Willy Wonka Makes an Oompa Loompa

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"And like a fish clings to the water, or a bird to the skies. You, oompa loompa, are mine. Nothing less... And nothing more." This a bone chilling line

Wait I just noticed the child's father calls minds "loompa" in the flashback and he calls drowning "oompa", so "Oompa Loompas" is "drowned minds" damn

Ironically one of the best pieces of media to depict the horrors of slavery

The Knid originally being a species of bird their people venerated as an divine entity they would use in 'sky burials' so their dead would be carried to the stars, and Wonka changing and degrading it's significance to a 'vicious beast', is such a strong piece of revisionist work. That something they thought once thought as connecting them to God and the after life, was stripped down of all it's cultural context to the point that the Knid is remembered as a horrific monster that "ate them" - deliberately so Wonka can make their past more of a painful memory.

The fact you could write an essay on the themes and symbolism of this is insane.

The fact that wonka corrupts their memories into believing they lived in some kind of savage harsh land is horrifying.

I love how we have a juxtaposition here with the Elder Villager's speech and Wonka's speech. While the Elder's is a profound travel through their cultural way of living in harmony, Wonka' speech is just terrorizing, condescending, patronizing, and just really creepy in all the senses of the word. He reduct every villager's lifes has a mere dream so he can more easily substitute to another "way of living" that is nothing more than just mere "false reality", or for the lack of better words, "dreams". They probably didn't even call themselves "oompa loompas", that's probably the name Wonka gave to them.

i feel like the baby is both real and metaphorical; simultaneously a lost baby and a representation of the loss of innocence, culture and a free future for the oompa loompas. crazy

Not many people mention it, but the sound design in all of these is ASTOUNDING. It's a big part of the creepy factor and you hit the nail on the head

The absolute silence as the baby slinks from the Oompa Loompa’s arms is the true definition of horror.

Is it just me, or does this less than 10 minute random YouTube video is more entertaining/ thought-provoking than most TV shows episodes nowadays. The music, the dialog, edits, the close ups, hidden messages, all great and enjoyable.

I've seen a lot of symbolism analysis in the comments, but for some reason I haven't seen anyone point out that the "Vermicious Knid" (the bird) is seemingly the Loompas representation of death, and at 3:50 when the father(?) is eaten/carried off to the horizon by the bird (dying), the next thing the Loompas see if Wonkas ship on the horizon approaching their island. This visualization therefore presents Wonka either as being Death, or that he comes from the Land of Death and intends to take them all there. I know it's probably not the most mind-blowing connection to point out, but since I hadn't read any comments that mention it I wanted to make sure it doesn't go unnoticed.

Gotta say that’s super smart to make the river boat a brain wash chamber, makes you think those kids got off easy

The yelling/almost screaming of Wonka's speech at the end being exactly how he talked to the children on the boat is fantastic. Jesus Christ.

7:43-7:56 is so bone chilling. Just seeing how soulless they have become and how different they look just really adds to the horror

I genuinely love the themes and symbolism here. Lofti was born from the waters and now he and his people drown in it. They will not join the stars with the elderly man once told. Its like when that happened something was lost. And then immediately after, the ship shows up. "Feel the rivers flow" (All of the inhabitants dying or being under Wonkas control), feel their mind drift in the dream. Wonka snickers when he tells Lofti to dream big. On one had they are "Pygmies" being small trying to dream big (when they die they join the stars). A sort of dark comedy. And on the other hand, Wonka thinks they live in a small hostile environment which juxtapose from what we saw in the Elderly Man's speech. They were fine there but to Wonka they were already "Oompa Loompas". Ready to work for him.

That entire "let it all... go." segment is some of the most horrifying, masterful cinematography I've ever seen. Unironically, this is incredible.

Bro just casually dropped the Oompa Loompa lore

This is a great video regarding trauma and colonization. The fact that nigh no one in the comments is talking about the over minute long warthunder ad that doesn't remotely fit with anything else in the video is a testament to how engrossing everything else in this video is