Computer Man
The computer man as a joke in the 1971 movie is a minor character played by popular actor Tim Brooke-Taylor. The computer man tries to propose business with some investors about selling his invented machine that uses probability to figure out world secrets by using 3 Wonka golden tickets as an example. He pushes buttons on the machine and response 1: "I will not tell; that would be...cheating." He nervously presses more buttons offering it a share of the contest prize but next response brings him and the investors frustrated; "What shall a computer do with a lifetime supply of chocolate?" He frustratingly begins pressing more buttons and says "I will now tell the computer EXACTLY what it can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate!"
This minor scene is a reference to a part in the actual novel where the machine is shown to the crowd as a miracle machine with a claw that will sense gold inside candy bars and take whatever it senses with it by its claw to be opened and thus find the tickets...the machine is smashed by a furious mob because the claw grabs the golden tooth of a man and gruesomely rips it out thus making it again a failure to find Wonka's tickets.
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