Have I watched the movie in the last decade or more? No. Do I have iron clad evidence to support my argument? Yes.
1. She’s the most knowledgeable about candy. She’s committed to it, and knows her stuff. When Wonka holds up a little yellow piece across the room, she recognizes it immediately. She was able to switch to candy bars for the sake of the contest, so we know she has personal discipline and is goal oriented. Also, two major projects play directly into her strong suits: the 3-course-meal gum that Wonka failed to make safe (gum) and the neverending gobstopper (longevity).
2. She’s the most fit to run a business. Violet is competitive, determined, hard working, and willing to take risks. Her father is a small town car salesman and politician, so she could easily pick up knowledge and support from him. (Veruca’s dad is also a business man, and in a compatible market (nuts), but it’s made very clear that Veruca has no respect or knowledge of business practices or hard work.)
3. She’s the most sympathetic to the Oompa Loompas. She critiques Veruca when Veruca demands to buy one. More importantly, Wonka has been testing the 3-course-meal gum that ‘always goes wrong’ on Oompa Loompas while he presumably just watches. Violet is ready to put herself on the front line, instead of treating the Oompa Loompas as disposable, and would therefore be a better boss.
4. Her personality ‘flaw’ is the most fitting for the company. In the moralizing Oompa Loompa song, they just say ‘gum is pretty cool, but it’s not socially acceptable to chew it all day‘. The thing is, we already know that she can stop if she wants, because she already did that to win the golden ticket. And yeah, she is defensive about the perceived impoliteness of her hobby (like when her mother tries to shame her about her habit during a televised interview) but the obsession with candy and neglect of social norms is EXACTLY what Wonka is all about. This is on brand.
5. Her misstep in the factory is reasonable. Wonka shows everyone a candy he’s very proud of. Violet is like “oh sick, that’s gum, my special interest.” Wonka is then pulls a “WRONG! It’s amazing gum!” So in the very moments before she takes the gum Wonka has mislead her just to belittle her. So when he’s like “I wouldn’t do that” why should she give a shit what he has to say? She’s not like Charlie over here who’s all “Sure Gramps, let’s stay behind while the tour leaves and secretly drink this thing that has been explicitly stated to fill you with gas and is too powerful for safe consumption, oh and also I just saw what happened to Violet so I actually KNOW what this stuff can be capable of” Also, Violet is not selfish about her experience, she tells everyone what she’s tasting and feeling, and everyone is eager to hear it. Taking a personal risk to share knowledge with everyone. Violet is Prometheus: fact.
So Augustus contaminates the chocolate river. Charlie sneaks around and contaminates the vent walls. Veruca destroys and disrupts the workspace. Mike knows exactly what will happen to him and transports/shrinks himself deliberately. Violet had no idea what the gum could potentially do to her, and caused no harm to anyone or anything but herself.
Lastly: Can you imagine Charlie filling Wonka’s shoes? That passive, naive boy? Violet is already basically Wonka. She’s passionate, sarcastic, candy-obsessed, free thinking, and a total firecracker. She’s even better than Wonka, because she doesn’t endanger others.
Violet should’ve been picked to inherit the chocolate factory.
This got me thinking, if I recall correctly, Violet was a brat and also really wanted to run the chocolate family I could be wrong)
The fact she has such a twisted fate (bc I definitely remember that and oh boy, take away the child like aesthetic and being blown up like that is scary,
makes it look like misogyny is at place here.
I mean, think about it. A young girl ambitious for a high paying job is seen as a selfish bratty bully who got the fate she deserved? It’s screaming with the message ‘This is what happens when girls step above their station and try to get something.’
Especially when you consider how her character could have been really good. Violet’s drive to be number one resulting in her disdain for any competition, even a healthy rivalry all coming from a rather toxic parent and a sheltered childhood. Her greatest strength became her greatest weakness (which is the best way to write a character flaw).
Give her an arc that teaches her to connect with other people and combine that with the original plans to make Charlie black whose arc would be about being braver while staying grounded and we got ourselves a beloved classic with astonishingly good writing we never noticed in our jaw dropping awe of how cool the chocolate factory was and our pulling at our parents clothes begging them to take us there.
Sean Gunn on his brother, James Gunn, and his growth while working on the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
more like sean gunn defending his brother making 10,000 pedophilic tweets
Stop spreading this misinformation. James did not make “10,000 pedophilic tweets.” He made about 10 referencing pedophilia, a lot of which were taken extremely out of context. He did delete about 10,000 tweets but a fraction of a fraction of those were about pedophilia.
@guardiansofthestarmora calling a man a pedophile because he made distasteful jokes 10 YEARS AGO which he later apologized for and decided not to do again when he realized how gross it was is so fucking shitty especially when hollywood is filled with… a ton of actual pedophiles.
like no one is saying those jokes were ok. HE NEVER SAID THEY WERE EITHER. but he had APOLOGIZED for them and never did them again and learned from his mistakes and he’s getting punished for them NOW because a conservative conspiracy theorist spreading piece of shit decided to try to take him out because he was an active outspoken anti- alt righter on twitter. THATS WRONG.
Its fucked up that HE gets fired for jokes he apologized for 10 years ago when there are active rapists and pedophiles and antisemites and racists who continue to have jobs in hollywood, all because he’s an active outspoken leftist and they aren’t. This is why people are mad.
“The media keeps calling this a reform. That’s a mistake,” said Roger Keil, a professor and former director of the City Institute at York University. “This is gerrymandering: changing political boundaries in order to favour the party in power. It is a very blatant attempt to change the rules of the game so the opposition can’t win.” “What’s happening in Toronto right now, and what is happening in Ontario, is an attempt to bring the old elites back into the seat of power and have them remain there,” he said. “This is not quite Turkey, Hungary or Poland, but we are on a very slippery slope with this kind of politics.”
MOMO SHOULDVE BEEN EMPLOYED TO INTERN WITH FAT GUM LIKE KIRISHIMA BECAUSE HER QUIRK INVOLVES FOOD SIMILAR TO FAT GUM AND TAMAKI’S, BUT HORI IS TOO MUCH OF A COWARD TO GIVE MOMO HER TIME TO SHINE DESPITE HER GETTING INTO U.A ON RECOMMENDATIONS LIKE TODOROKI. WHO GETS TREATED LIKE GODS GIFT BECAUSE OF HIS STRONG QUIRK, BUT MOMO GETS NOTHING BUT TREATED LIKE A FUCKING OBJECT FOR MEN
Stressed, Depressed, and Story Obsessed 