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| Augustus Gloop | |
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| 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) |
Augustus Gloop is a character in the Roald Dahl children's books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and the former's 1971 and 2005 film adaptations.
Introduced in the opening pages of the book as ‘a greedy boy’, Augustus Gloop is the first person to find a Golden Ticket and the first to be ejected from the tour. He hails from Dusselheim, Germany in the 1971 film, and Dusseldorf, Germany in the 2005 film. In the novel and both films, he is portrayed as being ‘enormously fat’ and also gluttonous. The circumstances in which he is removed from the tour are consistent across all three versions of the story: while drinking from the Chocolate Room’s chocolate river (despite the exhortations of his parent/s and Wonka), he falls into the river and is sucked through a pipe to a room where fudge is manufactured (called ‘the Fudge Room’ in the 1971 film). In the books and 2005 film, he is seen leaving the factory at the end; in the novel he has been squeezed thin by the pipe, while in the 2005 film, he is covered in chocolate.
In both films, Augustus’ mother accompanies him to the factory and his father is a butcher. In the novel and films, his mother takes great pride in his gluttonous eating and seems to enjoy the attention of the media focused on her son. Upon his removal from the tour, Wonka has an Oompa-Loompa escort his parents/mother to the Fudge Room to locate him.
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