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Ah! Did a comment to say the same X) The recording of the screams is what is so incredible to me! I don't know how he does it to record such pristine screams, it's really a hard thing to do :')
@@TheMagicienWorld also on the really disturbing scenes and shots when this long, deep, looming sound effect is heard. Its so subtle but also so effectively unsettling
IKR!! the sound and music design is just MASTERFUL, like audio design is just the key to making a filn short or long feel like cinema, absolute masterclass, and avocado absolutely EXCELS at it. 🔥
I wonder if the White Crocodile representing the dangers of their homeland is their subconscious assigning a symbol to Wonka. A lot of what would make a crocodile dangerous to the pygmy's are things you can use to describe Wonka. The danger mainly lurking in the water as Wonka's most dangerous to the Pygmys is with his boat, the stealthy movement and ambush predation as he hid his intentions, that cold unfeeling unmoving gaze, how a crocodile of the size of their false memories would have consumed them whole like what he was doing to their identity, etc.
@@swishfish4289 I think Wonka was rewriting their memories as we saw the Crocodile attack on the animal early on was replaced with it attacking a pigmy making them remember their land as being more dangerous and needed saving from than it actually was.
It's kind of in the original too. All the people in the slums where Charlie lived probably worked in the factory, but Wonka instead went and got "primitive" people from an island where they didn't know about money and he could just pay them in cocoa beans. It's classic British colonialism.
@@thehungrylittlenihilistIn the original draft of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Oompa Loompas were referred to as “Pygmys” that Wonka literally “saved” from their homelands. I believe this is where the inspiration for this short comes from and honestly I’m glad the more problematic aspects of the Dahl’s stories are getting some kind of examination. It is genuinely fascinating to interpret the story in a sort of colonial/industrialist lens.
"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
The line is fantastic, but it's the delivery that really sold it for me. The commanding slightly maniacal way Wonka proclaims it is just...idk man it's definitely movie quality for me.
@@captain_kidding that's a good point because we never saw them leave the factory. Wanka said they'd be fine but we never actually *see* them after they're "separated" from the group. Oh sure we see that they're fine in the book but this is the Gene Wilder version...
@MillieGriffin I mean, unless he managed to actually fix Violets stretched skin back down, I think she would spend the rest of her life stretched out like a post lap band surgery patient. Augustus has to live with claustrophobia and having all the bones in his body broken. Vertu a mostly broken her legs falling down a trash chute to god knows where. Mike comes out the least physically hurt, but I'm not sure whay kind of fucked up psychological stuff hapoenes when you're shrunk down and resized.
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
Also the river, the fact they used water bodies to help with childbirth and now they can’t because it is a chocolate river and so the baby “drowns” in it
I thought that, even though he was expecting his own baby, the baby is himself, and when he drops the baby into the river and deteriorates into just a skeleton, he has completely abandoned who he was and everything he knew, to be the Oompa Loompas Wonka reprograms them to be
I love the contrast between the 2 worlds. The island the Oompa Loompas are from has a dull-ish colour palette but people are smiling, getting along and living good, meaningful and happy lives. Whereas with Wonka’s place, it’s bright and colourful, but there’s no soul to it. There’s no community, no comparison nothing meaningful. Great work, I love it.
@JunguianPhantom honestly I'd argue it's the opposite. You always see people talking about being depressed or feeling down, but never how happy they feel, how thankful the are for everything, and part of that is just the amount of negative energy we put on ourselves and others. If we take a look around us and enjoy life for once instead of just talking about our problems and not facing them, maybe we would actually find some joy. But hey, that's just me
plus a really good statement on how in the past and also today, western (predominantly white and Christian) cultures would/still view native, african etc cultures and ways of life as “lesser” and “savage”, thus dehumanising them and devaluing their traditions. wonka is basically rewriting history the same way
@@lord_ozymandiasngl Christians before like the 1900s fucked up a looooot of stuff, they are really the only reason the stone hedge is a wonder of the world, because they killed the people who built it
@@VanyaTheSlavic well sure obviously it was nuanced, everything is, but the overall consensus both back then and today is and was that those cultures were lesser. even if we had briefly friendly relations before we colonized/enslaved them and took all their shit there was always the persistent belief that their religions and ways of life were unholy or otherwise in need of being changed or saved. obviously there were probably some people who didn’t believe in all that. and there’s way more people who don’t believe in it today, which rocks. but the overall consensus is what’s important because that’s the consensus that got all those people fucked over and continues to fuck them over today
He lost a child, his family, his future, and his mind. What left is there, after watching your people be slaughtered, your home burned to the ground, your wife, father, and mother dead, and taken to a new land? A new WORLD? Nothing but despair. But that depression can be solved by one man: WANKA
@@jacobbakos3140Average day for Palestinians under occupation. Of course the media wont tell you what’s going on but just like the oompa loompas we’re under the spell of Wonka..
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.
This comment hasn't gotten enough attention. Others in the comments recognize the knid's association with death but not its role as psychopomp. Truly an important part of the spirituality here
Great comment. As I rewatched it, I think the editing tells something slightly different : wonka’s not changing the perception of the bird itself. Instead, he is making them forget parts of nature they enjoyed, by focusing on other animals and exacerbating their threat. In the end, the effect is the same but the path there is perhaps different, and adds to the video incredible vision and nuanced commentary
It's gotta be because of how it signifies he's less dangerous than he truly is. Head tilting shows curiosity and questioning while he's saying everything with such certainty that they will get to the minds of those he's manipulating.
I believe that it takes inspiration on religious imagery Kinda like how Virgin Mary is always looking down on most sculptures He is trying to establish himself as a Savior, a Saint a God
Honestly, the tilt reminds me how birds of prey cock their heads to het a better view of their surroundings. Like Wonka was just waiting for the right moment to strike
Growing up is realizing that Avocado Animations can build up better horror and a perfect story without having to make it oddly creepy at first as it slowly builds up and decides to hit the core gently before starting to build up strength.
If Doki Doki Literature Club taught me anything, the best horror doesn't come from dark rooms and jumpscares, it's taking a safe and normal environment and making you realize that something is...off...
@@KirbyLinkACWwhat Gmod taught me is that no matter how you play there's always bound to be something in the dark room Wether you have no mods nor not
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
It gave me Leopold the second of belgium especially how he described Africa as a slice of magnificent cake. And the part where the elder had his arm cut off reminded me of what he did to Congolese men and women if they stole he’s cut off their limbs the man’ was worse than hitler
I think I find Wonka's dead stare the best part of this whole clip. Just gives off that vibe that he doesn't even care about the lives those oompa loompa's lived before he came through.
I always assumed that he was in constant denial of how evil he was. He doesn't need to explain that he's saving them, they'll obey either way. He's lying to himself.
I love how masterfully made this animation. Not only you take a simple concept of "what if wonka took oompa loompas as slaves" and greatly expanded apon it, you also make it extremely authentic to the first wonka movie. I could totally see the first willy wonka do this. He always had that sort of edge to him. Like he's gonna break into a psychopathic rampage at any moment. This is gonna be in my head cannon now and thank you for making such a masterpiece.
Well, from what I recall, Gene Wilder specifically stated that crafting an unsettling air of never truly knowing what to expect from Wonka regarding his thoughts or actions was a goal of his when he played the character. The part where he walks out with the cane then does the tumble? That's what that whole bit was about setting up. Like, he really was going for almost a pseudo "Eldritch Menace" vibe for the whole thing.... So this animation works really well in that regard....
The rise to insane screaming during a monologue is a sure sign of genius. It’s how you can tell Willy is all about himself. Especially the crescendo being his own brand, WONKA!
Fun fact, that scene played by Gene Wilder was improvised by Gene and his co-stars in the boat didn't know he was going to do that. They thought he was actually loosing his mind and the fear on their faces is real fear. Such a brilliant scene.
@@CHiMEiD050 history books, documentary films, old scrolls and pages from the dark ages, till the very near faith of the people that suffer through and through, so in any cases, he practically did his research.
This is such a great depiction of hypnosis/brainwashing: the sudden, fearful awakeness and alertness in the beginning with Wonka being the only one standing, the flute being an auditory cue for trauma/stress, the footage of the primal, peaceful life to be later shown as dangerous and terrible, and finally, Wonka showing himself to be the savior from all their woes.
Yeah. The timing, cadence, and juxtaposition of every shot was just perfect, the way the vague yet enticing dialogue introduces you to this man's past life, dreams, and fears, then uses them to manipulatively warp his entire perception of reality. Truly genius.
It would be a interesting take on the Wonka lore at least on a similar vein. Least presenting someone like Wonka doing exactly this. A shame that currently if such a depiction was made we would have nut jobs screaming its woke, despite the fact that historically this is what many colonial empires and trading companies exactly did.
@@DoubleO88 I completely agree. Even in the original movie there's like a sublayer of creepy behind the character, but he's especially creepy here. Gene Wilder is an amazing comedian and actor though.
@@DoubleO88yeah. Gene wilders version seems like a psychopath/sociopath, hiding really dark secrets underneath a cover of happiness and pretty colors, while depps was more cartoonish and silly.
It’s kind of sad not to see such quality, storytelling and cinematography in some big-budget psychological horror, I think it’s highly underrated. Let him cook!
Honestly, that makes his character himself more sadistic to which he used someway to brainwash and rebuild them to which, they were the most valuable ones in the very jungle.... Now why does that sound familiar.
its nothing short of a tragedy. Dear Loompa Land was once luscious and green, and conclusive to growing the bean. We had the job of guarding the spot, he came along and ruined the whole lot! (I just came up with this before watching the vid fully btw)
If you listen closely to Wonka's poetic yet terrifying speech, it's like he's singing "Pure Imagination," but it's the the melody we know, but an upside down version of it, a more evil and darker version of that song.
Love the symbolism behind the baby at 5:22 (that being their history and culture stripped from them, before being replaced with one that better suits Wonka’s narrative and that allows him to turn them into “willing” workers).
Terror comes from within the soul, knowing that what you witnessed is something you could also experience. A familiarity between the tragedy and your own perception/anecdotal interpretation. The same villains exist today, using the exact same levels of force and brainwashing. The only difference is in the context of how these methods are used.
That's partly because most people wanna sanitize every villain into some misunderstood kid who wasn't told 'I love you' from their parents a billion times. Every villain HAS to be sympathetic and understandable while the heroes are shown as worse people by contrast. Modern Hollywood writing at it's finest.
HOLY CRAP!! Dude!! That was so dark and amazing!! I love the subtle effects of the camera shaking wonkas hair but his face is rock solid. SO much cool stuff in this art piece!!
He came. He takes everything. He conditions you to believe you had nothing worth holding onto. Then he promises you a better future in servitude to him. And every step of the way -- you had no choice, no agency in the matter. Only now... You're too far gone to care.
@@isleling5191yup, just like the prison population so big that it got in the Guinness Book Of World Records for all to see! They worded it in a saving-face kind of way, of course.
Iirc, in the original book, the Oompa Loompas were black and Willy Wonka had a white savior complex. Like, he actually did find them in an African jungle, and he offered them shelter from some sort of predator in exchange for their service. I don’t think there was nearly as much trauma and gore in the original, but considering how close this interpretation is to canon and how many people are creeped out by Willy Wonka, it could be a case of unreliable narration. Where this becomes especially strange is the connection to Roald Dahl’s actual life. In his second autobiography, Going Solo, he has an African servant while stationed there shortly before WWII. I hate to say it, but, if you squint, there is a little bit of a white savior complex there as well. He wrote about how his “boy” adored him, how he taught him how to read, and as a funny anecdote, mentioned how the clueless African man murdered the town’s mayor because he was German. I think Roald intended for Willy to be a good guy but was tainted by his own bias.
Roald Dhal actually didn’t intent to have Wonka as a enslaver parallel that was a fortunally (in the sense that he wasn’t actually writing a slavery allegory and showing the practice as a good thing) an unfortunate coincide and it was when people started making that comparison he latter changed that in later releases of his book to be what we know the Oompa Loompas today
@@rowan404 You say that as if it was anything unique to Roald Dahl, and not the tragic result of the British Empire, which along with the Spanish conquistadors and countless other nations from Europe (like Muscovy), as well as Asia (e.g. Imperial Japan) saw themselves as the Rulers of the World, and obviously destined to bring Civilisation to all. Human history is written in the blood and suffering of the innocent.
Someone needs to get this guy as a writer and animator or even lead art director cuz wow his videos are always just amazing, even if the premis is most of the time a joke
Honestly, this might've started off as a joke but like this is a genuinely good representation of the horror of colonization, slavery, and cultural erasure. It isn't an exact 1:1 depiction of any of those but god if it dont use and bring out those themes powerfully.
Something I haven’t seen people talk about in the video is how Wonka was reminding them of all the happy times they had where they used to live just to show them what then happened because of him, which then broke them more. This then, would maybe help him change and control them because they would now have nothing else to live for in life.
5:26 when I first saw the YT short that made me come to this video I saw this, and thought he was just screaming from the agony of the transformation. But watching the full video and seeing this again I saw him frantically digging in the water. I think he was trying to get back all the old, lost memories of his life Wonka forced him to let go of, and that baby was a representation of the last of it.
So, given the vocabulary we were granted, Oompa Loompa translates to "Wandering Mind", basically meaning that they dream at all times with him, as shown. Nice touch, i'd say.
Listen closer... When he says "Drown" he says "Oompa". "Oompa Loompa" means "Drowned mind". This comes back later, since at the end of their hypnosis they turn into skeletons and drown.
@@wilburdemitel8468 sentence structure doesn't have to be the same in a different language. A different word is used for that at 3:15, while both are present previously
@@Spartoi1 Of course. Personally I couldn't hear the "Oompa" when he says wandering, it sounded rather like "Eduba loompa", and when I heard it with the drowning segment, I felt like it was a more poignant and deliberate connection. A Chekov's gun in a way.
For me, the part that absolutely shook me was when Wonka first met the people. The whole start of the film was a slow, windup showing the life of the life of the person before they had their identity stripped away from themselves. It lulls the viewer into a sense of calmness before being plunged into a frigid water of shock. The moment of silence when the infant was dropped into the water too was absolutely brilliant. That moment was the tipping point to me of the whole thing. A horrific yet beautifully executed piece of media. Great friggin job.
Your ability to take a silly story like Willy Wonka and give it an origin story like this is nothing short of extraordinary writing. If you ever write a book, just know I'm buying.
I think this has singlehandedly warped my perception to an unsalvageable degree. I've been coming back to this video just to watch it again. Seriously great talent.
Some people say that that avocado just makes videos for blood and violence but it's more than that it's art its Beautiful and it have Beautiful quotes to this is why avocado has a very good channel ❤❤❤❤❤❤.
What i love is how Wonka's expression rarely changes and is never exaggerated and just remains monotone. He still is a monster, yet there is no hint of malice in his voice, nor hate behind his eyes, nor desire to hurt or need for power and control. There is nothing behind those eyes just a void.
hes like, the worst kind of anti hero. he wants to help, but he does it in a terrible way. he helps by keeping them under his control and making it seem like his control is the safest place to be.
Wonka,with his knowledge of hypnogogic power created the perfect workers,drones with no will to break,no minds that would allow them to be bribed by his competitors,the world was his,or so he thought,as the ever turning hands of time were quickly catching up to him,he was growing quite old and with no children of his own there would be no one to inherit his wealth and legacy,that's when he got an idea,he would invite 5 children on a "tour" of his factory and using a similar technique that was used on the oompa loompas,turn them into the perfect little heirs,when he was gone they would be just like him,and they would bear and sire children that would carry on his legacy onto eternity,however he did not anticipate his plan would be foiled by one little boy named Charlie...
The fact that the piccolo jingle being used as a control is just such a interesting detail and it’s just bloody incredible to think about the movie in this context
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.
I think you’re pretty close to it. The knid is their depiction of death in the natural cycle and Wonka is the representative of an unending unnatural death with no escape.
The Knid is their connection to death; it's a reality they all ultimately face at the end of their journey, but Wonka severs that tie. The Knid can't take the remaining Oompa Loompas to the stars/eternity; he comes from a land disconnected from the natural balance of life, and thus severs their spiritual ties when he takes them with him. What happens when you sever the living's connection to spirituality? Take the still very living into the land of the dead? You get Wonka's Oompa Loompas - a people living in form but not of heart. Automatons for whom the Knid will never come; bodies that toil without rest, without heart, without sense of connection to the workd they find themselves in. Hollow little men in a hollow metal shell.
The Knid, I think, is more of a psychopomp. It carries them to the afterlife, or the land of the dead, but it is not death itself. Wonka, however, _comes_ from the land beyond the horizon. He is death itself coming to claim them.
There is also another Wonka book that didnt get a movie, "Charlie and the great glass elevator" where the elevator goes to space and the "Vermicious Knids" are alien creatures that can change the shape of their bodies to their will. It has nothing to do with this video but thats where the name came from
I think the imagery of him giving them candy while towering over them makes him appear like the devil, offering temptation in exchange for their souls (servitude). He appears like a handsome and kind person which is how the devil is typically depicted when masquerading as a human.
This raises genuinely fascinating connections between colonist ideals and the depiction of Oompa Loompas as a sort of “tamed savage” made to work in an industrial environment. Especially in how their servitude is depicted as liberation from a life of savagery and into a more “noble” or “happy” life as unquestioning workers.
which is just as ironic of Wonka when he thinks that them continuously and mindlessly working in an endless and repetitive cycle covered by a facade of "wonderland" is a better situation for them.
@@prawnchips9461 that was my interpretation too. He says “dream big” then he chuckles, almost like he’s saying to himself “but they can’t (and will never) dream as big as I can”
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.
Thats pretty much implied in the fact, that the words Oompa and Loompa appear in this video multiple times. Loompa is very clearly said when he is talking about Drowning, when we hear the word Oompa, the only word that is in every sentenced translated is Mind. Unlikely they called theirselves something like the drowned minds, especially when this goes so much against their philosophy.
5:15 Everything is quiet then Lofti drops his baby then he screams in horror is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen and heard... it's even a lot more terrifying when I listen to this scene pretty loud while I'm in the dark with my eyes closed and standing...I also love the peaceful music at the end 7:31 awesome job on this video bro, keep up the good work😊
Is it just me, or does this less than 10 minute random TH-cam 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.
7:14 After making those people forget what those dreams were, then altering their memories and making them forget who they are, Wonka put them in tanning beds for hours, prob had mass machinery to dye all of their eyebrows and hair green, gave all of the men and women the same hair cuts, dressed them all in the same clothes and put them to work around the factory.
@Yamato-xc1zzit’s an animation about midgets meeting a tall candy man invading their land land and killing their people, I don’t think this has some deep message about life, and even if it did, it’s more in line with how the British invaded America and killed thousands ( maybe even millions) of native Americans
@@Blindbushit is more based on Belgian invading Congo and killing 10 millions while working them to death for rubber. But maybe also about English in North America, Spanish in Carib, or Ottoman in Balkan
The Belgians also had chocolate plantations in the Congo. Many chocolate plantations still exist in the Congo that use slavery today. As recently as 2021 The US Supreme Court has ruled food giants Nestlé USA and Cargill do use child slaves but can't be sued for “reasons”
Don’t know how many people caught this. But if you pay close attention to what is being said by the father Oompa Loompa in his monologue, you realise that the word ‘loompa’ means ‘mind’ in their language. I didn’t catch what’ oompa’ means and I’m not sure it’s featured in his monologue. But it’s very possible that Wonka gave them the name Oompa Loompa meaning ‘broken mind’ or ‘lost mind’ in their own native language. Since they likely wont remember their pasts and likely their language, it gives me chills to think that the Oompa Loompa’s brainwashing has been right in front of their faces the whole time. And no one but Wonka will know.
Also I know the light tunnel after the flute, I think it’s wonka drugging them. That’s why the lake turned to acid for the guy. They just veg out mentally and work work work. That’s why we hear the flute those few times
That's the weird thing, though. I think Wonka believes he's being *kind.* That he's *genuinely* helping these people. He's a monster, and he's entirely oblivious to it.
I was so immersed in the animation that when the "subscribe?" popped up at the end it gave me whiplash lmao. How on earth do you manage this?! Genuinely amazing work!
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.
I don't think so much that Wonka himself thinks Loompa Land is inhospitable, just that he convinced them it was so they would never want to go back. The Knid, a god to them and a symbol of ascension after death, merely becomes a predatory creature that feasts on them and consumes their dead. A Vicious Knid. And even though their huts were on the ground, amongst nature and at peace with it, he rewrote their minds so that they remembered only cowering up in the treetops. The deer ensnared by the gator instead becomes an Oompa Loompa, and all of their history and culture is recontextualized into one of fear and barbarism. Suddenly Wonka is their saviour, when it was he who taught them in the ways of terror and bloodshed
Wha...What did I just experience? This is a masterpiece. The animation, the story, the emotions, the details and the time spent on doing this animation. This man deserves more love and respect. I am glad that there are still people that don't just try to finish their work as fast as possible. Keep up the great work man, much respect.
Their story of freedom begins with Wonka's death, and Charlie in charge of the factory. Charlie, a pure heart that was naive to Wonka's misdeeds. Completely unprepared for his position, he turns to the 'workers.'
With Wonka's high pressure policy, Oompa Loompas didn't riot, but when the good child Charlie took control, Oompa Loompas riots and releases all their angers on Charlie who knows nothing and does nothing wrong
They wouldn’t mix very well. Most of meatcanyon videos are just disturbing. That’s it. But these avocado videos have this deep depth of understanding and is meant to poke into psychological horror.
This is one of the most beautiful and horrifying animations I've seen, probably ever. The depiction and details of the tribe and how beautifully they lived, and taught their children the ways of the world, and loved each other and their home. The very real and very brutal depiction of colonialism and slavery, and the total, utter destruction of the mind and spirit of a human through torture and trauma. The flashback of that man losing his baby, desperately, frantically trying to get his child back, and dissolving into nothing with wonka towering over him, still talking as if he's their savior while twisting their minds and distorting their memories is insanely powerful. And even scarier is the reveal from hearing the father speaking in their native language that "oompa loompa" isnt the name these people called themselves in the tribe. "Oompa" meant mind, and "loompa" meant drowned. When they call themselves that, they're called themselves the "drowned minds". And thats the only words we hear them say in that language. The only thing they have from their old lives is an expression of agony. They should genuinely show this in history classes.
It also doesn’t shy away from the brutality of nature, the vision of the wife getting snatched by the crocodile, the insects, the disease and toil Wouldn’t it be better, if Wonks could take it all away? Make it a safer world, of constant sugar and gorging and security? Where the world isn’t trying to eat you anymore… but where everything is edible, and you can exert the most primal, pure form of dominance and power over the things around you. By *eating* them. Wouldn’t that be a nicer world? What good was uncertainty, and the pain and suffering, of humanity in a creation that wanted to eat them? Why not conquer danger, uncertainty, and the torture of destroyed dreams, of drowned babies and spouses eaten by animals, by believing in the man determined to rescue you from ever NOT having every desire at your fingertips every moment, for the rest of your life? After all… as Wonks said, what better dream is there, to believe in, *than Me*
@toastle8005 Well, I think it's interesting how it was just a vision. They didn't get killed by wild animals. In fact, it seemed they lived pretty peacefully. But Wonka manipulates their perspective and makes them believe that they lived in constant terror.
@@mapled_syrup I mean if you live on an island with crocs that snatch drinking deer it's a pretty safe bet it's not a peaceful ecosystem. They know how to deal with the threats sure, but it really WAS an island of dangerous beasts.
That was possibly the best thing I’ve ever watched on this website. Truly cinematic and beautiful. The lore, the animation, the analogies. Truly a masterpiece. Kudos to you, Avocado.
sponsor ends at 1:29 watching this felt like tripping balls, this is seriously one of the best animations i've seen from you, no, not just from you, one of the best animations i've seen on youtube. you've outdone yourself, your rate of improvement is stunning and the storytelling in this is amazing, keep on going!
the bird only ate the dead. The crocodile was only shown to eat animals, not the people. The point is that they were happy in their small life, but the hypnotization made their previously happy life seem terrible
@justpassingby298 In fact, the bird was a sky burial. Hypnotism Turning what is essentially a burning ship send off to the equivalent of burning people alive is... unnerving to say the least.
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Man that's dark
when will you continue the villager story
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
Ah! Did a comment to say the same X) The recording of the screams is what is so incredible to me! I don't know how he does it to record such pristine screams, it's really a hard thing to do :')
@@TheMagicienWorld also on the really disturbing scenes and shots when this long, deep, looming sound effect is heard. Its so subtle but also so effectively unsettling
@@AdalHRivera Yeah definitely gonna use him as a reference in future works 😆
IKR!! the sound and music design is just MASTERFUL, like audio design is just the key to making a filn short or long feel like cinema, absolute masterclass, and avocado absolutely EXCELS at it. 🔥
@@AdalHRiveraYeah that is why i watched this with ear phones it makes it feel like a movie.
The fact you could write an essay on the themes and symbolism of this is insane.
Yeah, I’m half expecting my English teacher to assign an essay for me to do on this
I wonder if the White Crocodile representing the dangers of their homeland is their subconscious assigning a symbol to Wonka. A lot of what would make a crocodile dangerous to the pygmy's are things you can use to describe Wonka. The danger mainly lurking in the water as Wonka's most dangerous to the Pygmys is with his boat, the stealthy movement and ambush predation as he hid his intentions, that cold unfeeling unmoving gaze, how a crocodile of the size of their false memories would have consumed them whole like what he was doing to their identity, etc.
@@swishfish4289 I think Wonka was rewriting their memories as we saw the Crocodile attack on the animal early on was replaced with it attacking a pigmy making them remember their land as being more dangerous and needed saving from than it actually was.
It's kind of in the original too. All the people in the slums where Charlie lived probably worked in the factory, but Wonka instead went and got "primitive" people from an island where they didn't know about money and he could just pay them in cocoa beans. It's classic British colonialism.
@@thehungrylittlenihilistIn the original draft of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Oompa Loompas were referred to as “Pygmys” that Wonka literally “saved” from their homelands. I believe this is where the inspiration for this short comes from and honestly I’m glad the more problematic aspects of the Dahl’s stories are getting some kind of examination. It is genuinely fascinating to interpret the story in a sort of colonial/industrialist lens.
"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
The line is fantastic, but it's the delivery that really sold it for me. The commanding slightly maniacal way Wonka proclaims it is just...idk man it's definitely movie quality for me.
You made a bar out of a quote. Nice
I wish I could've said this in my wedding vows.
And then the switch up in the very next scene with the music. holy hell dude
They gotta make sure that we know they are colonists.
Ironically one of the best pieces of media to depict the horrors of slavery
Colonialism. Same type of exploitation that's required to make the shit we buy. It hasn't stopped.
i want my children to grow up just like ww!
You mean unironically?
I was just about to say that
@@gahrilla_1what!
Gotta say that’s super smart to make the river boat a brain wash chamber, makes you think those kids got off easy
Or did they?
@@captain_kidding🤓
@@captain_kidding that's a good point because we never saw them leave the factory. Wanka said they'd be fine but we never actually *see* them after they're "separated" from the group. Oh sure we see that they're fine in the book but this is the Gene Wilder version...
@@MillieGriffinhmmmmm
@MillieGriffin I mean, unless he managed to actually fix Violets stretched skin back down, I think she would spend the rest of her life stretched out like a post lap band surgery patient. Augustus has to live with claustrophobia and having all the bones in his body broken. Vertu a mostly broken her legs falling down a trash chute to god knows where. Mike comes out the least physically hurt, but I'm not sure whay kind of fucked up psychological stuff hapoenes when you're shrunk down and resized.
Bro just casually dropped the Oompa Loompa lore
Fr
And he also dropped his kid lol
Same
Ah a fellow owl house enjoyer thinks alike
Now we need oompa lore if only matpat did not retire
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
Also the river, the fact they used water bodies to help with childbirth and now they can’t because it is a chocolate river and so the baby “drowns” in it
I thought that, even though he was expecting his own baby, the baby is himself, and when he drops the baby into the river and deteriorates into just a skeleton, he has completely abandoned who he was and everything he knew, to be the Oompa Loompas Wonka reprograms them to be
Damn this shits Deep!
I love the contrast between the 2 worlds.
The island the Oompa Loompas are from has a dull-ish colour palette but people are smiling, getting along and living good, meaningful and happy lives.
Whereas with Wonka’s place, it’s bright and colourful, but there’s no soul to it. There’s no community, no comparison nothing meaningful.
Great work, I love it.
Like the false world we live in, where we are expected to smile like imbeciles all the time despite being dead inside
@@JunguianPhantom Your name is very fitting.
Did you find purpose my friend ?
@JunguianPhantom honestly I'd argue it's the opposite. You always see people talking about being depressed or feeling down, but never how happy they feel, how thankful the are for everything, and part of that is just the amount of negative energy we put on ourselves and others. If we take a look around us and enjoy life for once instead of just talking about our problems and not facing them, maybe we would actually find some joy. But hey, that's just me
Like LatinoAmerica and Scandinavia XD
One of them is a *real* “desolate” jungle
The other is a world of *imagination*
The fact that wonka corrupts their memories into believing they lived in some kind of savage harsh land is horrifying.
It truly is
plus a really good statement on how in the past and also today, western (predominantly white and Christian) cultures would/still view native, african etc cultures and ways of life as “lesser” and “savage”, thus dehumanising them and devaluing their traditions. wonka is basically rewriting history the same way
i’m no expert on that topic tho but i just found it fascinating. avocado is an excellent storyteller
@@lord_ozymandiasngl Christians before like the 1900s fucked up a looooot of stuff, they are really the only reason the stone hedge is a wonder of the world, because they killed the people who built it
@@VanyaTheSlavic well sure obviously it was nuanced, everything is, but the overall consensus both back then and today is and was that those cultures were lesser. even if we had briefly friendly relations before we colonized/enslaved them and took all their shit there was always the persistent belief that their religions and ways of life were unholy or otherwise in need of being changed or saved.
obviously there were probably some people who didn’t believe in all that. and there’s way more people who don’t believe in it today, which rocks.
but the overall consensus is what’s important because that’s the consensus that got all those people fucked over and continues to fuck them over today
The absolute silence as the baby slinks from the Oompa Loompa’s arms is the true definition of horror.
He lost a child, his family, his future, and his mind. What left is there, after watching your people be slaughtered, your home burned to the ground, your wife, father, and mother dead, and taken to a new land? A new WORLD?
Nothing but despair.
But that depression can be solved by one man: WANKA
And the his scream.. Really signified pain, sorrow and terror of watching his "Big Dream" mean absolutely nothing
@@nengifiedgamer7576 Exactly.
@@jacobbakos3140Average day for Palestinians under occupation. Of course the media wont tell you what’s going on but just like the oompa loompas we’re under the spell of Wonka..
yes
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
So "Loompa Land" is Mind Land. Makes it seem even more mystical.
this comment deserves more likes
@@Dreefz fr
wow thats deep
dam thats scary
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.
This comment hasn't gotten enough attention. Others in the comments recognize the knid's association with death but not its role as psychopomp. Truly an important part of the spirituality here
Great comment.
As I rewatched it, I think the editing tells something slightly different : wonka’s not changing the perception of the bird itself. Instead, he is making them forget parts of nature they enjoyed, by focusing on other animals and exacerbating their threat.
In the end, the effect is the same but the path there is perhaps different, and adds to the video incredible vision and nuanced commentary
knids are also a creature from roald dahl's book "charlie and the great glass elevator", the sequel to "charlie and the chocolate factory"
Wrecking religions is tight!
@@capitainefriteYeah this sounds more accurate.
That entire "let it all... go." segment is some of the most horrifying, masterful cinematography I've ever seen. Unironically, this is incredible.
Your pfp is another story
Ikr like its truamatizing 😖
Thats scream hit me at my core, almost cried
….go.
You lot are a bunch of babies how is this 'traumatizing'
Wonka’s head being tilted throughout the entire video is… unsettling. To say the least.
It's gotta be because of how it signifies he's less dangerous than he truly is. Head tilting shows curiosity and questioning while he's saying everything with such certainty that they will get to the minds of those he's manipulating.
I believe that it takes inspiration on religious imagery
Kinda like how Virgin Mary is always looking down on most sculptures
He is trying to establish himself as a Savior, a Saint a God
Honestly, the tilt reminds me how birds of prey cock their heads to het a better view of their surroundings. Like Wonka was just waiting for the right moment to strike
It could also be representing the dutch angle, a film technique to show something is off
Growing up is realizing that Avocado Animations can build up better horror and a perfect story without having to make it oddly creepy at first as it slowly builds up and decides to hit the core gently before starting to build up strength.
If Doki Doki Literature Club taught me anything, the best horror doesn't come from dark rooms and jumpscares, it's taking a safe and normal environment and making you realize that something is...off...
@@KirbyLinkACWdoki doki has glorious literature
@@KirbyLinkACWwhat Gmod taught me is that no matter how you play there's always bound to be something in the dark room
Wether you have no mods nor not
What is your pfp from? Who made it?
@@thedoglovinggamer5825 Idk actually lmao, just found it somewhere on Pinterest
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
Ja fehlt nur die Tatsache, dass die die Bock drauf hatte sie für die weißen gejagt und an sie verkauft haben immer diese Schuldtilgung.🙄
It gave me Leopold the second of belgium especially how he described Africa as a slice of magnificent cake. And the part where the elder had his arm cut off reminded me of what he did to Congolese men and women if they stole he’s cut off their limbs the man’ was worse than hitler
Holy shit, you're right. I had forgotten, entirely, that that'd even happened. Wow.
More Slavery/Blackbirding than Colonisation
@@DavidLopez-yt2ypLol 😂
I think I find Wonka's dead stare the best part of this whole clip.
Just gives off that vibe that he doesn't even care about the lives those oompa loompa's lived before he came through.
I always assumed that he was in constant denial of how evil he was. He doesn't need to explain that he's saving them, they'll obey either way. He's lying to himself.
@@thetruthlies7 yes
Never in my life do I think an avocado could be this good at drawing.
Comment below me is gay af
Life is full of surprises
@@MyGachaStudiowasn’t a surprise
Comment below me is Gay!
@@d1vin33mm2 what do you mean
I love how masterfully made this animation. Not only you take a simple concept of "what if wonka took oompa loompas as slaves" and greatly expanded apon it, you also make it extremely authentic to the first wonka movie. I could totally see the first willy wonka do this. He always had that sort of edge to him. Like he's gonna break into a psychopathic rampage at any moment. This is gonna be in my head cannon now and thank you for making such a masterpiece.
I'm so sorry but media has corrupted me so much I thought "he always had that sort of edge to him" said "that's why I always edge to him" send help
@@maxter0842I will edge with you brother. We must embrace our challenges to overcum them
@@maxter0842 Did you think we would laugh and like that comment? 😂😂😂 You spanner
@@billybrown6431huh
Well, from what I recall, Gene Wilder specifically stated that crafting an unsettling air of never truly knowing what to expect from Wonka regarding his thoughts or actions was a goal of his when he played the character.
The part where he walks out with the cane then does the tumble? That's what that whole bit was about setting up. Like, he really was going for almost a pseudo "Eldritch Menace" vibe for the whole thing.... So this animation works really well in that regard....
This is it. One of the finest pieces of cinema, right here, in a TH-cam video.
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.
Really makes you wonder what else he might've done to the kids and their parents/grandparents while they were in the tunnel
Lmao wut@@WiseSageBum
The rise to insane screaming during a monologue is a sure sign of genius. It’s how you can tell Willy is all about himself. Especially the crescendo being his own brand, WONKA!
Fun fact, that scene played by Gene Wilder was improvised by Gene and his co-stars in the boat didn't know he was going to do that. They thought he was actually loosing his mind and the fear on their faces is real fear. Such a brilliant scene.
Please don’t use the name of the Lord in vain. God bless!😊
I’m convinced that this dude locks himself in his room watching every top tier physiological horror movie to ever exist to make this
He probably just looks at history books
@@CHiMEiD050 history books, documentary films, old scrolls and pages from the dark ages, till the very near faith of the people that suffer through and through, so in any cases, he practically did his research.
Colonization like this is still happening today, you can see live videos of it and everything, it’s crazy
This is such a great depiction of hypnosis/brainwashing: the sudden, fearful awakeness and alertness in the beginning with Wonka being the only one standing, the flute being an auditory cue for trauma/stress, the footage of the primal, peaceful life to be later shown as dangerous and terrible, and finally, Wonka showing himself to be the savior from all their woes.
And Colonialism
Yeah. The timing, cadence, and juxtaposition of every shot was just perfect, the way the vague yet enticing dialogue introduces you to this man's past life, dreams, and fears, then uses them to manipulatively warp his entire perception of reality. Truly genius.
It would be a interesting take on the Wonka lore at least on a similar vein. Least presenting someone like Wonka doing exactly this.
A shame that currently if such a depiction was made we would have nut jobs screaming its woke, despite the fact that historically this is what many colonial empires and trading companies exactly did.
K . Cool dude. Anything else to add ?
I wouldnt day this is a food depiction of actual hypnosis at all really but the other one yea
The fact you did the Gene Wilder version for the animation makes this perfect.
He's somehow the creepiest version, even creepier than Depp's who just seemed a bit mentally handicapped.
@@DoubleO88 I completely agree. Even in the original movie there's like a sublayer of creepy behind the character, but he's especially creepy here. Gene Wilder is an amazing comedian and actor though.
@@WeekndWarriorrr 💯
@@DoubleO88 depp´s version was just autistic, gene´s was psychotic.
@@DoubleO88yeah. Gene wilders version seems like a psychopath/sociopath, hiding really dark secrets underneath a cover of happiness and pretty colors, while depps was more cartoonish and silly.
It’s kind of sad not to see such quality, storytelling and cinematography in some big-budget psychological horror, I think it’s highly underrated. Let him cook!
Yeah because this one is made by people who like doing that
He cooking better than Gordon Ramsey
@alexthemovie2915 sorry pal, you're a nice and funny person but this joke was unnecessary. Anyway, have a blessed day. (I'm 14)
Bro really needs, a million, a small animation team, and a few years to completely turn the entertainment industry on its head.
4:35 The way his smile ever so slightly falls and makes him go from happy to deranged. The subtlety in this animation is top tier.
wonka looked as if he was disappointed that he had to kill some
@@OnedeC529 lmfaooo, but in the end he knew what was going to happen on that remote island..
Honestly, that makes his character himself more sadistic to which he used someway to brainwash and rebuild them to which, they were the most valuable ones in the very jungle.... Now why does that sound familiar.
@@OnedeC529 "ahh it was a irrtation, would have been better to get more slaves but oh well" is the vibe I get from it
Oompa loompa doopaty doo ive got a tragic tale for you 💀
Oompa loompa doopaty dee, Wonka enslaved us and here’s our story.
its nothing short of a tragedy. Dear Loompa Land was once luscious and green, and conclusive to growing the bean. We had the job of guarding the spot, he came along and ruined the whole lot! (I just came up with this before watching the vid fully btw)
Oompa Loompa doopaty dah, heed our warnings and you shall go far
If Wonka screwed us like a pooch, what do you think he will do to you?
Do to you?
God dammit I even imagined the voice singing it too 😭
Same
If you listen closely to Wonka's poetic yet terrifying speech, it's like he's singing "Pure Imagination," but it's the the melody we know, but an upside down version of it, a more evil and darker version of that song.
Love the symbolism behind the baby at 5:22 (that being their history and culture stripped from them, before being replaced with one that better suits Wonka’s narrative and that allows him to turn them into “willing” workers).
Well, their boss' name is Willy after all...
uuckkk that’s deep !!!
Seems like your sl*ve lives under the boots of psychopathic gods... you are dreaming too. How about you wake up?
Just like the African slave trade smh this video hit hard af.
Like the ministry of love.
Wonka here is a more terrifying villain than 90% of media antagonists today.
Terror comes from within the soul, knowing that what you witnessed is something you could also experience. A familiarity between the tragedy and your own perception/anecdotal interpretation.
The same villains exist today, using the exact same levels of force and brainwashing. The only difference is in the context of how these methods are used.
That's partly because most people wanna sanitize every villain into some misunderstood kid who wasn't told 'I love you' from their parents a billion times. Every villain HAS to be sympathetic and understandable while the heroes are shown as worse people by contrast. Modern Hollywood writing at it's finest.
Farcry 7.
Average 19th century factory owner can belittle any todays super vilain
Could you really call him an antagonist though?
I like the detail of how his memories are being modified replacing parts of his memory to fit with what Wonka is saying
Yeah like how the deer being eaten turns into a woman
My man you need to make a movie or something. You're clearly better at telling an emotional story than almost anyone else out there.
HOLY CRAP!! Dude!! That was so dark and amazing!! I love the subtle effects of the camera shaking wonkas hair but his face is rock solid. SO much cool stuff in this art piece!!
You can tell an animation is good when the comments are full of animators. Have you seen Red Eclipse? And are you gonna post again?
Good to see you still alive and kicking (I don't use Twitter or facebook). Glad to see that you got to see this.
@@pr.dr.nachtigaller5154 you have a better chance of asking him questions in vrchat if you are lucky enough to run into him.
@@pr.dr.nachtigaller5154 The red eclipse! This animation was soo good tho, pikapetey should watch it.
He came. He takes everything. He conditions you to believe you had nothing worth holding onto. Then he promises you a better future in servitude to him. And every step of the way -- you had no choice, no agency in the matter. Only now... You're too far gone to care.
What it's like working in a Disney Park... ;D
Sounds like the government
@@warrenb6043american slavery
@@isleling5191yup, just like the prison population so big that it got in the Guinness Book Of World Records for all to see! They worded it in a saving-face kind of way, of course.
He came
6:07 His skull is still crying after dropping his kid/losing his dream, his life, his memories and identity
i did this her
@@judylees6028?
Yeah we saw
Wait is the kid actually dead
God that shit was beyond dark
Their facial expressions at the end at 7:54 is the perfect touch. Manages to recontextualize everything. Utter kino
Another banger video man. The visuals and the storytelling is beautiful.
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EXCUSE ME ,you're the animator from Nikocado parodies!
How do you have 1.4k likes but only 2 replys
In all honesty the Oompa Loompas being enslaved to work at a chocolate factory against their will is very close to the canon of the original book
Iirc, in the original book, the Oompa Loompas were black and Willy Wonka had a white savior complex. Like, he actually did find them in an African jungle, and he offered them shelter from some sort of predator in exchange for their service. I don’t think there was nearly as much trauma and gore in the original, but considering how close this interpretation is to canon and how many people are creeped out by Willy Wonka, it could be a case of unreliable narration.
Where this becomes especially strange is the connection to Roald Dahl’s actual life. In his second autobiography, Going Solo, he has an African servant while stationed there shortly before WWII. I hate to say it, but, if you squint, there is a little bit of a white savior complex there as well. He wrote about how his “boy” adored him, how he taught him how to read, and as a funny anecdote, mentioned how the clueless African man murdered the town’s mayor because he was German. I think Roald intended for Willy to be a good guy but was tainted by his own bias.
Using small people as slaves to make chocolate is also the canon of the real world
Roald Dhal actually didn’t intent to have Wonka as a enslaver parallel that was a fortunally (in the sense that he wasn’t actually writing a slavery allegory and showing the practice as a good thing) an unfortunate coincide and it was when people started making that comparison he latter changed that in later releases of his book to be what we know the Oompa Loompas today
@@rowan404 You say that as if it was anything unique to Roald Dahl, and not the tragic result of the British Empire, which along with the Spanish conquistadors and countless other nations from Europe (like Muscovy), as well as Asia (e.g. Imperial Japan) saw themselves as the Rulers of the World, and obviously destined to bring Civilisation to all.
Human history is written in the blood and suffering of the innocent.
@@MayaPosch progress is always built on the corpses of the innocent.
Someone needs to get this guy as a writer and animator or even lead art director cuz wow his videos are always just amazing, even if the premis is most of the time a joke
In fact, replace entire hollywood
Honestly, this might've started off as a joke but like this is a genuinely good representation of the horror of colonization, slavery, and cultural erasure. It isn't an exact 1:1 depiction of any of those but god if it dont use and bring out those themes powerfully.
@@smiles9882also can be how cults get followers
Dark humor, basically
Something I haven’t seen people talk about in the video is how Wonka was reminding them of all the happy times they had where they used to live just to show them what then happened because of him, which then broke them more. This then, would maybe help him change and control them because they would now have nothing else to live for in life.
this video has better writing than most Marvel movies
Easily
Wow wow wow wow do you mean modern?
better than most "modern" movies today
@merplet1562 this video has better writing than all Disney Marvel movies
There I Corrected Your Statement for you so its accurate.
@@DragonKingMadaraUchihayou're saying that this video has better writing than GotG vol 3?
The moment he desperatly looked for a baby in that water and could not find it is the most of therror I could feel emitting from a video in my life
Wait a minute they are on the boat in factory does that mean that the baby went into the chocolate tainting it
@@MonkeyHeadset The baby wasn't real it was metaphorical.
It’s symbolism for him losing his dreams
I think
@@MonkeyHeadset The man dissolved so it was prob some type of acid. So the baby dissolved by the time he went to look for it.
@@ChickenUnfried The man had a pregnant wife so I have reason to believe Wonka made him lose the baby 😭
The way hia father says "Lofti". And the way Wonka just snickers after "dream big". It's perfectly horrible bittersweet......
Yeah, that little twitch and snicker really sold the mania.
5:26 when I first saw the YT short that made me come to this video I saw this, and thought he was just screaming from the agony of the transformation. But watching the full video and seeing this again I saw him frantically digging in the water. I think he was trying to get back all the old, lost memories of his life Wonka forced him to let go of, and that baby was a representation of the last of it.
The War Thunder ads are the only comedic relief here
I think avocado is the only one who can actually make me want to play a game due to a sponsor.
dougdoug.
nah not even him, that game is trash
fr
Lol trash game😂
Dude just mad he can't aim lol
So, given the vocabulary we were granted, Oompa Loompa translates to "Wandering Mind", basically meaning that they dream at all times with him, as shown. Nice touch, i'd say.
Listen closer... When he says "Drown" he says "Oompa". "Oompa Loompa" means "Drowned mind". This comes back later, since at the end of their hypnosis they turn into skeletons and drown.
@@wilburdemitel8468 sentence structure doesn't have to be the same in a different language. A different word is used for that at 3:15, while both are present previously
@@Spartoi1 Of course. Personally I couldn't hear the "Oompa" when he says wandering, it sounded rather like "Eduba loompa", and when I heard it with the drowning segment, I felt like it was a more poignant and deliberate connection. A Chekov's gun in a way.
Additionally, it seems "Eduba" is a conjugation of "Duba" (wander), as seen in 3:20.
@@wilburdemitel8468Maybe “doompa”, as in “Oompa Loomba Doompadee Doo”?
A lot of people throw around the word masterpiece like it's nothing, but THIS is an actual cinematic masterpiece
Such magnificent story telling Avocado. The sense of tension and horror is palpable
Oh I did not expect to see you here lol. I watch your videos a bit too much
Hey, dude, there’s a girl i like at my school, have you got any advice?
So is the sudden tension and horror of your mom sliding up and down on me!
Also (I love your channel btw and did not expect you here LOL)
Did not expect you here
love your tips im the most popular at school
For me, the part that absolutely shook me was when Wonka first met the people. The whole start of the film was a slow, windup showing the life of the life of the person before they had their identity stripped away from themselves. It lulls the viewer into a sense of calmness before being plunged into a frigid water of shock. The moment of silence when the infant was dropped into the water too was absolutely brilliant. That moment was the tipping point to me of the whole thing. A horrific yet beautifully executed piece of media. Great friggin job.
i honestly cried when the baby dropped into the water 😢
Your ability to take a silly story like Willy Wonka and give it an origin story like this is nothing short of extraordinary writing. If you ever write a book, just know I'm buying.
When he actually read the original book and let his mind wander
Me too
I think the ompa lompas where slaves in the og book
I think this has singlehandedly warped my perception to an unsalvageable degree. I've been coming back to this video just to watch it again. Seriously great talent.
You have some real skill Avocado. This is actually very impressive
Yeah, it's not just the quality of the drawings, but also the scene composition, the sound and visual designs, and the storytelling. Pretty awesome!
Some people say that that avocado just makes videos for blood and violence but it's more than that it's art its Beautiful and it have Beautiful quotes to this is why avocado has a very good channel ❤❤❤❤❤❤.
@@mcleanwilliams4939every if his video has its own meaning.
Willy really said, I only kidnap tiny people, someone: so little kids? Willy: no……. Tiny. People.
Edit
: thanks for a lot of likes :)
Come on this comment makes the video sound like a joke.
its over for my friend
💀
He does lure them with free candy too
@@FearOfGod-o4n same here man
I want your pure… imagination…
What i love is how Wonka's expression rarely changes and is never exaggerated and just remains monotone.
He still is a monster, yet there is no hint of malice in his voice, nor hate behind his eyes, nor desire to hurt or need for power and control.
There is nothing behind those eyes just a void.
Reminds me of Griffith with the creepy smile
Yes,just imagine be shooted or work forever and cant rest...lose your family
Just goes to show less is more. A villain doesn't need to laugh maniacally to show they're crazy.
hes like, the worst kind of anti hero. he wants to help, but he does it in a terrible way. he helps by keeping them under his control and making it seem like his control is the safest place to be.
the scariest type of monster
The fact you made a willy wonka parody cartoon that masterfully depicts the horror of slavery is something else
Wonka,with his knowledge of hypnogogic power created the perfect workers,drones with no will to break,no minds that would allow them to be bribed by his competitors,the world was his,or so he thought,as the ever turning hands of time were quickly catching up to him,he was growing quite old and with no children of his own there would be no one to inherit his wealth and legacy,that's when he got an idea,he would invite 5 children on a "tour" of his factory and using a similar technique that was used on the oompa loompas,turn them into the perfect little heirs,when he was gone they would be just like him,and they would bear and sire children that would carry on his legacy onto eternity,however he did not anticipate his plan would be foiled by one little boy named Charlie...
The references of the colonisation of congo with some of the villagers hands cut off was crazy
Thought it was a reference to the Taino people and what Columbus did to them.
Or how the original books goes less crude tho
They do look more Amerindian than subsaharan plus the cacao@@Keznen
Just realized that reference. Oh my God
But the real event is even gruesome as the hand chopping is committed by their own people paid to be bounty collector
The fact that the piccolo jingle being used as a control is just such a interesting detail and it’s just bloody incredible to think about the movie in this context
Avocado Animation has convinced me that Scooby Doo and Willy Wonka are Eldritch beings that torment humanity for fun
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.
I think you’re pretty close to it. The knid is their depiction of death in the natural cycle and Wonka is the representative of an unending unnatural death with no escape.
The Knid is their connection to death; it's a reality they all ultimately face at the end of their journey, but Wonka severs that tie.
The Knid can't take the remaining Oompa Loompas to the stars/eternity; he comes from a land disconnected from the natural balance of life, and thus severs their spiritual ties when he takes them with him.
What happens when you sever the living's connection to spirituality? Take the still very living into the land of the dead?
You get Wonka's Oompa Loompas - a people living in form but not of heart. Automatons for whom the Knid will never come; bodies that toil without rest, without heart, without sense of connection to the workd they find themselves in.
Hollow little men in a hollow metal shell.
The Knid, I think, is more of a psychopomp. It carries them to the afterlife, or the land of the dead, but it is not death itself. Wonka, however, _comes_ from the land beyond the horizon. He is death itself coming to claim them.
There is also another Wonka book that didnt get a movie, "Charlie and the great glass elevator" where the elevator goes to space and the "Vermicious Knids" are alien creatures that can change the shape of their bodies to their will. It has nothing to do with this video but thats where the name came from
I think the imagery of him giving them candy while towering over them makes him appear like the devil, offering temptation in exchange for their souls (servitude).
He appears like a handsome and kind person which is how the devil is typically depicted when masquerading as a human.
This raises genuinely fascinating connections between colonist ideals and the depiction of Oompa Loompas as a sort of “tamed savage” made to work in an industrial environment. Especially in how their servitude is depicted as liberation from a life of savagery and into a more “noble” or “happy” life as unquestioning workers.
Slaves, serfs, peasants, lower class, it all fits.
the thing really making this even better is that he made the translation of oompa loompa, drowned mind, in their language
We are all Oompa Loompas to the Wonkas who run the world. All we want is to be one with the world and equal among each other
Bro it's everyone that works to partake in the comforts of civilization
which is just as ironic of Wonka when he thinks that them continuously and mindlessly working in an endless and repetitive cycle covered by a facade of "wonderland" is a better situation for them.
I love how wonka says "dream big" and then laughs. He made a joke about oompa loompas being small😭
Or he thought little how "big" the oompa loompas can possibly dream
@@prawnchips9461 possibly, ynk
@@prawnchips9461 that was my interpretation too. He says “dream big” then he chuckles, almost like he’s saying to himself “but they can’t (and will never) dream as big as I can”
BRUH
This man just casually creates cinematic masterpiece that are better than 92% of any movie or tv show, love this guys mind… or be terrified of it
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.
Thats pretty much implied in the fact, that the words Oompa and Loompa appear in this video multiple times.
Loompa is very clearly said when he is talking about Drowning, when we hear the word Oompa, the only word that is in every sentenced translated is Mind.
Unlikely they called theirselves something like the drowned minds, especially when this goes so much against their philosophy.
Yeah this is the biggest allegory I have seen to the cultural erasure of Indigenous Peoples and all of those points really elevate the allegory.
One letter in juxtaposition changes it to someone casually justifying the incorrect use of a stance
@@heroman2372 corrected, you can sleep well now
based on the speech the elder gives oompa loompa means drowned minds
5:15 Everything is quiet then Lofti drops his baby then he screams in horror is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen and heard... it's even a lot more terrifying when I listen to this scene pretty loud while I'm in the dark with my eyes closed and standing...I also love the peaceful music at the end 7:31 awesome job on this video bro, keep up the good work😊
willy will never admit its quite literally slavery
Fits for their skin tone
@@Determinator21bro 💀
they just get paid in food n idk what even r their houses
@@Agent-Hornet they don't have houses-
@@OakleyDokaly BUT LIFE COULD BE DREA-
Is it just me, or does this less than 10 minute random TH-cam 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.
Including the fact that it's based on a movie
Literally watching this instead of the show i have on cuz holy shi i was invested because of the short.
@@ElderHickory958more so based off the book! Like most Disney movies would be pretty messed up if they didn’t decide to make it kid friendly lol
To provoke thought is dangerous to those in power.
@@LiberPater777 Unless it's what they want you to think about
7:14 After making those people forget what those dreams were, then altering their memories and making them forget who they are, Wonka put them in tanning beds for hours, prob had mass machinery to dye all of their eyebrows and hair green, gave all of the men and women the same hair cuts, dressed them all in the same clothes and put them to work around the factory.
I think they're only men
@Yamato-xc1zzit’s an animation about midgets meeting a tall candy man invading their land land and killing their people, I don’t think this has some deep message about life, and even if it did, it’s more in line with how the British invaded America and killed thousands ( maybe even millions) of native Americans
@@Blindbushit is more based on Belgian invading Congo and killing 10 millions while working them to death for rubber.
But maybe also about English in North America, Spanish in Carib, or Ottoman in Balkan
The Belgians also had chocolate plantations in the Congo.
Many chocolate plantations still exist in the Congo that use slavery today.
As recently as 2021 The US Supreme Court has ruled food giants Nestlé USA and Cargill do use child slaves but can't be sued for “reasons”
Don’t know how many people caught this. But if you pay close attention to what is being said by the father Oompa Loompa in his monologue, you realise that the word ‘loompa’ means ‘mind’ in their language. I didn’t catch what’ oompa’ means and I’m not sure it’s featured in his monologue. But it’s very possible that Wonka gave them the name Oompa Loompa meaning ‘broken mind’ or ‘lost mind’ in their own native language. Since they likely wont remember their pasts and likely their language, it gives me chills to think that the Oompa Loompa’s brainwashing has been right in front of their faces the whole time. And no one but Wonka will know.
the father says oompa as drowning so it means drowned minds
@@fired_ Aha. A sneaky "sunken place" reference.
@alexthemovie2915i’m better than you
@alexthemovie2915If you aren't a bot your animations aren't even terrible but insulting other animators won't help you grow. Be more mature.
@@turkiyeturkeyturkish no, no you arent haha.
As morbid as this all is, still a beautiful work of art
Also I know the light tunnel after the flute, I think it’s wonka drugging them. That’s why the lake turned to acid for the guy. They just veg out mentally and work work work. That’s why we hear the flute those few times
This depiction of Willy Wonka makes villains like Thanos and Joker look like complete saints
Couldn't agree more....i think
That's the weird thing, though. I think Wonka believes he's being *kind.* That he's *genuinely* helping these people. He's a monster, and he's entirely oblivious to it.
@@RaptorJesus No, im pretty sure he knows what he is doing.
There are whole franchises that don’t have framing half as good as this video. You never fail to deliver with that scary mind of yours.
I was so immersed in the animation that when the "subscribe?" popped up at the end it gave me whiplash lmao. How on earth do you manage this?! Genuinely amazing work!
This might be the most intense one I've seen. I literally got so invested. I almost started to cry as if a dog died in a movie😭😭😭😭💀💀
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.
Yeah
@Sorken.1994 Lofti is the child and is also the man focused on throughout this video.
I don't think so much that Wonka himself thinks Loompa Land is inhospitable, just that he convinced them it was so they would never want to go back. The Knid, a god to them and a symbol of ascension after death, merely becomes a predatory creature that feasts on them and consumes their dead. A Vicious Knid. And even though their huts were on the ground, amongst nature and at peace with it, he rewrote their minds so that they remembered only cowering up in the treetops. The deer ensnared by the gator instead becomes an Oompa Loompa, and all of their history and culture is recontextualized into one of fear and barbarism. Suddenly Wonka is their saviour, when it was he who taught them in the ways of terror and bloodshed
The fact this is kinda canon in the book is terrifying
The oompa loopas really like chocolate so they started working for Wonka he didn't enslave them
@@RichRonsonit might be the ones who rejected got genocide by Troops
@@RichRonsonas far as I love roald dahl books, this detail is almost a "Tintin au Congo" level of political consciousness.
Wait, you mean Tintin in the Congo's? Comic book?
@@jutpian of course.
7:03 This is the best line i ever heard... in... my... life
Wha...What did I just experience? This is a masterpiece. The animation, the story, the emotions, the details and the time spent on doing this animation. This man deserves more love and respect. I am glad that there are still people that don't just try to finish their work as fast as possible. Keep up the great work man, much respect.
Never let Willy Cook again
LET HIM COOOK
No don’t let him cook he’s a monster
@@GX_Ultra9654 LET HIM COOK EVEN HARDER
I WANNA SEE PROFIT
Can’t you see the god damn video you fool Willy made the Oompa Loompas slaves
I shall say he must cook a even better content, so high, that the whole goverment will fear his skill.
*Cook the steak as juicy as you can*
Their story of freedom begins with Wonka's death, and Charlie in charge of the factory.
Charlie, a pure heart that was naive to Wonka's misdeeds. Completely unprepared for his position, he turns to the 'workers.'
It bit tricky as if their will is broken and it takes lot of time to recover but at least he would go enslaved more of them
How we connect this to snowpiercer?
@@NickyYey Nothing other than founder and owner looking for heir to take place
why didnt willy wonker tell charlie about the oompa loompas before his death, is he stupid
With Wonka's high pressure policy, Oompa Loompas didn't riot, but when the good child Charlie took control, Oompa Loompas riots and releases all their angers on Charlie who knows nothing and does nothing wrong
This guy just randomly drops absolute bangers every couple of months. Most of them are funny bangers, this one was genuinely horrifying.
imagine the incomprehensible horrors Avocado an Meatcanyon could make if they made a collab
Confirmo
They wouldn’t mix very well. Most of meatcanyon videos are just disturbing. That’s it. But these avocado videos have this deep depth of understanding and is meant to poke into psychological horror.
@@sugardady1019Meatcanyon has made many animations with a deeper meaning.
@@Man_Of_Logic like what? Some big words don’t mean deep bro.
@@Man_Of_Logiccalm down… you’re going to hard as a fan boy.
This is… art…
Like actual… genuine… art.
You are an absolute mad lad.
Art ruined with a 90 second ad.
@@Chris-rg6nm I rarely see sponsor spots now... Bet TH-cam would want to kill off the extensions that skip them, too
@@Chris-rg6nmDeal with it then, it is only 90 seconds out of a video or are you too special for that?
@@Vivaertiyes and i downvote reddit ads
@@Chris-rg6nmInstall sponsorblock
Nah, that howling and crying scene came deep from the soul. That baby was the literal last straw before everything went to chocolate fam. Great work
That is masterpiece, i have rewatched it, and i be damned, even the smirks and sighs of wonka hint his real intents and emotions
This is one of the most beautiful and horrifying animations I've seen, probably ever. The depiction and details of the tribe and how beautifully they lived, and taught their children the ways of the world, and loved each other and their home. The very real and very brutal depiction of colonialism and slavery, and the total, utter destruction of the mind and spirit of a human through torture and trauma. The flashback of that man losing his baby, desperately, frantically trying to get his child back, and dissolving into nothing with wonka towering over him, still talking as if he's their savior while twisting their minds and distorting their memories is insanely powerful.
And even scarier is the reveal from hearing the father speaking in their native language that "oompa loompa" isnt the name these people called themselves in the tribe. "Oompa" meant mind, and "loompa" meant drowned. When they call themselves that, they're called themselves the "drowned minds". And thats the only words we hear them say in that language. The only thing they have from their old lives is an expression of agony.
They should genuinely show this in history classes.
It also doesn’t shy away from the brutality of nature, the vision of the wife getting snatched by the crocodile, the insects, the disease and toil
Wouldn’t it be better, if Wonks could take it all away? Make it a safer world, of constant sugar and gorging and security? Where the world isn’t trying to eat you anymore… but where everything is edible, and you can exert the most primal, pure form of dominance and power over the things around you. By *eating* them.
Wouldn’t that be a nicer world? What good was uncertainty, and the pain and suffering, of humanity in a creation that wanted to eat them? Why not conquer danger, uncertainty, and the torture of destroyed dreams, of drowned babies and spouses eaten by animals, by believing in the man determined to rescue you from ever NOT having every desire at your fingertips every moment, for the rest of your life?
After all… as Wonks said, what better dream is there, to believe in,
*than Me*
Love the capitalization of “Me” similar to when people refer to God. Him. The Almighty. Me. Too the Oompa Loompas, what else could He be?
@toastle8005 Well, I think it's interesting how it was just a vision. They didn't get killed by wild animals. In fact, it seemed they lived pretty peacefully. But Wonka manipulates their perspective and makes them believe that they lived in constant terror.
@@mapled_syrup I mean if you live on an island with crocs that snatch drinking deer it's a pretty safe bet it's not a peaceful ecosystem. They know how to deal with the threats sure, but it really WAS an island of dangerous beasts.
That was possibly the best thing I’ve ever watched on this website. Truly cinematic and beautiful. The lore, the animation, the analogies. Truly a masterpiece. Kudos to you, Avocado.
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watching this felt like tripping balls, this is seriously one of the best animations i've seen from you, no, not just from you, one of the best animations i've seen on youtube. you've outdone yourself, your rate of improvement is stunning and the storytelling in this is amazing, keep on going!
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This is singlehandedly more terrifying than any Meatcanyon video when you realize the terror they've been through
5:14 BROOOO my air conditioning in real life stopped at that exact time he said “Go”
i didnt hear clearly so i didnt know it was go thx for context ig
100th like, but yeah bro your AC felt that too 💀
The universe chose to let you observe that moment without obstruction.
Dead😂
@@profily58 did you actually read the comment or did you base this off other comments
The fact that oompa loompa means " drowned mind " is pretty chilling .
6:46 actually changed the deer being eaten to a person
Yep. Wonka was hypnotizing them into believing that their land was full of dangerous beasts.
@@rampagepotato4307 like giant man-eater birds/crocodiles wasn't dangerous beasts.
@@regalbien6058 Not as dangerous as Wonka tried to depict them to be. Otherwise the natives wouldn't, you know, prosper enough to reproduce 🤷
the bird only ate the dead. The crocodile was only shown to eat animals, not the people. The point is that they were happy in their small life, but the hypnotization made their previously happy life seem terrible
@justpassingby298 In fact, the bird was a sky burial.
Hypnotism Turning what is essentially a burning ship send off to the equivalent of burning people alive is... unnerving to say the least.
So Willy wonka is some chocolatey Christopher Colombo
More like Leopold II
@@cass8163 Licorice Leopold
The pure silence at 5:15 alone added so much tension to this scene. As always, AA outdoing himself.
"Describe this video in one word"
"Colonialism"
no its more of slavery
Wonka didn’t settle/colonized their land for resources. He just enslaved its people.
BRO THAT ACTUALLY MADE ME CRY WHEN HE DROPED THE BABY
dude this was literally filled with so much emotion in it. I love the sudden moment where is just stops. you put in a ton of work holy sh!
“We’re there.”