Not necessarily, right?
I mean, if we presume he's able to do that, it also seems just as likely that he legitimately distributed the tickets at random but used detailed shipping records and stuff to track where they ended up.
Violet Beauregarde and Mike Teavee weren't contacted by "Slugworth" until their TV interviews. All Wonka had to know was the general area where the winning bar had been sold, then wait on the news media to do the rest.
Veruca Salt was contacted by Slugworth immediately after "finding" her ticket, but her father had bought hundreds of cases of Wonka bars so it seems likely that Wonka could have known a winning bar was among them and just sent Slugworth to wait it out.
Charlie...ok, that's a little harder to justify. But Charlie does live in the same town as Wonka's factory, so assuming Wonka knew the winning bar had been distributed to a local shop, Slugworth really wouldn't have to travel far...
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In the end credits, his name is spelled "Mike Teevee"
And in the original book, his name is spelled "Mike Teavee"
I don't know why, but the inconsistency amuses me
So if Charlie and Grandpa Joe had gotten caught in the fan and, well, either died or been eliminated from the running, depending on how you interpret the kids' demise...Veruca would have thrown a tantrum and gone down the chute, at which point all Mike would have to do is return the gobstopper and he'd have won.
...Like any good whimsical fantasy story, this falls apart the longer you think about it.
Well, here's what I knew.
* Several kids were admitted to tour Wonka's candy factory.
* Wonka presented a candy factory that did strange things. The "everlasting gobstopper" was a particularly important piece of candy.
* Misbehaving kids were removed one by one, but at the end the main character (whose name I had forgotten) is the only one left, and there is a happy ending of some sort, because he wins by being honest and not stealing anything or something like that.
* There is another movie called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and I have no idea what its relation is to this movie. basically my reaction
i think this movie just didn't really click for me as a kid
Also was the source material...*checks Wikipedia*
Oh, I see, it was first a novel, then a movie with real-life candy brand tie-ins.
For a while I wondered if the story was created to promote a real-life candy brand. heh