Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory · 1971 — 第 13 / 18 章 · 4'11" · B2

Violet Turns Into a Blueberry, Explained:get even with

Wonka unveils a gum that is a whole three-course dinner, and warns that it is not ready. Violet decides she wants it anyway: "So long as it's gum, that's for me." She chews through soup and roast beef, then turns blue and swells into a blueberry, and her father threatens revenge.

あらすじ

Wonka shows the group a piece of gum that contains an entire three-course meal and admits it is not quite right. Violet ignores the warnings and chews it anyway. The soup and roast beef taste perfect, but at dessert her face turns violet and she swells into a giant blueberry, so the Oompa Loompas roll her off to be squeezed.

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このシーンの表現

get even with

take revenge on someone

As his daughter swells up, Violet's father swears he will settle the score with Wonka.

She swore she would get even with her old boss.

このシーンの他の表現

  • by gum

    an old exclamation of surprise

  • bull

    nonsense, rubbish

  • nitwit

    a foolish person

  • lickable

    able to be licked

  • repulsive

    disgusting, repellent

このシーンのメモ一覧

66 行のセリフに 29 件のメモ

表現 · B1the most ... miracle

the greatest wonder

is the most enormous miracle of the Machine Age.
表現 · B2a ... giant

a giant in the candy trade

The creation of a confectionery giant.
発音it's gum

Link it's and gum into one smooth sound.

By gum, it's gum! WONKA: Wrong.
表現 · B1a ...-course dinner

a meal of three courses

- This tiny gum is a three-course dinner. - Bull.
スラング · B1Bull

nonsense — A blunt way to call something nonsense; keep it casual.

- This tiny gum is a three-course dinner. - Bull.
表現 · B1so long as ...

as long as

So long as it's gum, that's for me.
文法 · B1So long as

conditional clause: So long as sets the condition for the main clause that follows.

So long as it's gum, that's for me.
表現 · B1run down something

flowing down the throat

It's hot and creamy. I can feel it running down my throat.
表現 · A2listen to someone

pay attention to someone

- Why doesn't she listen to Mr. Wonka? - Because, Charlie, she's a nitwit.
スラング · B2nitwit

a foolish person — Fine among friends, insulting to strangers.

- Why doesn't she listen to Mr. Wonka? - Because, Charlie, she's a nitwit.
表現 · A2what's for dessert

what sweet dish is served

What's for dessert, baby? VIOLET: Dessert? Here it comes.
発音What's for

What's for blurs in fast speech; keep for weak.

What's for dessert, baby? VIOLET: Dessert? Here it comes.
スラング · B1Holy Toledo

an old exclamation of shock — A dated cry of shock; playful among friends.

Holy Toledo! What's happening to your face?
表現 · B1cool it

calm down

Cool it, Dad. Let me finish.
スラング · B1Cool it

calm down — A casual way to tell someone to calm down.

Cool it, Dad. Let me finish.
表現 · B1get something right

not yet made correct

I told you I hadn't got it right yet.
文法 · B2hadn't got it right

past perfect: The past perfect marks something not yet done before a past moment.

I told you I hadn't got it right yet.
発音hadn't got it

The t sounds soften as the phrase runs together.

I told you I hadn't got it right yet.
表現 · A2go wrong

turn out badly

It always goes wrong when we come to the dessert. Always.
表現 · B1blow up

swell up

- You're blowing up! - I feel funny!
表現 · B1it happens every time

it always ends this way

She'll pop. WONKA: It happens every time.
表現 · B2break someone

ruin someone

I'll break you for this.
文法 · B2immediately before

time clause: Immediately before marks that one action must come right before another.

She has to be squeezed immediately before she explodes.
表現 · B1a fairly simple operation

a rather easy procedure

- Explodes? - It's a fairly simple operation.
表現 · B1naughty, nasty ...

bad, unpleasant children

Well, well, two naughty, nasty little children gone.
表現 · A2go ahead

go on, do it

Lick a pineapple, it tastes like a pineapple. Go ahead, try it.
表現 · A2taste so real

tastes authentic

Grandpa, this banana's fantastic. It tastes so real.
表現 · A2taste like something

have the flavour of

Try some more. The strawberries taste like strawberries.
表現 · B1whoever heard of ...

nobody has heard of

Snozzberries? Whoever heard of a snozzberry?

「Violet Turns Into a Blueberry」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is a joke with teeth in it. Wonka presents the gum as an incredible invention and then, in almost the same breath, tells the children it is not ready, which is the film's way of saying that nothing here is safe and every temptation is a test. Violet fails it not out of malice but out of appetite: "So long as it's gum, that's for me," she says, and the line is her whole character in eight words. Her father's cries change nothing, and the transformation is played for comedy — she turns violet, then blue, then round, while Wonka observes that it happens every time. The punishment fits the sin: someone who cannot stop putting things in her mouth is turned into food.

Theme

Dark humorA child swells into a blueberry and is wheeled off to be squeezed, and the scene plays it as comedy.
SatireViolet's punishment turns her greed into literal food, a neat moral joke about chewing gum all day.

このチャプターで学べること

  • The wonder turns to warning once Violet ignores the instructions.
  • One blunt slang word, bull, kills Wonka's sales pitch.
  • The song ties good manners to a real future.
  • Turning blue is played as comedy, not horror.

発音のポイント

  • it's gum — Link it's and gum into one smooth sound.
  • What's for — What's for blurs in fast speech; keep for weak.
  • hadn't got it — The t sounds soften as the phrase runs together.
It's the most amazing, fabulous, sensational gum in the whole world.

Wonka's marketing line for his own invention, stacking superlatives before he admits the gum is not finished.

- Why doesn't she listen to Mr. Wonka? - Because, Charlie, she's a nitwit.

The blunt answer to Charlie, calling Violet a fool for ignoring a clear warning.

I'll get even with you for this, if it's the last thing I ever do!

Violet's father turns her accident into a personal vendetta against Wonka, his threat making the comedy darker.

Well, well, two naughty, nasty little children gone.

Wonka's cool count of the children lost so far, delivered as if the tour were simply thinning out.

" Where is fancy bred, In the heart or in the head?"

A line Wonka quotes to himself afterward, a bit of Shakespeare that turns the child's disaster into poetry.

Lick a pineapple, it tastes like a pineapple. Go ahead, try it.

Wonka inviting the group to lick his wallpaper, an offer that sounds impossible and is exactly the point.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Violet chew the gum?

Because she loves gum and cannot resist anything new. Wonka warns her the formula is not right yet, but she says that as long as it is gum, she wants it.

What does "nitwit" mean?

It means a foolish or silly person. Charlie asks why Violet would not listen, and the answer is simply that she is a nitwit.

Why does Violet turn into a blueberry?

Because the gum's dessert course is unfinished. Wonka had told everyone it was not quite right, and the blueberry pie stage turns her blue and then blows her up like a berry.

What happens to Violet after she swells up?

She is rolled off to the juicing room to be squeezed before she explodes. The Oompa Loompas sing a song about the dangers of chewing gum all day.

Why does Violet's father threaten Wonka?

Because he blames Wonka for what happened to his daughter. He says he will get even, and calls her a blueberry in one of the film's darkest jokes.

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