Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Americanisms

They're direct references from the book. In the book I'm sure Dahl refers to sweets as candy and pounRAB as dollars. Odd innit?
 
Though it sounRAB wrong for a british person to say candy. It would be ok for wonka and violet etc. but not charlie. He should know better. :)

what currency is shown? Is it fictional?
 
I have just read the first 62 pages of the book (on a whim, woke up and felt like it) and its very muchly set in Britain. They talk of six pence and pounRAB. He says that Veruca comes from a 'far away city' and there are no specifics of any location. So I suppose a certain amount of licese can be used.
 
It really jarred on me to hear Charlie and Grandpa Joe talking about candy and dollars, too.
But when I was discussng just that point with my other half - who is an American - he said that he noticed that all the other people in the shop, when Charlie got the golden ticket - all of them had American accents. I didn't notice that I have to say, but I see no reason to doubt him.

So maybe there was poetic licence and the whole Bucket clan had moved to the US from Britain (I know David Kelly is Irish, but all the other three grandparents were British)
Though that can't be right, can it, because in the film, Grandpa Joe says he worked for Mr Wonka years before, so if that was the case, Charlie would have been born in America, wouldn't he, and had an American accent?

Hmmmmmm. Never thought of that, hang on while I go and say that to said other half!!
 
The reference to Mr Bucket's break from the factory being "like summer vacation" jarred with me too.

But, I wonder. Does Wonka's factory (and therefore Charlie) exist in a REAL place? Is it just meant to be a town SOMEWHERE. After all, the money that Charlie found wasn't
 
The original film seemed to blur any cultural differences to make it difficult to work out where Wonka's factory supposedly was, but, of course, a lot of Americanisation of Britain has taken place since (but that's one for the politics forum ;)) so there's no longer any need.
 
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