The Nut Room, as seen in the 2005 film.
The Nut Room is one of the many rooms in the Wonka Chocolate Factory. This is the very room in which Veruca Salt, Angina Salt (Book) and Mr. Salt meet their ends in the book and 2005 film.
Inside the Room[]
The Nut Room is where Willy Wonka has squirrels sort the good nuts that go into candy and the bad nuts that goes down the garbage chute which leads to the trash compactor which is lit when full. The book describes it as a large room with a wooden table covered in nuts that they continuously shell. The squirrels are also said to be sat on high stools which they jump of when they need to reach the chute which is at the back of the room.The film. room. The Film. depicts the room as a circular room with a blue and white swirled floor with a plastic finish. It also appears to have a spider-like structure that brings the nuts to the squirrels. The squirrels in the film are seated around the walls of the room each on a high stool with the chute in the middle of the room. The producer described the room to have a ‘Hospital’ feel.
Veruca and her parents Descent[]
When Veruca broke inside the room, 99 of the mecha squirrels jumped on her limbs and pinned her down. She was judged a bad nut and thrown down the garbage disposal. In shock, Mr and Mr and Mr and Mrs and Mrs Salt run to the the chute in hopes of hearing or seeing their daughter. Angina is nudged by a squirrel and descends the chute like her daughter. Mr Salt soon falls also. In the book, the song occurs after ALL of them had fallen down but the 2005 film had Mr. Salt walk to the chute as the Oompa Loompas sang. They fell into the Eggcinerator Room.
Trivia[]
- In the 1971 film, this room was replaced by a room where geese lay gigantic chocolate eggs most likely because squirrels would be too hard to handle back then. The 2005 film returned it to that of the novel, where squirrels discriminate nuts worthy of being ingredients in Wonka bars.