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Matilda

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Matilda	label	Matilda
Matilda	page	Matilda
Matilda	comment	Matilda is a 1996 film adaptation by Danny DeVito of the Roald Dahl book about an exceptionally clever little girl, Matilda Wormwood, who has exceptionally horrible and ignorant parents. Matilda has a love of learning and books, but her parents think she is stupid and deride her for reading while they watch mindless Soap Operas and game shows.The first half of the film deals with Matilda discovering how to use her intellect against her parents by playing tricks, like supergluing her father's hat to his head. The second half of the film pits her against a far more formidable enemy — Agatha Trunchbull, her school's sadistic headmistress, as well as introducing the only person to truly recognize Matilda's amazing talent, Miss Honey. Matilda ultimately has to pit her prodigious intellect (and newly discovered telekinetic powers) against the Trunchbull to liberate both the sorely oppressed children and her beloved teacher, as well as making a better life for herself.The film stars Mara Wilson (Miracle on 34th Street, Mrs. Doubtfire) as Matilda, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman as her obnoxious parents, Embeth Davidtz as Miss Honey, and a frighteningly accurate Trunchbull in the form of Pam Ferris.For the 2022 movie based on the stage musical, see Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical.
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Matilda / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
Matilda / int_121b3725	comment	The reason for Matilda's Age Lift; it would be very hard for a five-year-old in real life to convincingly play an Adorably Precocious Child, so the scenes with the younger actresses are very short. Mara Wilson already had some acting experience and thus could play the part as a six-and-half-year-old kid who is a genius.
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Matilda / int_122db6df	type	Cute Witch
Matilda / int_122db6df	comment	Cute Witch: Matilda technically counts as one, since she has supernatural powers and is definitely Badass Adorable.
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Matilda / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Matilda / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Sort of. The portrait of Magnus, Miss Honey's father, is an actual portrait of Roald Dahl.
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Matilda / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Matilda / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: The Wormwood couple are already embarrassments themselves, but Matilda gladly leads to more public humiliation for them.
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Matilda / int_149ff4b0	type	HilarityEnsues
Matilda / int_149ff4b0	comment	Miss Trunchbull trying to punish Matilda for the newt leads to Matilda tipping the glass over with her eyes and forcing the newt onto Trunchbull's suit. Hilarity Ensues.
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Matilda / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Matilda / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Harry catches his wife entertaining the "speed boat salesman" and yells at them to Get Out!. Mrs. Wormwood claims she's house-bound and needs to talk to someone, but it's obvious that she was Mistaken for Cheating.
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Matilda / int_165d6f53	type	Punishment Box
Matilda / int_165d6f53	comment	Punishment Box: The sadistic headmistress is fond of (among other things) using the "Chokey," a closet lined with spikes, thus like an iron maiden in which there is just barely enough room to stand.
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Matilda / int_16dda55f	type	Simple Solution Won't Work
Matilda / int_16dda55f	comment	Simple Solution Won't Work: After Matilda has endured half of her first day in school seeing the outrageous tortures that Agatha Trunchbull (the school's Dean Bitterman and extreme Sadist Teacher) unleashes on the children, she asks the other students of her classroom why the heck has nobody told their parents about Trunchbull's brutality and gotten them to call the police, and she's told back that none of their parents have believed them because of how outrageous said tortures are (admittedly, probably telling someone about the school having an iron maiden (which Trunchbull affectionately calls "the Chokey") and how Trunchbull showed her rage at a girl having pigtails by grabbing her by said pigtails and using her as a Human Hammer-Throw would be a tall tale in other circumstances). The result is that Matilda needs to fix things herself using her Psychic Powers.
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Matilda / int_1872821f	type	Related Differently in the Adaptation
Matilda / int_1872821f	comment	Related Differently in the Adaptation: In the book, Mrs. Trunchbull was the sister, not step-sister, of Miss Honey's mother.
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Matilda / int_18f2b2b	type	Hypocritical Heartwarming
Matilda / int_18f2b2b	comment	Hypocritical Heartwarming: Matilda and her parents don't get along, and she did warn them about the cops watching the house, but she doesn't want her father to get arrested. So, she stops the agents from finding stolen car parts in the garage and destroys a videocassette loaded with evidence.
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Matilda / int_1b465242	type	Conditioned to Accept Horror
Matilda / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: The kids at the school are so used to Trunchbull's punishments that when the latter intimidates Amanda Thripp for wearing pigtails, Hortensia calmly predicts that Trunchbull will use the "hammerthrow" move and talks with another student if a tossed Amanda will make it over the fence. Amanda for her part scoops up flowers after she lands safely over the fence and gives a victory wave. Matilda is the only one with an Oh, Crap! Logical Latecomer concern for Amanda's safety.
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Matilda / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Matilda / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: The FBI agents trying to arrest Mr Wormwood.
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Matilda / int_20d71ade	type	Fictional Painting
Matilda / int_20d71ade	comment	Fictional Painting: Small roles but symbolically important ones: When Miss Honey was a child a portrait of her father hung over the fireplace in her childhood home. When said home is taken over by her cruel aunt Agatha Trunchbull, the portrait is removed and replaced with one of the Trunchbull in her Olympic Prime. When Matilda uses her newfound powers to scare the living daylights out of the Trunchbull, she telekinetically throws the Olympic portrait into the fire and re-hangs the one of Mr. Honey (there's even a great cinematographic moment where camera rapid cuts between the portrait's eyes and the Trunchbull's eyes staring into each other).
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Matilda / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Matilda / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: The school's cook. She's an old, frail woman in both the book and film, but in the book she disapproves of the Trunchbull's abuse but can't do anything about it because of her age. In the film, she appears to be in cahoots with the Trunchbull, supporting her punishments. Technically, it's a case of Adaptational Even More Villainy but in the book, Miss Trunchbull just stormed off in a huff after smashing the plate over Bruce Bogtrotter's head. In the movie, she hands out an after-school detention to every student in the school, and threatens to throw anyone who protests in the Chokey — at the same time, if need be.
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Matilda / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Matilda / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Harry Wormwood carries a box of stolen car parts out of his house, then looks suspiciously up and down the street before putting it in the back of his car. Somehow, he doesn't notice the rather obvious car parked almost right across the street, with two men sitting inside, and aiming a very large telephoto lens at him. When Matilda(Kayla and Kelsey Fredericks) is nine months old, her mother angrily reprimands her for making a mess of her spinach without realizing that she wrote her own name in it.
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Matilda / int_21fd09a7	type	How Do I Shot Web?
Matilda / int_21fd09a7	comment	How Do I Shot Web?: Matilda undergoes this. The movie uses a Montage.
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Matilda / int_245f44c	type	Appointment Television
Matilda / int_245f44c	comment	Appointment Television: The Wormwoods dislike Miss Honey coming to see them because she interrupted their TV show. Something similar, although only involving Mrs. Wormwood, happens in the book as well, with the line "I can't talk now, Harry is about to propose to Angelica!"
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Matilda / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
Matilda / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Matilda has a little doll that appears to have been made out of spare things around the house. According to her actress, the doll's name is Wanda.
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Matilda / int_25b19f64	type	Cute Bookworm
Matilda / int_25b19f64	comment	Cute Bookworm: Matilda loves reading more than anything else. Implied that Miss Honey was one as a child too.
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Matilda / int_2677b1dc	type	Door Slam of Rage
Matilda / int_2677b1dc	comment	Door Slam of Rage: In an effort to test her psychic powers, Matilda demands her father to make her angry. When he starts shouting and walking toward her, she manages to telepathically slam the door in his face.
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Matilda / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Matilda / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: During the Trunchbull's phone conversation with Harry Wormwood after her car breaks down, she tells him, "Yes, I know what caveat emptor means, you lowlife liar!"note It means buyer beware in Latin.
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Matilda / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Matilda / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: All the evil characters are either unattractive or just average, whereas Matilda's heaven-sent teacher Miss Honey is probably the only good-looking person in the movie (not counting the cute little innocent kids, that is). This gets a bit silly when the tackily-made-up, unattractively-voiced Mrs. Wormwood starts lecturing Miss Honey about the merits of books versus looks. That's how it was in the book as well. If anything, the drawings of Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood were uglier than their live-action counterparts (Mr. Wormwood looked a bit like a rodent, and Mrs. Wormwood is described as being plump, with obviously-dyed hair and a "suet-pudding" face).
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Matilda / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
Matilda / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: The Trunchbull.
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Matilda / int_2b3bd260	type	Readings Are Off the Scale
Matilda / int_2b3bd260	comment	Readings Are Off the Scale: This is exploited by Harry Wormwood to make old cars look younger than they actually are by artifically rolling out the tape past the maximum value measurable by the mileage.
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Matilda / int_2b68b7fa	type	Sickeningly Sweethearts
Matilda / int_2b68b7fa	comment	Sickeningly Sweethearts: Harry and Zinnia Wormwood, with their constant pet names for each other: Lovekins, snickerdoodle, heartstrings, the list goes on. It's one of their few redeeming qualities.
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Matilda / int_2be74be	type	Sucky School
Matilda / int_2be74be	comment	Sucky School: Crunchem Hall Elementary School is really bad due to a truly vile principal, who delights in inflicting terror and pain on all of the kids there. Thankfully, the goodly Miss Honey is actually nice and tries to protect the kids as best as she can. At the end, Principal Trunchbull is permanently scared out of the school, leaving Miss Honey as the principal. She makes the school so wonderful the kids never want to leave.
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Matilda / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
Matilda / int_2d7ef923	comment	Matilda also tells her parents that cops are watching the house. Although Mr. Wormwood rightly doubts their claim of being speedboat salesmen (pointing out that "there are no lakes around here"), he thinks they're trying to sleep with his wife, and Mrs. Wormwood is completely fooled.
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Matilda / int_2d92c43c	type	Little "No"
Matilda / int_2d92c43c	comment	Little "No": Matilda gives one when she realizes that Miss Trunchbull is "Aunt Trunchbull" to Miss Honey. Miss Honey offers a little "yes" and sobs into a tissue.
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Matilda / int_2e8875f0	type	Misplaced Retribution
Matilda / int_2e8875f0	comment	Misplaced Retribution: Miss Trunchbull sends Matilda to the Chokey after she realizes she bought a lemon from Harry.
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Matilda / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Matilda / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: Both Agent Bill and Matilda bring up the fact that the FBI agents don't have a search warrant to poke through her father's garage, and Matilda even mentions that they can go into federal prison.
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Matilda / int_308ac24f	type	Fantasy-Forbidding Father
Matilda / int_308ac24f	comment	Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Matilda's parents don't understand Matilda's love of books and learning, rejecting her for it. They prefer the more mundane Michael who is being coached to take over his father's company.
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Matilda / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Matilda / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: It's brief, but Mr. Wormwood is briefly dismayed when Miss Trunchbull talks about, "Use the rod, beat the child." While he's abusive towards his own daughter, he doesn't like hearing that but just says, "Terrific motto." Miss Trunchbull may be utterly sadistic, but even for her the fraud and deception Harry practices in his business are disgusting and immoral. The fact that he committed one such fraud against her is likely a factor.
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Matilda / int_31d4f290	type	Showing Off Your Powers
Matilda / int_31d4f290	comment	Showing Off Your Powers: Matilda proves her abilities to Miss Honey by not only making her pitcher float but also by helping her rearrange her classroom.
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Matilda / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Matilda / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Nigel, the only boy in Matilda's class cheeky enough to stand up to the Trunchbull. And avoided getting punched for it! Also the deputy headmaster, Mr. Trilby, who in the book replaces Trunchbull after she quits; here it's Miss Honey who replaces Trunchbull. There's also the first bit of the book where the narrator discusses parenting before he introduces us to the Wormwoods, which doesn't get included in the film either. Granted, as this had no real effect on the plot, it was the right call.
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Matilda / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Matilda / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Because the Trunchbull is very superstitious, her reaction to seeing a black cat is to literally kick him out of her yard. Good thing he had nine lives.
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Matilda / int_351e0e53	type	Dean Bitterman
Matilda / int_351e0e53	comment	Dean Bitterman: The Trunchbull, who says that her idea of a perfect school is one where there are no children...
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Matilda / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Matilda / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Miss Honey, played by a South African, is a repeat offender. Very occasionally, Rhea Perlman forgot about Zinnia's squawky, Fran Drescher-y New York-type accent.
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Matilda / int_38119dcf	type	Not the Fall That Kills You
Matilda / int_38119dcf	comment	Not the Fall That Kills Youâ€¦: Justified in both cases: When Miss Trunchbull tosses Amanda over the fence, she's still moving when she hits the ground. It's also a big field with lots of room to slow down. The friction allows Amanda to slow down with only dirty overalls, a bit of dizziness, and no injuries overall. Though as Pragmatic Villainy goes, Miss Trunchbull wouldn't want to kill a student, so she timed her throw to make sure Amanda didn't break her neck or any bones. Matilda, knowing physics, slows down the boy with her powers when the Trunchbull tosses him out the window and moves him around in the air to dispel the force. Soon the boy goes from screaming to laughing happily as he seems to be flying. When Matilda turns him around to hit the Trunchbull, she has him transfer the force into accidentally knocking over the lady, so he lands while just a little dizzy.
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Matilda / int_38805691	type	Catch and Return
Matilda / int_38805691	comment	Catch and Return: At one point, Harry tries to bully Matilda by throwing a carrot catapulted at her with a fork. Matilda uses telekinesis to redirect the carrot at his mouth.
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Matilda / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Matilda / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: The music that plays when the FBI agents search Harry's garage is from the film Pee-wee's Big Adventure. One of the agents is played by Paul Reubens. One of the lunchboxes reads "Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey". Aside from it being a Bruce Springsteen reference, Asbury Park is also the hometown of Danny DeVito. In the Latin Spanish dub, Harry Wormwood (voiced by Humberto VÃ©lez) hums the theme to The Simpsons. Velez is best known as the classic voice of Homer.
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Matilda / int_39d750cb	type	Hand Rubbing
Matilda / int_39d750cb	comment	Hand Rubbing: Harry Wormwood rubs his hands together as he thinks of the money he plans to make from his used car business.
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Matilda / int_3e0ab8c1	type	Implied Answer
Matilda / int_3e0ab8c1	comment	Implied Answer: When Bruce refuses to fess up about eating the Trunchbull's cake, she declares it was "the most scrumptious cake in the world". Bruce says his mom's is better.
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Matilda / int_403b6f3	type	Fainting
Matilda / int_403b6f3	comment	Fainting: The emotional kind, happens to Miss Trunchbull faints after receiving what she thought was a threatening message from a dead man, laughed at by children, and being pelted by telekinetically propelled chalkboard erasers.
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Matilda / int_40b98588	type	Adaptational Location Change
Matilda / int_40b98588	comment	Adaptational Location Change: The film changes the setting from Dahl's Britain to an unidentified town in America (likely located in New Jersey given that Danny DeVito and Jersey Films made the movie).
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Matilda / int_41744454	type	Spelling Song
Matilda / int_41744454	comment	Spelling Song: Miss Honey uses these to teach complicated spelling words; they treat the letters as people's names or initials. "Mrs. D, Mrs. I, Mrs. F-F-I, Mrs. C, Mrs. U, Mrs. L-T-Y!"
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Matilda / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Matilda / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: What's scary about Matilda's powers is that she becomes strongest when she channels her anger into pure calm. She may laugh and giggle, but beware when she doesn't smile while using them. In the climax, she adopts this look when terrorizing the Trunchbull with a chalkboard message from "Magnus".
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Matilda / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Matilda / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The Trunchbull has no problem with this whatsoever; she's first introduced as an advocate of child abuse for "discipline", and in her first proper scene, she does a Human Hammer-Throw of a young girl over her wearing pigtails and saying the word 'but'.
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Matilda / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Matilda / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Harry Wormwood, once Matilda works out how to get even with him without being found out.
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Matilda / int_47fea76b	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_47fea76b
Matilda / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
Matilda / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: The Trunchbull's house. It's actually supposed to be Miss Honey's house, though.
Matilda / int_4814d132	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_4814d132	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_4814d132
Matilda / int_485d09ab	type	Creator In-Joke
Matilda / int_485d09ab	comment	Creator In-Joke: Miss Honey named her doll 'Liccy Doll'. Roald Dahl's widow, who was a producer on the film, is called Liccy.
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Matilda / int_485d09ab	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Matilda / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Matilda is adopted by Miss Honey after her parents flee to Guam.
Matilda / int_48e8fe57	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_48e8fe57	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_48e8fe57
Matilda / int_4a5fcde	type	Adaptational Alternate Ending
Matilda / int_4a5fcde	comment	Adaptational Alternate Ending: The ending of the original book has Matilda's powers fading away. Miss Honey thinks this may be because Matilda, having been put in a class for older students, is finally using all her brainpower on her studies, leaving none for her powers to work. In the film, Matilda no longer needs to use her powers in the way that she did before, but still has them and uses them on occasion just because she can (such as to summon a book from the bookshelf).
Matilda / int_4a5fcde	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_4a5fcde	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_4a5fcde
Matilda / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Matilda / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: Ms. Honey, being Matilda's kind-hearted teacher who recognizes and advocates for her potential, and eventually becomes Matilda's adoptive mother.
Matilda / int_4a852458	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_4a852458	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_4a852458
Matilda / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
Matilda / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: When the Wormwoods begin sniggering about educated people, Miss Honey replies that an educated person would treat them if they were in hospital or, off the top of her head, defend them in court if they were sued for selling a faulty car. Mr. Wormwood responds with, "What car? Sued by who? Who you been talking to?"
Matilda / int_4aaffbd5	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_4aaffbd5	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_4aaffbd5
Matilda / int_4b9a9cef	type	Children Do the Housework
Matilda / int_4b9a9cef	comment	Children Do the Housework: Matilda is shown teaching herself how to cook by the age of 4, since her parents forget about her and leave her alone for most of the day.
Matilda / int_4b9a9cef	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_4b9a9cef	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Matilda / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: After Miss Honey tells Matilda the story of the young girl who grew up and got away from her wicked aunt (Trunchbull), Matilda puts two and two together when they arrive at Miss Honeyâ€™s house. Two right in a row at the film's climax, the second being an Internal Reveal.
Matilda / int_4e7c4536	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_4e7c4536	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_4f247a69	type	Adaptational Ugliness
Matilda / int_4f247a69	comment	Adaptational Ugliness: Harry Wormwood wasn't particularly attractive in the book but he still looked better than Danny DeVito. Matilda's brother, Michael, was of a normal weight in the book. Here, he is significantly chubbier than his book counterpart.
Matilda / int_4f247a69	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_4f247a69	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
Matilda / int_4f773434	comment	Wise Beyond Their Years: Matilda. She's able to multiply large numbers in her head (e.g. "13 Ã— 379") in seconds. She says she likes to read just about anything. The only reason she wasn't in advanced placement already was because her parents don't believe in the value of education.
Matilda / int_4f773434	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_4f773434	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_50eb1d8	type	Adopting the Abused
Matilda / int_50eb1d8	comment	Adopting the Abused: The book ends with the titular girl asking to be adopted by Miss Honey rather than taken along with her parents who are moving away to avoid the cops. It's very abrupt, but thankfully Matilda kept adoption papers on hand just in case. It ends up being the happiest ending possible for her, Miss Honey, and her jerkass neglectful parents.
Matilda / int_50eb1d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_50eb1d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_50eb1d8
Matilda / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Matilda / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Matilda has had adoption papers on hand since she was big enough to xerox.
Matilda / int_50f66629	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_50f66629	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_538273bd	type	Adaptational Superpower Change
Matilda / int_538273bd	comment	Adaptational Superpower Change: In the original book, Matilda's powers came from her brain being so bored with the schoolwork at her level that it manifested as telekinesis, and faded away once she was given higher-level work to do. In the film, she keeps them even after the story's resolution.
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Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_538273bd
Matilda / int_544b2bff	type	Signature Item Clue
Matilda / int_544b2bff	comment	Signature Item Clue: When Matilda sneaks over to Trunchbull's house to recover Miss Honey's beloved Liccy Doll, her hair ribbon gets stuck on the trellis she climbs. Miss Trunchbull initially suspected the disturbances at her house to be the work of a ghost, but finding Matilda's Signature Headgear leads her to turn her suspicions on the girl.
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Matilda / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Matilda / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: It is stated that Miss Trunchbull competed in the Olympics in shot put, javelin, and hammer throw. According to her jersey later in the film those events took place during the the 1972 Olympics. The hammer throw wasn't added as an Olympic event for women until 2000, 4 years after the film was released. When the newborn Matilda Wormwood is being brought home from the hospital at the beginning of the film, a 1991 Ford Escort is see when her father Harry Wormwood takes a U-turn in the parking lot of the hospital. Matilda is 6 1/2 years old in the 1996 present-day setting and has her birthday in August, and didn't go to Crunchem Hall Elementary School until the start of the second semester. The 1991-1996 generation Ford Escort didn't enter production until early 1990 and Matilda would have been born in August 1989 if she's 6 1/2 years old.
Matilda / int_56515a39	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_56515a39
Matilda / int_57ca867e	type	Force Feeding
Matilda / int_57ca867e	comment	Force Feeding: Involves an overweight kid(Jimmy Karz) who is forced to eat chocolate cake, as punishment for supposedly stealing Miss Trunchbull's cake, while the whole school watches. In other words, he is not allowed to stop eating until he has finished the whole cake, and it's HUGE too (18 inches in diameter). Even if he gets sick, he has to keep eating. It's made even worse by the fact that the cook is unclean and always lets her blood and sweat get inside food.
Matilda / int_57ca867e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_5a4f75a8	type	Esoteric Happy Ending
Matilda / int_5a4f75a8	comment	Esoteric Happy Ending: In-universe, the story that Miss Honey tells about the girl that grew up in Miss Trunchbull's house; Miss Honey says the ending is happy, but when we learn the little girl was her, Fridge Horror hits Matilda and the viewer since Miss Honey is still under Miss Trunchbull's thumb at school.
Matilda / int_5a4f75a8	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_5a4f75a8	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
Matilda / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: Mr. Wormwood tries to force Matilda to watch mindless TV. It ends up exploding.
Matilda / int_5af55436	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_5af55436	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_5af55436
Matilda / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Matilda / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Ailurophobia. A superstitious Trunchbull fears black cats, and would panic should one pop up on her property.
Matilda / int_5beef860	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_5beef860	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_5beef860
Matilda / int_5c81a18b	type	I Am Not My Father
Matilda / int_5c81a18b	comment	I Am Not My Father: When Trunchbull accuses Matilda of playing a part in Harry's having sold Trunchbull a lemon car, Matilda is greatly offended and says she's nothing like Harry.
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Matilda / int_5c81a18b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Matilda / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: It's implied that Trunchbull could easily kill or seriously injure the students as well as the teachers, but while most of her punishments are too ridiculous for parents to believe, death would be another story on school grounds. As Hortensia mentions, the Trunchbull's victims like her aren't okay, but they live through her torture. The only time Miss Trunchbull subverts this is when, in the middle of a Villainous Breakdown, threatens to break Miss Honey's arm. She doesn't go through with it because Miss Honey stands up to her, pulls away, and Trunchbull decides to focus on Matilda.
Matilda / int_5ca80293	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Matilda / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Bruce does manage to eat the entire cake — and the thing was huge. Leaves you wondering what kind of stomach capacity he has.
Matilda / int_5fcedca	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_5fcedca	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Matilda / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The reason for Matilda's Age Lift; it would be very hard for a five-year-old in real life to convincingly play an Adorably Precocious Child, so the scenes with the younger actresses are very short. Mara Wilson already had some acting experience and thus could play the part as a six-and-half-year-old kid who is a genius. The movie doesn't detail how Miss Trunchbull performed Financial Abuse on Miss Honey, hence why she lives in a cottage and doesn't fight for her inheritance. It's instead implied, with how small the cottage is and Matilda asking why she doesn't just "run away". The movie expands the book with fillers in most sequences (including Matilda going on a commando raid of the Trunchbull's house), significantly alters the nature and extent of Matilda's powers, gives her an age upgrade, foreshadows the authorities' interest in her parents' crimes, and turns her nice but dumb brother into a sadistic brat. None of this particularly alters the story itself though.
Matilda / int_603f1a80	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_607d4ada	type	Run for the Border
Matilda / int_607d4ada	comment	Run for the Border: The Wormwoods flee to Guam after Harry's fraudulent activity is discovered. Smart viewers know that they're not really escaping anything, as Guam is a US territory. Where the FBI has jurisdiction.
Matilda / int_607d4ada	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_607d4ada	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_607d4ada
Matilda / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Matilda / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Agent Bill tosses one to Matilda when posing as a speedboat salesman in front of her mother and she says he and his partner are cops.
Matilda / int_627264e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_627264e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_627264e0
Matilda / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Matilda / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Miss Trunchbull, as one boy Julius found out after eating two M&Ms in class.
Matilda / int_63b02752	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_64070096	type	Cowardly Lion
Matilda / int_64070096	comment	Miss Honey is a calmer type, being a Cowardly Lion. She claims she wasn't brave enough to stand up to Miss Trunchbull, but she protects Matilda at every turn, from springing her out of the Chokey to taking the fall for being at her house. In addition, she is a Determinator in making sure Matilda's genius is recognized and finding other opportunities for Matilda when neither Miss Trunchbull nor the parents agree.
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Matilda / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Matilda / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Instead of outright denying the Trunchbull's accusation that he stole her cake, Bruce comments that "it's hard to remember a specific kind of cake." Then subverted when Trunchbull describes hers as the best in the world, and Bruce comments that his mom's is better.
Matilda / int_648fe274	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Matilda / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Matilda / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: A zinnia is a type of flower which represents lasting affection, and when together, Harry and Zinnia Wormwood are as saccharine as they come.
Matilda / int_6bda9a30	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_6bda9a30	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_6c51e9e1	type	Fisher King
Matilda / int_6c51e9e1	comment	Fisher King: While Miss Trunchbull resides in the former Honey mansion, it has a dark, dingy, and foreboding atmosphere; once Trunchbull skips town and Miss Honey reacquires the house, it returns to its former bright, pristine glory.
Matilda / int_6c51e9e1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_70bdac19	type	Honest John's Dealership
Matilda / int_70bdac19	comment	Honest John's Dealership: Mr. Wormwood's secondhand car business which provides the page image. Matilda's dad is the stereotypical sleazy car salesman, even putting sawdust in the oil so that the engine will burn out and they have to come back and buy a new car. Also, rolling back the odometer.
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Matilda / int_71642c70	type	Viewers Are Goldfish
Matilda / int_71642c70	comment	Viewers Are Goldfish: When Matilda realizes she can make objects move when she gets angry, she has flashbacks to all the scenes when someone made her angry.
Matilda / int_71642c70	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_71642c70	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_71642c70
Matilda / int_71e514b5	type	Don't Try This at Home
Matilda / int_71e514b5	comment	Don't Try This at Home: There's a DVD bonus feature detailing the filming of the scene in which Matilda blows up the TV. In the end, Rhea Perlman (who portrayed Matilda's mother) warns viewers not to re-enact this at home, because then they'd have nothing to watch Matilda with.
Matilda / int_71e514b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_71e514b5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_723606c4	type	Adaptational Early Appearance
Matilda / int_723606c4	comment	Adaptational Early Appearance: Matilda's powers are introduced earlier in the film than they were in the book, first manifesting when she makes the TV set explode after her father tears up her library book. In the novel, nothing about them is indicated until the incident with the newt in the water jug.
Matilda / int_723606c4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Matilda / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: Matilda does this to the Trunchbull with her powers, giving her the impression she's being haunted by Magnus. Also shows the potential pitfalls to doing this — when the Trunchbull finds Matilda's hair ribbon on her property, she immediately deduces that the entire event was her doing, and not a genuine haunting. But she doesn't realize that it was done with Psychic Powers, allowing Matilda to pull it off again right in front of her at the climax of the film.
Matilda / int_727a65e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_727a65e0	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Matilda / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: Ms. Trunchbull is the main opposing force during Matilda's time at Crunchem Hall, whereas Harry Wormwood is the main opposing force in Matilda's home life. However, the Truchbull is easily the eviler one and the bigger threat of the two.
Matilda / int_72cdfc33	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Matilda / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: At least one cover has The Trunchbull smiling serenely, rather than her usual Slasher Smile.
Matilda / int_7315fd38	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_7315fd38	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
Matilda / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: A minor example, but in the book Amanda Thripp was clearly terrified of Miss Trunchbull, and stammered through her attempt to defend her pigtails. By contrast, her film counterpart isn't fazed at all by Trunchbull. Matilda's telekinetic powers in the film are much more advanced; in the book, she's only able to move small objects, and it takes her a significant amount of practice just to be able to work the chalk well enough to write, while in the film, she quickly gains total mastery over her powers and can use them to do pretty much anything she wants, including throwing a person the size of Trunchbull around like a rag doll.
Matilda / int_736d791f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_7431b974	type	Vile Villain, Saccharine Show
Matilda / int_7431b974	comment	Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: An adorable, heartwarming story about a little girl with magic powers. And the insane Miss Trunchbull who murdered her step-brother-in-law, stole his daughter's inheritance, abused her for years (even going so far as to break her arm), then, while living in her murdered brother-in-law's house, terrorizes an entire school of children with some very cruel punishments (The Chokey, throwing them, you know... normal school punishments).
Matilda / int_7431b974	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_746bfee8	type	Vanilla Edition
Matilda / int_746bfee8	comment	Vanilla Edition: The original DVD presented the movie in Pan and Scan with no bonus features. The so-called "Special Edition" added some extras, but still no widescreen option. Fans who didn't get to buy the laserdisc had to either buy an overseas DVD release or wait until the movie's Blu-Ray release to own it in its original aspect ratio.
Matilda / int_746bfee8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_78dc9821	type	Doesn't Know Their Own Child
Matilda / int_78dc9821	comment	Doesn't Know Their Own Child: Matilda's parents are so uncaring of her that they don't even know what her age is. Her father also gets her name wrong, calling her "Melinda".
Matilda / int_78dc9821	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_78dc9821	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
Matilda / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: Book-Hortensia went into detail about the pranks she played on the Trunchbull, and each one landed her in the Chokey for hours on end. Movie-Hortensia casually mentions she was locked in twice but doesn't explain why, to establish that the Trunchbull may put you in for any reason. Book-Miss Honey told Matilda that she had to live in a farmer's shed because when she earned her teaching job, Miss Trunchbull made her sign a document to surrender her wages for ten years, giving her one pound a week as "Allowance". In the movie, Miss Honey doesn't go into this and explains she found a cottage that rents for fifty dollars a month, and while she could run away and find better prospects elsewhere, she can't bear to leave her students behind. In the book it is mentioned that Trunchbull's ultra-sadistic methods go undisturbed because she has managed to intimidate the parents into looking the other way as well. With this detail missing, the Artistic License â€“ Education question of why parents aren't concerned is just felt all the harder.
Matilda / int_794f3589	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_794f3589	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_79503ae9	type	Stout Strength
Matilda / int_79503ae9	comment	Stout Strength: The Trunchbull is a former Olympian in shot-put, javelin, and hammer-throw, with a physique to match. She's still shown regularly practising those sports even 20+ years after competing (using both actual equipment and the occasional child), and at one point she even lifts the back of her car off its axles.
Matilda / int_79503ae9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_7b448838	type	Human Hammer-Throw
Matilda / int_7b448838	comment	Human Hammer-Throw: Agatha Trunchbull picks up Amanda Thripp by her pigtails and throws her clean over the school gates. These fantastical details are slightly mediated by the facts that the thrower is a former Olympics contender in the sport while the throwee is a 6-year-old girl. Another girl accurately predicts that Trunchbull will use "the hammerthrow move", and causally muses with another student if a tossed Amanda will make it over the fence, highlighting how used to this the students are.
Matilda / int_7b448838	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_7b448838	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_7b448838
Matilda / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Matilda / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Harry catches Matilda reading while the family watches television. He asks her if she's a part of the family twice, and Matilda doesn't answer him either time.
Matilda / int_7b6e47a5	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_7b6e47a5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_7c9933de	type	Laughably Evil
Matilda / int_7c9933de	comment	Laughably Evil: Whenever Miss Trunchbull isn't being nightmarish, she's usually pretty funny.
Matilda / int_7c9933de	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_7c9933de	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_7c9933de
Matilda / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Matilda / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Matilda's parents inexplicably hate her and refuse to believe she is any more intelligent than a lima bean (though Matilda's mother admits that she was mean to her because she never really understood her daughter), favoring her rather dim-witted brother Michael instead. The book clears up Matilda's father's reasons for his behavior: he's jealous. Matilda is capable of enjoying books and learning, which give her father no pleasure when he's busy defrauding people with his used car business.
Matilda / int_7c9dcc1	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_7c9dcc1	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_7d49d74a	type	Cultural Translation
Matilda / int_7d49d74a	comment	Cultural Translation: In the movie, the cast is American instead of English and it is set somewhere in America instead of somewhere in the Home Counties. Only Pam Ferris is British. Crunchem Hall retains an oddly British feel by being a fairly old, dour-looking building rather than the newer building more typical of American schools in media, as well as maintaining much of the same structure as a traditional British school.
Matilda / int_7d49d74a	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_7d49d74a	featureConfidence	1.0
Matilda	hasFeature	Matilda / int_7d49d74a
Matilda / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Matilda / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Any person that messes with Matilda, before and after she gets her powers. Case in point: Her father lecturing her for being a "smart aleck" leads to her stealthily dyeing his hair platinum blond. His Because I Said So leads to her sneaking superglue into his hat, and his tearing up her library book leads to her destroying the TV set. Miss Trunchbull trying to punish Matilda for the newt leads to Matilda tipping the glass over with her eyes and forcing the newt onto Trunchbull's suit. Hilarity Ensues. The FBI agents attempt to bully her into testifying against her father when she catches them snooping in the garage without a search warrant. She not only causes their car to run loose but also steals the tape that was critical evidence against her father. Michael tosses a carrot at her out of spite, a day after she has practiced her powers. She freezes it in mid-air and sends it back into his open mouth.
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Matilda / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Matilda / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Harry is first shown looking at the newborn Matilda(Katelyn and Zoey Rosen) with disgust, establishing how uncaring he and his wife will be towards her. They then leave her to slide around unsecured in the back of the car on the drive home from the hospital, and forget to take her out when they get there.
Matilda / int_7febc23b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Matilda / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Even Miss Honey cracks up with her students when they notice that Miss Trunchbull is drinking a glass of water with a live newt in it. Lavender thanks Matilda for not tattling on her to the Trunchbull about the newt. Matilda tells her that "best friends don't tell" and imitates Miss Trunchbull's Squirrels in My Pants dance after the newt flew out of the glass and onto her suit. Lavender starts giggling at the imitation. When Matilda starts her climactic rampage against the Trunchbull, the kids are in hysterics as the tyrant is pelted with erasers, tackled by a flying kid, and spun on a globe. As icing on the cake, Miss Honey suggests the last trick to Matilda subtly!
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Matilda / int_81c4faa3	type	Entertainingly Wrong
Matilda / int_81c4faa3	comment	Entertainingly Wrong: Mr. Wormwood correctly spots the thread and realizes that the "speedboat salesmen" are lying about their intentions, since there are no lakes in the area. He does not figure out that they're FBI agents investigating his Honest John's Dealership (even when Matilda tries to tell him so), instead deciding they must be trying to sleep with his wife.
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Matilda / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Matilda / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: The Trunchbull. Watching Pam Ferris gleefully chew the scenery is one of the most fun things about the film. Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman do their share of hamming as Matilda's parents.
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Matilda / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
Matilda / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Minor character Hortensia, the older girl at Matilda's school. In the book, she's a bully who repeatedly insults Matilda and Lavender (yet warns them about the things the Trunchbull did to her to spare them from suffering like most students), while in the movie she's friendly and protective of them. Matilda's mom. Despite being portrayed as vapid and frivolous (even more than in the book), she's actually the most decent out of Matilda's three family members, while in the book it was Michael (who gets the Adaptational Jerkass instead). At the end, she shows regret that she never understood her daughter, which never happens in the book. When the family is fleeing the country, she's the only one to wave good-bye to Matilda, while in the book it was Michael who waved good-bye to Matilda and both parents didn't even look back. Also Harry Wormwood, since he has some Pet the Dog moments. He makes a deal with Miss Trunchbull to send Matilda to school in exchange for a new car, and drives his daughter to school on her first day. At the end, he and his wife sign Matilda's adoption papers. Oddly enough, even Miss Trunchbull gets this. While she is abusive towards Miss Honey, in the past and present, she doesn't garnish her wages as a means of keeping her at home as a slave. Miss Honey seemed to have suffered physical abuse instead.
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Matilda / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
Matilda / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: Matilda has been walking herself to the library ever since she was four, and when she goes to terrorize the Trunchbull her parents don't even notice that she's leaving during the evening. This is intentional, to show how neglectful they are.
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Matilda / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
Matilda / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The town where the movie takes place isn't known, but it seems to be somewhere in Southern California.
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Matilda / int_85abf836	type	Squirrels in My Pants
Matilda / int_85abf836	comment	Squirrels in My Pants: A variant; after Miss Trunchbull blames Matilda for putting the newt in her water glass, despite Matilda having been locked in the Chokey at the time Lavender sneaked in the newt, Matilda glares at Trunchbull's water glass and makes it tip, using her powers. The newt flies out of the glass and onto Miss Trunchbull. Cue several minutes of Miss Trunchbull freaking out and "dancing" in Matilda's words to get the newt off, while the entire class dives into hysterical laughter.
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Matilda / int_85debad9	type	Plucky Girl
Matilda / int_85debad9	comment	Plucky Girl: Matilda, who doesn't let the hardships she faces get to her.
Matilda / int_85debad9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_867b1f57	type	By the Hair
Matilda / int_867b1f57	comment	By the Hair: On Matilda's first day at school, the Trunchbull grabs a young girl by her pigtails and throws her over the fence. The girl learns her lesson and makes sure the Trunchbull never sees her with pigtails again.
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Matilda / int_86ae1278	type	Adaptational Dumbass
Matilda / int_86ae1278	comment	Matilda's mom. Despite being portrayed as vapid and frivolous (even more than in the book), she's actually the most decent out of Matilda's three family members, while in the book it was Michael (who gets the Adaptational Jerkass instead). At the end, she shows regret that she never understood her daughter, which never happens in the book. When the family is fleeing the country, she's the only one to wave good-bye to Matilda, while in the book it was Michael who waved good-bye to Matilda and both parents didn't even look back.
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Matilda / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
Matilda / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: Miss Trunchbull orders Amanda Thripp to "chop off" her pigtails at the start of the movie. Miss Honey then simply undoes them so that Amanda remain at school with her hair down. When she learns that Miss Trunchbull is Miss Honey's aunt, Matilda asks why she doesn't just leave rather than work for her former abuser. Miss Honey responds that she can't leave the students to the mercy of Miss Trunchbull, and besides which she loves teaching.
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Matilda / int_8776162d	type	Because I Said So
Matilda / int_8776162d	comment	Her father lecturing her for being a "smart aleck" leads to her stealthily dyeing his hair platinum blond. His Because I Said So leads to her sneaking superglue into his hat, and his tearing up her library book leads to her destroying the TV set.
Matilda / int_8776162d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Matilda / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: The Trunchbull pushes through the crowd, sees Matilda, gleefully exclaims "Fresh meat!"...then swats her aside to go after Amanda Thripp instead. Matilda and Miss Honey sneak into Trunchbull's house, but they're alerted to her return when they hear her shout "Wormwood!". However, Trunchbull is actually making an angry phonecall to Matilda's Dad, and is unaware of her presence.
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Matilda / int_8806934e	type	Kids Punishing Parents
Matilda / int_8806934e	comment	Kids Punishing Parents: When Harry punishes Matilda for "being a smart-aleck", he says "when a person is bad, that person needs to be taught a lesson". As the voiceover points out, this implies that children should be able to punish misbehaving parents, too — an idea Matilda takes to heart, starting with gluing her father's hat to his head.
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Matilda / int_8841192a	type	Like Father, Unlike Son
Matilda / int_8841192a	comment	Like Father, Unlike Son: Matilda's parents are incredibly horrible and stupid people who prefer watching mindless Soap Operas and game shows. Matilda's father in particular is an incredibly dishonest car salesman. Matilda, in contrast is a very sweet and extremely intelligent girl who loves books and learning. She's also fully aware of how wrong and dangerous the stunts her father pulls to make a quick buck. How she could be the child of such horrible people is beyond baffling.
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Matilda / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
Matilda / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: In the middle of a Madness Makeover following Matilda terrifying the Trunchbull with her powers and grabbing Liccy doll, as well as two chocolates, Miss Trunchbull demands her water jug and quips, "Hold the newts". It's unclear if she admits the prank was Actually Pretty Funny or a sign of her Villainous Breakdown. Either way, the Trunchbull is incredibly British in this moment.
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Matilda / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Matilda / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: The scene of Miss Trunchbull's downfall. After her first being spooked by Matilda pretending to be the ghost of Magnus (with all the children in unison reading the chalkboard message), she is beaten up by chalk-covered erasers, knocked onto a globe by the same student she tried to throw out the window, and in the end is chased out of the school and into the parking lot by the entire school, driving away as they pelt her and her car with food from their lunchboxes.
Matilda / int_890d4ef2	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Matilda / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: The federal agents try to snoop around the Wormwood garage without a search warrant. Matilda busts them and tells them they could go to federal prison if lacking one.
Matilda / int_8d0785d5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
Matilda / int_8e20ae0d	comment	Child Prodigy: Matilda, as in the book the film is based on. She can take care of herself by the age of 2, read novels written for adult audiences before ever stepping foot in a school, and do complex calculations in her head without batting an eye.
Matilda / int_8e20ae0d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_8ee463f6	type	[Popular Saying], But...
Matilda / int_8ee463f6	comment	[Popular Saying], But...: Miss Trunchbull's philosophy toward child discipline is a subversion of the biblical adage "Spare the rod and spoil the child."
Matilda / int_8ee463f6	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_8f36080d	type	Artistic License â€“ Education
Matilda / int_8f36080d	comment	Artistic License â€“ Education: Trunchbull's overtly sadistic reign of terror over the faculty gets the Hand Wave that it's Refuge in Audacity incarnate (and thus the children trying to confess are given the Cassandra Truth treatment) in the original text (and it's also mentioned that Trunchbull has managed to intimidate what few parents were concerned about it into looking the hell away if they know what's good for them), but in the film it's just a general veneer of Adults Are Useless (the only kid we see accusing Trunchbull to their parents is Matilda and they just don't give a crap about her at all), and it doesn't factor in the fact the film takes place in the modern-day United States and somebody should find it weird that their kid talks about their school having a freaking Iron Maiden.
Matilda / int_8f36080d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_915242d3	type	Pstandard Psychic Pstance
Matilda / int_915242d3	comment	Pstandard Psychic Pstance: Matilda usually would use the stare and squint version to use her powers, though she frequently slipped into gesture-based invocation. One particular example is near the end, when she twirls her forearm around in a circle to make the globe that Trunchbull was on top of spin rapidly.
Matilda / int_915242d3	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_92264449	type	Jabba Table Manners
Matilda / int_92264449	comment	Jabba Table Manners: Sadist Teacher principal Agatha Trunchbull punishes a boy named Bruce Bogtrotter for stealing a cake slice from the school kitchen by forcing him to eat a chocolate cake (without any napkins) in front of the entire school. His face is shown in Gross-Up Close-Up while he eats the cake and licks his fingers.
Matilda / int_92264449	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Matilda / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Harry has Zinnia play tiebreaker when he argues with Matilda about her age. At first, Zinnia agrees that she's four, but when Matilda insists that she's six and a half, Zinnia gives an exasperated "Five, then."
Matilda / int_950bbfa7	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_953a8ee8	type	Age Cut
Matilda / int_953a8ee8	comment	Age Cut: Several times; we first see Matilda as a newborn(Katelyn and Zoey Rosen), then as a two-year-old(Caitlin and Amanda Fein), four-year old(Sara Magdalin), and finally at "six and a half(Mara Wilson)".
Matilda / int_953a8ee8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Matilda / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: While she doesn't seem to break down as much, the Trunchbull is obviously distraught that the children were able to get back at her, which she didn't even foresee, causing her to lash out at them more violently than ever before. It doesn't help that her breakdown plays right into Matilda's favor, hastening her Humiliation Conga and subsequent permanent leave of the school. She also gets pretty damn jittery when Matilda gaslights her at her home. At least... until she realises what's happening.
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Matilda / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Matilda / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: At the end of the film, Matilda asks Miss Honey to legally adopt her. Zinnia, in a moment of surprising clarity, remarks that "You're the only daughter I ever had, Matilda — and I never understood you. Not one little bit." She then agrees to sign the papers and even gives Miss Honey and Matilda a friendly "Ciao" and wave goodbye as the rest of the Wormwoods flee. It's implied that Zinnia has finally realized that she was a terrible parent to Matilda because she just didn't get her, and decides to give her to someone who does.
Matilda / int_9591377d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Matilda / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Miss Trunchbull. At least, she can put up a front among other adults. Harry Wormwood is the same way.
Matilda / int_95b7c400	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_95b7c400	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
Matilda / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: Amanda Thripp. When Miss Trunchbull confronts her for wearing pigtails, Amanda politely defends them by saying her mother thinks they're sweet. She also takes the time to scoop up flowers for Miss Honey after Miss Trunchbull tosses her over the fence for saying "but" and gives a victory wave to the watching students. Later on, when Miss Trunchbull asks if she can spell, Amanda politely says that Miss Honey taught the class how to spell "difficulty".
Matilda / int_9633f14b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Matilda / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: During the Trunchbull's humiliation, Miss Honey eventually cracks and bursts out laughing — and even signals to Matilda to twirl the globe around to torment the poor woman even further.
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Matilda / int_975fe61e	type	Sleep Mask
Matilda / int_975fe61e	comment	Sleep Mask: Mrs Wormwood wears a garish one with bright eyes embroidered onto it.
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Matilda / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Matilda / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Why Miss Honey tells Matilda about the girl in Miss Trunchbull's house; they both come from households with Abusive Parents or aunts but one day "things will be different".
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Matilda / int_98c4ea5f	type	Falling Chandelier of Doom
Matilda / int_98c4ea5f	comment	Falling Chandelier of Doom: Miss Trunchbull brings down a chandelier when she jumps from the balcony while searching for Matilda and Miss Honey in her house.
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Matilda / int_991af300	type	Poke the Poodle
Matilda / int_991af300	comment	Michael tosses a carrot at her out of spite, a day after she has practiced her powers. She freezes it in mid-air and sends it back into his open mouth.
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Matilda / int_9afd34de	type	Slow Clap
Matilda / int_9afd34de	comment	Slow Clap: Trunchbull punishes a boy for stealing her cake by making him eat a much larger cake in front of the whole school. The crowd cheers him on to encourage him. In the movie (not the book) this is started by Matilda.
Matilda / int_9afd34de	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Matilda / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Miss Trunchbull is this to Miss Honey.
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Matilda / int_9c379ef0	type	Cross-Cast Role
Matilda / int_9c379ef0	comment	Cross-Cast Role: The young Matilda was played by twin boys, due to the original twin girls falling ill with flu.
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Matilda / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Matilda / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Miss Trunchbull and Miss Honey's conversation hints at their relationship before it is revealed that the former is the latter's aunt.
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Matilda / int_9d61fd2c	type	Traumatic Superpower Awakening
Matilda / int_9d61fd2c	comment	Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Matilda's telekinesis first displays itself when her father rips up her library books and tries to force her to watch TV with the rest of the family. It blows out the TV set.
Matilda / int_9d61fd2c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_9df812ad	type	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl
Matilda / int_9df812ad	comment	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: In the movie, Mr. Wormwood is shorter than Mrs. Wormwood, but he's now the pudgy one, and she the wiry one. Partly because they're played by the director, Danny DeVito, and his actual wife, Rhea Perlman.
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Matilda / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Matilda / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: Miss Trunchbull after she finds the entire school staring down at her with food drawn and ready. It's the silence before they start chucking that really sells Trunchbull's expression.
Matilda / int_9dfb8296	featureApplicability	1.0
Matilda / int_9dfb8296	featureConfidence	1.0
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Matilda / int_9f4bec33	type	Destroy the Evidence
Matilda / int_9f4bec33	comment	Destroy the Evidence: Matilda obtains the video cassette with evidence against her father and tosses it, after using her powers to lure the FBI away from the house. As the narrator puts it, however, she's only "buying time" since the cops have been watching the house for months.
Matilda / int_9f4bec33	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
Matilda / int_9f80e1da	comment	It's brief, but Mr. Wormwood is briefly dismayed when Miss Trunchbull talks about, "Use the rod, beat the child." While he's abusive towards his own daughter, he doesn't like hearing that but just says, "Terrific motto."
Matilda / int_9f80e1da	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_a18042f1	type	Left the Background Music On
Matilda / int_a18042f1	comment	Left the Background Music On: Thurston Harris's "Little Bitty Pretty One" plays in the background as Matilda practices her new-found telekinesis ability, then is heard playing from the radio, which Matilda switches off at the end of the song.
Matilda / int_a18042f1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_a3a4a800	type	Too Clever by Half
Matilda / int_a3a4a800	comment	Too Clever by Half: Matilda sees the Trunchbull leaving her house, and convinces Miss Honey they can sneak in to grab her treasures: her father's painting and Liccy doll. Logically, she assumes the Trunchbull will be gone long enough for the two of them to get in and out with no problem. What she doesn't anticipate, however, is the Trunchbull having car problems as well as the strength to pull the car back to the house. The end result is a long moment of Alone with the Psycho where Matilda and Miss Honey have to evade the lady as she senses that she's not alone.
Matilda / int_a3a4a800	featureApplicability	1.0
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Matilda / int_a3cf9ef6	type	…And That Little Girl Was Me
Matilda / int_a3cf9ef6	comment	After Miss Honey tells Matilda the story of the young girl who grew up and got away from her wicked aunt (Trunchbull), Matilda puts two and two together when they arrive at Miss Honeyâ€™s house.
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Matilda / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Matilda / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Matilda's parents verbally berate her and neglect her every need, they have no problem leaving her at home, and they left her in the car when they got home from the hospital after driving extremely recklessly with her unrestrained in the back seat.
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Matilda / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Matilda / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: A couple of characters from the book, such as Bruce Bogtrotter, who only appeared a single chapter were upgraded into regular friends of Matilda's in the movie.
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Matilda / int_a7f4710f	type	Mood Dissonance
Matilda / int_a7f4710f	comment	Mood Dissonance: Towards the end, Miss Trunchbull is having her Villainous Breakdown and collapses in Matilda's classroom. The students cautiously advance on her as she awakens and immediately grabs one student to be thrown out the window. Matilda immediately uses her powers to open the window and helps him fly around a bit, making him laugh as light music plays in the background before bringing him back to crash into Miss Trunchbull and continue her breakdown/Humiliation Conga.
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Matilda / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
Matilda / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: Matilda's brother became more of a Big Brother Bully in the movie, while in the book he wasn't as important, but there were hints that he treated her better than the parents.
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Matilda / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Matilda / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: None of the teachers at Crunchem Hall challenge The Trunchbull because they are absolutely terrified of her, though Miss Honey says that she stays because someone has to protect the children as best as they can. It is eventually discovered that Miss Honey's fears of her are particularly justified because the Trunchbull is her aunt. The book explains that the Trunchbull intentionally makes sure her punishments are so over the top that any parents would assume the children are making things up.
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Matilda / int_ac12cde1	type	Bully Hunter
Matilda / int_ac12cde1	comment	Bully Hunter: Of the anti-Sadist Teacher variety. Matilda is the only student who actually threatens the Trunchbull's authority because she hasn't spent years taking nonsense from the principal. While Amanda will stand up politely to Miss Trunchbull and Hortensia is matter-of-fact about the daily punishments that can ensue for the smallest infractions, all of the kids are terrified of her. Matilda finds means to rally the kids and stand up to Miss Trunchbull.
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Matilda / int_ac448cdc	type	Van in Black
Matilda / int_ac448cdc	comment	Van in Black: Matilda notices a car is always parked on the street outside their house. The car turns out to belong to cops who are trying to arrest Matilda's father for selling cars with faulty car parts.
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Matilda / int_acd7e590	type	Sticky Situation
Matilda / int_acd7e590	comment	Sticky Situation: Harry Wormwood gets his hat superglued on him. He is understandably pissed.
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Matilda / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Matilda / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Miss Trunchbull after being chased out of Miss Honey's classroom thanks to Matilda, only to find the entire school staring down at her with food drawn and ready. It's the silence before they start chucking that really sells Trunchbull's expression.
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Matilda / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
Matilda / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Miss Trunchbull's main reason to do anything.
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Matilda / int_ae254ead	type	Narrating the Obvious
Matilda / int_ae254ead	comment	Narrating the Obvious: The narrator often explains what is happening on screen, even things that are blatantly obvious. The biggest offender is when Matilda goes to school for the first time and the camera shows us the school; he explains that the school is a building with children.
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Matilda / int_ae372576	type	I Warned You
Matilda / int_ae372576	comment	I Warned You: Matilda warned her dad about his activities, but he refuses to listen because to him she's too "dumb" to understand. He ends up being on the run to Guam. Another reason why he happily left Matilda to someone else so he wouldn't have to deal with her "I told you so's".
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Matilda / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
Matilda / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: The book takes place in England, whereas the film is set in California.
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Matilda / int_b058881a	type	Maximum Fun Chamber
Matilda / int_b058881a	comment	Maximum Fun Chamber: The Chokey, which turns out to be a non-lethal (as far as we know) iron maiden.
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Matilda / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Matilda / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Also, Harry Wormwood, whose used-car company sells cars made from stolen parts — at outrageous prices — that only survive for a few miles. Because their engines are filled with sawdust, and the odometers is rolled back. And then there's how he acts around Matilda.
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Matilda / int_b402fa9f	type	Tropical Epilogue
Matilda / int_b402fa9f	comment	Tropical Epilogue: Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood move to Guam after Mr. Wormwood's car dealership is under investigation for fraud, and their daughter is legally adopted by Ms. Honey.
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Matilda / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Matilda / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The Wormwoods reject anything that is remotely intellectual and are far too eager to blow off Matilda's warnings that the authorities are watching them purely because of their blissful ignorance. When the FBI finally moves in on them they decide to flee to Guam of all places, an American overseas territory. Odds are they will not like what awaits them when they get there.
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Matilda / int_b6c60ed5	type	A Mistake Is Born
Matilda / int_b6c60ed5	comment	A Mistake Is Born: In this version, Mr. Wormwood describes himself as being the father to "one son, and one mistake".
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Matilda / int_b77eb3b2	type	Revenge by Proxy
Matilda / int_b77eb3b2	comment	Revenge by Proxy: At one point, Trunchbull locks Matilda up in The Chokey as payback for Mr. Wormwood selling her a junky car.
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Matilda / int_b7fa9b36	type	Adaptational Explanation
Matilda / int_b7fa9b36	comment	Adaptational Explanation: In the book, it's never really explained why Miss Trunchbull accepts the premise that she's being haunted, other than the fact that she has no other way to explain what's happening, or why she thinks said ghost would have the power to harm her. The film establishes that she's extremely superstitious, which makes it much more plausible that she would actually believe that Magnus' ghost could come back to haunt her. Additionally, the film has Matilda actually affect Trunchbull physically with her powers in addition to the message, which would help to erase any doubt in her mind that the "ghost" is still corporeal enough to be capable of harming her.
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Matilda / int_b8245de7	type	Academia Elitism
Matilda / int_b8245de7	comment	Academia Elitism: Inverted with the Wormwoods (minus Matilda), a family of Anti Intellectuals who don't value education. Zinnia is a Female Misogynist who believes that women should look pretty rather than be educated, even insulting Ms. Honey for focusing on education. Harry Wormwood looks down on college graduates as "hippies and cesspool salesmen." Ms. Honey shuts them up by pointing out that without colleges, there wouldn't be doctors to treat sick people or lawyers to protect people from lawsuits.
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Matilda / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Matilda / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Like many Dahl books, this got a film adaptation.
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Matilda / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
Matilda / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: The film drops a few, mostly about authority figures and children. People in positions of power don't always have their charges' best interests in mind. Parents and school principals aren't automatically good people and can be downright cruel and abusive, and if they are, you're obligated to fight back instead of listening to what they say just because they have authority. Even if a kind person cares about you, there's little they can do if they don't have any power in the first place. Miss Honey genuinely loves Matilda and wants to make her happy, but she's helpless to do so in "official" ways because she can't stand up to Miss Trunchbull or the Wormwoods. The best she can do is allow Matilda to read whatever books she's able to get her hands on, and ultimately Matilda has to improve her own situation instead of waiting for Miss Honey to do it. Sometimes, the best things birth families can do for each other is split apart. Zinnia eventually admits that she's never understood Matilda and never will, and that lack of understanding is making both Matilda and the other Wormwoods miserable. As such, she willingly signs the adoption papers to entrust Matilda to Miss Honey, knowing on some level that it's the only way to actually make her daughter happy. This decision is portrayed as a universal positive for everyone involved.
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Matilda / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
Matilda / int_bc03c871	comment	This is perhaps the nicest way to describe Agatha Trunchbull, as a Child Hater of a Dean Bitterman and Sadist Teacher.
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Matilda / int_bc3b029b	type	Impairment Shot
Matilda / int_bc3b029b	comment	Impairment Shot: During Miss Trunchbull's Humiliation Conga, there's a shot of her seeing double from dizziness after being spun on the globe.
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Matilda / int_bcbb5596	type	Not Afraid of You Anymore
Matilda / int_bcbb5596	comment	Not Afraid of You Anymore: The children who pelt Miss Trunchbull with food until she leaves the school. Also Miss Honey at the end:
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Matilda / int_be6f7ae7	type	Brief Accent Imitation
Matilda / int_be6f7ae7	comment	Brief Accent Imitation: Evil Brit Trunchbull likes to slip into a girlish American accent when mocking children and parents alike. Almost makes you wonder why she emigrated...
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Matilda / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Matilda / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Oddly enough, Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood. Although she and he have occasional spats and she is a Gold Digger Trophy Wife, they manage to make up within a matter of hours or days. It's one of their few redeeming qualities.
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Matilda / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Matilda / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Danny DeVito plays both Matilda's (villainous) father and the narrator, which creates a strange, postmodern tone. Averted in some dubs where the voice actors for the father and the narrator are different people.
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Matilda / int_c0c4b1e8	type	Writing Lines
Matilda / int_c0c4b1e8	comment	Writing Lines: When we're introduced to Trunchbull, she orders a student to write "I must obey Miss Trunchbull" sixty times.
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Matilda / int_c31dc964	type	Grew a Spine
Matilda / int_c31dc964	comment	Miss Honey Grew a Spine in the climax when she stands up to "Aunt Trunchbull" and says she's not afraid of her aunt anymore. Then she subtly conveys to Matilda to spin the class globe when a semiconscious Trunchbull has landed on top of it.
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Matilda / int_c339d8fb	type	Genius Book Club
Matilda / int_c339d8fb	comment	Genius Book Club: Matilda has already made significant inroads into the Western Canon by the time she starts school.
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Matilda / int_c4105ca6	type	Bespectacled Cutie
Matilda / int_c4105ca6	comment	Bespectacled Cutie: Both Lavender and Amanda Thripp.
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Matilda / int_c45e0fea	type	Adaptational Timespan Change
Matilda / int_c45e0fea	comment	Adaptational Timespan Change: In the book, Matilda's campaign of payback against her parents is spread out over several weeks, but in the film it's condensed into a single day.
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Matilda / int_c514c2c4	type	Gentleman and a Scholar
Matilda / int_c514c2c4	comment	Gentleman and a Scholar: Matilda is a genuinely sweet-natured kid, and never thinks of herself as superior for her brains. If she's asked anything intellectual, she will respond in a polite fashion. She really only dislikes people who are annoying or rude to her.
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Matilda / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
Matilda / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Two right in a row at the film's climax, the second being an Internal Reveal.
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Matilda / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Matilda / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To other Roald Dahl works; Matilda accidentally refers to Charles Dickens as "Dahl's Chickens" at first, and later she shares with Miss Honey that "the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of 650 times a minute". And then there's Trunchbull's insult to one of the children during her first scene. It's very hard not to see the shot of Trunchbull snorting against the window as a direct reference to the raptor doing the same thing in the then-recent Jurassic Park movie. The scene where Trunchbull is hunting Matilda through the kitchen also has echoes of the kitchen scene in Jurassic Park. In the end of the movie, the Wormwoods, after giving up Matilda to be adopted by Miss Honey, make their getaway to Guam. In The Ratings Game, another movie produced by Danny DeVito and starring him and his wife Rhea Pearlman, the wayward ship (with the Nielsen Ratings families on board) is traveling to Guam. It also shows the Wormwoods' stupidity since Guam is a U.S. Territory. Needless to say, even if they made it to Guam, the law still catches up to them, since the FBI has jurisdiction there.
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Matilda / int_c849c244	type	Possessive Wrist Grab
Matilda / int_c849c244	comment	Possessive Wrist Grab: The Trunchbull grabs Miss Honey by the wrist at one point and even threatens to break her arm.
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Matilda / int_ca2b7f65	type	Attentive Shade Lowering
Matilda / int_ca2b7f65	comment	Attentive Shade Lowering: Miss Honey slowly lowers her glasses with intrigue in response to Matilda's math skills.
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Matilda / int_ca69cb4d	type	Adaptational Karma
Matilda / int_ca69cb4d	comment	Adaptational Karma: The Wormwoods in the book leave for Spain, which is a separate country and would make the extradition process harder for the British authorities to catch the parents. In the film, they flee to Guam, a US territory where the FBI has jurisdiction. The narrator says they got away, but it's only a matter of time...
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Matilda / int_cbaa9102	type	Signature Headgear
Matilda / int_cbaa9102	comment	Signature Headgear: Matilda always wears a hair ribbon, tied into a bow at the top of her head. This comes back to bite her later.
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Matilda / int_cf231d54	type	Cool Teacher
Matilda / int_cf231d54	comment	Cool Teacher: Everyone loves the soft-spoken Miss Honey, who makes every child feel special and teaches them sums and spelling rather quickly. Matilda comes to adore her because Miss Honey gets her schoolwork appropriate for her genius IQ, lends her books, and rescues her from the Chokey.
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Matilda / int_cf4fa6b9	type	Lonely Bachelor Pad
Matilda / int_cf4fa6b9	comment	Lonely Bachelor Pad: Miss Honey's house is furnished with only a couple of wooden crates (to show that she's extremely poor, rather than that she's lonely.)
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Matilda / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
Matilda / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: It's not in evidence, anyway, despite all the child abuse going on. The FBI agents do threaten to send Matilda to an orphanage when she catches them snooping in her father's garage, but more so as a result of arresting her father.
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Matilda / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Matilda / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: The Trunchbull deliberately uses such outlandishly cruel punishments because any parent would assume a child was making them up. Matilda does mention a few of these punishments to her parents, but they're either not paying attention or don't believe her. Matilda also tells her parents that cops are watching the house. Although Mr. Wormwood rightly doubts their claim of being speedboat salesmen (pointing out that "there are no lakes around here"), he thinks they're trying to sleep with his wife, and Mrs. Wormwood is completely fooled.
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Matilda / int_d01a97fb	type	E = MC Hammer
Matilda / int_d01a97fb	comment	E = MC Hammer: A minor example when the kindergarten students are learning the multiplication tables. Most kindergarten teachers are happy when their students can add one-digit numbers. This is possibly justified due to the Sadist Principal, Miss Trunchbull.
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Matilda / int_d30f7e04	type	Brain Critical Mass
Matilda / int_d30f7e04	comment	Brain Critical Mass: Profoundly gifted kids the world over wish that being bored out of your mind and forced to tolerate the idiocy and cruelty of everyone around you gave you Psychic Powers. In the book, Matilda's telekinetic powers go away when she finally gets put in the upper grades; in the movie, the narrator explains that because of Matilda's new, happier life, she no longer uses her psychic powers — unless it's for trivial things, like getting books off the shelf.
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Matilda / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Matilda / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: This is how the Trunchbull gets away with such shocking cruelty to the students. Any parent who heard their kid tell them the principal threw them in a closed chamber with broken glass and nails jutting out of the walls for several hours would naturally assume their kid was lying. Matilda in the climax uses her powers in front of Miss Trunchbull to terrify her. The principal never puts two and two together because of her superstitious nature and fear of Magnus.
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Matilda / int_d5a674ff	type	Defiant Stone Throw
Matilda / int_d5a674ff	comment	Defiant Stone Throw: At the end, the children all start throwing the contents of their lunchboxes and water balloons at the defeated Trunchbull.
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Matilda / int_d7668f35	type	Evil Principal
Matilda / int_d7668f35	comment	Evil Principal: Trunchbull, who treats the students of her school very harshly.
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Matilda / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Matilda / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Lavender. In the book, she is White; in the movie, she is Black.
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Matilda / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Matilda / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After being put through so much hell at the hands of the students, Miss Trunchbull can't take it anymore and just leaves the school forever.
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Matilda / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Matilda / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: The Trunchbull manages to give a spiel to this effect in a classroom, to children, in a very Sadist Teacher kind of way.
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Matilda / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Matilda / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Miss Phelps the librarian. She notices that a child is walking to and from the library every day alone and reads all the books in the kids' section. While she is amazed, and more so when the four-year-old dives into literary classics, her priority is for Matilda's safety; she makes recommendations and gives Matilda permission to apply for a library card (something she'd probably be too young to do otherwise) so that she can check out as many books at a time as she wants (most libraries put a limit on borrowing) and not have to cross the street every day.
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Matilda / int_defe4ffd	type	Container Cling
Matilda / int_defe4ffd	comment	Container Cling: Matilda is hiding under a table from the wicked Principal Trunchbull. When the Trunchbull gets near the table, she lifts up the tablecloth, but doesn't see Matilda. It turns out Matilda was clinging to the underside of the table.
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Matilda / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
Matilda / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: Miss Honey and Matilda with Miss Trunchbull when the latter nearly catches them in her house. To drive the point home, Miss Trunchbull breaks a chandelier and rips chains off to get to them. The roles get reversed when Matilda visits Miss Trunchbull's house and terrorizes her by messing with the clocks and the lights, scattering papers, and tossing her painting into the fire, all the while stealing back Liccy doll and two chocolates.
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Matilda / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Matilda / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Subverted with Mrs. Wormwood, who's never around emotionally. Though she does come to regret it in the end. Miss Honey is a calmer type, being a Cowardly Lion. She claims she wasn't brave enough to stand up to Miss Trunchbull, but she protects Matilda at every turn, from springing her out of the Chokey to taking the fall for being at her house. In addition, she is a Determinator in making sure Matilda's genius is recognized and finding other opportunities for Matilda when neither Miss Trunchbull nor the parents agree.
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Matilda / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Matilda / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Watch out when Matilda enters a state of Tranquil Fury, as opposed to her Cheerful Child nature. That means she is ready to kick some serious ass, with or without powers. Miss Honey is not only very kindhearted towards children, but also capable of tolerating Trunchbull's scolding... until the climax when the latter is trying to cause her harm in front of the entire class. She sternly tells her aunt that she's not a little girl anymore, which surprises everybody.
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Matilda / int_e94ff7e2	type	Financial Abuse
Matilda / int_e94ff7e2	comment	The movie doesn't detail how Miss Trunchbull performed Financial Abuse on Miss Honey, hence why she lives in a cottage and doesn't fight for her inheritance. It's instead implied, with how small the cottage is and Matilda asking why she doesn't just "run away".
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Matilda / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Matilda / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Matilda promises Miss Honey she won't enter Miss Trunchbull's house again. She scares Miss Trunchbull and gets Miss Honey's doll back by using her powers from the garage roof. When Harry attempts to punish Matilda for what he sees as smarting off to him (in reality, he was mad that she figured out the answer to a math problem that Michael, the favored child, had no clue about), he tells Matilda that "When a person is bad, that person needs to be taught a lesson." The narrator explains that he meant to say "when a child is bad", but because he said "person", Harry instilled the idea that children can punish their parents when the parents deserve it. Matilda does so, and it works.
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Matilda / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Matilda / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: The narrator says that the Wormwoods evaded the FBI, but doesn't mention that the FBI could have caught up to them in Guam since that's a United States territory. But according to the narrator, it's only a matter of time...
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Matilda / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Matilda / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: This is perhaps the nicest way to describe Agatha Trunchbull, as a Child Hater of a Dean Bitterman and Sadist Teacher. Also, Harry Wormwood, whose used-car company sells cars made from stolen parts — at outrageous prices — that only survive for a few miles. Because their engines are filled with sawdust, and the odometers is rolled back. And then there's how he acts around Matilda.
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Matilda / int_f178203a	type	Inspector Javert
Matilda / int_f178203a	comment	Inspector Javert: The FBI investigators that are watching the house and investigating Harry Wormwood. Seen most obviously when Matilda catches them snooping in the garage without a warrant and they try to intimidate her into testifying against her father.
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Matilda / int_f1e837cc	type	Mind over Matter
Matilda / int_f1e837cc	comment	Mind over Matter: The movie sees Matilda develop telekinetic powers. Unlike the book, where she lost her powers at the end, she kept them, but only used them for trivial purposes.
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Matilda / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
Matilda / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: Harry Wormwood takes pride in passing stolen, barely-functional cars off as quality used vehicles and selling them to unsuspecting customers. Most notably, he sells one to the Trunchbull that only lasts her a few weeks.
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Matilda / int_f2d29e14	type	Evil Brit
Matilda / int_f2d29e14	comment	Evil Brit: In the movie, all the characters (who were British in the book) become Americans except Pam Ferris as Miss Trunchbull.
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Matilda / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Matilda / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: The class gives off this vibe when "Magnus" is writing on the chalkboard. They read along with the words being written, and do so in a near-monotone that wouldn't be out of place for singing "One, two, Freddy's coming for you...".
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Matilda / int_f482730a	type	No Peripheral Vision
Matilda / int_f482730a	comment	No Peripheral Vision: Matilda manages to hide from Miss Trunchbull by using her powers to levitate herself up to the underside of a kitchen table. Miss Trunchbull doesn't think to look up. Somewhat justified in that Miss Trunchbull would have no reason to think someone could do that, but if she'd even happened to glance up (say, out of the corner of her eye while looking sideways), she would have seen Matilda there.
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Matilda / int_f4a5b281	type	Ceiling Cling
Matilda / int_f4a5b281	comment	Ceiling Cling: Trunchbull is trying to catch the people who are in her house (Matilda and Miss Honey). At one point, Matilda hides under a table with long curtains, but at one point Trunchbull tries to peek inside, so the little girl clings to the underside of the table to avoid being seen.
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Matilda / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Matilda / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Matilda has to look after herself since birth due to her cruel, neglectful parents as well as her highly sadistic principal. When the opportunity comes to put them in their place and to leave behind her awful home life, she immediately takes it. Miss Honey is a remarkably collected and kindhearted woman for all she has endured since losing her father as a young child. It is not until her fateful meeting with Matilda that she finds the strength to take back what was stolen from her.
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Matilda / int_f76eaaff	type	Entertainment Above Their Age
Matilda / int_f76eaaff	comment	Entertainment Above Their Age: Matilda is an avid reader of classic novels despite being six-and-a-half for most of the film. This leads to a very funny scene - not in the booknote The book has a similiar scene with The Red Pony by John Steinbeck, and the father assuming it must be garbage because that's all Americans ever write; since the movie changes the setting from England to the States, this meant the scene needed to be revised - where her father catches her reading Moby-Dick ("Moby WHAT?") and leaps to the conclusion that it's a dirty book, so he tears out all the pages and burns it.
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Matilda / int_f7a458c3	type	Dartboard of Hate
Matilda / int_f7a458c3	comment	Dartboard of Hate: Miss Trunchbull is seen to have a dartboard on her office door covered in photos of random students. She's able to throw about a dozen darts at the thing at once and accurately hit all of the pictures.
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Matilda / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Matilda / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Harry just doesn't get why Miss Honey would want to raise Matilda even when he's told she's a smart and wonderful girl. He still likely disagrees and was more than happy to get her off his already-full hands.
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Matilda / int_f9b5dabc	type	Spies In a Van
Matilda / int_f9b5dabc	comment	Spies In a Van: Matilda notices a car is always parked on the street outside their house. The car turns out to belong to cops who are trying to find proof of Matilda's father using stolen car parts.
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Matilda / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Matilda / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: The climax. Matilda uses her powers to write a message on the chalkboard, commanding The Trunchbull to give Miss Honey back her house and leave town. While the Trunchbull cowers in fear over what she believes to be a message from Miss Honey's dead father, she becomes disoriented and all the kids collectively pelt her with the contents of their lunchboxes until she flees the school, never to return.
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Matilda / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Matilda / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Played straight. Matilda is a sweet girl with the purest intentions... who uses her powers to evade, inconvenience and, in the end, instill abject terror in her enemy. Miss Honey Grew a Spine in the climax when she stands up to "Aunt Trunchbull" and says she's not afraid of her aunt anymore. Then she subtly conveys to Matilda to spin the class globe when a semiconscious Trunchbull has landed on top of it.
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Matilda / int_fdfd52d9	type	Gross-Up Close-Up
Matilda / int_fdfd52d9	comment	Gross-Up Close-Up: Sadist Teacher principal Agatha Trunchbull punishes a boy named Bruce Bogtrotter for stealing a cake slice from the school kitchen by forcing him to eat a chocolate cake (and with Jabba Table Manners, since she never provides him with napkins) in front of the entire school. His face is shown in close-up while he eats the cake and licks his fingers.
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Matilda / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Matilda / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Miss Trunchbull's Establishing Character Moment has her yelling at Amanda for wearing her hair in pigtails. During her humiliation towards the end, 'No Pigtails' can be seen on a list of school rules. Bruce Bogtrotter is forced to eat an entire chocolate cake by the Trunchbull. During the Trunchbull's humiliation, he smears a slice of chocolate cake across her face.
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Matilda / int_fe7d9114	type	Sleeps with Both Eyes Open
Matilda / int_fe7d9114	comment	Sleeps with Both Eyes Open: Invoked. As Matilda is sneaking into her parent's room, her mother sits up and stares right at Matilda with huge eyes — then after a second, you realize it's an opaque sleep mask with eye designs. By the time she takes it off, Matilda is out of the room.
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Matilda / int_ff195327	type	Elevator School
Matilda / int_ff195327	comment	Elevator School: Trunchem Hall becomes this after the climax because with Ms. Trunchbull gone, no-one wanted to graduate.
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Matilda / int_ff6d8ad9	type	Adaptational Nationality
Matilda / int_ff6d8ad9	comment	Adaptational Nationality: The 1996 movie adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel changed the setting from Great Britain to the USA, thus Americanizing all the characters, except for the evil headmistress Miss Trunchbull.
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Matilda / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Matilda / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Harry negotiates with the Trunchbull to let Matilda into her school, in exchange for a car. Then he drives Matilda there the day that she starts so that she doesn't have to walk or take the bus. The Wormwoods giving Matilda up for adoption, the movie version at least. They do so not to get rid of her but because they realize she would be better off with someone who could understand her. Zinnia even sweetly says "Ciao" wishing her the best.
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