> …some aspects of the story are baffling from the vantage point of trying to understand how Willy Wonka and his competitors act. First, given the value of the information inside the chocolate factory to Wonka‟s competitors, it is surprising that they did not try to win golden tickets to enter and spy in the chocolate factory. They could, in theory, have bought up hundreds of thousands of candy bars just as Mr. Salt did to indulge his daughter, Veruca, to maximize their chances of winning a ticket worth its credential in gold.
Seems the Slugworth who was up against Timothee “Lil’ Timmy Tim” Chamalet’s Wonka read this paper in the years since Gene Wilder’s Wonka (and Ronald Dahl’s)—and wised up to the corporate espionage side of the golden ticket racket…
Then again, he made the competitively-shrewd move to recruit rather than plant agents: there’s a lesson in there for us all, no?
Seems the Slugworth who was up against Timothee “Lil’ Timmy Tim” Chamalet’s Wonka read this paper in the years since Gene Wilder’s Wonka (and Ronald Dahl’s)—and wised up to the corporate espionage side of the golden ticket racket…
Then again, he made the competitively-shrewd move to recruit rather than plant agents: there’s a lesson in there for us all, no?
https://youtu.be/cRRMmb5cK0I?si=SoNzN-57mFlu6eDI