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| re: Completely caught off guard by "Matilda" the movie | |
| Posted by: Roz5678 06:02 pm EST 12/27/22 | |
| In reply to: Completely caught off guard by "Matilda" the movie - GreatMartin 12:35 am EST 12/27/22 | |
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| I much preferred Matilda the musical. I found Matilda the movie unbearably sadistic. Heavy emphasis on Emma Thompson’s Trunchbull cruelty. Maybe this is more true to Roald Dahl’s book. The kids are all fantastic though—actors, singers, dancers. I couldn’t get enough of them. And I still love Revolting Children and When I Grow Up. But I had to wade through endless screen awfulness to get to them. | |
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| re: Completely caught off guard by "Matilda" the movie | |
| Posted by: lowwriter 06:23 pm EST 12/27/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Completely caught off guard by "Matilda" the movie - Roz5678 06:02 pm EST 12/27/22 | |
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| I’m not sure which Matilda musical you saw on stage. Besides Trunchbull Matilda was tortured by her parents throughout the stage version. Not sure if you are just forgetting what you sat through. | |
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| re: Completely caught off guard by "Matilda" the movie | |
| Posted by: Roz5678 06:28 pm EST 12/27/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Completely caught off guard by "Matilda" the movie - lowwriter 06:23 pm EST 12/27/22 | |
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| True, lowwriter, Mathilda is also tortured by her parents in the stage version, but, even so, the movie musical doubles down on Trunchbull’s torture to a stomach-turning degree. What did you think of this movie version? | |
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| re: Completely caught off guard by "Matilda" the movie | |
| Posted by: lowwriter 01:55 am EST 12/28/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Completely caught off guard by "Matilda" the movie - Roz5678 06:28 pm EST 12/27/22 | |
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| I liked the movie very much. I thought the stage musical was too long. But I heard the British production was better than the Broadway version. | |
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| re: Completely caught off guard by "Matilda" the movie | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 07:43 pm EST 12/27/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Completely caught off guard by "Matilda" the movie - Roz5678 06:28 pm EST 12/27/22 | |
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| I liked Matilda the movie a lot. I thought the characterization of Matilda went a long way to balancing out the cruelties in the dtoryline, primarily because she was so very confident and clever. I thought Emma Thompson was very brave in allowing herself to be so vicious and unattractive. (And she is quite the beauty but gave it all up.) When I saw the musical, I found it distracting and wrong that Trunchbull was played by a male actor. And I could understand very little of the lyrics in the songs, especially of the children. In the film, the lyrics were ever so clear. When there’s a baddie in a children’s story/movie, I appreciate he/she being really bad, not cute. The story deals with vicious corporal punishment and neglect. So I like it being real, the way the film was. |
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