The Moment : Ben Healy is a kind man who is in a bad relationship with his wife and disrespected by his father, who owns a successful sporting goods shop but refuses to hand it down to his son because he doesn’t think Ben has the predatory instincts needed for business. She’s the most bratty, spoiled rotten, obnoxious child of all time.
And we’re all glad! We are all saying, “Thank goodness! She was horrible!” And she really is.
Veruca, on the other hand, isn’t redeemable she throws tantrums, she yells and screams, she is rude to others and finally she gets sent down the trash shoot. All is forgiven and Ben and Junior walk off together as loving father and son. He still has the opportunity to be redeemed and reveals his true colours at the end when he thinks that Ben is dead and he apologizes for all his misdeeds and tells Ben that he loves him. He has been neglected and abandoned and is acting out because of it. This is infinitely worse than Junior from Problem Child, who is merely an unfortunate result of his environment. As such, she has become a full-fledged brat. We know that she is a brat, we know that her parents are the cause of the terrible behavior because they always let her have her way and they never set any rules but that doesn’t make us tolerate her behavior any more. Veruca Salt is the Winner Because: Veruca Salt embodies that bratty kid that we all know who we want nothing more than to slap in the face but don’t because of legal and social repercussions, not at all because of moral implications. Salt jumps down the chute to save his daughter and Willy Wonka calmly says, “There’ll be a lot of garbage today.” When her father asks where she has gone, Willy Wonka replies, “Where all the other bad eggs go, down the garbage chute.” Mr. She sings (or shrieks) “I want it now!” and goes about destroying the room, throwing things about and having a top tier tantrum, before stomping onto the Eggdicator which deems her to be a Bad Egg a trap door opens beneath her feet and she is dropped into the furnace room. Salt has told him that he is willing to pay any price, Veruca breaks into song. When Willy Wonka confidently declares that they are not for sale, even after Mr. As soon as she walks in the door, she shrieks at her father that she wants him to buy her one of the golden egg-laying geese.
The moment that really does it though, is when they enter the Golden Egg Room. When her father’s worker have been slaving from dawn until dusk for five days straight, Veruca screams in response, “Make ’em work nights!” When she finally does get the ticket, she continues to treat her father horribly yelling at him and even resorting to physical violence. We know straight away that she is a rotten egg as she gets her father to find the Golden Ticket for her. The Moment: The five children that have been granted access to the factory are Charlie, Mike Teavee (Paris Themmen), Violet Beauregard (Denise Nickerson), Augustus Gloop (Michael Bollner)… and Veruca Salt (Julie Dawn Cole) the worst and most misbehaved child to ever grace the silver screen. This Week’s Versus Moment: A Kid Behaving Very, Very Badly Melissa Picks: Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Summary: A young boy who spent his entire life going from house to house as his terrible behavior forces families to give him up, lands in the care of a mild-mannered sporting goods store employee who adopts Junior from a less than reputable agency and ends up with a wild child who is destructive, mean-spirited and a pen pal of an imprisoned serial killer. Director: Dennis Dugan Stars: Michael Oliver, John Ritter, Jack Warden