Violet Beauregarde is a major character in Tim Burton's 2005 feature film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She is a competitive girl and the third winner of one of Willy Wonka's golden tickets.
She is portrayed by AnnaSophia Robb.
Background[]
Personality[]
Violet is a rude, condescending and arrogant girl. She has a tendency to interrupt people. She is seen chewing with her mouth open as well, showing a lack of manners.
She is most notably known for being insanely hyper-competitive, and her life mantra is win at everything, no matter what. She seems to look down on other people, viewing them as opponents to be beaten, and views life like a game of winners and losers. This outlook likely prevents her from establishing true connections with other people.
Physical Appearance[]
Violet is a thin and athletic young girl with chin length golden blonde hair with blunt bangs in a bob-cut and emerald green eyes. She‘s mostly seen wearing a cyan tracksuit, with cyan and white trainers and socks, and a cyan zipper heart and watch. She is the shortest member of the tour group, being just a tad shorter than Mike Teavee.
As a blueberry, Violet is significantly different than how she was in the original film, as she’s now 10 feet tall and has a spherical-shaped body, towering over even the tallest member of the tour. All of her appendages, including her head, arms, and legs, are sucked into her body, leaving behind small divots where they should be. In Violet's arm/leg divots, only her hands and feet can be seen sticking out, and occasionally moving about fruitlessly. Her clothes have all turned blue and stretched tightly around her body, except her stomach. Any of Violet's other former human bodily features have completely rounded out and fused with one another, making it impossible to tell them apart. Most notably, Violet's body has turned mostly blue, aside from her lips which remain a bright reddish-purple and a slight discoloring on her stomach.
When leaving the factory, Violet remained completely blue but gained inhumane flexibility. With how damaging the transformation and the Oompa Loompa's theatrics should have been on a normal human being, especially on the limbs, muscles, and bones, the fact that her body came out mostly unscathed implies that the gum had modified Violet on a more genetic level.
Role in the film[]
Violet is a preteen who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She is athletic and has a vicious competitive streak, having won 263 trophies and medals in various events ranging from martial arts competitions to gum-chewing contests; she is a junior champion and world-record holder in the latter. Violet and her mother wear matching outfits and have matching hairstyles. Violet had been working on the same piece of gum for three months straight at the time that she had found her Golden Ticket. During the ticket search, she temporarily laid off gum and switched to Wonka Bars, keeping the aforementioned wad stored behind her ear in the meantime. Violet's mother Scarlett Beauregarde (Missi Pyle), a former baton champion herself, initially encourages her daughter's unladylike behavior and rude attitude, acting in a true soccer mom/stage mom/female football coach fashion; however, her approval and pride of her daughter turns into disapproval and embarrassment when they leave the factory and head back to Atlanta, after she encouraged Violet's act of disobedience to Wonka's commands.
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Trivia[]
- In the original novel, Violet had a best friend named Cornelia Prinzmetel whom she beat a record in gum-chewing. Although her name was not stated in the movie, Violet did say, "My best friend is also a gum chewer, it used to be her record, but I beat it so now the record's MINE!"