I hate this revisionism towards Wonka in the latest movie making him seem benevolent or normal. In the book and the original Gene Wilder adaptation Wonka is very morally ambiguous - basically setting up Saw traps for children in his extremely unsafe factory where his slave race works for him, but at the same time caring a lot about making legitimately good candy for kids and being very creative. He should not be seen as a protagonist or hero really, he's got to be an enigmatic weirdo and fae-like villain. He needs to be capricious, fickle and vain like the greek gods.