CockneyRebel wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
I barely remember the movie.
They were all pretty messed up, from what I remember.
Wasn't there a girl who was greedy and exploded?
That was Violet.
I never watched any of the movies, I only read the book, so this explanation is based off of the book. Violet was a girl who was always chewing gum, she had won a contest for chewing gum the longest, and at the factory she chewed a piece of experimental gum that would make you feel like you were eating an entire meal and even fill you up. The chewing gum "meal" was roast beef, tomato soup, and blueberry pie for desert. When Violet started tasting the pie she turned blue and swelled up until she was big and round like a giant blueberry, which was a side effect of the gum Willy Wonka and not yet worked out. If she had listened to Wonka and spat out the gum before it got to the dessert, she might not have transformed. She didn't die, but the Oompa Loompas rolled her away to have the blueberry juice squeezed out of her or something like that, and then they sang a song about how bad it is to be always chewing gum. Weird.
None of the kids were very pleasant except for Charlie Bucket, so Charlie is the only kid in the story I'd want to be compared to. Which is not very likely.