document_title: Sleepy Hollow (film)

question_text: where was tim burton's sleepy hollow filmed

question_tokens: where was tim burton 's sleepy hollow filmed

text: Sleepy Hollow (film)

text: Plot[edit]

text: In 1799, New York City police constable Ichabod Crane is deployed to the Westchester County hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, which has been plagued by a series of brutal slayings in which the victims are found decapitated: Peter Van Garrett, a wealthy farmer; his son Dirk; and the widow Emily Winship. Crane learns that locals believe the killer is the undead apparition of a headless Hessian mercenary from the American Revolutionary War who rides a black steed in search of his missing head.

text: Crane begins his investigation, remaining skeptical about the paranormal elements until he actually encounters the Headless Horseman, who kills the town magistrate, Samuel Phillipse. Boarding at the home of the town's richest family, the Van Tassels, Crane is taken with their daughter, Katrina. Crane and Young Masbath, the son of one of the Horseman's victims, go to the cave dwelling of a reclusive witch. She reveals the location of the Tree of the Dead, which marks the Horseman's grave, as well as his portal into the natural, living world.

text: Crane discovers that the ground is freshly disturbed and the Horseman's skull is missing. That night, the family of the village midwife is killed by the Horseman and Katrina's suitor, Brom van Brunt is also killed trying to stop the Horseman. The Horseman doesn't attempt to interact with or harm van Brunt until he has no choice; from this, Crane hypothesizes that the Horseman is attacking select targets, and that whoever dug up and stole the skull is the person controlling the Horseman.

text: Crane starts to believe that a conspiracy links all the deaths together, so he looks into Van Garrett's last will. Van Garrett had made a new will just before he died, leaving all his possessions to his secret new bride, Emily Winship, whom Crane discovered was pregnant with Van Garrett's child. Crane deduces that all who knew about the new will, the marriage and the pregnancy were the victims of the Horseman and that Katrina's father Baltus Van Tassel, who would have inherited the fortune, is the person holding the skull. Katrina, finding out that Crane suspects her father, burns all the evidence that Crane has accumulated.

text: A council is held in the church. The Horseman seemingly kills Katrina's stepmother, Lady Van Tassel, and heads off to the church to get Baltus. Crane realizes the Horseman can't enter the church due to it being holy ground. A fight breaks out between the village elders in the church resulting in the deaths of Reverend Steenwyck and Doctor Lancaster, only ending when the Horseman harpoons Baltus through a window, dragging him out and acquiring his head. The next day, Crane believes Katrina to be the one who controls the Headless Horsemen.

text: Crane later becomes suspicious when he realizes the diagram made by Katrina he thought summoned the Horseman is really one of protection, and also that the corpse of Lady Van Tassel has a wound that seems to have been caused post-mortem.

text: Lady Van Tassel then reveals that she murdered the servant to lure and ambush Katrina. She finally reveals Katrina that her family (née Archer) became impoverished after her father died, and was driven from their ancestral home they rented from the Van Garretts, who then sold it to the Van Tassels due to lack of rent income. Her mother could not find employment due to rumors of witchcraft but found an opportunity to exact revenge when she witnessed the death of the Hessian. She then proceeded to pledge her soul to Satan and become a witch, summoning the Hessian horseman to kill Van Garrett, his son, new wife, unborn child, every villager who knew about his new will, marriage, and child, and her own sister in order to be able to claim everything that she deemed to be rightfully hers uncontested. She then sends the Horseman after Katrina to remove the last obstacle to inheriting the combined Van Garrett and Van Tassel estates. She also reveals that she murdered her own twin sister-witch for aiding Crane and his assistant.

text: Following a fight and a stagecoach chase, Crane eventually thwarts Lady Van Tassel by throwing the skull to the Horseman, who reattaches his head to his body and breaks Lady Van Tassel's curse. The Horseman, no longer under her control, hoists Van Tassel up on his horse and gives her a bloody kiss against her will.[5] He then rides to Hell, taking her with a smile, fulfilling her end of the bargain. Crane returns home to New York City with Katrina and Young Masbath, just in time for the new century.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane
Christina Ricci as Katrina Van Tassel
Christopher Walken and Ray Park as the Headless Horseman
Marc Pickering as Young Masbath
Casper Van Dien as Brom Van Brunt
Michael Gambon as Baltus Van Tassel
Miranda Richardson as Lady Mary Van Tassel and her sister
Jeffrey Jones as Reverend Steenwyck
Richard Griffiths as Magistrate Samuel Philipse
Ian McDiarmid as Dr. Thomas Lancaster
Michael Gough as Notary James Hardenbrook
Christopher Lee as the Burgomaster
Claire Skinner as Beth Killian, the Midwife
Steven Waddington as Killian, Beth's husband
Alun Armstrong as the High Constable
Martin Landau as Peter Van Garrett
Peter Guinness as Lord Crane, Ichabod's father
Lisa Marie as Lady Crane, Ichabod's mother
Jessica Oyelowo as Sarah
Michael Feast as Spotty Man
Jamie Foreman as Thuggish Constable
Sean Cronin as Prisoner

text: Production[edit]

text: Development[edit]

text: In 1993, Kevin Yagher, a make-up effects designer who had turned to directing with Tales from the Crypt, had the notion to adapt Washington Irving's short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" into a feature film. Through his agent, Yagher was introduced to Andrew Kevin Walker; they spent a few months working on a film treatment[6] that transformed Ichabod Crane as a schoolmaster from Connecticut to a banished New York City detective.[7] Yagher and Walker subsequently pitched Sleepy Hollow to various studios and production companies, eventually securing a deal with producer Scott Rudin,[6] who had been impressed with Walker's unproduced spec script for Seven.[8] Rudin optioned the project to Paramount Pictures in a deal that had Yagher set to direct, with Walker scripting; the pair would share story credit.[6] Following the completion of Hellraiser: Bloodline, Yahger had planned Sleepy Hollow as a low-budget production—"a pretentious slasher film with a spectacular murder every five minutes or so." Paramount disagreed on the concept and demoted Yagher's involvement to prosthetic makeup designer.[9] "They never really saw it as a commercial movie," producer Adam Schroeder noted. "The studio thinks 'old literary classic' and they think The Crucible. We started developing it before horror movies came back."[10]

text: Paramount CEO Sherry Lansing revived studio interest in 1998.[8] Schroeder, who shepherded Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands as a studio executive at 20th Century Fox in 1990, suggested that Burton direct the film.[11] Francis Ford Coppola's minimal production duties came from American Zoetrope; Burton only became aware of Coppola's involvement during the editing process when he was sent a copy of Sleepy Hollow's trailer and saw Coppola's name on it.[11] Burton, coming off the troubled production of Superman Lives, was hired to direct in June 1998.[12] "I had never really done something that was more of a horror film," he explained, "and it's funny, because those are the kind of movies that I like probably more than any other genre."[6] His interest in directing a horror film influenced by his love for Hammer Film Productions and Black Sunday—particularly the supernatural feel they evoked as a result of being filmed primarily on sound stages.[10] As a result, Sleepy Hollow is a homage to various Hammer Film Productions, including Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde,[13] and other films such as Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, various Roger Corman horror films,[14] Jason and the Argonauts, and Scream Blacula Scream.[8] The image of the Headless Horseman had fascinated Burton during his apprenticeship as a Disney animator at CalArts in the early 1980s.[14] "One of my teachers had worked on the Disney version as one of the layout artists on the chase, and he brought in some layouts from it, so that was exciting. It was one of the things that maybe shaped what I like to do."[6] Burton worked with Walker on rewrites, but Rudin suggested that Tom Stoppard rewrite the script[15] to add to the comical aspects of Ichabod's bumbling mannerisms, and emphasize the character's romance with Katrina. His work went uncredited through the WGA screenwriting credit system.[8]

text: While Johnny Depp was Burton's first choice for the role of Ichabod Crane, Paramount required him to consider Brad Pitt, Liam Neeson and Daniel Day-Lewis.[10][16] Depp was cast in July 1998 for his third collaboration with Burton.[17] The actor wanted Ichabod to parallel Irving's description of the character in the short story. This included a long prosthetic snipe nose, huge ears, and elongated fingers. Paramount turned down his suggestions,[18] and after Depp read Tom Stoppard's rewrite of the script, he was inspired to take the character even further. "I always thought of Ichabod as a very delicate, fragile person who was maybe a little too in touch with his feminine side, like a frightened little girl," Depp explained.[8] He did not wish to portray the character as a typical action star would have, and instead took inspiration by Angela Lansbury's performance in Death on the Nile.[8] "It's good," Burton reasoned, "because I'm not the greatest action director in the world, and he's not the greatest action star."[11] Depp modeled Ichabod's detective personality from Basil Rathbone in the 1939 Sherlock Holmes film series. He also studied Roddy McDowall's acting for additional influence.[18] Burton added that "the idea was to try to find an elegance in action of the kind that Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing or Vincent Price had."[11] Christina Ricci, who worked with producer Scott Rudin on The Addams Family, was cast as Katrina Van Tassel.[10] Sleepy Hollow also reunited Burton with Jeffrey Jones (from Beetlejuice and Ed Wood) as Reverend Steenwyck, Christopher Walken (Max Shreck in Batman Returns) as the Hessian Horseman, Martin Landau (Ed Wood) in a cameo role, and Hammer veteran Michael Gough (Alfred in Burton's Batman films), whom Burton tempted out of retirement.[11] The Hammer influence was further confirmed by the casting of Christopher Lee in a small role as the Burgomaster who sends Crane to Sleepy Hollow.[19]

text: Filming[edit]

text: The original intention had been to shoot Sleepy Hollow predominantly on location with a $30 million budget.[20] Towns were scouted throughout Upstate New York along the Hudson Valley,[6] and the filmmakers decided on Tarrytown[12] for an October 1998 start date.[17] The Historic Hudson Valley organization assisted in scouting locations, which included the Philipsburg Manor House and forests in the Rockefeller State Park Preserve.[7] "They had a wonderful quality to them," production designer Rick Heinrichs reflected on the locations, "but it wasn't quite lending itself to the sort of expressionism that we were going for, which wanted to express the feeling of foreboding."[21] Disappointed, the filmmakers scouted locations in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and considered using Dutch colonial villages and period town recreations in the Northeastern United States. When no suitable existing location could be found, coupled with a lack of readily available studio space in the New York area needed to house the production's large number of sets, producer Scott Rudin suggested the UK.[6]

text: Rudin believed Britain offered the level of craftsmanship in period detail, painting and costuming that was suitable for the film's design.[22] Having directed Batman entirely in Britain, Burton agreed, and designers from Batman's art department were employed by Paramount for Sleepy Hollow.[11] As a result, principal photography was pushed back[23] to November 20, 1998 at Leavesden Film Studios, which had been recently vacated by Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.[20] The majority of filming took place at Leavesden, with studio other work at Shepperton Studios,[6] where the massive Tree of the Dead set was built using Stage H.[8] Production then moved to the Hambleden estate at Lime Tree Valley for a month-long shoot in March, where the town of Sleepy Hollow was constructed.[6] "We came to England figuring we would find a perfect little town," producer Adam Schroeder recalled, "and then we had to build it anyway." Filming in Britain continued through April,[6] and a few last minute scenes were shot using a sound stage in Yonkers, New York the following May.[7][24]

text: Design[edit]

text: Responsible for the film's production design was Rick Heinrichs, who Burton intended to use on Superman Lives. While the production crew was always going to build a substantial number of sets, the decision was taken early on that to fulfill Burton's vision best would necessitate shooting Sleepy Hollow in a totally controlled environment at Leavesden Film Studios.[26] The production design was influenced by Burton's love for Hammer Film Productions and Black Sunday—particularly the supernatural feel they evoked as a result of being filmed primarily on sound stages. Heinrichs was also influenced by American colonial architecture, German Expressionism, Dr. Seuss illustrations, and Hammer's Dracula Has Risen from the Grave.[10] One sound stage at Leavesden was dedicated to the "Forest to Field" set, for the scene in which the Headless Horseman races out of the woods and into a field. This stage was then transformed into, variously, a graveyard, a corn field, a field of harvested wheat, a churchyard, and a snowy battlefield. In addition, a small backlot area was devoted to a New York City street and waterfront tank.[20]

text: Cinematography[edit]

text: Burton was impressed by the cinematography in Great Expectations, and hired Emmanuel Lubezki as Sleepy Hollow's director of photography. Initially, Lubezki and Burton contemplated shooting the film in black and white and in old square Academy ratio. When that proved unfeasible, they opted for an almost monochromatic effect which would enhance the fantasy aspect.[11] Burton and Lubezki intentionally planned the over-dependency of smoke and soft lighting to accompany the film's sole wide-angle lens strategy. Lubezki also used Hammer horror[27] and Mexican lucha films from the 1960s, such as Santo Contra los Zombis and Santo vs. las Mujeres Vampiro.[10] Lighting effects increased the dynamic energy of the Headless Horseman, while the contrast of the film stock was increased in post-production to add to the monochromatic feel.[27]

text: Leavesden Studios, a converted airplane factory, presented problems because of its relatively low ceilings. This was less of an issue for The Phantom Menace, in which set height was generally achieved by digital means. "Our visual choices get channeled and violent," Heinrichs elaborated, "so you end up with liabilities that you tend to exploit as virtues. When you've got a certain ceiling height, and you're dealing with painted backings, you need to push atmosphere and diffusion."[20] This was particularly the case in several exteriors that were built on sound stages. "We would mitigate the disadvantages by hiding lights with teasers and smoke."[20]

text: Visual effects[edit]

text: The majority of Sleepy Hollow's 150 visual effects shots were handled by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM),[28] while Kevin Yagher supervised the human and creature effects. Framestore also assisted on digital effects, and The Mill handled motion control photography.[29] In part a reaction to the computer-generated effects in Mars Attacks!, Burton opted to use as limited an amount of digital effects as possible.[11] Ray Park, who served as the Headless Horseman stunt double, wore a blue ski mask for the chroma key effect, digitally removed by ILM.[15] Burton and Heinrichs applied to Sleepy Hollow many of the techniques they had used in stop motion animation on Vincent—such as forced perspective sets.[26]

text: The windmill was a 60-foot-tall forced-perspective exterior (visible to highway travellers miles away), a base and rooftop set and a quarter-scale miniature. The interior of the mill, which was about 30-feet high and 25-feet wide, featured wooden gears equipped with mechanisms for grinding flour. A wider view of the windmill was rendered on a Leavesden soundstage set with a quarter-scale windmill, complete with rotating vanes, painted sky backdrop and special-effects fire. "It was scary for the actors who were having burning wood explode at them," Heinrichs recalled. "There were controls in place and people standing by with hoses, of course, but there's always a chance of something going wrong."[30] For the final shot of the burning mill exploding, the quarter-scale windmill and painted backdrop were erected against the outside wall of the "flight shed", a spacious hangar on the far side of Leavesden Studios. The hangar's interior walls were knocked down to create a 450-foot run, with a 40-foot width still allowing for coach and cameras. Heinrichs tailored the sets so cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki could shoot from above without seeing the end of the stage.[30]

text: Actor Ian McDiarmid, who portrayed Dr. Lancaster, had just finished another Leavesden production with Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. He compared the aesthetics of the two films, stating that physical sets helped the actors get into a natural frame of mind. "Having come from the blue-screen world of Star Wars it was wonderful to see gigantic, beautifully made perspective sets and wonderful clothes, and also people recreating a world. It's like the way movies used to be done."[22]

text: Musical score[edit]

text:
Sleepy Hollow: Music from the Motion Picture

Soundtrack album by Danny Elfman

Released
November 16, 1999 (1999-11-16)

Length
67:52

Label
Hollywood Records

text: The film score was written and produced by Danny Elfman. It won the Golden Satellite Award and was also nominated by the Las Vegas Film Critics.

text: Track listing[edit]

text: Tracks marked with ♦ are only available as a bonus track on disc 8 of the Danny Elfman / Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box.

text: The track numbers listed here do not therefore correspond to the original 1999 album.

text:
Introduction
Main Titles
Young Ichabod
The Story...
Masbath's Terrible Death
Young Masbath ♦
Phony Chase ♦
Sweet Dreams
A Gift
Phillipse's Death ♦
Into the Woods / The Witch
Mysterious Figure ♦
More Dreams
The Tree of Death
Bad Dreams / Tender Moment
Evil Eye
The Church Battle
Love Lost
The Windmill
The Chase
The Final Confrontation
A New Day!
End Credits

text: Release[edit]

text: To promote Sleepy Hollow, Paramount Pictures featured the film's trailer at San Diego Comic-Con International in August 1999.[31] The following October, the studio launched a website, which Variety described as being the "most ambitious online launch of a motion picture to date."[32] The site (sleepyhollowmovie.com) offered visitors live video chats with several of the filmmakers hosted by Yahoo! Movies and enabled them to send postcards, view photos, trailers and a six-minute behind-the-scenes featurette edited from a broadcast that aired on Entertainment Tonight. Extensive tours of 10 sets where offered, where visitors were able to roam around photographs, including the sets for the entire town of Sleepy Hollow, forest, church, graveyard and covered bridge. Arthur Cohen, president of worldwide marketing for Paramount, explained that the "Web-friendly" pre-release reports[32] from websites such as Ain't It Cool News and Dark Horizons[33][34] encouraged the studio to create the site.[32] In the weeks pre-dating the release of Sleepy Hollow, a toy line was marketed by McFarlane Toys.[35] Simon & Schuster also published The Art of Sleepy Hollow (ISBN 0671036572), which included the film's screenplay and an introduction by Tim Burton.[36] A novelization, also published by Simon & Schuster, was written by Peter Lerangis.[37]

text: Sleepy Hollow was released in the United States on November 19, 1999 in 3,069 theaters, grossing $30,060,467 in its opening weekend[2] at the #2 spot behind The World Is Not Enough.[38] Sleepy Hollow eventually earned $101,071,502 in domestic gross, and $105 million in foreign sales, coming to a worldwide total of $206,071,502.[2] David Walsh of the National Institute on Media and the Family criticized the film's financial success from the exaggeration of gore. "The real impact is not so much that violent images create violent behavior," Walsh explained, "but that they create an atmosphere of disrespect." Burton addressed the concerns as a matter of opinion. "Everyone has a different perception of things. When I was a kid," Burton continued, "I was probably more scared by seeing John Wayne or Barbra Streisand on the big screen than by seeing violence."[39]

text: Paramount Home Video first released Sleepy Hollow on DVD in the United States on May 23, 2000.[40] The HD DVD release came in July 2006,[41] while the film was released on Blu-ray Disc two years later, in June 2008.[42]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 67% of critics gave the film a "Certified Fresh" rating, based on 126 reviews with an average score of 6.2/10, with the site's consensus stating, "Sleepy Hollow entertains with its stunning visuals and creepy atmosphere." [43] Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 65 (out of 100) based on 35 reviews from mainstream critics, considered to be "generally favorable".[44] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B-" on an A+ to F scale.[45]

text: Roger Ebert praised Johnny Depp's performance and Tim Burton's methods of visual design. "Johnny Depp is an actor able to disappear into characters," Ebert continued, "never more readily than in one of Burton's films."[46] Richard Corliss wrote, in his review for TIME Magazine, "Burton's richest, prettiest, weirdest [film] since Batman Returns. The simple story bends to his twists, freeing him for an exercise in high style."[47]

text: David Sterritt of The Christian Science Monitor highly praised Burton's filmmaking and the high-spirited acting of cast, but believed Andrew Kevin Walker's writing was too repetitious and formulaic for the third act.[48] "You go into a Tim Burton film wanting to be transported, but Sleepy Hollow is little more than a lavish, art-directed slasher movie."

text: Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly wrote Sleepy Hollow is "a choppily plotted crowd-pleaser that lacks the seductive, freakazoid alchemy of Burton's best work." Gleiberman compared the film to The Mummy, and said "it feels like every high-powered action climax of the last 10 years. Personally, I'd rather see Burton so intoxicated by a movie that he lost his head."[49]

text: Andrew Johnston of Time Out New York wrote: "Like the best of Burton's films, Sleepy Hollow takes place in a world so richly imagined that, despite its abundant terrors, you can't help wanting to step through the screen."[50]

text: Mick LaSalle, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, criticized Burton's perceived image as a creative artist. "All Sleepy Hollow has going for it is art direction, and even in that it falls back on cliché."[51] Doug Walker linked the film to the Hammer Films style of horror cinematography, considering it an homage to those movies, comparing the usage of dignified British actors, choices in color and movie sets and character relations. Walker gave it the merit of recreating the "very specific genre" of Hammer Films, citing the skill and "clever casting" Burton used to manage this.[52]

text: Jonathan Rosenbaum from the Chicago Reader called Sleepy Hollow "a ravishing visual experience, a pretty good vehicle for some talented American and English actors," but concluded that the film was a missed opportunity to depict an actual representation of the short story. "Burton's fidelity is exclusively to the period feeling he gets from disreputable Hammer horror films and a few images culled from Ichabod and Mr. Toad. When it comes to one of America's great stories, Burton obviously couldn't care less."[53]

text: Accolades[edit]

text:
Awards

Award
Date of ceremony
Category
Recipients and nominees
Result

Academy Awards[54]
March 26, 2000
Best Art Direction
Rick Heinrichs, Peter Young
Won

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Nominated

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood
Nominated

British Academy Film Awards[55]
April 9, 2000
Best Production Design
Rick Heinrichs
Won

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood
Won

Best Visual Effects
Jim Mitchell, Kevin Yagher, Joss Williams, Paddy Eason
Nominated

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films[56]
June 6, 2000
Best Horror Film
Scott Rudin, Adam Schroeder
Nominated

Best Director
Tim Burton
Nominated

Best Writing
Andrew Kevin Walker
Nominated

Best Actor
Johnny Depp
Nominated

Best Actress
Christina Ricci
Won

Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Walken
Nominated

Best Supporting Actress
Miranda Richardson
Nominated

Best Music
Danny Elfman
Won

Best Costume
Collen Atwood
Nominated

Best Make-up
Kevin Yagher, Peter Owen
Nominated

Best Special Effects
Jim Mitchell, Kevin Yagher, Joss Williams, Paddy Eason
Nominated

American Society of Cinematographers[57]
February 20, 2000
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Nominated

Art Directors Guild[58]
February 8, 2000
Excellence in Production Design for a Feature Film
Rick Heinrichs, Les Tompkins, John Dexter, Kevin Phipps, John Wright Stevens, Ken Court, Andrew Nicholson, Bill Hoes, Julian Ashby, Gary Tompkins, Nick Navarro
Won

BMI Film & Television Awards[59]
December 8, 2014
BMI Film Music Award
Danny Elfman
Won

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards[60]
May 9, 2000
Favorite Actor - Horror
Johnny Depp
Won

Favorite Actress - Horror
Christina Ricci
Won

Favorite Supporting Actress - Horror
Miranda Richardson
Won

Favorite Supporting Actor - Horror
Marc Pickering
Nominated

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards[60]
December 12, 1999
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Won

Chicago Film Critics Association[60]
March 13, 2000
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Nominated

Costume Designers Guild[61]
February 25, 2000
Excellence in Period/Fantasy Costume Design for Film
Colleen Atwood
Won

Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards[62]
March 19, 2000
Best Character Makeup - Feature
Kevin Yagher, Peter Owen, Liz Tagg, Paul Gooch
Won

International Film Music Critics Association[63]
February 23, 2012
Best Archival Release of an Existing Score
Danny Elfman (also for Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride and Alice in Wonderland)
Won

International Film Music Critics Association[64]
February 4, 1999
Film Score of the Year
Danny Elfman
Nominated

International Horror Guild[65]
May 12, 2000
Best Film

Nominated

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists[66]
May 12, 2000
Best Foreign Director
Tim Burton
Nominated

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards[67]
January 18, 2000
Best Score
Danny Elfman
Nominated

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Nominated

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood
Nominated

Best Production Design
Rick Heinrichs
Won

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards[68]
December 12, 1999
Best Production Design
Rick Heinrichs
Won

MTV Movie Awards[69]
June 5, 2000
Best Villain
Christopher Walken
Nominated

Motion Picture Sound Editors[70]
December 15, 1999
Best Sound Editing - Effects & Foley
Skip Lievsay, Thomas W. Small, Sean Garnhart, Lewis Goldstein, Paul Urmson, Craig Berkey, Richard L. Anderson, John Pospisil, Michael Dressel, Scott Curtis, Matthew Harrison, Tammy Fearing
Nominated

National Society of Film Critics[71]
January 8, 2000
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Nominated

New York Film Critics Circle Awards[72]
January 9, 2000
Best Cinematographer
Emmanuel Lubezki
Runner-up

Online Film & Television Association[73]
January 12, 2000
Best Original Score
Danny Elfman
Nominated

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Nominated

Best Production Design
Rick Heinrichs, Ken Court, John Dexter, Andy Nicholson, Kevin Phipps, Leslie Tomkins, Peter Young
Won

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood
Nominated

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Kevin Yagher, Peter Owen, Liz Tagg, Paul Gooch, Susan Parkinson, Bernadette Mazur, Tamsin Dorling
Nominated

Best Sound Mixing
Lee Dichter, Robert Fernandez, Skip Lievsay, Frank Morrone
Nominated

Best Sound Effects
Skip Lievsay
Nominated

Best Visual Effects
James Mitchell, Kevin Yagher, Joss Williams, Paddy Eason
Nominated

Best Official Film Website
www.sleepyhollow.com
Nominated

Online Film Critics Society[74]
January 2, 2000
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Won

Santa Fe Film Critics Circle Awards[75]
January 9, 2000
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Won

Satellite Awards[76]
January 16, 2000
Best Actor - Musical or Comedy
Johnny Depp
Nominated

Best Original Score
Danny Elfman
Won

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Won

Best Art Direction
Ken Court, John Dexter, Rick Heinrichs and Andy Nicholson
Won

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood
Won

Best Editing
Chris Lebenzon
Nominated

Best Sound
Gary Alpers, Skip Lievsay, Frank Morrone
Won

Best Visual Effects
Jim Mitchell, Joss Williams
Nominated

Teen Choice Awards[77]
August 6, 2000
Film - Choice Actress
Christina Ricci
Nominated

Young Artist Awards[78]
March 19, 2000
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Leading Young Actress
Christina Ricci
Nominated

text: American Film Institute recognition:

text:
AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills – Nominated
AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains:

The Headless Horseman – Nominated Villain[79]


document_title: List of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory characters

question_text: who played the kid in charlie and the chocolate factory

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text: Willy Wonka[edit]

text:
Willy Wonka

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory character

First appearance
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Created by
Roald Dahl

Portrayed by

Gene Wilder (1971)
Johnny Depp (2005) Douglas Hodge, Alex Jennings and Jonathan Slinger (2013)
Christian Borle (2017)

Voiced by
James Arnold Taylor (2005 video game)
JP Karliak (Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)

Information

Gender
Male

tag: table

text: In the novels and films, Willy Wonka is the odd owner of an extremely prosperous chocolates factory. The inciting action of the story occurs when Wonka holds a contest, hiding five Golden Tickets within the wrappers of confectionery bars, promising their discoverers a tour of his factory and a lifelong supply of his creations. Implications stand in all three versions that he allows four of his five finalists to disgrace themselves, in hope that one does not.

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text: In the book, Wonka is described by Roald Dahl as having a goatee and "marvelously" bright eyes, a high and "flutey" voice, a face "alight of fun and laughter", and quick little jerky movements "like a squirrel". He is enthusiastic, eccentric, charming, talkative, and friendly, but at times insensitive, and has been given to glossing criticisms of himself.

text: In the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolates Factory, he is portrayed by Gene Wilder. While his personality remains generally the same as in the original, he is more melancholy here, and frequently quotes books and poems, including William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ("Is it my soul that calls upon my name?") or John Masefield's "Sea Fever" ("All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by"), and the famous "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker" from "Reflections on Ice Breaking" by Ogden Nash, among many others. Toward the end of the film, he tests protagonist Charlie's conscience by pretending to deny him any reward, but assumes an almost paternal role when Charlie proves honest.

text: In the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he is portrayed by Johnny Depp. In this version, a back-story was added that Willy Wonka's father (being a dentist) would not let him eat sweets because of the potential risk to his teeth, and that the young Wonka left home to become a chocolatier. The conflict was so bad on young Wonka (portrayed by Blair Dunlop), that he took no interest in the kids when they arrived and couldn't even say the word "parent". He later gains a soft spot for Charlie and offers him a spoon from the chocolate river. Toward the end of the film, Charlie reconciles the two.

text: Charlie Bucket[edit]

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Charlie Bucket

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character

First appearance
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Created by
Roald Dahl

Portrayed by

Peter Ostrum (1971)
Freddie Highmore (2005) Jack Costello, Tom Klenerman, Isaac Rouse, Louis Suc, Keir Edkins-O'Brien, Oliver Finnegan, Troy Tipple, Rhys Lambert, Jake Poolman, Ewan Rutherford, Zachary Loonie, Noah Crump, Johnny Evans-Hutchison, Joe Butler-Smith, Guillermo Bedward, Archie Durrant, Ptolemy Gidney (2013)
Jake Ryan Flynn, Ryan Foust, Ryan Sell (2017)

Voiced by
Freddie Higgmore (2005 video game)
Lincoln Melcher (Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)

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Gender
Male

text: Charlie Bucket is a title character and the protagonist of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, its sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and the film adaptations of these books.[1] He is depicted as a kind-hearted, nice, selfless, sweet, brave, but poor boy that lives with his mother, father and four bedridden grandparents. Charlie was to have been a little black boy at the outset, but the detail was changed at the insistence of Dahl's literary agent to better appeal to audiences.[1] In 1971, he has a newspaper route after school. He and his family follow the progress of the hunt for the Golden Tickets in newspapers, in films, and on television. Unlike the first four finalists, Charlie is honest and generous. In the 1971 film, Charlie was portrayed by Peter Ostrum, in his only film appearance. His nationality is never explicitly stated, but in the 1971 film, he speaks with an American accent, and in the 2005 film, he speaks with an English accent. The filmmakers have stated that it was their intention that Charlie's hometown be kept ambiguous.

text: In the novel, at the end of the tour, Wonka declares Charlie heir to the factory for his refusal of vice, and Charlie's family are permitted to move into the factory. In the 1971 film, Charlie wins the factory when he returns an Everlasting Gobstopper given to him by Wonka, thereby passing Wonka's moral test. In the 2005 film, Wonka initially refuses to allow Charlie's family to join them in the factory, and Charlie rejects Wonka's offer. When Charlie helps Wonka reconcile with his father, the family move into the factory and Charlie becomes Wonka's partner.

text: Grandpa Joe[edit]

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Grandpa Joe Bucket

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character

First appearance
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Created by
Roald Dahl

Portrayed by

Jack Albertson (1971)
David Kelly (2005) Nigel Planer, Barry James (2013)
John Rubinstein (2017)

Voiced by
David Kelly (2005 video game)
Jess Harnell (Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)

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Male

text: Grandpa Joe is one of Charlie's four bed-ridden grandparents. He's usually stubborn, senile, and paranoid, but still kind, caring, grandfatherly, excitable, and supportive. He tells Charlie (and the reader) the story of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and the mystery of the secret workers. When Charlie finds the Golden Ticket, Grandpa Joe leaps out of bed in joy, and later accompanies Charlie on the factory tour. In the sequel book, Grandpa Joe accompanies Charlie, Willy Wonka, and all members of Charlie's family in the Great Glass Elevator and assists the rescue of the Commuter Capsule from the Vermicious Knids. Grandpa Joe's age is given as "ninety-six and a half" in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", making him the eldest of Charlie's grandparents, but in the musical it is stated he is almost ninety and a half.

text: The character was played by Jack Albertson in the 1971 film adaptation Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. In this film, he is often excitable, paranoid, stubborn and appears anxious that Charlie won the contest, and becomes angry when Charlie is dismissed without reward, despite the fact that they both broke the rules by stealing Fizzy Lifting Drinks and not following the tour, which meant that Charlie breached the contract, not realizing that Wonka had found out what they had done. He tells Charlie that he expects him to find all five Golden Tickets and most certainly expects Charlie to find one when he receives a Wonka Bar for his birthday.

text: The character was played by David Kelly in the 2005 film adaptation, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Veteran actor Gregory Peck was originally selected to play the role, but he died in 2003 before filming began. This version of the character is written as more calm than the 1971 version. An original backstory to Grandpa Joe's past was added to Tim Burton's film, wherein it is said that Joe worked for Wonka until the latter fired all his workers from his factory due to constant corporate espionage by rival confectionery manufacturers. When he returns to the factory with Charlie for the tour, Wonka asks if he was a spy working for a competing factory before he humbly welcomes him back.

text: Augustus Gloop[edit]

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Augustus Gloop

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character

First appearance
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Created by
Roald Dahl

Portrayed by

Michael Bollner (1971)
Philip Wiegratz (2005) Regan Stokes, Alexzander Griffiths, Dane Juler, Vincent Finch, Logan Cripps, Benjamin Lewis, Connor Davies, Archie Lewis, Callum McDonald (2013)
F. Michael Haynie (2017)

Voiced by
Philip Wiegratz (2005 video game)
Rachel Butera (Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)

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Gender
Male

Nationality
German

text: Introduced in the opening pages of the book as "a greedy boy", Augustus Gloop is an obese, greedy, gluttonous boy, the first person to find a Golden Ticket and one of the four main antagonists of the series. He hails from fictitious Dusselheim, Germany in the 1971 film, and Düsseldorf, Germany in the 2005 film. His mother takes great pride in his gluttonous eating and seems to enjoy the attention of the media. In the novel and both films, he is portrayed as "enormously fat". Augustus is the first child to be removed from the tour: while drinking from the Chocolate Room’s Chocolate River, he falls into the river and is drawn through a pipe to the factory's Fudge Room. His parents are sent to fetch him from the mixing-machine. In the book, he is depicted leaving the factory, having lost most of his weight, and covered in melted chocolate.

text: In the 1971 film, although he eats constantly, he has decent table manners, is not as obese as he is in the book, and is polite to Charlie and the other finalists. He is portrayed by Michael Bollner in this film. Since Bollner could not speak English fluently at the time of the film's production, the 1971 Augustus has fewer lines and less screen time.

text: In the 2005 film, Augustus is always shown consuming chocolate. He has a binge eating disorder and often has food smeared on his face. He is aloof and cruel towards Charlie in the one instance when they interact, as he offers him a Wonka Bar and then retracts it, saying Charlie should have brought some himself. As in the book, he is shown leaving the factory toward the end of the story; but in this version, he is his normal size, licking his fingers to remove the adherent chocolate he is still coated in. The actor, Philip Wiegratz, wore a fat suit for the production.

text: In the 2013 London musical, Augustus Gloop is known as "the Bavarian Beefcake" in his Alpine community. His mother and father indulge his eating habits with sweets and pieces of sausage of which they (and sometimes Augustus) butcher themselves. In his number, "More of Him to Love", Frau Gloop reveals that she had vital organs removed to retrieve Augustus from the womb. They arrive at the factory wearing traditional Eastern European clothing, with Augustus in a red, argyle sweater and green shorts. When Augustus falls into the chocolate river Wonka summons the diversionary pumping system to divert the flow, while Oompa Loompas dressed in red boiler suits sing, "Auf Wiedersehen Augustus Gloop", as they prepare the chocolate, while Augustus travels through the main industrial pipe, occasionally getting stuck.

text: Violet Beauregarde[edit]

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Violet Beauregarde

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character

First appearance
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Created by
Roald Dahl

Portrayed by

Denise Nickerson (1971)
AnnaSophia Robb (2005) India Ria Amarteifio, Adrianna Bertola, Jade Johnson, Mya Olaye, Lauren Halil, Rhianna Dorris, Sophie Naglik, Psalms-Nissi Myers-Reid, Armani Hall, Miriam Nyarko, Shaniquah Notice-Morris, Asha Banks, Liani Samuel (2013)
Trista Dollison (2017)

Voiced by
AnnaSophia Robb (2005 video game)
Dallas Lovato (Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)

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Gender
Female

Nationality
American

text: Violet Beauregarde is the third child to find a Golden Ticket, the second to be ejected from the tour and one of the four main antagonists of the series. She is the vain, self-centered, snobby, and gum-obsessed child. Violet chews gum obsessively and boasts that she has been chewing the same piece "for three months solid", a world record which Violet proclaims was previously held by her best friend Cornelia Prinzmetel. She is also aggressively competitive, prideful and has won trophies for gum chewing. In the 1971 film, she is shown to be from Miles City, Montana, while in the 2005 film, she is from Atlanta, Georgia.

text: When Wonka shows the group around the Inventing Room, he stops to display a new type of gum he is working on. The gum doubles as a three-course meal which is composed of tomato soup, roast beef and baked potato, and blueberry pie and ice cream. Violet is intrigued and, despite Wonka's protests, snatches and chews the gum. She is delighted by its effects but, when she reaches the dessert - blueberry pie - her skin starts turning a somewhat indigo color and her navel shows & her body begins to swell up, filling with juice. Eventually, Violet's head, legs, and arms get sucked into her gigantic body, but is still mobile and is able to waddle. When her swelling stops, she resembles a round blueberry, causing Wonka to have the Oompa-Loompas roll her to the Juicing Room to have the juice squeezed out of her in fear she may explode. She is last seen leaving the factory with the other children, restored to her normal size but with indigo skin like the skin of a blueberry. Wonka says there is nothing that can be done to change Violet's skin back to its original pigment.

text: In the 1971 film, Violet is impatient, arrogant, self-centered, vain, and impulsive. She is accompanied with her father, Sam Beauregarde, who is a fast talking car salesman who tries to advertise his business on TV in Violet's interview. Cornelia Prinzmetel was mentioned in this film and Violet demeans her more than she did in the book. She has a notable rivalry with Veruca Salt, and the two often argue. Her blueberry form is relatively small with her hair color unchanged. Violet is told that she must be juiced immediately before she explodes and is last seen en route to the Juicing Room, with her father behind her.

text: In the 2005 film, Violet has a rude, impatient and competitive personality. Aside from gum-chewing, she also has many other interests that reflect her obsession with always winning, such as karate. She is accompanied by her single mother, Scarlett Beauregarde (a former baton champion herself) whose own competitive personality appears to have had an influence on her daughter, as Scarlett prides over Violet's 263 trophies and medals. Cornelia Prinzmetel was not mentioned in this film. She is also shown to be anti-social and bullying when she briefly insults Charlie, snatching a piece of confectionery from his hand and calling him a loser when he tries to interact with her. She swells up into a 10-foot boulder-sized blueberry almost reaching the Inventing Room's catwalks and also, to the point where her tracksuit can no longer fit. In this film, Violet is not told that she might explode, and she is rolled off to the Juicing Room by the Oompa Loompas. Violet is shown leaving the factory gymnastically cartwheeling as a consequence of her increased flexibility, which she is actually happy about, although her mother is less than pleased with her daughter permanently being indigo.

text: In the 2013 Sam Mendes London musical, Violet Beauregarde is portrayed as an African-American, Californian fame-hungry wanna-be, with her agent/father Eugene Beauregarde parlaying her mundane talent of gum chewing into celebrity status, with multitude of endorsements including her own TV show, line of perfume, and a clothing boutique franchise. Her theme is called "The Double-Bubble Duchess". It is revealed that Violet's chewing "skill" was picked up when she was a baby and her mom tried to get her to stop talking all the time. Violet and her father are escorted by an entourage to the factory entrance. Violet comes dressed in a sparkly purple and pink disco jumper and a pink backpack. Upon swelling in the influence of the experimental gum (which consisted of tomato soup, roast chicken, potatoes and gravy, Fizzy Orange, cheese and crackers and blueberry pie), she panics and runs away as the Oompa Loompas break into an disco number, "Juicy" , and roller skate along the stage as Violet lifts into the air, resembling a giant purple disco-ball. Mr. Beauregarde phones his lawyer excitedly, with intent to profit from Violet's new size, until Violet explodes. Wonka's only reassurance of her survival is the prospect of rescuing the pieces and de-juicing them. In the Broadway version, the song "Juicy" is cut out (the only child-exit song to be cut from the London version), and Violet instead becomes a blueberry and explodes in the background while Wonka explains how he met the Ooompa-Loompas to the group.

text: Veruca Salt[edit]

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Veruca Salt

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character

First appearance
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Created by
Roald Dahl

Portrayed by

Julie Dawn Cole (1971)
Julia Winter (2005) Polly Allen, Tia Noakes, Ellie Simons, Scarlet Roche, Matilda Belton, Amy Carter, Hannah Howland, Ellie Benge, Ella Tweed, Stella Haden, Lauren Henson, Daisy Sequerra (2013)
Emma Pfaeffle (2017)

Voiced by
Julia Winter (2005 video game)
Emily O'Brien (Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)

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Gender
Female

Nationality
British

text: Veruca Salt (in some early editions, Veruca Cruz) is a greedy, demanding, manipulative and stingy brat. She demands every single thing she wants (and more), the second person to find a Golden Ticket, the third eliminated from the tour and one of the four main antagonists of the series. A selfish, rotten brat who shows her wealthy family no mercy and has absolutely no regard for other people's property, Veruca frequently pesters her parents to purchase a variety of different objects for her. In the 2005 film, it is revealed that she owns 21 pets. But when she interferes with the trained squirrels used by Willy Wonka to select the best nuts to bake into chocolate bars, she is judged as a "bad nut" by the squirrels and discarded into the adjacent 'garbage chute' and her parents follow. All three are later seen leaving the factory "covered in garbage". Her nationality was never specified in Dahl's novel, but she hails from upper-class England in both films.

text: In the 1971 film adaptation, Veruca has a fiery temper, rudely demands various desires nonstop, brags about her wealth, and chastises anyone who questions her. In this film it is not squirrels but geese that lay special golden chocolate-filled eggs for Easter which she wants for her new pet. She and Violet, in this film, bicker on two occasions. Veruca is eliminated at the end of her musical number in the film ("I Want it Now") after climbing a machine designed to tell whether or not the geese's eggs are "good" or "bad" eggs, and it judges her as a bad one. Her father then follows and is also deemed bad. In the Tom and Jerry version of the film, Veruca and her father manage to escape the furnace right before it ignites while trapping Tom inside. Veruca demands to be taken home and have her father make her a different chocolate factory, but Mr. Salt finally decides to discipline her as the near-death experience seems to have finally gotten to him.

text: In the 2005 film adaptation, Veruca's elimination remains virtually the same as in the book, with only a few changes made. Her demeanor is less vehement and more passive-aggressive compared to the 1971 version. When she leaves the factory (covered in trash), she demands a facsimile of the Great Glass Elevator. However, her father, having learned a good parenting lesson from the Oompa-Loompas and finally realizing how much he has spoiled her, sternly tells her that she will only be getting a bath that day instead, and shoots her a fierce glare for trying to argue any further.

text: In the 2013 Sam Mendes London musical, Veruca Salt is a British billionaire's daughter, dressed in a pink ballerina tutu and baby seal fur coat - "clubbed and tickled pink". Her father, Sir Robert Salt, is portrayed as a spineless dolt for giving his daughter her wishes. In the Nut Sorting Room, Veruca runs foul of the nut-testing squirrels who deem her a 'bad nut' when she tries to steal one. This summons oversized squirrels with Oompa Loompas riding on their backs. They sing a nightmarish ballet "Veruca's Nutcracker Sweet" that concludes with Veruca and her father sent down the garbage chute. In the Broadway version, Veruca's nationality is changed to Russian, and the squirrels tear her apart limb by limb, but Wonka assures the group that the Ooompa-Loompas will be able to put her back together.

text: Mike Teavee[edit]

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Mike Teavee

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character

First appearance
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Created by
Roald Dahl

Portrayed by

Paris Themmen (1971)
Jordan Fry (2005) Jay Heyman, Adam Mitchell, Luca Toomey, Daniel Rhodes, Innis Robertson-Pinnell, Dylan Standen, Archie Durrant, Freddie Haggerty, Harry Vallance, Frankie-Leon Rossell, Jude Ponting (2013)
Michael Wartella (2017)

Voiced by
Jordan Fry (2005 video game)
Lauren Weisman (Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)

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Gender
Male

Nationality
American

text: Mike Teavee, a boy that does nothing but watch television, is the fourth Golden Ticket finder, the last removed on-tour and one of the four main antagonists of the series. He was described as adorned with eighteen toy pistols that he ‘fires’ while watching gangsters on TV. He is bad-tempered, slothful but also intelligent. How he found his Golden Ticket is never explained in the book or 1971 film as he is too absorbed in his television viewing to talk to the press about it. In the 2005 film, he does have an explanation on how he found the Golden Ticket: he used an algorithm to find it as an intellectual exercise. In the book, both of Mike's parents tour the factory with him. During a display of miniaturization technology, used to transport chocolate, Mike shrinks himself to a tiny size, Willy Wonka has an Oompa-Loompa take the Teavee family to the Gum-Stretcher Room to get Mike stretched back to normal. Mike is last seen exiting the factory, now 10 ft (3 m) tall because the Oompa-Loompas overstretched him. After he got shrunk when his parents lament that he won't be able to attend school, Mike happily says he can continue watching TV. His angry father then blames the TV for Mike's poor behavior and decides to unplug it and throw it out the window when they get home, much to Mike's displeasure.

text: In the 1971 film, Mike is played by Paris Themmen and his surname is spelled "Teevee" in the credits. Mike is nine years old and accompanied to the factory by his high-strung mother. He's from Arizona, enjoys Western films and wears cowboy attire. He makes constant references to television shows throughout the factory tour and comes across as somewhat of a know-it-all. Although easily annoyed, he does not have any major anger issues and gets along relatively well with the other kids.

text: In the 2005 film, 13-year-old Mike's (portrayed by Jordan Fry) interests are updated to the Internet and video games (especially gory first-person shooters), in addition to television viewing (the book and the 1971 film predated both of these). In this version, he's from Denver, Colorado, portrayed as more disrespectful. Whenever he says anything to Wonka that criticizes the factory or Wonka's ideas, Wonka pretends not to understand what Mike is saying, despite Mike obviously speaking very clearly. He retains intelligence like the other versions as he was able to find the Golden Ticket by using math and logic, though he admits he does not even like chocolate. After the incident in the 'Television Chocolate' room, Willy Wonka has an Oompa-Loompa take Mr. Teavee and Mike to the Taffy-Puller Room to have Mike stretched back to normal. Mike and his father are later seen leaving the factory where Mike is 10 ft (3 m) tall and incredibly thin as if a 2D shape.

text: In the 2013 Sam Mendes London musical, Mike Teavee (now age 10) lives in a suburban neighborhood with his disinterested father Norman Teavee and neurotic, alcoholic mother, Doris Teavee. Their opening number, "It's Teavee Time!" has Mrs. Teavee presenting her family as a normal, functioning household, downplaying Mike's violent tendencies like setting a cat on fire, chloroforming a nurse, and stealing a German tank. In the Department of the Future, where Wonka transmits chocolate by television, Mike anxiously jumps into the machine and transmits himself, much to his mother's horror. Wonka summons the monitors to see on which channel Mike has ended, as the Oompa Loompas rave around the room, singing, 'Vidiots'. Near the end, Mrs. Teavee joins the rave, as they conclude that Mike still has a future on 'Mike.com'. When Mike is shrunk as a result of the transporter, Mrs. Teavee happily takes him home as he can no longer cause trouble and she can take care of him like when he was a baby. In the Broadway version of the musical, lyrics in Mike's song and some of Mike's mannerisms reference president Donald Trump.

text: Arthur Slugworth[edit]

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Arthur Slugworth

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character

First appearance
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Created by
Roald Dahl

Portrayed by
Günter Meisner (1971)
Phil Philmar (2005)

Voiced by
Mick Wingert (Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)

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Gender
Male

text: In the book, Arthur Slugworth is one of Willy Wonka's rival chocolatiers. Slugworth, along with Wonka's other rivals Mr. Fickelgruber and Mr. Prodnose, sent in spies to steal the secret recipes to Wonka's treats, which he plagiarized, nearly ruining Wonka's factory. After Wonka re-opens his factory (operated exclusively by Oompa-Loompas), Slugworth is never heard from again, but it is stated that Fickelgruber would give each of his front teeth to enter Wonka's inventing room (laboratory/chocolate room in the book) for three minutes.

text: Slugworth has a much larger role as an enigmatic villain in the 1971 film. Inside Bill's Candy Shop, Wonka's products and signs are the most visible; but Slugworth's Sizzlers are also prominent, and one is even sold to a child. Also seen are signs for Fickelgruber's candy. Grandpa Joe describes Slugworth as the worst of Wonka's rivals. As each Golden Ticket is found, a sinister man approaches the finder and whispers something into his or her ear. After Charlie finds the last ticket, the same man approaches Charlie as well, introduces himself as Arthur Slugworth, and bribes the child to bring him one piece of the newly invented 'Everlasting Gobstopper', allowing him to plagiarize the formula and prevent the future invention from ruining his business. Two of the children respond to Slugworth's bribe; but Charlie, when tempted, returns the Everlasting Gobstopper to Wonka. Wonka eventually reveals that the tempter is not Slugworth, but his own employee Mr. Wilkinson, and that his offer was a moral test of character. Slugworth/Wilkinson was played by Günter Meisner, a West German actor.

text: Slugworth only makes a split-second appearance in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where he alongside Mr. Ficklegruber and Mr. Prodnose are sending spies to steal ingredients from Wonka's factory. He is here played by Philip Philmar.

text: In the Tom and Jerry version of the 1971 film, Slugworth's role as a villain is expanded. When he first meets Charlie, he sings a cover of Veruca's song, "I Want it Now!" and also sings it as a duet with Veruca during her downfall. He teams up with Spike to steal a Gobstopper from the factory, but the two are thwarted by Charlie, Tom, and Jerry. Despite being more emphasized as a villain, he is still revealed to be Wonka's employee Mr. Wilkinson.

text: Mr. Turkentine[edit]

text: Mr. Turkentine is Charlie Bucket's school teacher and appears in the first film in 1971, but not in the book or the 2005 film. He has an odd sense of humor which he uses to express knowledge. He asks Charlie to assist him in making a medicine using several scientific elements for the class but the project is interrupted due to the frantic golden ticket search for Willy Wonka. Mr. Turkentine when hearing the news about the golden tickets during the project dismisses the class and runs out. Later when it is revealed that all the tickets have supposedly been found ending with a Paraguayan millionaire he decides to use Wonka bars as an example to teach his class about percentages. He uses a few students as examples for the class, including Charlie. Charlie however reveals that he only opened two Wonka bars during the search and so to help make it easier for his class, he decides to pretend Charlie opened 200. Mr. Turkentine is played by British actor David Battley.

text: Prince Pondicherry[edit]

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Prince Pondicherry

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character

First appearance
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Created by
Roald Dahl

Portrayed by
Nitin Ganatra (2005)

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Gender
Male

text: Prince Pondicherry is a prince who lives in India. He appears in the third chapter of the novel when Grandpa Joe is telling Charlie a story. In the story, Willy Wonka makes him a chocolate palace in India, that melts in the hot weather, as he had rejected Willy Wonka's advice to eat it before it melted in the heat. His name derives from the city of Pondicherry (officially spelled Puducherry since 2006) in southeastern India.

text: He is absent from the 1971 film version, but makes a brief appearance in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where he is played by Nitin Ganatra. His story here matches that in the book, except in depicting his wife (Shelley Conn) and stating that the Prince demanded a second palace, but was refused.

text: Oompa-Loompas[edit]

text: Oompa-Loompas are small humans who would end up being preyed upon or attacked by the various predators that also reside in Loompaland before Wonka invited them to work at his factory and are paid in their favorite food, cocoa beans, which were extremely rare on their island. The Oompa-Loompas are also mischievous, loving practical jokes and singing songs which, according to Wonka, they are very good at improvising. They sing at the end of each child's demise.

text: In early editions of the novel, the Oompa-Loompas (originally called "Whipple-Scrumpets" before publication[2]) are shown as African pygmies before Dahl rewrote them to be white-skinned and golden haired. In both editions, despite working in the factory, Oompa-Loompas insist on maintaining their native clothing: men wear skins, women wear leaves, and children wear nothing.

text: In the 1971 film, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, they were written to be played by actors with dwarfism and are portrayed as orange-skinned, green-haired men in striped shirts and baggy lederhosen-like pants. Prominent portrayers: Angelo Muscat, Rusty Goffe, George Claydon, Rudy Borgstaller, Jo Kilkenny, Andy Wilday, Malcolm Dixon, Ismed Hassan, Norman Mcglen, Pepe Poupee, Marcus Powell, and Albert Wilkinson.

text: In the 2005 film, the Oompa-Loompas are all played by Kenyan actor Deep Roy and are virtually identical. They wear their tribal clothing during their time in Loompaland, and typical factory worker uniforms in Wonka's Factory. Some of the female Oompa-Loompas like Doris work in the administration offices.

text: Some individuals enjoy L.A.R.Ping under the roles of fictional characters such as Oompa-Loompas. An example of a famous figure who enjoys this is Donald Trump. A common misconception about Trump is he has had his skin colored to match the hue of a carrot; however it is to match the coloration of an Oompa-Loompa. He claims he plans on undergoing a procedure to decrease his height and make him approximately 3'6. He has already had surgery conducted n his hands to resemble those of the Oompa-Loompas. In a recent interview he told People that he has almost sixty-five operations banned for the future to undergo this transformation.

text: Vermicious Knids[edit]

text: Vermicious Knids are a fictional species of amorphous aliens that invade the Space Hotel "U.S.A." in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

text: They are also mentioned in the 1971 feature film adaptation, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, but here are mentioned only as predators of the Oompa-Loompas.

text: In the book, Vermicious Knids are huge, dark, egg-shaped predators who swallow their victims whole, and are capable of surviving, operating, and traveling faster than light, in the vacuum of space. Although normally oviform, they can assume any shape at will, while retaining their native texture and features. They originate (according to Mr. Wonka) on the planet Vermes, a fictional planet located (in dialogue) 184,270,000,000 miles (2.9655×1011 kilometres) from Earth (52 times Pluto's distance). In the presence of victims, they cannot resist shaping themselves to spell the word "SCRAM" (the only word they know) before they attack.

text: In Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, a swarm of Knids take possession of the new Space Hotel "U.S.A.". When the transport capsule brings the staff to the Space Hotel, the Knids consume some of the staff, and the survivors retreat to the capsule. There, the Knids bludgeon the capsule with their own bodies, until its retro-rockets are useless; whereupon Wonka, Charlie, and Grandpa Joe connect the capsule to the Elevator, in hope of towing it to Earth, and one Knid wraps itself around the Elevator while the others form a chain, intending to draw the Elevator and capsule to their home planet. The Elevator then returns to Earth, and the Knids are incinerated in Earth's atmosphere.

text: When Nestle created their interpretation of Wonka's world to sell chocolate bars under the name "Wonka", they released a number of downloadable flash games, wherein Knids seem to have entered the factory and have the appearance of flying green blobs with single red eyes.

text: The etymology of the name was not provided by Dahl. Pronunciation of Knid is said in the book to approximate adding a schwa between the "K" and "nid", or in Dahl's words, "K'nid". Cnidaria is the name of the taxonomic phylum containing stinging aquatic invertebrates such as jellyfish and coral, itself derived from the classical Greek word for nettle, κνίδη. Vermicious is a real word, meaning "worm like".

text: The Vermicious Knids are also mentioned in other Dahl stories, including James and the Giant Peach (where the New York Police Department misidentify Miss Spider as one) and The Minpins.

text: Other characters[edit]

text: Portrayed in other media[edit]

text:
Name
1971 film
2005 film
Tom and Jerry

Mrs. Bucket
Diana Sowle
Helena Bonham Carter
Kate Higgins

Mr. Bucket
Deceased
Noah Taylor
Deceased

Mrs. Gloop
Ursula Reit
Franziska Troegner
Audrey Wasilewski

Mr. Gloop
Kurt Großkurth (uncredited)
Harry Taylor
No dialogue

Mrs. Teavee
Dodo Denney
Cameo (uncredited)
Lori Alan

Mr. Teavee
Michael Goodliffe
Adam Godley
No dialogue

Mrs. Beauregarde
Cameo (uncredited)
Missi Pyle
Absent

Mr. Beauregarde
Leonard Stone
Absent
Jess Harnell

Mrs. Salt
Pat Coombs (uncredited)
Francesca Hunt
No dialogue

Mr. Salt
Roy Kinnear
James Fox
Sean Schemmel

Grandma Josephine
Franziska Liebing (uncredited)
Eileen Essell
No dialogue

Grandma Georgina
Dora Altmann (uncredited)
Liz Smith
No dialogue

Grandpa George
Ernst Ziegler (uncredited)
David Morris
No dialogue

Shopkeeper
Aubrey Woods
Oscar James
Jeff Bergman

Dr. Wilbur Wonka
Absent
Christopher Lee
Absent

Winkelmann
Peter Stuart
Absent
Rachel Butera

Newscaster
Steve Dunne (uncredited)
Todd Boyce
Jim Ward

Tinker
Peter Capell
Absent
Absent

Mr. Joepack
Werner Heyking
Absent
Absent

Computer Scientist
Tim Brooke-Taylor (uncredited)
Absent
Absent

Auctioneer
Frank Delfino (uncredited)
Absent
Absent

Prodnose
Absent
Criss Cresswell
Absent

Ficklegruber
Absent
Tony Kirwood
Absent

Young Willy Wonka
Absent
Blair Dunlop
Absent

Princess Pondicherry
Absent
Shelley Conn
Absent

Narrator
Absent
Geoffrey Holder
Absent

text: Excluded from the published book[edit]

text: As detailed in unpublished drafts of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, far more than five children got the golden ticket to tour Willy Wonka's secret chocolate factory, far more than four were eliminated, and the children faced more rooms and more temptations to test their self-control.[3]