Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 film based on the 1964 children's book of the same title by author Roald Dahl (see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). It was directed by Tim Burton and stars Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka and Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket.

Characters

Charlie Bucket

Charlie Bucket is a poor boy living with his parents and four grandparents in a tiny, rickety shack in London, United Kingdom. He spends most of his time dreaming about the chocolate that comes from the nearby chocolate factory, owned by the greatest candy maker in the world.

Related Topics:
London - United Kingdom

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Willy Wonka

The best chocolate maker in the world. He closed his factory and sacked all of his workers and replaced them with natives of Loompaland because of spies. He once made an entire palace of chocolate in India. He sent out five Golden Tickets and allowed five children to visit the factory in order to find an heir. He is charming and intelligent (when he wants to be), but has truly stunted social skills that render him extremely bizarre to most people from the "outside world" due to his unhappy childhood and the long isolation from the world since the factory's closure.

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Mike Teavee

Mike Teavee, a boy who is obsessed with TV and video games, demands to be the first human transported over television waves, causing him to be shrunken to miniature size, and sent to the toffee puller. Got the ticket by calculations and only having to buy one bar (his father says in the TV interview that he is a very smart kid, as he is in high school). He doesn't like chocolate too well and he dresses like a typical mall goth.

Related Topics:
High school - Mall goth

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Veruca Salt

Veruca Salt tries to steal a "nut assessing" squirrel for herself after Willy Wonka refuses to sell one for her to her father. When she tries, she is assessed by the squirrels a "bad nut" and is then thrown down the garbage chute. Insisted that her dad had to get her a ticket. Her rich father turned his peanut factory into a chocolate opening factory until the ticket is found. She is finally denied something (a flying glass elevator) by her father at the end of the film.

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Violet Beauregarde

Violet Beauregarde hastily chews a defective piece of gum that turns her into a giant blueberry, and is sent to the juicing room for squeezing. Competitive?took part in the contest because her mother wants her to win at everything. Unlike the rest of the children, she is pleased with herself as she leaves the factory, in spite of her mother's chagrin at having a blue-colored daughter, because she's now more flexible than ever and sure to win some more gymastics trophies.

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Augustus Gloop

Augustus Gloop, a gluttonous overeater, falls into a river of chocolate in the Chocolate Room, and is sucked away by a pipe to the fudge room. Found ticket by accident (and accidently bit one corner off).

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The Oompa-Loompas

The Oompa-Loompas are Wonka's little factory workers from Loompaland. Loompa Land is an uncharted land. The Oompa Loompas lived on mashed giant caterpillars and never could work long or hard enough to keep their race fit or alive. They had a horrible life in Loompa Land until Willy Wonka arrived.

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