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Named after the bratty young girl in the book 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Louise and Nina insisted that they both liked the character, but weren't obsessed with her. They just liked the name, and thought it would fit their band.
After only eight gigs they were mentioned in both Billboard Magazine and "Gordon's Flash," an A&R industry tip sheet. They attracted major labels like Epic and Capitol, even before the high profile gigs and media buzz. The band decided on an indie label (Minty Fresh) under the management of Jim Powers. |
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Veruca Salt is a character from the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, written by Roald Dahl. She appears in the two film adaptations, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). In the 1971 adaptation, she is portrayed by Julie Dawn Cole; in the 2005 adaptation, she is portrayed by Julia Winter. Veruca is the only child of the wealthy couple, Henry/Rupert Salt and Angina Salt (a geography teacher in the revised book only, and named Henrietta in the 1971 film), and is a terribly spoiled brat. Veruca is the second child to find a ticket, and the third to misbehave and get thrown out of the tour.
In all three versions, Mr. Salt, Veruca's father (called "Daddy" by Veruca in all three adaptations of the story), is the affluent CEO, owner, and founder of a nut packaging and refining corporation. When Veruca announces that she wants (and must have) a Golden Ticket, her father buys thousands of Wonka Bars and makes his factory workers open them for her. As three days pass, Veruca spends all of them impatiently kicking her legs about, while she screams about how she wants her Golden Ticket. Finally, a staff member finds the ticket, and, as Veruca's father describes it in the book, she is "all smiles again." She'll have a temper tantrum if she doesn't get what she wishes for, and her parents usually rush to give in to her desire.
Spoiled, impatient, demanding, mean and very manipulative. She will do everything she can in order to get her own way.
Because Veruca is much more aggressive, greedy, and overall rotten in the 1971 adaption than she is in either of her other incarnations, many see her as Charlie's primary rival for the prize, or rather the film's true "villain." She is the antithesis of every aspect of Charlie's personality: where he is kind, she is mean; where he is grateful due to his extreme poverty, she's spoiled rotten due to her wealth; while Charlie remains calm throughout all of his troubles, Veruca is a whirling vortex of emotion and anger. Indeed, Veruca on many occasions is shown to be downright callous to the other children and those around her.
In the book and 2005 film, Veruca's comeupance takes place in Wonka's nut-sorting room. After being denied a squirrel by Willy Wonka and her dad (her mum in the novel), Veruca brazenly attempts to take a squirrel for herself, only to be grabbed and knocked down by the creatures. The squirrels drag her across the ground, deem her a bad nut, and throw her into the garbage chute, with her parents quickly suffering the same fate afterwards. Her fate is similar in the 2005 film, though her mother isn't present (although the Oompa-Loompas throw a painting of Mrs. Salt down the garbage chute to emphasize that she, along with her husband, spoiled Veruca rotten). In the film, Wonka says that the furnace is only lit on Tuesday. Mike Teavee then reminds him that the day of the factory tour is Tuesday. Fortunately, after Veruca's father falls down the chute, an Oompa Loompa tells Wonka that the incinerator is broken and there is three weeks' worth of rotten garbage to break the fall of Veruca and her father.
In the 1971 movie, Veruca's exit is made in the Golden Egg sorting room. Willy Wonka denies her the goose that lays the golden eggs, after which she sings her musical solo "I Want It Now," describing the things she wants, and how she'll scream if she doesn't get them. (This makes her the only kid in the movie to get her own song, although Charlie did a duet with Grandpa Joe in "(I've Got A) Golden Ticket".) After making a mess of the room, she stands atop the egg-sorting machine, which judges her a bad egg, and falls down the garbage chute. Her last word is a drawn-out "NOW." Willy Wonka explains that the garbage chute leads to the furnace, although she may have gotten stuck in the pipes along the way. Her father reaches down to get her and falls in. It is not stated what became of her and her dad after this event; after Veruca's father disappears, Willy Wonka says "There's going to be a lot of garbage today," as if to say that the day of the tour was not one of the days when the furnace was lit. At the end when Charlie asks about the other children, Wonka remarks that they will be their normal terrible selves - but maybe a little wiser.
Dahl himself has stated that Veruca Salt was the name of a wart medication he had in his medicine cabinet, but since the introduction of the character, many other theories have been created as to additional reasons why he gave her that name.
In the book, the song is performed after Veruca and her parents are thrown down the garbage chute. In the 1971 film, it is after Veruca and her father have fallen down the chute. In the 2005 film, the song is performed after Veruca is thrown down and as Mr. Salt prepares to look down into the chute (it ends as a squirrel pushes him in the behind, sending him down the chute). |
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