Do Next The Messed Up Origins Of The Great Mouse Detective Please. 😊❤🙏

Can you do animal farm next please🙏 comparing the animated movie and live action one to the original book in honor of the upcoming andy serkis adaptation ?

This has nothing to do with Matilda, but can you do one about Irish folklore, specifically about halflings faeries or fairies like in the movie The Watchers.I just saw the movie and would love to know more about it.

Can you these: The Witches by Roald Dahl Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl The BFG Ronald Dahl The Goose Girl by Grimm Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl The Twits by Roald Dahl

The only Matilda I know is Waltzing. Not sure which gen this book/movie was aimed at? After the Boomers

Danny Devito's "Twins" co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger did the same to a child actress on the set of Commando.

​@@KenMasters. Did what same? Same like Danny or like Nickelodeon? 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️ Why must everyone on TV be evil? 😭😭😭

@@tamiausten873 Same as Danny of course, not Dirty Danny of Nick.

It was multiple people from nickelodeon

It wasn't just "that other guy" it was most of Nickelodeon. They still get treated like that today even though he's not working there.

Tallyho!!!

>:)

I always wonder if she was a good person: her strenght and control would be cool. But, no, she is not a good woman, she is evil and she loves to maltreat and torture kids. In my dreams there's a Trunchbull's doppelganger that's all good, but strong as well.

That's definitely an epic moment.

That was one of the funniest parts for me

Mara, not Maura. And her mom was named Suzie, just so you know.

@@ciarangleeson2880 ok ty

Rhea actually made me cry in the Barbie movie.

Don't forget Mara Wilson

@@Zebra_fandomfella03 Absolutely!!!!!!

True

The guy is weird I say

​@@pierrebuieii3908 While she was filming the movie her mother was in the hospital dying of cancer and Danny Devito fathered her and his wife mothered her on the set

I can imagine him voicing the transformers gears

​@@pierrebuieii3908 weird but comedically lovable.

That's in the book as well

Children are disgusting, glad i never was one.

Haha yes

I was a nanny for a few years and I would always jokingly say this to the kids and tease them, they would giggle and think it was the absolute height of hilarity.

@@KrunchWorld Not going to lie, that's incredibly dark, considering what usually happens to cause people to never be a child.

I would love to see how that would work out in the real world

She wants to oppress and bully kids, not college students.

That's what I was thinking too.

True, but then she wouldn't have been able to terrorise or abuse children though. 🤣😂

It's weird how in real life such people work with kids.

100% agreed!

@teresawalker Hear hear!

Explaining and creating understanding are SO much better than just rearranging things haphazardly.

Have you actually read the changes? The majority of changes are minor at best.

@@evelynnart37 Sure, you can keep making small changes throughout time, editing and censoring and editing and censoring over decades and decades, but you'll lose the historical context in which those texts were written in AND lose the ability to help children understand how and why we changed as a society. You shouldn't censor just because of Presentism. If you do, you don't grow as a person and arbitrary changes rewrite history. History is what it was, for good or bad, and changing it because it MIGHT make someone uncomfortable instead of just growing from it is part of why we, as a society, have become mentally weaker.

Holy crap! HOW have I NEVER pictured that before?!

Yes 😂

I know I've heard this somewhere before...

You just blew my mind! 🤯

Matilda did remind me a lot of Hermione. Especially in the Broadway Musical.

What I find interesting is there are people on both sides of the political spectrum burning and banning books for different reasons, yet they both accuse each other of being the book burners!

@@JonSolo we only ever see one side and they flipflop their positions though.

@@JonSolo I suppose you’re right, I just think that the loss of information and knowledge is astounding and sad. Everyone always thinks they’re doing what’s best for everyone else I ‘spose…

@@JonSolo Notable politically motivated book burning incidents in the 21st century: Egypt, 2001: gay literature being destroyed by the right wing Baghdad, 2003: looters, including american soldiers, burned down an islamic library containing some of the oldest copies of the qu’ran. The war was started by the right wing, and the christian right celebrated. Montreal, 2004- anti-Semitic attack targeting a jewish library (attacking jews in canada =/= justice for palestinians and no left winger would celebrate that- after all, anti-semitism in all its forms is frowned upon by lefties, their quarrel is with a government, not a people) Italy, 2006- members of the religious right burned copies of the Da Vinci’s code because that very clearly fictional novel depicted Jesus as having had children, which was apparently sacrilegious. Germany, 2006- members of a far-right political party burned copies of The Diary of Anne Frank and US flags at a party thrown by the political party itself. Various locations across the USA in 2006- Harry Potter books burned during the satanic panic, as the religious right feared that magic shown in the books would turn children into satanists or lefties. Israel, 2008- government official organises the rounding up and burning of copies of the bible’s New Testament. Forcing someone into a specific state religion is an auth-right thing to do. Not all right-wingers are Christian, nor like Christians. NC, USA, 2009- a church tried to restrict access to any versions of the bible they thought were heretical- again, forcing a single religion onto a group of people rather than allowing them the freedom to choose for themself is auth-right. Bagram Bible incident, 2009- an illegal and unauthorized program to turn afghans into christians was stopped by the military. Military intervention and burning of literature is hated by the left wing, but I’ll mark this one down as centrist. Florida 2010 and 2011- qu’rans burned by christian nationalists, a right wing ideology. Libya, 2011- copies of the Green Book, one that promoted socialism, was burned. Not all socialism is a left wing utopia since authoritarianism often sneaks up, but to americans socialism = left wing, so i guess those protestors were right wing. Amsterdam, 2011- left wing protestors torch the cover of a certain book I can’t name here because of its offensive title, but leave the contents unharmed because actually burning books is again, a bad thing in the left wing’s opinion. Azerbaijan, 2013- left wing author Akram Aylisli’s writings on the horrors of the armenian genocide were burned because the Azerbaijani right found it offensive. Would you like me to go on? Right wing book burnings outnumber left wing ones by a landslide, because the right wing’s strategy must be inherently anti-free speech and anti-intellectual as to spread bigotry and suppress anti-corruption and anti-fascist uprisings.

@@JonSolo ya id say humans have been editing books for a very long time like do most people know of the original stories under the Disney umbrella id even bet a lot of people dont even know a lot of the original movies came from books

Welcome to my world then. :D

Yeah, it seems like no one, not even Roald Dahl himself, really knew what to do with Micheal, aside from worshipping his father and being the favourite child. In the book, he really only ever interacted with his old man, although he did wave goodbye to Matilda and Miss Honey at the end, which shows that he had at least some good in him and that he was more civil to his sister than either of their parents, in the movie, he was more of a bully to his sister, in the live on stage musical, he was nice to Matilda, but was too oblivious and slow-witted to the mistreatment she got from their parents, and in the Netflix musical, he was left out of the story, altogether!

Just like how in both the 1971 and 2005 versions of Wonka: All the kids were friendly with Charlie in the original (and found Veruca Salt to be the most irritating); but in the remake, the kids ignored Charlie and treated him like a good-for-nothing.

@@ciarangleeson2880 I didn't realise he was still a character in the stage version, I've seen the musical film and assumed it was basically the same as the stage while obviously taking advantage of not literally being on a stage, heh.

That’s a good point, he didn’t make fun of her, but he didn’t really stand up for her either.

He's a rather typical golden child who isn't exactly antagonistic towards the scapegoat, but not supportive either. I unfortunately learned as a grownup that families like this are very, very real.. 😑

😮 holy crap!

That would be a lot of books if I think about it. My primary school best friend was a huge fan of mathilda and HP.

wow! so she's an icon? Also I kinda wanna meet her

Yet the early version I heard was that Matilda was a mischievous child that used her powers to play tricks on others, but when she saw a schoolbus of children in danger, she had a sudden change of heart and used all her powers to rescue them, ultimately dying due to overuse of her powers.

Holy shit. And here I am thinking the browadway version was fucked up.

Yeah there are so many early vesion of matilda you might as well just say the biogrpher was making shit up. Pure Yellow journalism.

Anyone wise catch that Tony Hinchcliffe reference?

I smell a Matilda multiverse brewing among fandom.

Agreed. As a writer myself (hoping to be a published author someday), my creations are a part of me, created through hours and hours of thought, development, and love. My work is my legacy. MY own words, written down for people to see, as far into the future as the media they're written on lasts. If someone came along after I died and couldn't defend my creations, and changed those creations, they would no longer be MY creations. They would be someone else's creation. Someone else's words. And to me, that is as much a sacrilege, as much an outrage, as much a disrespect, and as much a destruction, as it would be for someone to paint a turtleneck on the Mona Lisa because they were offended by cleavage and collar bones. If Da Vinci had wanted her in a turtleneck, he would have painted her in a turtleneck. If Dahl had wanted his writing worded differently, he would have written it differently. But they didn't. Someone else going back and changing them after the creator dies, turns them into something the creator never intended them to be. It takes away the meaning the creator worked so hard to put into their creation. It's a disservice, and a huge disrespect. You wouldn't destroy a masterpiece like the Mona Lisa. Don't destroy an author's writing either. Because that is THEIR masterpiece. Also, good writing is like having an inside view of a slice of someone's (the characters') real life. A story might be fantasy, and thus not truly believable. But your characters should be believable. Real life isn't censored. When you censor a book or novel like that, you take away some of the realism, some of the immersive-ness. You make the character more fake, more generic, and less believable. And the whole of the story less enjoyable. Besides, some of those rewrites were just horribly clunky, and took away from the flow of the story. And honestly, if someone is seriously that offended by the gender of a fucking OOMPA LOOMPA, they really need to get a fucking life...

Agreed.

@@mariebelladonna437 I agree with every word of this. This is also kinda why I want all my writings to become public domain the minute I am declared dead. That way, at least no one can _officially_ mess with my works and their canon.

I mean it sounds like the editor mentioned what exactly were his gripes with the version of the story... which... would be the job of an editor

but I kinda wanna see Matilda participate in illegal horse racing gambling tbh

@@Caffeinated_Firefly thank frigging goodness, Roald Dahl’s editor was much saner than him!

@@Caffeinated_Firefly Sounds like Stephen King needs Dahl's editor. "Um, Steve, about this part where the 12 year olds bone in the sewer..."

I grew up listening to the real books of Roald Dahl and I love reading them more than the technology versions. I despise the changes in the technology versions of the book series. Even though I was born in Gen Z, and I know what a DynaVox looks like. DynaVoxes were revolutionary in 2002 but then they were taken over by iPads in 2011 and forgotten by future generations to come.

There's already a story about an angry teen girl with telekinetic powers. It's called "Carrie".

the one by Stephen King? Ooh I wanna read that!

im so confused by these comments… wdym by offensive ?

He said witches are bald under their wigs and that’s offensive towards women.

@@cryingwatercolours8127 none of the books are, the author as a person kinda was

Erasing taste from a text is not inclusive or sensitive friendly. It's the way to make all things look the same.

@@nichepaper - Or offending towards bald persons. Or offensive towards the ones whose skin is green or towards the color green itself... Just pure madness. If a kid makes a question, just answer it, if you're an adult, do NOT erase it, do NOT put it aside as if it was not important or too embarassing to explain.

I grew up listening to the real books of Roald Dahl and I love reading them more than the technology versions. I despise the changes in the technology versions of the book series. Even though I was born in Gen Z, and I know what a DynaVox looks like. DynaVoxes were revolutionary in 2002 but then they were taken over by iPads in 2011 and forgotten by future generations to come.

As a writer, I know I’d be absolutely furious if someone changed anything about my stories. You’re right, they’re works of art that take a long time and a lot of passion to make; no one has the right to alter them

or, it should be a completely seperate work. Like, mentioning that you were heavily inspired be the original, but not marketing your work as the original itself.

@@Sentient-roadside-boxwood I like that idea. It makes a lot of sense and gives people choices

The word that was replaced with "squirts" absolutely should have gone though- it's literally an ableist slur and it's not okay, even if it wasn't being used to describe a person with Dwarfism.

My dad does that, too :)

And then the toddlers grow older, go to school, have to read the abridged versions, and will get in all sorts of trouble when stating the inaccuracies ;-) [To make this clear: I fully agree with you - books and their content or topics belong to the time they were written in, and open up a window into the past to use for learning and broaden one's horizon. If it is all "more of the same", there will be no more original ideas and creativity. Pussyfooting around to cater for the sensibilities of a fraction of the audience does not help anybody. Some literature was explicitly written to confuse, disturb and upset the audience, for which there must also be a place in the world of art and personal expression. This development evokes very strong feelings in me, so put it politely. I hope that the pendulum will swing back again soon - if there are still enough people around who know the originals, and who care for the authors' intents and creative solutions.]

You'll be censoring them just the same if you show them ONLY the old version

@@JessyingAround I do not believe in Dauphin editions or adaptations to a swiftly changing literary taste, and would always prefer the versions which are the first written editions of former oral trad stories or fairy tales (Grimm...), because their vocabulary, grammar and context is also a historical document, and can broaden the horizon of young and older minds (given that the language is not too old fashioned to be understood). The watered down, abridged versions are often read at school, so the exposition takes place anyway. I respect your opinion, but I respectfully prefer to adhere to my standpoint.

He is the guy the wrote 'tales of the unexpected'

Sure, the original Matilda book was definitely made in 1988, 14 years after the original Carrie book in 1974. However, Matilda’s more mundane film adaptation was made 20 years after the first Carrie movie.

Aw thank you! we put red bows in her hair in honor of Matilda :)

And even then it should stay as close to the original as possible

Well said.

Well that's an adaptation, when you move mediums some change is expected. To change the original work is wrong.

Yeah it was funny yet terrifying, this movie also ruined chocolate cake for me I wouldn't let anybody make chocolate cake for me as I was paranoid what they were going to put in it

Yeah, she is mad and bad, but this scene is pure gold. This is taste in books, and someone wants to erase it or to mild it, because... reasons. Laugh is a revolution itself, they say it in "The name of the rose - Il nome della rosa". If you tear away taste from books and movies and shows, you push people to other things and maybe the best things erasers can think about is disgust and shock. No, I hate Trunchbull but I DO know why she does this to Bruce. In the meantime, Bruce is my hero, there.

It’s all right, for some reason, I lost it when I read about the kid who got held up by his ears. Yes, it was terrifying imagining that But I was also laughing listening to the Trunchbull yelling about how kids ears never come off. I had the audiobook.

Especially since Bruce feels NOTHING and just smiles after it. 😂

@@Logitah - Some kids I saw maltreated like this and worse, just showed their swollen and red face, but they were so used to it that they kept on smiling all along the torture. o.O

What?! Oh my God I didn't know that! It is such a stark contrast! Never in a million years would I have realized that! XD

I think it's possible, but it also feels like it could be part of something in the British sense of humor/culture?

Hammer throw is her specialty.

I mean thats what disney does so i agree why cant they?

I feel like To Kill A Mocking Bird has that exact warning in the newer prints.

Even worse people complain about that, though.

I grew up in the culture that inspired the Southern Water Tribe, in the same region that the designer of the costumes lived in. The new version is actually closer to how people actually act up here.

@@spellcraft7988 I'm talking about saka learning how wrong he was and they took that arc away from the character. That's cool they nailed how you live. However the arc they took out could apply to any person. have a good day

I'm BACK baby! I was in Ireland for about 2 weeks on the MUO Field Trip but I'm returning with LOTS of big plans :)

I can see that happening but which version of them? As the new Beetlejuice Lydia is an adult now, so kids, teens or adults lol

Depending on the version of Wednesday, she'd hate matilda.

@@patricklukcy13 I'm pretty sure every version would respect a girl who not only stood up to Trunchbull and the Chokey, but fought her off with an anomalous ability. Oh, and she's also a huge bibliophile, and would likely have broad knowledge of esoteric subjects. Besides, her last name is Wormwood, a Biblical devil.

@@patricklukcy13the other person said it well how does it feel to be so wrong 😅

@cryingwatercolours8127 respect doesn't mean like. Modern interpretations of Wednesday hates upbeat wholesome people. The only one I can see having fun with her and not just walking away from her is the 60s tv show version.

How do you think that Matilda would do as a superhero?

He always always evil only works for US no different than a living nuke for US to use.

I heard he did it to protest the abuse and murder he witnessed the teachers doing to the children in the boarding schools he was forced to attend and survived violence done to him by teachers.

If he hated children, I HIGHLY doubt that his own children ever would have been born, let alone his grandchildren.

This! Also I'm not buying the edited versions either.

They are nazi the Nazi in Germany did the same erasing the Jews the woke are no different erasing history they are the most racist people in history race swapping and even gender swapping erasing race and genders from history.

Seriously!? What the hell!

Has there been an edit of 'Of Mice and Men' ? Cos that'd be awful

I can kinda understand in some cases... like if you give the cat in "The Rats in the Walls" a different name. IDK maybe it's never okay. But like in modern times I think the cats name can be distracting from the actual story. In case you don't know what I'm talking about. It's a story by H.P. Lovecraft that features a cat that he named after a cat he had as a child, the name of the cat cannot be said on youtube. It's basically N-word (hard-R)-man.

I grew up listening to the real books of Roald Dahl and I love reading them more than the technology versions. I despise the changes in the technology versions of the book series. Even though I was born in Gen Z, and I know what a DynaVox looks like. DynaVoxes were revolutionary in 2002 but then they were taken over by iPads in 2011 and forgotten by future generations to come.

You mean like that crappy content warning message Disney+ keeps showing at the start of a classic film?

​@@KenMasters. Well Mr. Ansatsuken user. It's better then changing things. Put a warning label and enjoy it like it was supposed to. I've had enough blue mr. PoPo

@@Ando1428 Mr. Popo being changed to blue makes more sense than leaving him as a seemingly racist caricature, his design mostly fits a Djinn anyways. If he was based off Mahakala and resembled one more closely then it would make sense to leave the color scheme. The show is also ongoing, they could leave the old content but it's better to move away from using those designs and negative their association as an active show/franchise (especially one marketed to kids).

​@@missabzyg4229Black Popo is best.

​@@KenMasters.Rather that then completely changing everything.

The Netflix one? Yes I like it but like ik it’s a musical but each 5 minutes theyres a song and also they completely scrapped Matilda’s brother

Mara Wilson herself was in Lindsey Ellis's Matilda video

@@spellcraft7988 That's cool

I'm sure Trunchbull would get along with Umbridge.....not to mention aunt Marge. Funny thing is the actress who played Marge IS Ms. Trunchbull!!!

Saying things like "tamed and diluted for children" can also be interpreted as book censorship. I think it's better to refer to them as an "adaptation" aimed towards children. That way it can be wholly removed from the original work and not confuse either version for the other. Other than that I totally agree, book censorship of any kind is bad. This is why people should get older physical copies and not digital copies that can be retroactively changed to suit "Modern" sensibilities.

It's in the book,but the description is"I doubt they would've noticed if she had a broken leg".

@@ashleynicolecooke4386 Oh! Wow. That misunderstanding of the words on the page way back in third grade has made this book seem much darker, in my head, for a number of years I will not be divulging.

@@Sun-oz2vf Yeah that would be insane if Matilda actually had a broken leg.

These idiots are basically the book publisher equivalent of Mattel!