Veruca Salt

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"Daddy, I want another pony."
— Veruca to her father after obtaining her Golden Ticket

Veruca Salt is one of the four main antagonists of the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

She is a spoiled and entitled girl that wants everything she sees and nothing stops her from asking for things she wants, causing her leave from Willa Wonka's factory. She is the second Golden Ticket finder, following Augustus Gloop.

Appearance[]

Veruca is a preteen girl with a dark hair color (has a similar hairstyle in the 1971 movie version), light blue eyes, and pale skin.

She wears a long-sleeved gray fur coat over a sparkling pastel pink knee-length dress with a button-up top and a pastel pink leather belt around her waist, black patent leather double strap dress shoes with black soles, white tights with pink polka-dots, and she has a pastel pink leather purse with a pastel pink leather strap hang over her left shoulder.

When receiving the Golden Ticket, she wears a long-sleeved navy blue blazer over a white collared, button-up flannel top with a maroon necktie attached to the collar, beige tights, white ankle-length socks, and black patent leather casual shoes with black soles.

In another scene, she wears a white collared blouse with short puffed sleeves, a maroon ribbon attached to the collar, a knee-high plaid jumper dress in cherry red, maroon, and festive red stripes with a maroon skirt, white tights and black patent leather dress shoes with black soles.

Personality[]

Veruca is a spoiled brat, demanding her mother and father for everything - even if she doesn't have to work for it - and having a fit when she doesn't get it. For example, because of her desire for a Golden Ticket, her father Mr. Salt forces all of his workers to unwrap an wicked amount of chocolate, with Veruca throwing a tantrum when the search takes too long. When one of the workers found the ticket, she attempted to hide it away for herself but Mr. Salt quickly took it away from her and gave it to Veruca, who, instead of saying thank you, immediately asks for a pony.

Her spoiled nature is showcased all throughout the tour; her desire to win the factory helps create a rivalry between Violet Beauregarde, and she repeatedly asks her father to buy something from Wonka's factory, including an Oompa-Loompa (in a deleted scene) and squirrel workers. This leads to her eventual downfall, as Wonka's refusal to sell her a squirrel caused her to bypass the gate and attempt to take one, leading her to be sent down the garbage chute. This shows that Veruca doesn't care about the safety of herself or others, nor does she care if she's violating the rules, as long as she gets what she wants.

Probably as a result of her spoiled nature, Veruca is also shown to have many other traits. She is shown to be cynical to others, which is showcased when she joyfully watches Violet swell up into a blueberry, as well as nasty and humorous, showcased when she recommends to Mrs. Beauregarde to place Violet in a county fair due to her blueberry status and enormous size. Veruca also asks Wonka whether Violet would be a blueberry forever, implying that she sees Violet's condition as her trophy. Despite this, she looks genuinely horrified when Augustus is sucked up the chocolate pipes. She can be quite friendly in some times when she does not get spoiled.

Background[]

Her father is Rupert Salt and her mother is Angina Salt. Her father is in the nut business and is the founder of Salt's Nuts. She lives in a large mansion in Buckinghamshire, England where she enjoys an incredibly privileged and wealthy life.

Nut Sorting Room[]

In the factory, Veruca wants a squirrel and demands her father get one for her. Her father tries to say that she already has many marvelous pets, she lists them all andshe says defiantly that she wants a squirrel. When Wonka explains that they are not for sale, Veruca becomes angry and tells her father that she wants one. She then proceeds to go under the gate that guards the squirrels' workplace and tries to steal a squirrel from the Nut Room. At first, all of the squirrels look at her in bewilderment, however, when Veruca reaches for one, all of them start to leap at her and attack her, as well as clawing and holding her down. As she screams for her father, Mr. Salt becomes fearful when Wonka tells him that the garbage chute in the middle of the room leads to an incinerator, and Mr. Salt panics as Wonka tries to find the correct key for the gate.

ImagesCALYROGY — The squirrel looking at Veruca.

Meanwhile, the squirrel that she tried to grab crawls onto her chest in front of her face and knocks onto her head, before announcing to all the squirrels that she is a "bad nut". The squirrels then proceed to drag Veruca to the garbage chute, with Veruca desperately trying to clasp to the floor, her nails scraping on the floor and leaving scratch marks. The squirrels then let go as Veruca, screaming, slides and gets sent down the garbage chute to her fate. The squirrels then go back to their work, as if nothing had happened.

Aftermath[]

Dfcgyvhbjn — Veruca and her father leaving the factory.

At the end of the tour, Veruca is the third to leave the factory, with both her and her father being covered in garbage. The two were spared from being burned by the incinerator as Wonka had informed the last two families in the group that the incinerator was broken. When Veruca sees the Great Glass Elevator, she demands that her father buys one for her. However, since her father was reformed by the Oompa-Loompas, from whom he learned a valuable parenting lesson, he puts his foot down, refusing to cater to his daughter's whims. In addition, he firmly and sternly responds that she was going to be receiving nothing but a bath that day, so that's final. Not only did he stop giving her anything she wants, Mr. Salt realized that he and his wife had been constantly spoiling their daughter. Veruca then pouts, with her father giving her an angry glare for talking back.

Relationships[]

Violet Beauregarde - The two of them have a very fake friendship, showing off both of their competitive natures.

Mr. Rupert Salt - Veruca's father who bends to her every wish, providing her with everything she wants. He faces the same fate as her, being kicked down the garbage chute by a squirrel. It is implied at the end that he will start setting up boundaries with her.

Veruca cries because of Mike — Veruca is crying in the script

Mike Teavee - In the original script, Veruca got made fun of from Mike when she demanded a Oompa Loompa from her father which caused her to glare at him intensely and went on to cry later. Later, even in the final film, Veruca rudely shoves Mike when she was walking in the hallway that leads to the nut room. Though it's weird since when Veruca is viciously attacked by squirrels, Mike can be seen panicking at her demise implying that she was the only one that Mike ever cared about.

Veruca hates Augustus — Veruca glares at Augustus

Augustus Gloop - They never say a word to each other but Augustus rudely pushes her out of his way after Veruca gets roasted by Wonka that Veruca (verruca) is a wart you get on the bottom of your foot. Veruca glares at him angrily.

Quotes[]

"Daddy. I want another pony."
"Make time go faster!"
"You already said that." (to Willy Wonka)
"You could put her in a county fair." (to Violet's mother regarding Violet being a blueberry)
"All I've got at home is one pony and two dogs and four cats and six bunny rabbits and two parakeets and three canaries and a green parrot and a turtle and a silly old hamster. I want a squirrel!"
"I'll have you!"
”Daddy, I want a flying glass elevator.”
"But I WANT it!"

Veruca's Song[]

Veruca's song is a 1970's Hippie song with the sitar in the background. It is sung right after she falls down the garbage chute. It describes how rotten she is, figuratively and literally.

Veruca Salt, the little brute
Has just gone down the garbage chute
And she will meet, as she descends
A rather different set of friends
A rather different set of friends
A rather different set of friends

A fish head, for example caught this morning from a halibut
An oyster from an oyster stew
A steak that no one else would chew

And lots of other things as well
Each with its rather horrid smell
Horrid smell

These are Veruca's new-found friends
That she will meet as she descends
These are Veruca's new-found friends

Who went and spoiled her, who indeed?
Who pandered to her every need?
Who turned her into such a brat?
Who are the culprits, who did that?
The guilty ones, now this is sad
Are dear old Mum and loving Dad

Trivia[]

Veruca Salt was played by Swedish-born British actress Julia Winter who also voiced Veruca in the Swedish dub.
Mike Teavee is the only one out of the 4 rotten kids to care about Veruca.
Her along with Augustus Gloop, are the youngest children to go to the factory (Veruca and Augustus of both 9)
Veruca is the only child to be absent for her Oompa-Loompa song because she already went missing inside the garbage chute when Mr. Salt, ends up to look for her where she is.
Julia Winter joked that they chose her because she has an "evil spirit" inside of her.
Veruca, along with Mike Teavee, are the only children who are not directly mean to Charlie Bucket. However, she has a fast "friendship" with intentions of rivalry with Violet Beauregarde and pushes Mike.
Her mansion in the movie is an actual house. It was filmed at the famous Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, U.K. The exterior, though is Wrotham Park, also in Hertfordshire.
Veruca has one pony, two dogs, four cats, six bunny rabbits, two parakeets, three canaries, one green parrot, one turtle and one "silly old" hamster, as she described it (the goldfish in a bowl and the cage of white mice is not mentioned as described in the book).
According to Tim Burton, Veruca talking about her "marvelous pets" is actually a dialogue error even though it was first said in the book. However, he had no time to call 'Cut!' and it was left in the film.
She’s the only child who doesn’t interact with Charlie, at least directly. She and her father gives him and Grandpa Joe outside the factory gates the stink eye.
Veruca isn’t an actual given name. It is instead a joke on the word verruca, a wart on the bottom of a foot.
She was going to be called Elvira Entwistle in an earlier rough draft of the book.^[2]
In the book, Wonka calls Veruca's mink coat pretty and says she looks lovely in it. However, in the script for the 2005 film, when Veruca mentions she has a Brazilian mink coat, Wonka is disgusted and sarcastically says, "Well, I'm sure they're much happier on you, than playfully romping through the forest with their families and loved ones."
There is an error in the scene where she falls down the garbage chute. When the squirrels push her down, she is lying on her side, yet when it cuts to an inside view of the chute where she slides down, she is sliding down on her back (See 1a and 1b).
Another error could be seen where she says to Willy wonka "then shouldn't you be up there?" and she could be seen wearing a watch while when Veruca is being dragged by the squirrels, her arms under her silver mink coat are way out and revealed and it is shown she doesn't have a watch (see 2a and 2b)