There, the Knids bludgeon the capsule with their own bodies, until its retrorockets are useless; whereupon Wonka, Charlie, and Grandpa Joe connect the capsule to the Elevator, in hope of towing it to Earth, and one Knid wraps itself around the Elevator while the others form a chain, intending to draw the Elevator and the capsule to their home planet. Wonka refuses, so she goes in and gets one for herself. Mr. Beauregarde phones his lawyer excitedly, with intent to profit from Violet's new size, until Violet explodes. He is depicted as a kind-hearted and selfless boy who lives with his mother, father and his four grandparents. His last name resembles the word TV in connection to his love of electronics. After that, both she and her parents are thrown down the garbage chute; all three Salts are seen exiting the factory "covered in garbage". Violet is intrigued and eager to try it out, despite Wonka's protests, snatches and chews the gum. This version of the character is written as more calm than the 1971 version. She has brown hair in the 1971 film, while in the 2005 film, she has blonde hair. Roald's widow Felicity (Liccy) said that Charlie was originally intended to be black. He uses a few students as examples for the class, including Charlie. Wonka eventually reveals that the tempter is not Slugworth, but his own employee Mr. Wilkinson, and that his offer was a moral test of character. He has a binge eating disorder and often has food smeared on his face. In the 2005 film, the Oompa-Loompas are all played by Deep Roy and are virtually identical. He and his family follow the progress of the hunt for the Golden Tickets in newspapers and television. In the 1971 film, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, they were written to be played by actors with dwarfism and are portrayed as orange-skinned, green-haired men in striped shirts and baggy lederhosen-like pants following criticism from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that the importation of African Oompa-Loompas into the factory had overtones of slavery. Written in 1964, the book has been adapted for two feature films, an opera and as a West End musical. The gum doubles as a three-course meal which is composed of tomato soup, roast beef and baked potato, and blueberry pie and ice cream. In the reboot, Willy Wonka explained to the visitors how the Oompa-Loompas were hired to work in the factory. In this film, he is often excitable, paranoid, and stubborn, and appears anxious that Charlie won the contest, and becomes angry when Charlie is dismissed without reward because they had violated the rules by stealing Fizzy Lifting Drinks and not following the tour, which indicated that Charlie violated the contract, before realizing that returning the everlasting gobstopper was the true test. Showing her wealthy parents no mercy and no regard for other people's property, Veruca frequently pesters them to purchase a variety of different things for her; when the tour reached the Nut Room — a room where trained squirrels test each nut to see if it is good or bad by tapping it with their knuckles — Veruca demands that her parents buy one for her. In 1971, he has a newspaper route after school. They arrive at the factory wearing traditional Eastern European clothing, with Augustus in a red, argyle sweater and green shorts. Grandpa Joe describes Slugworth as the worst of Wonka's rivals. They wrote songs for a year and a half before being joined by Gordon's brother, Jim Shapiro, on drums and St… Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity. Mike is last seen exiting the factory, now 10 ft (3 m) tall because the Oompa-Loompas had overstretched him. In the Chocolate Room, when Wonka told everyone to enjoy his candy, he did not eat anything, instead he was stomping on a candy pumpkin, completely destroying it in the process, and when Mr. Teavee told him to stop, he ignores him with a brief sentence: "Dad, he said 'enjoy'!" Nevertheless, the cat and mouse get the last word on Slugworth/Wilkinson (and Spike) by shrinking them with the Wonkavision. When Wonka states that they are not for sale, Veruca becomes angry and tells her father that she wants one. Looking for something to watch? In the 1971 film adaptation, Veruca has a fiery temper, rudely demands various desires nonstop, brags about her wealth, and chastises anyone who questions her. In the 2013 Sam Mendes London musical, Veruca Salt is a British billionaire's daughter, dressed in a pink ballerina tutu and baby seal fur coat – "clubbed and tickled pink". The lucky person was a small girl called Veruca Salt who lived with her rich parents in a great city far away. Violet is shown leaving the factory gymnastically cartwheeling as a consequence of her increased flexibility, which she is actually happy about, although her mother is less than pleased with her daughter's possibly permanently indigo colour. In Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, a swarm of Knids take possession of the new "Space Hotel USA". Willy Wonka: [about Violet grabbing the gum] I'd rather you didn't. She is accompanied by her father, Sam Beauregarde, a fast-talking car salesman and politician who tries to advertise his business during Violet's television interview. His mother and father indulge his eating habits with sweets and pieces of sausage of which they (and sometimes Augustus) butcher themselves. In this film, it is not squirrels but geese that lay special golden chocolate-filled eggs for Easter, one of which she demands as a new pet. Vermicious is a real word, meaning "worm-like". During a display of miniaturization technology, used to transport chocolate, Mike shrinks himself to a tiny size, Willy Wonka has an Oompa-Loompa take the Teavee family to the Gum-Stretcher Room to get Mike stretched back to normal. [5][6] The Oompa-Loompas are mischievous, loving to play practical jokes and singing songs which, according to Wonka, they are very good at improvising. And in the 1971 film, the trained squirrels are replaced by geese that lay special golden eggs, meaning Veruca's trip down the rubbish chute is because she is a Bad Egg. They are paid in their favorite food, cocoa beans, which were extremely rare on their island. When Augustus falls into the Chocolate River, Wonka summons the diversionary pumping system to divert the flow, while Oompa-Loompas dressed in red boiler suits sing, "Auf Wiedersehen, Augustus Gloop", as they prepare the chocolate, while Augustus travels through the main industrial pipe, occasionally getting stuck in it. In the 2013 Sam Mendes London musical, Mike Teavee (now age 10) lives in a suburban neighborhood with his disinterested father Norman Teavee and neurotic, alcoholic mother, Doris Teavee; in this version, he is wearing a black shirt with an orange jacket on the outside. In this version, when Grandpa Joe decided to accompany Charlie to the factory, Charlie explains that the family needs the money now, instead of the ticket; then Grandpa George explains the reason why Charlie still has to go to the factory, and indeed he and Grandpa Joe do go. She and Violet bicker on two occasions. In the original story and the 2013 West End adaptation, both of Veruca's parents join her in the Factory, but in the 1971 and 2005 films it is only her father that acts as her supervisor. Registered Charity No. Charlie, however, reveals that he only opened two Wonka bars during the search and so, to help make it easier for his class, he decides to pretend that Charlie opened 200. Augustus Gloop is an obese, greedy, gluttonous 9-year-old boy, the first person to find a Golden Ticket and one of the four main antagonists of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In the novel and both films, he is portrayed as "enormously fat". This website uses cookies. Violet is informed that she must be juiced immediately before she explodes and is last seen en route to the Juicing Room, and her father follows after, crying, "I've got a blueberry for a daughter!". In the book, he is depicted leaving the factory extremely underweight from being squeezed in the pipe. Near the end, Mrs. Teavee joins the rave, as they conclude that Mike still has a future on "mike.com". In the book, Vermicious Knids are huge, dark, egg-shaped predators who swallow their victims whole, and are capable of surviving in the vacuum of space. The actor, Philip Wiegratz, wore a fat suit for the production. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In the Broadway version, the song "Juicy" is cut out (the only child-exit song to be cut from the London version), and Violet instead becomes a blueberry and explodes in the background when an Oompa-Loompa blows an air-dart at her while Wonka explains how he met the Ooompa-Loompas to the group.