Netflix and The Roald Dahl Story Company announced today that they’ve signed a deal for the streaming service to create a slate of animated “event series” based on a long list of titles by the classic children’s author, including “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Matilda” and “The BFG.” All of those books have already been […]
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‘Matilda’ stares down Donald Trump on her 30th anniversary
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It’s been 30 years since the world met Roald Dahl’s pint-sized heroine Matilda Wormwood, and she’s marking three decades by defying yet another larger-than-life villain: President Donald Trump.
To mark the 30th anniversary of the October 1, 1988 publication of Dahl’s book Matilda, a temporary statue of the youngster facing down a cartoonish Trump has been placed near Dahl’s home in Buckinghamshire, England, per the Telegraph.
LOOK: To celebrate 30 years since Welsh author Roald Dahl’s book ‘Matilda’ was published, a statue of her staring down President @realDonaldTrump has been unveiled near where the author used to live in #Buckinghamshire #CapitalReports pic.twitter.com/YlqhUoplzG
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Ronan Farrow had some hot takes for Twitter on Sunday – specifically that we reexamine some highly hated figures in children’s literature and see if they don’t deserve a new assessment. His examples included Miss Trunchbull in Matilda and Harry Potter’s Dolores Umbridge.
To which we say…yikes.
It all started with this Sunday tweet about Miss Trunchbull from Roald Dahl’s Matilda.
Is Miss Trunchbull in Matilda misunderstood? She’s a pathbreaking Olympic athlete who seems to own her sexuality. She’s a harsh disciplinarian, but it seems like she had an unhappy life and her fate—being gaslit and driven insane—is as sadistic as anything she inflicts on others.
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