Did you know that for CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY...

Did you know that for CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY... Tim Burton actually had 40 real squirrels trained to crack and drop nuts onto a conveyor belt.

[irotr]

Did you know that for Charlie and the chocolate factory, Tim Burton actually traumatised multiple children to get an accurate movie

[Ramen]

He also enslaved thousands of short indigenous tribal people for the movie.

[generalalduin]

He also trained children attack squirrels, and released them into the wild

[Kingsshole]

Tim Burton has to make everything weird

[BeatleGoose]

"Why use squirrels? Why not use CGI?"

[BarryB.Benson]

Was definitely cheaper and looked better than doing CGI

[darkeyediv]

Chinese sweat shops:right that down right that

[RandomguyfromtheinternetN]

Because the squirrels nedeed training for learning from their mistakes

[tabbycat]

✨Because Tim learns from his mistakes✨

[shahiiran]

i remembered it took the squirrel 2 years to train them!

[velconx]

Did this conveyor belt also lead to a giant hole in the room?

[KNDYKRE]

some of the squirrels were puppets, robots, and I think cgi as well. the close up shots are where the real squirrels were shown.

[KidKomical]

When I was little, I thought the actor for the 2005 movie was a girl 😭