Card of the Day - 2022-09-15

Artbox "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
Artbox "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005)

Artbox, or more correctly Artbox Entertainment, is a Californian producer of trading cards and other collectibles, most of which are non-sport and film related. They did many sets of Harry Potter cards.

This card comes from a very confusing set with lots of promos and specials. I won`t try to describe them, I will just send you off to nslists.com/charchoc  with many thanks to them for doing all this typing! 

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory starred Johnny Depp and was directed by Tim Burton. They had worked together before, eight times. Most of those films I dont actually like, I am sorry to say, for they are a bit dark and I am but a gentle soul. However I do like The Corpse Bride very much and I am amazed to find that it was filmed in the same year as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory had actually already been filmed for the big screen, in 1971. The title then was "Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory" and Willy Wonka was played by Gene Wilder, though Roald Dahl had really wanted Spike Milligan.

Both films are the same basic story, a poor child opens a bar of chocolate and instead of finding a trade card finds a golden ticket that allows him access to the greatest chocolate factory in the world. Only five tickets were inserted, and the stories of the other children are also told along the way.