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Miss Trunchbull's contempt for children is so great that she denies ever having been a child, aside from one instance in the novel where she claims she was not a child for very long and became a woman very fast. In many adaptations, Miss Trunchbull often exhibits narcissistic traits, such as psychological projection and extreme self-importance.
Some iconic moments from the original film (and book) are teased throughout the trailer, such as Miss Trunchbull swinging a little girl by the pigtails or her forcing a student to eat an entire ...
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The next day, Trunchbull visits the class and demands that Matilda confess. Matilda, again posing as Magnus' ghost, telekinetically writes a message on the blackboard. The message accuses Trunchbull of murdering him and demands that she return Miss Honey's house and money and leave town, threatening to murder her as retribution if she does not ...
Matilda is a 1988 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl.It was published by Jonathan Cape.The story features Matilda Wormwood, a precocious child with an uncaring mother and father, and her time in a school run by the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull.
"This school is full of rebels," Trunchbull says in a voiceover over the students of Crunchem Hall. Later, the camera shows Thompson's broad shoulders and militaristic outfit, tied together with a ...
Under the heading Likes, it is claimed one of Miss Trunchbull's likes was "Matilda's father (until she realizes the second-hand car he sold her is in fact run with sawdust)." I do not have a copy of either the movie or the book at hand, but I was under the impression that the car did not run on sawdust.
See Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull in an early look photo from Matilda the Musical, premiering on Netflix, and what else to know about the musical.