Charlie Bucket (Films)

Charlie Bucket is the main protagonist of the 1971 Mel Stuart movie , and the titular main protagonist of the Tim Burton movie , based on the 1964 Roald Dahl novel with the same name. 
He is portrayed by (in his only film role) in 1971, and by in 2005, who also portrayed Arthur, Norman Bates, Jared Grace, Simon Grace, Shaun Murphy, Astro Boy, and Jimbo Farrar.
==Biography==
===1971 film===
Charlie watches a candy shop as the owner sings a song about Wonka and goes to see his boss Mr. Jopeck to get the papers and passes Wonka's factory where a tinkerer tells him a story about how no one comes in or out and mentions little men. Charlie arrives home after work where he sees his mother, and both sets of grandparents. Charlie talks with Grandpa Joe who told Charlie that Wonka closed the factory when other candy factories in the world was stealing recipes from him.
Charlie later goes to school where his teacher shows him a science experiment intended to cure warts. Just then another student, arrives and explains that Wonka has opened a contest to find five children to invite into the factory. When Joe suggests Charlie find them all, Charlie declines this. Charlie also gets a scarf and Wonka bar on his birthday. However, the bar had no ticket, and his family was not interested in having it.
Later, Charlie watches the news at a used car shop where the owner's daughter Violet won the third golden ticket. That night, Charlie visits his mother who was helping clean laundry where they talk about the events as of the third ticket being procured. His mother proceeds to sing as he heads back home. After Mike Teavee won his golden ticket, Grandpa Joe gives Charlie another Wonka bar only for that to come up empty as well.
Following Alberto supposedly finding a ticket in South America, Charlie begins walking back home after school to find some money in a drain and buy a couple more Wonka bars where he learns that Alberto falsified his ticket and finds the actual last one in his second bar that day. While Joe Peck defends Charlie from the crowd, the boy runs through a tunnel where he is met by a man who claims to be Slugworth and tries to offer him money and a better home in exchange for bringing him an Everlasting Gobstopper.
He gets home where he shows them the ticket and explains how fraudulent Alberto was. Grandpa and Charlie proceed to dance until Charlie's mother explains that they must go to the factory tomorrow. At the opening of the tour, Charlie spots the man who was supposedly Slugworth. Soon Wonka takes Charlie, Joe, and the other kids accompanied by one parent each proceed to tour the factory where Charlie witnesses the other kids disregard their safety such as Augustus falling into the chocolate river and getting sucked up a pipe despite Charlie's efforts, then Violet getting inflated into a blueberry as a result of eating flawed gum without Wonka's consent, Veruca falling down a garbage chute when her weight exceeds the scale during her song about wanting a golden goose, and Mike Teavee shrinking as a result of getting in front of a tv camera designed to shrink whatever it hits.
After the tour, Charlie and Grandpa Joe were instructed by Wonka to leave while he heads to his office. Realizing they did not get the chocolate, Grandpa Joe decides to head in and Wonka screams at them for the incident with the Fizzy Lifting Drinks where not only did they nearly die as a result of disobeying his warnings about drinking them, but they also bumped into the ceiling which now needs to be cleaned. Wonka then tells them that Charlie was also disqualified as a result. Grandpa Joe tries to convince Charlie to sell the gobstopper to Slugworth.
However, Charlie refuses and gives up the Gobstopper back to Wonka who not only reinstates Charlie's prize, he also revealed "Slugworth" was really his friend Mr. Wilkinson who tested Charlie for his worth about being a potential heir for the chocolate factory. Wonka then takes Charlie and Joe on a ride in his flying glass elevator as he heads off to pick up the rest of Charlie's family so they can move in.
===2005 Film===
Charlie is introduced shivering in the snow as he walks back home where he gets greeted by his father who brought him home broken toothpaste caps which Charlie was using to build a model of Wonka and his factory.
Charlie also learned of Grandpa Joe's life as a Wonka employee into the day he opened his factory. After Prince Pondecherri's chocolate palace melts in the desert sun, Joe and other employees got fired as a result of spies stealing recipes for Wonka's rivals.
Charlie also learns that after Wonka opened his factory fairly recently, only the candies were coming out of the factory. Later that night, Charlie found posters advertising five golden tickets hidden in five Wonka bars as part of a contest to tour their creator's factory.
Soon, Charlie finds out that four other children have been getting a Golden Ticket across the world either by tv or the newspapers. Eventually, Charlie's father loses his job when new machines replace him.
After finding that the ticket found in Russia was fake, Charlie finds the real last one in a candy shop where the owner defends him as he heads home. He shows the ticket to his grandfather who agrees to take Charlie to the factory as he knew the most about the factory. 
At the factory along side the other ticket winners, Charlie watches a puppet show where the dolls used get caught on fire and Wonka pops up to show he was watching the show. This starts off the factory tour where they find a room containing a meadow made of candy. Wonka also shows the waterfall made of chocolate.
However, while Wonka was introducing the Oompa Loompas that helped him run the factory and the pipe that was sucking up the chocolate, the group finds Augustus eating chocolate from the other side when he loses his footing and falls into the river, leading to him getting sucked up and stuck in the pipe.
The Oompa Loompas proceed to sing a song about Augustus's gluttony before he manages to get unstuck while Wonka has an Oompa Loompa escort his mother to retrieve her son. The remainder of the group proceed to ride a seahorse like boat rowed by a group of Oompa Loompas to the inventing room where Violet chewed on flawed gum against Wonka's wishes.
They then walk to the room where squirrels break nuts out of shells for Wonka where he refused to sell the Salts when asked. She slipped into the room where she tries to steal one of the squirrels, leading to them to attack her and send her down the garbage chute. Towards the end of a song about how Veruca was spoiled, a squirrel pushes Mr. Salt into the chute as well.
Wonka then takes his remaining guests via the Glass Elevator to the TV Room where they watch TV camera shrink a massive Wonka bar to the size of a normal one. Mike Teavee, following an argument with Wonka, rushed towards the TV camera, scaring some Oompa Loompas and stepping on the button that activates the TV camera, leading to him being shrunk.
As the channels change on the TV used, the Oompa Loompas make a song about how he watches too much TV. After the shrunken Mike is retrieved and escorted to the taffy room to stretch him back to normal size, Charlie was declared the winner and Wonka takes Charlie and his Grandpa Joe into the Glass Elevator to see Charlie's family.
When Wonka refused to let Charlie's family join him in the factory, Charlie turns down the idea of inheriting the factory if he does not let his family come. After the hole Wonka made in the house was fixed and Charlie's father became a repair man for the machine that replaced him, Charlie meets Wonka and convinces him to reconcile with his father.
This leads to Charlie's family being able to live in the factory.
==Quotes (1971)==
==Trivia==
*In the based on the 2005 film, Charlie has an exclusive act of heroism where he had to push Violet to the juicing machine to save her life.
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