This

This.

This fucking character.

The film gives all the possible narrative reasons to hate this woman. Not one scene goes by without her being abusive in a sadistic manor to a young child. Yet when 8 year old me saw this movie hundreds of times on our VHS player I couldn't help but bawl uncontrollably during the scene where her self portrait gets set aflame by Matilda.

It took me a long time to figure out why, why this character forms such a link with me, and why does no other character in Matilda give me such an emotional resonance. The answer comes from the film's framing choices and hyper focus on Trunchbull in almost every aspect.

After Matilda arrives at school (roughly a 1/3 into the film), the film's focus shifts entirely onto Trunchbull. This is present in the narrative, where Trunchbull essentially becomes the center of Matilda's personal storyline, to the camera, which sticks onto her, and pushes her face into incredibly tight framing. Probably done by the filmmakers to take advantage of the actor's brilliant performance, while ignoring the passive performance of the child actor main, but it just goes way too far. We find out about trunchbull's life history (auntie of Mrs Honey), her hobbies (avid sportsperson), hell there's even a side plot about her buying a faulty car from Matilda's dad. This all happens during the time in the film where we should be really bonding with Matilda, but no, her scenes are boring and flat, and HEAVILY punctuated with reaction shots of fucking Trunchbull.

Its at this point where the empathetic structures in our brain start whirring on that character: every reaction shot sparks mirror neurons in our premotor cortex the corners of our moth twitch when she smiles, we wince when she shows pain. As we understand so completely her fears -Mrs Honey's dead father- we really do start to feel her pain when it all crashes down on her. Her school ruined, her money gone, forced to run in the clapped out car she was scammed into buying.

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Holy shit OP

Shut up and go eat some more cake fat boy.

Holy shit OP

holy shit op

holy shit

Have you read the book? If so, did it make you feel the same way?

even if pasta, OP is commenting on the cinematography and it's impact
>lol read the book
is truly a shitty argument

I wasn't mocking or making an argument, I wanted to know if he had read the book, and if so if it also made him empathise with trunchbull. I was curious if the film was told in a drastically different way than makes trunchbull more sympathetic, as it's been a while since I've seen the film or read the book.

Hadn't even noticed she's wearing a sweater from the Munich Olympics, that's kinographic

she tortured children tho

What movie

to save billions

The bfg.

She fucking murdered her brother and kept children on that closet with spikes

Of dollars

scared me when i was younger

Holy... I want more

wasn't it implied she murdered her brother? did not feel bad for her at all

Part of me did feel bad for her.
I always though Ms.Honey was weirder.

>I always though Ms.Honey was weirder.

This. She creeped on Matilda. Basically makin her a real doll.

>This. She creeped on Matilda. Basically makin her a real doll.

Right?
I always got pedo vibes from Ms.Honey, even as a kid I couldn't believe someone that beautiful could be single without kids. And she's weirdly obsessed with kids, and Matilda to the point to adoption? She's a creep.

Incredible

James and the Giant Chocolate Factory

holy shit OP

My Aunt looked exactly like Trunchbull

Did he show you his sick vagina?

>Ms. Honey was gonna Woody Allen Matilda

Big if true.

charlie and the chocolate factory

no she died

>I always got pedo vibes from Ms.Honey
Yep, I shipped them since the first time i watched the movie. One of my favorite couples because age gap is best tag

>it's

God, I fucking love grotesque looking beefy women. I saw Matilda as a kid around the same time my pediatrician, of similar looks, made me cum by accident during my yearly check-up, and instantly knew what I wanted. Too bad I'm such a pussy about social interactions, I imagine they are easy.

>yuri
>age gap
>teacher/student
>lolicon
>creep
>foiled rape attempt
Is there anything this great movie can't do?

Nigga what?

Is that rich's girlfriend

>I imagine they are easy.
I like them too. They're not, they're lesbians or still want Chad.

damn son is there a doujin with those tags

The Land Before Tide

youtube.com/watch?v=q289a8P8Ht8
She was a pretty great villain 2bh

There is one with almost all of them, rape included. Give me a sec

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The Twits

Yeah, it was just the yearly check up before gradeschool to make sure I was healthy and stuff. I remember I was just getting erections and had no clue what they were and I asked her about them while she was checking my penis for phimosis and because I was having one at that moment. She was fat as shit, but like the nice fat where all her features filled out, so plump I guess. All I remember is that she squated down in front me, pressed on hamd against the based of my groin around my penis and then with the other one gripped my tip and peeled back my foreskin with a tight grip. She wasn't wearing gloves and I just started peeing, but it wasn't pee, just felt like it, all over her chest. It felt so good and I felt so ashamed at the same time, she could tell I was scared and reassured me that what happened is natural and something all big boys do while in her office.

Exactly, they all want to be manhandled by chad and not guys that are into them.

jesus christ

>something all big boys do while in her office

Oh boy, haven’t watched this movie in a while. I was on board with op, but then I remembered that scary ass closet. Refresh my memory on the brother?

Holy fuck this thread just keeps on giving.

>something all big boys do while in her office
goddam, ever hear about that happening to anyone else? Ever talk to your friends about it?

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Shit, OP stole my thunder. I was wanting to post Trunchbull and just say "What the fuck was her problem?" as my comment.

That aside I watched Matilda the other day for the first time in like 20 years.

mafalda

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Holy shit user. Do you think she meant to do it? Was she a pedophile??

So fucking weird to think that Frank Reynolds directed this

No, I never talked to anyone about it. I should talk to my parents about it though because in hindsight I was molested, but in a good way, not bad. She was a genuinely nice lady. I should try and see if I can find her, maybe talk to her about it.

>should get in touch with her
Yea, go hit that gilf pussy proper. Ask the kids you went to school with too, see who else got a handy jay. Then collect the stories and report back.

Yes and no. The year before she wore gloves and used her finger tips and I was flaccid, showed me how I should pull the skin back in the shower to prevent complications like phimosis. The year in question though, I was getting erections like crazy and she could clearly see I was aroused. I was red in the face with embarassment when I asked about the hardness and she explained what was happening. She never even made a motion for gloves, she just used her warm hands to do the phimosis exercise at almost face level, I could almost feel her warm breath as well. I'm certain she knew what she was doing, you don't just accidentally masturbate a patient like that. I still jerk it to the memory.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Peter pan

>there's actually a penis inspection

Bicentennial Man

Yea, this is a good point. Where did you go to school Mr Handy?

Legendary

It wasn't at school and it was more of a preventative thing because so many people in America don't have foreskins. She was showing how to properly care for it amd prevent phimosis.

Florida and it was my childhood pediatrician. Nothing to do with the school, just a private doctor more or less.

So glad I’m not a cutfag. I’m like, half cut. It’s weird. They left a lot of foreskin, but it doesn’t connect all the way over the head while flaccid. Idk, I asked my doctor once when I was a teen and she said I kind of got the best of both worlds.
But there I go bragging about my penis. It’s last weeks PTA meeting all over again.

>it was more of a preventative thing because so many people in America don't have foreskins
I'm also a burger who didn't get my dick jewed
Having a penis inspection isn't very normal

>tfw could have gotten my little boy cock jerked off and prevented phimosis at the same time

What the fuck mom?

Danny Devito is a pretty good director. Death to Smoochy is superior.

Maybe it’s normal for cutfags. I was going to say I never had it, but I’m half and half guy. Hey, somebody without foreskin, weigh in here.

Well yeah it's not normal, but it was at the age where things were changing and I wasn't like the other boys she said see had seen come through the doctors office. She just wanted to make sure I took care of it I guess.

LARP

Bravo DeVito

lol

> tfw i can rub one out to Rhea Perlman in this

Also Ms. Honey shows her boobs in Schindler's List.

except that's not true you fucking retard

y'all posting on a shill thread

How do you figure?

This thread reminded me of a deeply repressed fantasy I had of Trunchbull dominating Ms. Honey.

I also had a doctor (with a british accent) inspect my penis and got an erection but didn't cum. When she saw it, she smiled almost knowingly and went about her business pulling the foreskin back and forth quite a few times to make sure it worked properly and I didn't have any issues. That being said, I do now have a thing for women with a british accent.

sakura card captors the movie

predator

Are you me?!
Thought the same thing watching that scene.

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Problem Child 3

mulva

Matilda has some massive tits now, pretty sure she's a psycho lesbian though

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>Directed by Danny DeVito
>Produced by Danny DeVito
>Narrated by Danny DeVito
>Starring Danny DeVito

Boy: Tales of Childhood: Autobiography of Roald Dahl

My dad never approved of me reading Roald Dahl books for reasons a bit like this. He said that the author on one character to demonise and another to glorify, without giving the reader a good reason why, and expected the reader to clap along when the chosen bad-guy was treated with utmost cruelty. He felt that Roald Dahl was fundamentally a very mean person.

Is there any actual content on the Internet depicting such a thing? Asking for a friend.

I wish i could reward your trips, but i dont think so user

>The little fat boy forced to eat the chocolate cake with the lunch lady's 'blood and sweat' in it
Fucking traumatized 7yo me.

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