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Violet Beauregarde is a fictional character from the Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its film adaptations, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
. She is a chewing gum fanatic, having broken a world record by chewing the same piece and type of gum for three months solid. In the original novel and 1971 film, Violet has a best friend named Cornelia Prinzmetel, whose record she broke. In the 2005 film, she appears to not have any friends, because of her overcompetitiveness. In all three versions of the story, Violet tries an experimental piece of gum, against Willy Wonka's advice about the prototype's bugs. This causes her to transform into a human (little girl)-sized blueberry, much to the anger and horror of her parents. The 1971 version adds a twist to Violet's downfall - if the blueberry juice inside her was not squeezed out of her immediately, she would explode.

Although the three versions of Violet vary, they share similar personality traits. She is far more of a tomboy than Veruca Salt and seems the most attention-seeking and competitive of the Golden Ticket Winners. Also, in all three versions of the story, Violet addresses her mom as "Mother"—despite cultural changes over time.

As part of the four misbehaving children, Violet corresponds to one of the Seven Deadly Sins. She has the vaguest connection of the four, but she appears to represent pride. Because of the vague connection to her sin, Violet, especially the 1971 Denise Nickerson version of the character, has come to be regarded by many fans and fan fiction writers as the most sympathetic of the four "naughty" children (particularly because in the 1971 version she's the only one to tell Veruca to "can it, you nit!")

Violet in the novel

In Roald Dahl's novel Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Violet is described as having a "great big mop of curly hair" and as someone who talks "very fast and very loudly". Illustrations of her vary from illustrator to illustrator, but she is usually drawn as having a large mouth and wearing blue jeans and a purple T-shirt. In this version, both her parents accompany her to the factory.

One aspect of Violet found in the novel but not taken up in either film version was her habit - shared with other children - of inconveniencing other people for her own amusement. She boasts about how she liked to stick a piece of gum on lift/elevator buttons so that whoever presses the button next will have gum stuck on their finger. "You get the best results with women who have expensive gloves on".

Violet in 1971 film

In the 1971 movie adaption, Violet was portrayed as a pre-teen girl with long brown hair and wearing a dark blue dress, living in Miles City, Montana. She was portrayed by former Dark Shadows child actress Denise Nickerson. Her father, Sam Beauregarde (played by Leonard Stone), was a salesman of pre-owned American automobiles who never missed an opportunity to compete with other car dealers and sell his cars on the lot. However, he does in fact care about his daughter more, as he is very angry at Mr. Wonka when Violet becomes a blueberry. Her mother's arm was only seen. She was played by an uncredited actress.

Violet dresses somewhat like a hippie when she wears blue bellbottom pants. Her hair is styled in a sort of "ponytail", which is pronounced by a giant hair clip.

Interaction between Violet and Veruca isn't mentioned in the original novel, but in the 1971 version, although it is never directly referred to, it is clear the two girls dislike each other. They push each other, Veruca gets jealous when she thinks Violet has been given more gobstoppers than she has and Violet calls Veruca a "nit", a "twit", and in an incorrectly-typed line, a "twerp", which leads to a punchline in which Grandpa Joe refers to her as "a nitwit". Ironically, Denise Nickerson and Julie Dawn Cole, who played Violet and Veruca respectively, were good friends in real life and both had crushes on Peter Ostrum who played Charlie.

Violet in 2005 film

In the 2005 movie adaption of the book, Violet is also a pre-teen girl, but she lives in Atlanta, Georgia instead of Miles City, Montana, has short blonde hair in a bowl cut hairstyle, and a very competitive disposition, having won 263 trophies and medals in practically anything—from martial arts competitions to gum-chewing contests, among many others. Thanks to her mother, Violet's mind is always thinking about gum, as heard in the scene where she is shown the Everlasting Gobstoppers, saying "it's like gum" when in fact the Gobstoppers are hard. In this version, Violet's father is not seen, or even mentioned — her parents have presumably divorced or separated. Her mother, Scarlett Beauregarde (played by Missi Pyle), is also her manager, having strong confidence that Violet is going to win the special prize at the end of the factory tour. She also wears a tracksuit-like outfit (in keeping with the original illustrations, by Quentin Blake, of Violet in the book). Violet and Veruca pretend to become good friends, too - an aspect not mentioned in the original film or novel. Child actress AnnaSophia Robb portrays Violet in this version.

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Movies - Violet Beauregarde

Violet in the novel

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Violet in 2005 film

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