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I Don't Remember *MATILDA* being this DARK
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- Опубликовано: 3 апр 2022
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this movie is a UNDERRATEDDDDD. Anyone else realise the metaphor in thie movie? How enjoyable was this movie though!
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I think the actress* who played Matilda, her mother was very sick and she wanted her mom to see it before she goes and Danny Devido I think is his name, the narrator, and the dad was also the one in charge of the movie production released it to the mom so she could watch her daughter act one last time
Woww, that is so amazing yet so sad 😭
@@Welchy yes it is 😭
The blonde woman that played the mom is Danny DeVito actual wife. The Trenchable is also the same woman who played aunt Marge in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
actress* and yes, Danny DeVito* was a true parent figure for her after her mom passed away
I think he even offered to adopt Mara at the time
Obligatory: Danny Devito and Rhea Pearlman (Matilda's parents) unofficially adopted Mara Wilson (Matilda) while her mother was hospitalized during filming, and when it became clear she wouldn't survive for the release, Devito conspired to release a cut of the movie so she could see it prior to her passing.
oh wow, that is heartbreaking
aww..that's bittersweet if that is true.
@@DeannaRa @Liza Harris lol 2 comments that are the oppiste of each other but both make sense
That sad and wholesome
My second name is Wilson (my name was changed from Brown to Wilson so I ain't lying)
When the dad asked "are you in this family?" she's totally thinking about those adoption papers she already had printed out.
So I actually read the book this movie is based on back when I was in school, and there's a few interesting changes they made, the biggest of which being that, in the book, Matilda looses her powers. Basically, once Ms. Honey took over the school, she let Matilda advance to a higher grade fitting her intelligence, but shortly thereafter, Matilda couldn't move things anymore. The conclusion the characters came to is that Matilda's powers were the result of her mind's access capabilities, and once her intelligence started facing actual challenges, it didn't have enough spare energy for the telekinesis anymore.
I definitely prefer the book to the movie. There were more pranks on the parents, too, which was my favorite part.
I loved the book and the movie, for different reasons. The story holds a special place in my heart.
I believe the musical also has Matilda lose her powers, though I'm not sure.
Honestly, the book, the movie, and the musical are all great tellings of the story.
Bad end, then. An ending where someone has to lose their awesome powers just sucks.
idk if thats necessarily a loss of powers. if its a result of her mental abilities, maybe she could still use it with enough work
Fun fact: the actress who played Ms. Trunchbull also played Aunt Marge in Harry Potter. She’s really such a good actress that she’s unrecognizable between roles.
Also, the scene with Ms. Honey and Matilda in Trunchbull house was nightmare fuel for me as a small child.
It's wild, because that same actress also plays a very kind, gentle, and thoughtful character in the film "Children of Men." And again, she's almost unrecognizable as the same person.
Wait what? *thinks back to Aunt Marge’s face* Oh my god
The scene where she jumps off the balcony always terrified me!
I found a British television show that I absolutely love called "Rosemary & Thyme." It's about two gardeners named Rosemary Boxer (professor of horticulture) and Laura Thyme (a former policewoman who retired to raise her two kids) and they solve gardening problems together and always seen to stumble onto a crime scene. The actress that plays Ms. Trunchbull in "Matilda" and Aunt Marge in "Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban", Pam Ferris, plays Laura Thyme in that show.
She is truly a brilliant actor
Before the scene when "Matilda" would dancing by herself, she told Danny Devito that she was nervous. So he told everybody to dance when that scene was shot so she would be more at ease
I remember reading this info somewhere else, and now that you've reminded me of it, I'm imagining a really wholesome scene where she's dancing with her levitating toys on-camera, and everyone else is dancing with her, though off-camera... AWWWW!
Have to admit that's seriously adorable.
Fun fact: Pam Ferris, who played Miss Trunchbull, would remain in character even when off camera so that the children's reaction to her would be genuine.
Thats actually really smart, but i worry for the kids
That's really concerning.......
I understand that she also didn't hang around the kids too much, because she was afraid she would slip and be nice. Afterward, they all found her delightful.
I'm sure she didn't go overboard like jared fukcing leto does constantly, and only ACTED like that On Set
I heard she was actually quite nice to them, and they felt bad for the last scene with her being removed from the school, because of her kindness
As far as I'm concerned, this entire movie is just an alternate Harry Potter universe where Hermione was raised by the Dursleys.
lmao
Good analogy XD
(weird to think though that Roald Dahl published his book 11 years prior to Rowling with Philosophers Stone)
For me it's a bit like a child from the Star Wars galaxy got translanted into our world.
*the Dark Side of The Force is a pathway to many abilities... some considered to be~ Unnatural*
There's a "chocolate cake" edition of the book where the cover smells like chocolate. I found this out where I work (we deal with books), and I smelled chocolate near me. I had to find where it was coming from, and when I did, the nostalgia of the movie hit me as I read the title. This movie was absolutely part of my childhood, and definitely a classic.
Trunchble:
Children are disgusting, I'm glad I never was one.
Matilda:
Children are often loved... I wish I had the chance to be one.
Matilda was my idol as a kid. She literally inspired me to as my mom for a library card of my own😂.
Love that you watched this, Welchy😁
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Same here mate. Ms Honey reminded me a lot of my aunt
11:38 This scene literally traumatized me as a child and I'm convinced that it caused me to forget the entire rest of the movie's plotline lmao. Great video as always :)
bruh i had stop eatting chocolate cake for a while because of it..... well it was the scene with the old lady. grossed me out so much
Such an iconic cake 😂 and thank youuu! :D
Same here, I was always wondering while I felt nauseous every time I see a chocolate cake even though it is very tasty. Noe I remember why
Well you won’t like how the book ends in the book the only reason she had the powers was because she wasn’t being tested enough and when she was in a smart enough class they just went away
Roald Dahl wrote this as well as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, and James and the Giant Peach. The portrait of Miss Honey's father was actually one of Roald Dahl.
during the scene where Matilda is dancing and using her powers, Mara Wilson was actually too shy so the rest of the crew started dancing with her behind the camera so she wouldn't do it alone. Also she actually messed up when she said Darles Chickens instead of Charles Dickens but the director thought it was too cute so they left it in
It's very cute
Matilda was my comfort movie as a child. I had to hide it behind the bookcase in my room so my parents wouldn't find it, because they hated the movie because of Matilda's "disrespect" towards authority. I was a lonely kid that loved to read kid with questionable parents, and I saw myself in that little girl.
My parents loved the book, but liked the film less because it was americanised.
(from a British prospective at least, hollywood seems to localize all foriegn books it adapts, and some US films can feel really garish & oversaturated, though Devito when directing this film used the latter ironically, to emphasize how terrible Matilda's parents are)
One detail the film leaves out, is that in the book Matilda's father tears up the library book because it has an american author, which - in his willful ignorance - he dismisses as smut.
(though he also does it because he has some sort of immature resentment of bookish people, and of what they can enjoy that he cannot)
Do they want you to respect abusive authority??? Man, that's a weird take
@@tsurifisheryou’d be surprised how many people think you just should respect everyone with a rank above you, because they’re spineless and conditioned to feel inferior based on status.
Trunchbull was pure evil, which was why she was so fun to watch. You can have a good story with a good main character, but what REALLY makes it is a good villain. And she was an incredible villain
Ms. Honey was the love of my life when I was a kid (still is ngl)
yeahhhhhhh, can’t blame you
Here's basically the situation with Honey and the Trunchbull:
Trumchbull came to help raise her after Honeys mom died. Then the dad died, and it was ruled a suicide.
Then when Honey got her teaching job, Trunchbull said Honey had to start paying back every last penny Trunchbull ever spend on her, and she'd only get about a dollar a week. No joke.
My guess is Trunchbull murdered the father as a means of trying to claim his inheritance, but discovered that the will stated Honey got everything, and Trunchbull couldn't touch it, so she took Honeys money to make up for it.
Oh, yeah, Ms. Honey knew that Ms. Trunchbull killed her dad. While in the house, Matilda says something like "I don't think your dad killed himself", and Ms. Honey replies with "Neither do I".
WOWW THANK YOU RUclips FOR DELETING ALL COMMENTS, MUCH APPRECIATED
#fightthesteal hahaha jk
2:35 Roald Dahl, actually! 😂 Danny Devito's narration throughout the film is mostly quotes directly from the original novel. Thanks for watching & posting this. So fun to revisit this one! I wanted to be Matilda, as a kid. Everytime an adult was being condescending and a hypocrite, tbh.
Btw, Roald Dahl was a former WW2 spy & said former occupation made him kind of a misanthrope. He came out of that job, understandably, with the attitude that kids are the only truly wise and good people in the world (with a few Miss Honey-esque exceptions).
That's why a lot of the smart & kind child protagonists in his novels have neglectful & abusive parental figures.
A lot of the adults in his books were very intentional exaggerations of garbage irl attitudes held by some people of the time & he wanted the readers to feel empowered by their own intelligence and moral compass, even when told otherwise. He was also making a pointed statement to kids about preserving their goodness & to not become those adults, in pretty much every single novel.
Also....Ian Fleming specifically used Roald Dahl & his known status as a former British spy as his muse for James Bond's character, in his original novels. So, it's kind of funny to headcanon James Bond writing children's novels in his retirement 🤣
I find Dahl fascinating.
even in Fantstic Mr. Fox, alot of the dialog and narration was straight from the book.
Well, Ian used Roald and a few others. They actually were a part of the same spy unit, alongside Christopher Lee. Christopher Lee was another person who inspired Bond. Additional fun fact: Christopher Lee once lectured Peter Jackson on what a sword sounds like going into someone's back based on personal experience. The implication of this is that Christopher Lee once impaled a Nazi on a sword. Roald inspired Bond's womanizing, actually. See, Roald's assignment was in America. His job was to seduce the wives of influential politicians and businessmen and push those wives to push their husbands to push the American government to support Britain in the war. So yeah, during WW2 Roald Dahl was sleeping with every powerful person's wife while Christopher Lee was swordfighting Nazis.
I love that Pam Ferris, the lady that plays Trunchbull, was also Aunt Marge in Harry Potter 3. Perfect casting!
I thought that but I wasn’t sure
She's also sister evangelina from call the midwife which it took me forever to notice when I was watching it and did such a 360!
I heard Danny DeVito took care of Mara Wilson (the girl playing Matilda) while her parents were sick during the production of the film
that’s unreal, what a great human
close, her mother was very sick in the hospital. i don't know if her father was in the picture at all.
@@hufflepuffler2575 it was probably the mother, my brain probably filled in the gap of lacking a father in the story haha
In the book her powers go away once she skips to the 6th grade. Her telekenises was the unused brainpower which was now being used in school
Matilda is just trolling all adults still getting their lives together and Welchy is just being absolutely salty.
what?? I’m on Matilda’s side what you talking about 😂
I grew up in foster care.. this movie and Annie was comforting and validating to me
My parents were often super derelict in their duties. So same.
3:02 Matilda's mom was bleaching her hair roots with hydrogen peroxide (usually it's diluted, but idk with what). In the book, she said that even though she dilutes hers, it makes "a good deal of [her] hair fall out," and therefore she's surprised that Matilda's dad's hair was mostly intact, though now blond, after Matilda switched straight hydrogen peroxide into his hair tonic bottle.
(Matilda also thought his blond, patchy hair was an improvement on his greasy, slicked-back hair that he hardly ever washed because he was so proud to use the hair tonic every day.)
If you listen closely to the end of the movie when the family says they are moving away you can hear police sirens in the background. This implies that the father was caught and they are actively running from the police, hence why the father is jittery and the mother wants them to hurry.
2:30 the guy who wrote that line was Roald Dahl, the guy who wrote the book. I actually like a lot of his books because he has a way of roasting people in the most polite manner ever.
In a polite manner 😂😂 I love that, wish I was that good ahaha
@@Welchy to be fair I can see Dahl getting off on his own prose. He was an odd duck. One of the greats, though. One of the few who gets the dark parts of childhood.
@@RhetoricalThrill maybe partly because of the schools he went to as a child.
“I’m surprised you’re wasting all that food I mean look at the state of ya”
That’s one sick burn
Cheerios is originally from America lol. It's one of the most well known cereals out there. Of course, I think the sweeter Honey Nut Cheerios might be more popular nowadays.
Absolutely love that you reacted to Matilda, immediately put a smile on my face when I saw it pop up🙂
If you'd like to see another pure film, I really recommend 'A little princess' (1995)
Also fun fact, the actress of trunchbull also played aunt marge in Harry Potter
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I loved A Little Princess! Great suggestion!
If he watched A little princess that would MAKE MY DAY that movie is a classic I had the DVD as a kid
A Little Princess... wow memories. Such a good film.
YES!!! This was one of my favorite “kids” movies 😂
I remember being so creeped out, and so full of wonder!
WHAT A CLASSIC
Underrated classic!
I should explain here that the "Dahl's Chickens" joke actually came from The BFG. If you've read it, you know that he mixes up his words frequently, so that was what he called Charles Dickens. He eventually did learn to speak eloquently, and his writing improved too as he read more. In this scene in the book of Matilda, she actually talks about how she likes CS Lewis, but says that his only failing is he doesn't put any funny scenes into his books and that all children's books should have them because "Children are not so serious as adults and they love to laugh." Okay, thank you, mouthpiece of the author.
Also, when Matilda's was moved into the top form in school, she lost her powers. The reason was simple - while in the baby class, her brain was frustrated because she wasn't allowed to learn anything she didn't already know. This meant her intelligence had to come out in other ways, aka the telekinesis. The second her brain was challenged and she had to use it to learn, the telekinesis disappeared because she needed that part of her brain the regular way. The telekinesis is supposed to be a message that even if a child doesn't get to use their intelligence, it will come out in some way.
Being forced to eat that much cake would actually be a punishment for me, as I am terrified of vomiting and have the world's tiniest stomach.
"You hate children but you *were* one." Yeah, well I'll also die one day, but that doesn't mean would be happy in the presence of a dead body.
I love that "ships onto the sea" line and being said by good ol' Danny makes it all the more groovy.
"Yo, that is one ugly ass baby."
I replayed that moment so many times and laughed my ass off for over a minute. Perfection.
Fun fact: Ms Trunchball was actually based on the matron of Roald Dahl's boarding school.
Sadly this was also Mara Wilson's last film as her mother died of cancer during production.
My fiancé and his older sister watched this movie so many times when they were younger, their mom got annoyed by it. Every time she would throw it out or sell it to someone, their grandmother would buy them another copy XD
Ah yes. Even for people who have only seen the movie once or a very long time ago, the "cake scene" is something they'll never forget. That's how you know the movie did its job.
I actually like movies like this being for kids like. Some kids at a young age do feel like the adults on their lives want them dead and they don’t know that that isn’t how it’s supposed to be, but movies like this tell them that they do deserve better and there can be a happy ending. Especially with the miss honey thing like not everyone will have a miss honey to save them but miss honey lived with the worst person possible and still got out and became a happy kind person. And I love that
My childhood!!! I would try to see if I had powers like Matilda all the time when I was a kid.
the ONLY thing I personally dont like about this movie is how they villanized the brother. sibling relationships in abusive households are very important, and in the book he wasn't overtly a bully, just kinda passive. he even waved to matilda at the end when their parents left her. I mean I agreed w the choice on a dramatic basis though, and staying passive in the face of abuse on another is probably just as bad, if not worse.
When the notification came, I dropped my reading session and came to watch because...Matilda and Welchy. And yeah, maybe some Gen Z also knows this movie, especially the older or middle Gen Z like me since my parents would always have this on maybe at least once a month
you struggling to spell difficulty as someone who studied english is so relatable as someone who's currently pursuing a bachelors in english haha
12:19
Actually, it’s an amphibian.
"That's a reptile."
Me: *blinks in Reptile and amphibian obsessed nerd* It's an amphibian, actually.
SAME I was like “actually its a newt sir” lol
7:17 Because if a child said that she'd hit them with the riding crop she always carries people would believe them (she never hits them with that, it's all for show). If a child said that the principle did something nearly ridiculously overdone like throw them out of the window - who'd believe them for that. When it was written it was only comparatively recently that hitting children with a ruler or a cane had been made illegal, so parents still expect stuff like that from school.
Dahl always made a villain out of those who used physical punishment on children, even ifs it was just the ruler on their palms or the cane on their legs (having had some experience with it himself - ok the first time was because he and his friends had put either a dead or fake mouse into a sweets jar as a prank because the woman who ran the local store was horrible, but later it was at a school where he insisted that they were always looking for any excuse to hit them with it, and spent very little money on food and encouraged parents to send them food packages once a week so they'd save on money but the boys wouldn't look like they were hungry).
Danny Devito is so typecast but like... he's the only man on Earth who can do it. He's a total sweetheart irl, but he's the best little goblin man in the world. He just has the energy of a fantasy creature that lives in garbage.
i love this movie so much
so good
oh they did a 25 anniversary party for Matilda. most of the cast were able to attend. Trunchbull was there she was nice and funny. you can find it on youtube.
As kids my family watched it so many times one of my sisters could practically quote the entire thing
The umbrella on the wall always makes me think about The Umbrella Academy. Lol.
… this movie was traumatizing. thank you.
It’s crazy cause I’ve still never seen that 🤣😭
@@Welchy *SHOCK* EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!
@@Welchy I LOVED the first season, then it sadly went off the rails in the second season. At least for me.
I used to LOVE this movie, whenever it came out on VHS at the library I’d rent it. This year we did Matilda the Musical at the high school I direct at so we all watched it after, it’s so nostalgic ❤️
This is one of my favorite movies to watch over and over again. When Trunchbull jumps from the second floor to the ground floor, I still cackle with laughter to this day.
this is my ultimate comfort movie I'm so happy to see a reaction of it
Never forgot about this movie. It sure hit hard having an abusive stepmom...
Way to make me feel like an old gen Z person. I'm seven bloody teen! I used to watch VHS tapes and my family still has them!
"Does anyone remember this movie" if by that you mean remember it line for line then yes I do remember it.
Sir how dare you - Cheerios is as American as it gets lol
Trunchbull still freaks me out at 28 years old - I would go out of my way to this day to avoid her. I will admit the tallyho jump over the staircase part cracks me up EVERY TIME.
Danny DeVito and Rhea Pearlman are iconic and Miss Honey for the mvp always ;)
This movie came on so much in the 90s and early 2000s that even though I haven't seen it in so long I still remembered it almost word for word lol
The actress that played Matilda actually was so nervous about dancing that the entire crew danced with her behind camera
I loved the book and the movie “Matilda” when I was a kid. I looked up to Matilda, and I still do. I was inspired by her intelligence, love for reading, and telekinetic powers (who doesn’t want that?). I wanted to be smart like her and fight injustice as she did. Plus, Miss Honey is one of my educational inspirations.
good pick! i forgot how funny this movie was. whenever my mom used to make these amazing chocolate cakes, my best friend always called them miss trunchbull cakes😋
I love Matilda! its what got me into the idea of telekinesis and liking it.
Hortencia, the girl who says, "You squirts better skeedaddle" does not have a Texas accent. Her name is Kira Spencer Cook and she's from Seattle, Washington.
Has she been in anything else?
Hiiii I love your vids and I have been subscribed for a while and ur vids make me so happy. ❤️😊 Also this movie is such a comfort movie idk why but thanks for ur reaction 🥺😍
Aww thank you so much 😊 appreciate you 👊🏼
Speaking of cake, i make an awesome chocolate mug cake, and all I need is water, cake mix, and a microwave. But i find it works a lot better with fudge brownie mix, rather than the traditional chocolate cake mix.
"theres nothing in a book that you cant get from a television faster."
me:"How about a life
Everyone is talking about Trunchbull/Aunt Marge, but to go even more old school for us 80s kids - the one FBI investigator is Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman.
I think the only thing child-friendly about Roald Dahl’s writing was his utter lack of subtlety.
Yes I remember this movie! One of my favorites as a kid. Has charm, fairy tale and suspense elements, but overall a message about taking control of your own destiny. It's a very American type ideal, and it is a film that has always sat well in our society
This movie is my cousin's favorite. It was her who showed it to me and my sisters.
But, in France, Miss Trunchbull is rename " Mlle Legourdin " and I don't like it because my name is " Agathe Gourdin " (her bame is Agatha).
Also, the Ritz is a chain of luxurious hotels (5 stars). If you want to sleep or eat here, you have to be a very rich person.
I read on Internet, that Ernest Hemingway and Coco Chanel had that chance.
America has healthier cereals, lol. We may have the crazy sugary ones, but we’ve got healthier ones like Cheerios, Raisin Bran, Special K, Mini Wheats, Corn Flakes, etc.
I mean, Kellogg's and Post are both American companies, so... of course.
Welchy this was a great reaction to one of my favorite childhood movies, you're freaking hilarious!!
Another great surprisingly dark children's movie that would make a good reaction is Harriet the Spy(1996) which was also a big part of my childhood. I watched it recently and was like, this is kind of fucked up lolll 😆
Thank you!
Wait a second. HE’S Welchy!? But he’s so….BLOND.
Welchy reacted to one of my favorite childhood movies 🥺💖 the part where she mashes the plate over his head always has me laughing
16:37 Yes, we do indeed have cheerios. (You aren't wrong about most of our popular cereals being extremely bad for you though).
the fact that three year old can cook better than me 🥲
Bruhh the texas accent was on point👏🏻that was good for a scottish
😂😂 let’s goooo
11:00
me being allergic to chocolate: this is not punishment, this is a death sentence
I watched this as a child and in Spanish, so the "Moby Dick" "...Moby WHAT?" joke never registered to me. But now I can't miss it any time I watch the movie
When I saw this movie for the first time (I was 6 I think), the scene where Matilda went to Trunchball's house at night scared me
This was and is my favorite movie!!! Also thank you for being you. You always make me laugh ❤️
Aww appreciate you 😊
Matilda OMG
OMGGG
Yes! I remember this movie from when I was a kid. it's funny, whenever I watch this movie, I crave either Chocolate or pancakes because they are depicted in the film.
welchy ily bro this film is my childhood
Trunchbulls house was also the Omega Beta Zeta sorority house in Scream 2
I subbed because I’m an Aussie born Irish blood and I gotta support a fellow Celt.
Power to the celts bro. Power to the celts.
Yo this movie was part of my childhood, and it had such an impact on my family my mother nicknames one of my little sisters "Matilda".
ms. honey is a cottagecore lesbian icon and I think I was in love with her as a child😭
" I didn't know Americans actually did health." Wow, shots fired lol.
For clarification though, the US does have healthy food. Some pockets are unhealthier than others. Yes, I am looking at you Southern states. The West Coast is actually pretty health conscious.
At least I know how to make my food tasty and delicious, ya spineless haters of flavor and seasoning beyond salt and pepper
some of the issues with food in america is that unhealthy food is way cheaper than expensive food, and corn syrup is in damn near everything. but yeah, i’d imagine the spectrum is so extreme that while we have high obesity, we probably have the highest occurrence of orthorexia. some people go way too far with their “health”
Hey, love this vid! have a great one mate
Thank you bud!
Pam Ferris played Trunchbull. She's a fantastic actress and actually a pretty nice lady so I've heard.
Danny Devito is such a small man, but he’s got tall guy energy! I’m the same height as him: 4’10” or 147cm
God... this movie brings back SOOOOO many memories...
Remember seeing this film in year 2. Definitely a blast from the past.
VHS was even before DVD, HDDVD and Blu-ray my guy.
I recommend you watch Arcane or She-Ra sometime, they’re both awesome series!
I love this content; can't wait to see how you'll grow!
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