When the movie version of Roald Dahl's children's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory came out, renamed Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the response was diverse. Many people loved the movie, so much that it even attracted a cult following. On the other hand, many viewers thought Dahl's adaptation of the original was horrendous in comparison to the original book. The adaptation of a novel to become a feature film is a familiar objective in today's entertainment industry. Many believe that a work of fiction in a novel is very similar to a screenplay and can be effortlessly transformed onto a big screen. That is the reason why so many people tend to measure the original text against the adapted film, evaluating one to be superior to the other. It is common to hear comments such as "They've completely butchered the novel," "The film is true to the spirit of the film," "It cuts out passages, it it's still a good movie" or "Thank goodness they changed the ending." Yet, the audience must understand that the novella and the film are two completely different mediums. The novel is a linguistic medium. The film is a visual, verbal, and aural medium presented before a theatre audience. The film encompasses numerous different features. Like a musical theatre, it relies heavily on movement and music, like the novel, it can present a narrative depicting characters in a series of conflicts, like a painting, it is two dimensional composed of light, shadow and color. It is therefore trivial to declare that the novel is better than the film or vice versa because in the end, each is autonomous and each is characterized by unique and specific properties. The 1971 adaptation entitled Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory reveals that although novels and films do disclose a number of similarities, they are two distinctively different mediums conditioned by differ...