Definition
- thief1 (noun)
- 1. a person who steals, especially secretly and usually without violence.
Evidence
Quotes
- Grandpa Joe: “What difference does it make where he got it? Point is, he got it.”2
- Willy Wonka: “No telling.”
Grandpa Joe: “No telling what?”3 - Willy Wonka: “I daren't sell it yet, it's still too powerful.. there'd be children floating around all over the place.”
Grandpa Joe: “Let's take a drink Charlie!”4 - Grandpa Joe: “I'll get even with him if its the last thing I do. Slugworth wants a gobstopper, he'll get one.”5
Observations
Grandpa Joe enjoys a nice belt from a stolen beverage.6
Analysis
What better definition of a spy is there than “knowledge thief?”
From not caring where or how Charlie got a loaf of bread to stealing fizzy lifting drinks to wanting to know the exact limits of what he can tell, Grandpa Joe displays a certain moral ambiguity about other people's property, both physical and intellectual.
If you factor in his more exotic thefts like sponging off his daughter-in-law for twenty years, robbing Charlie of his innocence, and his steadfast insistence that only he can accompany Charlie, it becomes clear that Grandpa Joe is a world-class thief and con-man. He knows how to work the system and the people around him to get exactly what he wants, regardless of the cost to others.
Footnotes and Sources
- Arbor Media, Inc., AllWords.Com.
Copyright © 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 AllSites.com, Inc. - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971, Mel Stuart, US, 100 mins).
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971, Mel Stuart, US, 100 mins).
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971, Mel Stuart, US, 100 mins).
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971, Mel Stuart, US, 100 mins).
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971, Mel Stuart, US, 100 mins).
