Peter Ostrum: Charlie Bucket
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Quotes
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Willy Wonka : How did you like the chocolate factory, Charlie?
Charlie : I think it's the most wonderful place in the whole world!
Willy Wonka : I'm very pleased to hear you say that, because I'm giving it to you.
Grandpa Joe : [sounding shocked] You're giving Charlie the...?
Willy Wonka : I can't go on forever, and I don't really want to try. So who can I trust to run the factory when I leave and take care of the Oompa Loompas for me? Not a grown up. A grown up would want to do everything his own way, not mine. So that's why I decided a long time ago that I had to find a child. A very honest, loving child, to whom I could tell all my most precious candy making secrets.
Charlie : So that's why you sent out the golden tickets!
Willy Wonka : That's right. So the factory is yours, Charlie. You can move in immediately.
Grandpa Joe : And me?
Willy Wonka : Absolutely.
Charlie : But what happens to the rest...?
Willy Wonka : The whole family. I want you to bring them all.
[Willy and Charlie hug]
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[last lines]
Willy Wonka : But Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.
Charlie : What happened?
Willy Wonka : He lived happily ever after.
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Charlie : Mr. Wonka, they won't really be burned in the furnace, will they?
Willy Wonka : Hm... well, I think that furnace is only lit every other day, so they have a good sporting chance, haven't they?
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Grandpa Joe : Well, Mr. Salt finally got what he wanted.
Charlie : What's that?
Grandpa Joe : Veruca went first.
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Mrs. Gloop : What a disgusting, dirty river!
Mr. Salt : Industrial waste, that. You've ruined your watershed Wonka: it's polluted.
Willy Wonka : It's chocolate.
Veruca Salt : That's chocolate?
Charlie : That's chocolate!
Violet Beauregarde : A chocolate river.
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Charlie : [about the Wonkamobile] Is this going to go fast, Grandpa?
Grandpa Joe : It should, Charlie; it's got more gas in it than a politician.
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[Willy Wonka and the group are still on the boat and are at the hallway outside the inventing room]
Willy Wonka : We're there.
Mrs. Teevee : Where?
Willy Wonka : Here. A small step for mankind, but a giant step for us. All ashore!
Mr. Beauregarde : Let me off this crate!
Mike Teevee : Now why don't they show stuff like that on T.V.?
Mrs. Teevee : I don't know.
Mr. Salt : What a nightmare.
Veruca Salt : Daddy, I do not want a boat like this.
[Charlie and Grandpa Joe look and read a sign at the door]
Charlie : Dairy cream...
Grandpa Joe : Whipped cream...
Charlie : Coffee cream...
Grandpa Joe : Vanilla cream...
Charlie , Grandpa Joe : Hair cream?
Willy Wonka : Meine Herrschaften, schenken Sie mir ihre aufmerksamkeit.
[Translation: My dominions, please give me your attention]
Mrs. Teevee : That's not French.
Willy Wonka : Sie kommen jetzt in den interessantesten und gleichzeitig geheimsten raum meiner fabrik.
[Translation: You have now come to the most interesting and, at the same time, the most secret room of my factory]
Mr. Salt : I can't take much more of this.
Willy Wonka : Meine Damen und Herren, der Inventing Room.
[Translation: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Inventing Room]
Willy Wonka : Now, remember: No messing about, no touching, no tasting, no telling.
Grandpa Joe : No telling what?
Willy Wonka : You see, all of my most secret inventions are cooking and simmering in here. Old Slugworth would give his false teeth to get inside for just five minutes, so don't touch a thing!
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Charlie : [to Grandpa Joe, after opening the Wonka bar they think has the last Golden Ticket in it] You know... I'll bet those Golden Tickets make the chocolate taste terrible.
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[Charlie and Grandpa Joe are floating in the fizzy lifting room]
[Grandpa Joe does a somersault in midair]
Charlie : Hey, you did it, Grandpa.
Grandpa Joe : Ohhhh... ohhhh, I think I hit an air pocket.
Charlie : You can fly to the moon this way.
Grandpa Joe : Let's just fly south for the winter.
Charlie : Why not? I'm a bird!
Grandpa Joe : I'm a plaaaaaaane!
Charlie : I'm... going too high!
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[Willy Wonka greets Charlie and Grandpa Joe at the gates of the WONKA factory]
Willy Wonka : And who is this gentleman?
Charlie : My grandfather, Grandpa Joe.
Willy Wonka : [vigorously shaking Grandpa Joe's hand] Delighted to meet you, sir. Overjoyed, enraptured, entranced. Are we ready? Yes, good. In we go.
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Charlie : [as the Wonkatania is going through the tunnel, to Grandpa Joe] This is kind of strange.
Grandpa Joe : [excitedly] Yes, it's strange, Charlie, but it's fun! Ha-ha!
[they grin at each other]
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Charlie Bucket : Mr. Wonka, what'll happen to the other kids? Augustus, Veruca?
Willy Wonka : My dear boy, I promise you they'll be quite all right. When they leave here, they'll be completely restored to their normal, terrible old selves. But maybe they'll be a little bit wiser for the wear. Anyway, don't worry about them.
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[Wonka walks down the hall which gets shorter as it goes on in the skewed perspective room]
Charlie : Hey, the room is getting smaller.
Mrs. Teevee : No, it's not. He's getting bigger!
Mr. Salt : He's at it again!
Mike Teevee : Where's the chocolate?
Mr. Beauregarde : I doubt if there is any.
Mr. Salt : I doubt if any of us will get out of here alive.
Willy Wonka : Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
Mrs. Gloop : You're not squeezing me through that tiny door!
Mr. Salt : You're off your bleeding nut, Wonka. No one can get through there!
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Mr. Turkentine : Charlie Bucket, how many did you open?
Charlie : Two.
Mr. Turkentine : That's easy. 200 is twice 100...
Charlie : Not 200, just two.
Mr. Turkentine : Two? What do you mean you only opened two?
Charlie : I don't care very much for chocolate.
Mr. Turkentine : Well, I can't figure out just two! So let's pretend you opened 200. Now, if you opened 200 Wonka bars, apart from being dreadfully sick, you'd have used up 20% of 1,000, which is 15% half over again, 10%...
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Charlie : [after eating the now-shrunken Wonka bar] It's perfect.
Mrs. Teevee : It's unbelievable!
Grandpa Joe : It's a miracle!
Mike Teevee : It's a TV dinner!
Willy Wonka : It's Wonkavision.
Grandpa Joe : It could change the world!
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Charlie : [as Violet blows up into a blueberry] Why won't she listen to Mr. Wonka?
Grandpa Joe : Because, Charlie, she's a nitwit.
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Charlie : Hey Grandpa, what was that we just went through?
Willy Wonka : Hsaw Aknow.
Mrs. Teevee : Is that Japanese?
Willy Wonka : No, that's Wonka wash, spelled backwards. That's it, ladies and gentlemen, the journey's over!
Grandpa Joe : Finest bath, I've had in twenty years!
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Augustus Gloop : [drinking from the chocolate river] Mm, this stuff is terrific.
Charlie : Grandpa, look at Augustus!
Grandpa Joe : Don't worry, he can't drink it all.
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Willy Wonka : [In the Wonkavator] Faster, faster; if we don't pick up enough speed, we'll never get through!
Charlie : Get through what?
Willy Wonka : Aha!
Grandpa Joe : You mean we're going...?
Willy Wonka : Up and out!
Grandpa Joe : But this roof is made of glass! It'll shatter into a thousand pieces! We'll be cut to ribbons!
Willy Wonka : Probably.
[Charlie begins to look nervous]
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Charlie : [referring to Augustus' being stuck in the pipe] He'll never get out.
Grandpa Joe : Yes, he will, Charlie. Watch. Remember when you once asked me how a bullet comes out of a gun?
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Willy Wonka : This is the great glass Wonkavator.
Grandpa Joe : It's an elevator.
Willy Wonka : It's a Wonkavator. An elevator can only go up and down, but the Wonkavator can go sideways, and slantways, and longways, and backways...
Charlie : And frontways?
Willy Wonka : ...and squareways, and front ways, and any other ways that you can think of. It can take you to any room in the whole factory just by pressing one of these buttons. Any of these buttons. Just press a button, and *zing*! You're off. And up until now, I've pressed them all... except one.
[gestures to a button near the top of the Wonkavator]
Willy Wonka : This one. Go ahead, Charlie.
Charlie : Me?
[Willy Wonka nods as Charlie presses the button]
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Mrs. Teevee : [while waiting for Mike to appear on the screen] Why is it taking so long?
Charlie : A million pieces take a long time to put together.
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Charlie : [Takes loaf of bread from his knapsack and holds it up for everyone to see] How 'bout this?
Mrs. Bucket : Charlie, where'd you get that?
Grandpa Joe : What difference does it make where he got it? Point is he got it.
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Willy Wonka : [Last line] Be sure to bring your family with you. And Charlie, Don't forget about the man suddenly gets everything he ever wanted.
Charlie Bucket : What happened to him?
Willy Wonka : He lived happily ever after.
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Mrs. Bucket : Wait, stop! It says the first of October, that's tomorrow!
Grandpa Joe : [to Charlie] Jumping crocodiles, Charlie! We've got a lot to do; Comb your hair, wash your face, polish your shoes and brush your teeth.
Mrs. Bucket : I'll take care of everything, dad.
Grandpa Joe : We don't have too much time.
Charlie : Grandpa? On the way home today, I ran into Mr. Slugworth.
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Charlie : Hi, everybody.
Grandpa Joe : [to Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina] Wake up. Wake up. Charlie's home.
Charlie : Grandpa George. Grandma Georgina. Grandma Josephine. Grandpa Joe.
[looks at the cabbage soup]
Charlie : Is this your supper, Grandpa?
Grandpa Joe : Well, it's yours, too, Charlie.
Charlie : I'm fed up with cabbage water. It's not enough.
Grandma Georgina : Charlie!
Grandma Josephine : It's all we have.
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Mr. Beauregarde : [looks shocked when Violet begins swelling] Violet, what are you doing now? You're blowing up!
Violet Beauregarde : I feel funny.
[her belt pops off her expanding abdomen]
Grandpa Joe : I'm not surprised.
Violet Beauregarde : [continues expanding] What's happening?
Mr. Beauregarde : You're blowing up like a balloon!
Willy Wonka : Like a blueberry.
Mr. Beauregarde : Somebody, do something. Call the doctor!
[Mike Teevee poking at Violet's expanding body]
Mrs. Teevee : Stick her with a pin.
Charlie : She'll pop!
Willy Wonka : It happens every time, they all become blueberries.
Mr. Beauregarde : You've really done it this time, haven't you, Wonka. I'll break you for this.
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Veruca Salt : Hey daddy, I want a golden goose!
Charlie : Here we go again.
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Charlie : After I finished my paper route, I was in front of Wonka's. There was this strange man there. I think he was a tinker. He was standing right behind me, looking up at the factory. Just before he left, he said, Nobody ever goes in, and nobody ever comes out.
Grandpa Joe : And right he was, Charlie. Not since the tragic day that Willy Wonka locked it.
Charlie : Why did he lock it?
Grandpa Joe : Because all the other chocolate makers in the world were sending in spies dressed as workers to steal Mr. Wonka's secret recipes, especially Slugworth. Oh, that Slugworth, he was the worst! Finally, Mr. Wonka shouted, "I shall be ruined! Close the factory!" And that's just what he did. He locked the gates and vanished completely. And then suddenly, about three years later, the most amazing thing happened! The factory started working again, full blast! And more delicious candies were coming out than ever before, but the gates stayed locked so that no one, not even Mr. Slugworth could steal them.
Charlie : But, Grandpa, someone must be helping Mr. Wonka work the factory.
Grandpa Joe : Thousands must be helping him.
Charlie : But who? Who are they?
Grandpa Joe : That is the biggest mystery of them all.
