fan of Matilda, prepare. This Sunday December 25 comes to Netflix Matilda the musical by Roald Dahl. It is based on the award-winning stage version, rather than the film by and starring Danny DeVito about this lonely, intelligent girl who is disliked by her parents and forced to go to school (they never even thought to write it). none other than Miss Tronchatoro.
We already know that Tronchatoro, a former Olympic hammer thrower who hates children, just wants to keep discipline. Here she plays it Emma Thompsonalmost unrecognizable with so many prosthetics, he looks like Brendan Fraser The whaleYou’ll see when it premieres, when the original idea was to do the same thing as the musical: have a man play it.
Ralph Fiennes was in talks to play Tronchatoro.
Obviously most Argentinian audiences know the 1996 film more than the musical and/or Roald Dahl’s book. So the comparisons will be hateful, and not just because everyone here sings – not always, it’s not like that Love without barriers-.
The songs are catchy, and there are two or three hits, which you may have already heard, like the one where the students receive Matilda at school.
Tronchatoro has an ego that’s almost -almost- bigger than his body. There is a statue erected in the schoolyard, where she is seen holding the hammer and the already famous motto “Don’t complain” is written on it.
What can’t be missing
It is that there are things that cannot be missed. Troncha grabs a girl by the hair and throws her in the air (“The kids’ ears don’t stick out, they just stretch out”, she says with conviction, and shows it), or sends them to El Agujero, and that’s it, how were they? Unmissable, the scene of the huge chocolate cake, which Bruce has to eat whole after stealing a spoonful from Miss Tronchatoro’s portion. Also, the salamander in the glass.
Director Matthew Warchus (Pride/Pridewhich premiered at Cannes and was not commercially released here) changed a lot of things -the screenplay is by Dennis Kelly-, because the adaptation of a play surely implies that, unless it is shot as Hamilton.
Either way, the Wormwoods (their awful parents are played by Andrea Riseborough and Stephen Graham) aren’t raising another child – it’s a figure of speech – just Matilda. These days, it’s no surprise that Miss Honey is black (Lashana Lynch), the sweet and kind and understanding teacher who helps Matilda, instead of white and blonde.
Alisha Weir plays Matilda, who has superpowers like moving things, and here she gets books from a mobile library, which is where Mrs. Phelps (Sindhu Vee), who is also of African descent, lives.
There is a story that Matilda tells, and that is central to the musical and therefore to this film. One she’s building, with a dodger and a circus tightrope walker, black, bullied by a bad sister. This fictional story, imagined by the girl, will be related to real life.
The Dickensian that was also in DeVito’s film spills over most in the songs of Tim Minchin, the actor-songwriter who describes his performances as “funny stand-up comedy,” which set the tone for the entire film.
“Matilde, the musical by Roald Dahl”
Source: Clarin
