman can cos he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good.

[suicidalzebra]

Willy Wonka always gave me strong 'absent father/divorced dad' vibes, but this works too (and arguably better). It also explains the fractured nature of this office where everything is halved: it's a reflection of his fractured mind caused first by the death of this mother, and then splintered by Lofty's actions.

Great theory, looking forward to more.

[gannazalevska]

FINALLY, SOMEONE POINTS OUT THAT MRS. SALT SAID SHE WAS A GEOGRAPHY TECHER IN THE BOOK. THANK YOU, RHINO STEW

[flaiman]

Now I'll think of Patrick Bateman every time I think of an Oompa loompa

[savagedoki]

Gene Wilder's Wonka is actually Lofty in Wonka's body. That is why Wonka repeats all of Lofty's lines. They swapped using Wonka's "Die Happy Dumplings" (or some thing like that) a candy that is so good it makes your soul leave your body. Then Lofy killed Wonka and took over the factory. As Wonka's body started to age Lofty created the contest so he could find a new younger host body.

[jessicachernak]

Or maybe Noodle decides to take over Slugworth''s chocolate factory and they begin to compete against each other to come up with new and more fantastic candies just for fun at first but the competition becomes more and more crazy and Noodle starts to cut corners and steal recipes until they turn against each other leading to Wonka losing his only real friend to greed. We already know Noodle grew up incredibly poor and money can do bad things to people. Also she was willing to steal the milk while he was not which makes it more likely that she would be capable of becoming the villain in part 2.

[B-MC]

Enjoying the movie, that was my golden question too: if Wonka is someone who cant read and got screwed over by contract, why did he do the same to CHILDREN with the fine print?

Naturally my go to was (same with Lofty) "eh, soft reboot prequel. Its hard to make up new stuff that doesnt in any way contradict the old stuff" but well done for connecting the two!

I genuinely want this story to be the sequel. Wonka sends out 5 golden tickets because he genuinely wants an heir and parralel with the mothers golden ticket, but he needs to test the corrupt to make sure the naive child he hires instead has the moral fortitude to truly stand up to lofty, so when Charlie fails he's genuinely distraught. It keeps up Wonkas genuine desire to find an hair and live the dream, but justifies the erratic need to CRUELLY punish children displaying greed. If he didnt care about Charlies morality he wouldnt berate him he'd just say "yeah you win, im out of here". But Charlie is Wonkas last hope, and the great glass elevator is symoblic of wonka and charlie escaping the factory entirely (in its current form). Wonka says even Charlies family can move in, so somehow hiring Charlie booted Lofty out, because for the first time humans other than the owner are allowed in. Maybe Wonka put in some fine print of his own; if he finds an heir, they get a fresh start, so he prioritized above all making sure beyond a doubt that the heir wouldnt make the same mistakes he did and would give up greed above all.

Also what stuck out to me was Lofty ONLY ever helped because of capitalism, he never developed genuine care for wonka.

[noahcove]

I might also point out it's possible the riverboat ride with all the psychedelic imagery could also have been used as psychological torture and potential hypnosis forcing Wonka to be even more susceptible to confronting what lofty was doing to him

[Gelatinocyte]

For a second I thought this was The Theorizer from the notification thumbnail.

[MinaWalker]

I love the tunnel sequence!! Your lofty impression is amazing ❤

[keenkingjames]

This theory is pretty tame compared to the one about children being a key ingredient in the chocolate.

[snausages]

It’s weird how we’ve had two adaptations and now a prequel, but nobody has adapted Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator to screen yet.