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** Pretty much one of the subtext points of the book, I think. Matilda was in a crappy situation, more than one actually, but remained a good person throughout. She's more than a survivor, she's come through her ordeals wiser and still human.
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** Pretty much one of the subtext points of the book, I think.book. Matilda was in a crappy situation, more than one actually, but remained a good person throughout. She's more than a survivor, she's come through her ordeals wiser and still human.
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--> Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, somebody like the kind, corageous people in her books. But it occured to her that talking dragons and princesses with hair long enough to climb, such people would only exist in storybooks.
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* CompleteMonster: Agatha Trunchbull. She enjoys throwing kids out of windows, throwing a girl like she's in an Olympic hammer tossing event, and, in the movie and the book, is implied to have killed Miss Honey's father. Not to mention that in the book it was implied that she BEAT Ms. Honey as a child.
** It's outright stated that she physically abused Miss Honey in the movie:
** It's outright stated that she physically abused Miss Honey in the movie:
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* CompleteMonster: Agatha Trunchbull. She enjoys throwing kids out of windows, throwing a girl like she's in an Olympic hammer tossing event, and, in the movie and the book, is heavily implied to have killed Miss Honey's father. Not to mention that in the book it was implied that she BEAT Ms. Honey as a child.
**child. It's outright stated that she physically abused Miss Honey in the movie:
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** About the her killing Magnus, it's practically confirmed during her downfall, at least in the movie. [[spoiler: When Matilda writes that Magnus will "get you like you got me", Trunchbull is horrified and holds her throat, implying that's how she 'got him'.]] She'd only react like that if she truly did kill him.
*** The exact wording in the film is in the book. While I don't recall if the Trunchbull grabs her throat in the book, her reaction pretty much says she murdered Magnus in the book as well. Even though she was terrified in the book, you would expect her to express herself if she _didn't_ kill him. As she remains quiet and runs away, guilt seems verified in the book as well.
*** The exact wording in the film is in the book. While I don't recall if the Trunchbull grabs her throat in the book, her reaction pretty much says she murdered Magnus in the book as well. Even though she was terrified in the book, you would expect her to express herself if she _didn't_ kill him. As she remains quiet and runs away, guilt seems verified in the book as well.
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** Matilda does admit that there are things in the books she reads that she doesn't understand, "especially about men and women." (She was at the time referring to ''The Old Man and the Sea'' by Ernest Hemmingway, but it could easily have been about ''Tess of the d'Ubervilles'' as well.) It's easy to imagine an older Matilda returning to the old classics she read as a child, picking up on the implications and undertones that she didn't get the first time around, and going "I read this when I was ''five''?!"
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The film's version of Michael. We're meant to see him as an unsympathetic {{Jerkass}} since he's downright nasty to his sister and participates in his parents' dirty dealings. Before we judge the poor kid, we ought to consider that Harry and Zinnia have probably ''conditioned'' their son to be this way; Michael has figured out that by conforming to his parents' lifestyle rather than rejecting it like Matilda does, he's not picked on. Matilda is exceptionally brave and intelligent; she can stand on her own and doesn't need her parents' approval to be fulfilled. Michael is neither brave nor intelligent enough to resist the pressure to become a mean, lazy, TV-watching Wormwood.
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** Heck, just the beginning of the movie. Watching a tiny little girl walk ten blocks to the library, alone, every day, just because she loves learning so much and nobody at home will help her...that's a Tear Jerker.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The Chokey. Oh my ''word'', the Chokey.
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* NightmareFuel: The Chokey.
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*** Except they ran to another US Territory where the FBI have full jurisdiction and could catch them easily.
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** This can actually be TruthInTelevision for a lot of early readers who aren't given appropriate books by their parents. They'll pick up every book they come across, before understanding any of the subject matter. Not saying it isn't horrifying, but it's not uncommon.
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** Unless you consider her "never being seen or heard from again" as an implication she was DrivenToSuicide...
** Matilda's parents would be a straighter example, seeing as they literally left to evade the law.
** Matilda's parents would be a straighter example, seeing as they literally left to evade the law.
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** Matilda's father also hits them near the end of the book, although your mileage may vary.
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* CompleteMonster: Agatha Trunchbull. She enjoys throwing kids out of windows, throwing a girl like she's in an Olympic hammer tossing event, and, in the movie and the book, is implied to have killed Miss Honey's father. Not to mention that in the book it was implied that she BEAT Ms. Honney Honey as a child.
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* KarmaHoudini: Considering that the Trunchbull is guilty of horrific child abuse and is all but guaranteed to have ''murdered'' someone, her HumiliationConga at the end of the film is nowhere near what she really deserves.
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* FridgeHorror: In the book, it is mentioned in passing that Matilda read ''Tess of the D'Ubervilles'', which deals with the titular character having been ''raped''. It's mentioned to highlight Matilda's status as a ChildProdigy, but still, it's more than a bit horrifying to think about a five year old reading something of that subject matter.
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** Miss Trunchbull calls Matilda a 'piss worm'.
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*** The exact wording in the film is in the book. While I don't recall if the Trunchbull grabs her throat in the book, her reaction pretty much says she murdered Magnus in the book as well. Even though she was terrified in the book, you would expect her to express herself if she _didn't_ kill him. As she remains quiet and runs away, guilt seems verified in the book as well.
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* MoralEventHorizon: [[CompleteMonster The Trunchbull]] plows through this again and again, first with every sadistic punishment she inflicts on her students (especially The Chokey), and then in hindsight when we discover that she [[spoiler:is Miss Honey's aunt, physically abused her as a child, and almost certainly offed her father, framing it as a suicide.]]
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** Mara Wilson, the actress who played Matilda, lost her mother to breast cancer during filming. Her adult co-actors noted how bravely maturely she dealt with it, and the film ended up dedicated to her memory.
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**Also this:
--> '''Matilda:''' It's not trash. It's lovely. It's Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
--> '''Harry Wormwood:''' [[ParentalBonus Moby what!?]]
--> '''Matilda:''' It's not trash. It's lovely. It's Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
--> '''Harry Wormwood:''' [[ParentalBonus Moby what!?]]
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-->'''Miss Trunchbull:''' I need a car. Inexpensive, but reliable. [[DoubleEntendre Can you service me?]]
-->'''Harry Wormwood:''' In a manner of speaking, yes.
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* Matilda's father also hits them near the end of the book, although your mileage may vary.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The Chokey. Oh my ''word'', the Chokey.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: [[DoubleEntendre "I became a woman very quickly!"]]
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* NightmareFuel: The Chokey. Oh my ''word'', the Chokey.
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* HypeBacklash[=/=][[HePannedItNowHeSucks He Was About to Pan It, Now He Sucks]]: [[WordOfGod Doug Walker]] put this movie as #3 on his "Top 10 Movies I Hate but Everybody Else Loves" and said that he was going to make a scathing review as TheNostalgiaCritic, which [[EightPointEight angered so many fans]] that he decided to cancel it.
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* HypeBacklash[=/=][[HePannedItNowHeSucks He Was About to Pan It, Now He Sucks]]: [[WordOfGod Doug Walker]] put this movie as #3 on his "Top 10 Movies I Hate but Everybody Else Loves" and said that he was going to make a scathing review as TheNostalgiaCritic, which [[EightPointEight angered so many fans]] that he decided to cancel it.
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* TearJerker: In an early draft of the book, Matilda died when trying to use telekinesis to lift a truck in a car crash. It kept that way until Roald got the idea of Magnus' story, which is also very sad.
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* TearJerker: In an early draft of the book, Matilda died when trying to use telekinesis to lift a truck in a car crash. It kept that way until Roald got the idea of Magnus' story, which is also very sad.sad.
* TheWoobie: Miss Honey, Matilda. In the book version, the school cook as well. She's not gross like the movie version. Here, she's just a frail, old woman who disapproves of the abuse about to happen, but clearly has no choice but to play her role.
* TheWoobie: Miss Honey, Matilda. In the book version, the school cook as well. She's not gross like the movie version. Here, she's just a frail, old woman who disapproves of the abuse about to happen, but clearly has no choice but to play her role.
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** About the her killing Magnus, it's practically confirmed during her downfall, at least in the movie. [[spoiler: When Matilda writes that Magnus will "get you like you got me", Trunchbull is horrified and holds her throat, implying that's how she 'got him'.]] She'd only react like that if she truly did kill him.
