Watched Matilda The Musical. (Small dose of spoilers).
This musical put in a lot of details that the first movie didn't.
To clear up something, Matilda The Musical isn't set on one stage; it's a movie. It's like High School Musical, but based in the UK.
This musical shines light into places that weren't really addressed in the movie.
Not sure how much the movie and the muscial both are similar to the book/novel, but since I have never read the book/novel, I'm just going to compare the musical and the movie.
In the Musical, Matilda was having visions of Ms. Honey's parents. I'm not sure about Ms. Honey's parents or who they were, but in the musical, Matilda was telling a lady who ran/had a small, traveling library van (the lady and Matilda are very close) a story that just suddenly came to her mind. Matilda described Ms. Honey's parents very detailed. Then, Matilda didn't know why the story was all of a sudden coming to her head, then when her and Ms. Honey were talking one-on-one in Ms. Honey's very small home, there was a piece of clothing/cloth that Matilda saw in her vision. The story Matilda told was about an acrobat and an escapologist falling in love.
In the movie, there was only a mention of Ms. Honey's father.
In the musical, Ms. Honey is black. Ms. Trunchbull is still white. So, Ms. Trunchbull was Ms. Honey's mother's stepsister (Ms. Honey's parents were black), which made Ms. Trunchbull Ms. Honey's step-aunt. So they're really not related. Not anymore, if Ms. Honey's grandparents are dead.
In order for a stepsibling to not be a stepsibling anymore, if your stepparent divorce your biological parent or if your stepparent dies. And in marriage, your stepsibling still wouldn't be you spouse's in-law, logically. But that doesn't matter unless you and your stepsibling are both close and consider each other family (even after parents are divorced).
In the movie, Ms. Trunchbull was Ms. Honey's aunt on her father's side, instead of Ms. Trunchbull being Ms. Honey's aunt on her mother's side of the family.
In the musical, Ms. Trunchbull is ruthless. She's completely horrible. She's even worse than Ms. Turnchbull in the movie. She has her concept and idea of, "If you damage the child, they'll be obedient."
Uh, the hell not. In the 1900's, kids who were broken by their parents, whether it was rape or neglect or worse, they would be most likely to turn into/grow up into a sadistic serial killer. Serial killers are made, not born.
In the 2000's, if you break a kid, they'll either commit suicide, become a narcissist, a psychopath or a sociopath. Not only those, the child could end up having depression, bipolar, anxiety or bpd (borderline personality disorder). But most likely depression.
There was this one scene where Ms. Trunchbull made the kid eat a three-layered chocolate cake. She made him eat it all to the last drop. She even told him that she'll forgive him for eating her chocolate cake. The thing is, she didn't keep her word and decided to break the little boy.
In the musical, Matilda's telekinesis are late. I'm surprised her ass didn't die like Carrie (in the books). In Carrie, the exact cause of her death is ruled as 'Unknown,' but it's most likely due to her using a lot of her TK (telekinesis) to the point where either her body or her heart couldn't handle it all. Her heart was beating really fast from using her TK. And she was 16. Matilda is five years old. But, theoretically, TK doesn't effect everyone the same.
Also, in the musical, she did much more than Matilda did in the movie. Musical, she made objects form a figure. Into a very tall figure.
What the musical and the movie both have in common: the parents made Matilda into a "rebel." But that's what kids are.
The more you gaslight and punish children for things they never did, or punish them unfairly, it's going to backfire on you. You, yourself might even make the kid do bad things if you do that.
The song where the kids celebrate (singing and dancing) the fall of Ms. Trunchbull, those kids put in every effort in the dance choreography. It was amazing and fun to watch.
To clear up something, Matilda The Musical isn't set on one stage; it's a movie. It's like High School Musical, but based in the UK.
This musical shines light into places that weren't really addressed in the movie.
Not sure how much the movie and the muscial both are similar to the book/novel, but since I have never read the book/novel, I'm just going to compare the musical and the movie.
In the Musical, Matilda was having visions of Ms. Honey's parents. I'm not sure about Ms. Honey's parents or who they were, but in the musical, Matilda was telling a lady who ran/had a small, traveling library van (the lady and Matilda are very close) a story that just suddenly came to her mind. Matilda described Ms. Honey's parents very detailed. Then, Matilda didn't know why the story was all of a sudden coming to her head, then when her and Ms. Honey were talking one-on-one in Ms. Honey's very small home, there was a piece of clothing/cloth that Matilda saw in her vision. The story Matilda told was about an acrobat and an escapologist falling in love.
In the movie, there was only a mention of Ms. Honey's father.
In the musical, Ms. Honey is black. Ms. Trunchbull is still white. So, Ms. Trunchbull was Ms. Honey's mother's stepsister (Ms. Honey's parents were black), which made Ms. Trunchbull Ms. Honey's step-aunt. So they're really not related. Not anymore, if Ms. Honey's grandparents are dead.
In order for a stepsibling to not be a stepsibling anymore, if your stepparent divorce your biological parent or if your stepparent dies. And in marriage, your stepsibling still wouldn't be you spouse's in-law, logically. But that doesn't matter unless you and your stepsibling are both close and consider each other family (even after parents are divorced).
In the movie, Ms. Trunchbull was Ms. Honey's aunt on her father's side, instead of Ms. Trunchbull being Ms. Honey's aunt on her mother's side of the family.
In the musical, Ms. Trunchbull is ruthless. She's completely horrible. She's even worse than Ms. Turnchbull in the movie. She has her concept and idea of, "If you damage the child, they'll be obedient."
Uh, the hell not. In the 1900's, kids who were broken by their parents, whether it was rape or neglect or worse, they would be most likely to turn into/grow up into a sadistic serial killer. Serial killers are made, not born.
In the 2000's, if you break a kid, they'll either commit suicide, become a narcissist, a psychopath or a sociopath. Not only those, the child could end up having depression, bipolar, anxiety or bpd (borderline personality disorder). But most likely depression.
There was this one scene where Ms. Trunchbull made the kid eat a three-layered chocolate cake. She made him eat it all to the last drop. She even told him that she'll forgive him for eating her chocolate cake. The thing is, she didn't keep her word and decided to break the little boy.
In the musical, Matilda's telekinesis are late. I'm surprised her ass didn't die like Carrie (in the books). In Carrie, the exact cause of her death is ruled as 'Unknown,' but it's most likely due to her using a lot of her TK (telekinesis) to the point where either her body or her heart couldn't handle it all. Her heart was beating really fast from using her TK. And she was 16. Matilda is five years old. But, theoretically, TK doesn't effect everyone the same.
Also, in the musical, she did much more than Matilda did in the movie. Musical, she made objects form a figure. Into a very tall figure.
What the musical and the movie both have in common: the parents made Matilda into a "rebel." But that's what kids are.
The more you gaslight and punish children for things they never did, or punish them unfairly, it's going to backfire on you. You, yourself might even make the kid do bad things if you do that.
The song where the kids celebrate (singing and dancing) the fall of Ms. Trunchbull, those kids put in every effort in the dance choreography. It was amazing and fun to watch.
