+385 In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, each kid is supposed to represent a rising problem in today's youth. Mike Teavee watches too much T.V., Augustus Gloop eats like a pig, and Veruca Salt is spoiled. However, Violet Beauregarde's problem of obsessive gum chewing is stretching it, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

pun intended ;)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think the point of Violet's problem was that she was obsessed with competition. Maybe I'm wrong.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's what I was thinking....she was extrememly competitive.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

that's only in the 2005 movie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory#Violet_Beauregarde

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In the older one she talks about how she has a world record and it makes her best friend jealous.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It was actually in the book as well. Violet was a competitive gum-chewer, and was aiming to break the world record.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think that, during the time that movie was written, chewing gum was considered horribly tacky and very "American", and the world has a history of hating all things American. It's the same idea behind sex-hormone chewing gum in Brave New World. Also, http://ctrlv.in/62924

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You haven't met my roommate!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's what you think.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I always thought that it was her being rude and inconsiderate as her problem.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But they were all rude and inconsiderate

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I would love to inflate into a blueberry like Violet even if i couldn't go back to normal afterwards because i think that would feel amazing to inflate. But i also have an inflation fetish :/

by Anonymous 12 years ago

WTF did I just read?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's called an inflation fetish...its where Someone (like Me) finds it arousing when someone (like Violet) inflates. Or sometimes it can be certain body parts inflating...look it up its kinda weird but then again, so am i :/

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not what I meant, but okay.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The idea in the book is that she is too competitive. Both films addressed this, the first not so obviously.

by Anonymous 12 years ago