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    The movie Matilda directed by Danny DeVito is about a little girl name Matilda who is enthusiastic and willing to learn but her parents on the hand do not care about that. Her parents are a grouchy couple that finally sends her to a school with a nice sympathetic teacher‚ Miss Honey‚ good friends‚ but a horrible principal‚ Miss Trunchbull. The moral of the story is that Miss Honey protects Matilda from Miss Trunchbull and her parents and eventually adopts Matilda because her parents want her to move

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    Essay question: what techniques does the director‚ Danny DeVito‚ use in the film Matilda to illustrate the character‚ Agatha Trunchbull‚ as evil and malicious (mean)? The filmMatilda’ directed by Danny DeVito released in 1996‚ is a film in which the principal‚ Ms Trunchbull‚ is depicted as an evil and malicious person through her intimidating appearance‚ unpleasant personality‚ the suspenseful lighting and lastly the unflattering camera angles. To begin with‚ Ms Trunchbull’s intimidating appearance

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    Ignorance can certainly be seen in ’Matilda’‚ a comedy‚ directed by Danny DeVito which takes place in U.S.A. during the nineties. All the major characters except for Matilda‚ Matilda’s friends and Miss Honey‚ are careless and only self-involved. This brings the first theme‚ ’Parents have the responsibility of taking care of their children. Parents like Mr Wormwood‚ Mrs Wormwood including Miss Trunchbull are evil‚ until Matilda finds herself using telekinetic powers to move things with her eyes. The

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    Matilda Directed by Danny DeVito Matilda is a family comedy which takes place somewhere in the USA during the nineties. Matilda is a brilliant girl neglected by her stupid‚ self-involved parents. Ignored at home‚ Matilda takes interest in reading and she develops telekinetic powers. Eventually‚ her insensitive parents send her to a school run by the cruel Miss Trunchbull. Matilda befriends her schoolteacher‚ Miss Honey. She soon realizes Matilda’s talents‚ but is later amazed to see the

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    sentences) summary of the plot of the film in your own words Matilda is a very smart and brilliant little girl who by the age three has read everything in the house and wants nothing more than a book. So she starts going to the library and increasing her brainpower. Meanwhile at home‚ her parents are horrible and don’t pay her any attention. Matilda’s father is a crooked used car salesman‚ who meets Agatha Trunchbull‚ a headmistress of a local school‚ and he enrolls Matilda in school there. But the Trunchbull

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    Matilda (film) Title- “matilda” Type of text Film Composer- Danny DeVito Audience families‚ little children Source- directed in 1996‚ based on the book written by Roald dahl Context- A young girl‚ Matilda‚ who unfortunately was raised into a family that treat Matilda like a stranger rather than their daughter. Purpose- entertain inform Key elements- Dialogue‚ narrative structure with an orientation‚ complication and resolution cinematic techniques‚ e.g.

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    The filmMatilda‚’ was released in 1966 and directed by Danny DeVito (who also plays an important role in the movie as an actor‚ Harry Wormwood‚) is reviewed as ‘utterly fantastic’ and ‘the best family movie I have ever seen‚’ according to Rotten Tomatoes review website. ‘Matilda’ is a movie about a child who lives in a family that doesn’t appreciate her‚ has a principal who doesn’t believe in her‚ but when she finds her special power‚ she will give payback to those who deserve it. Danny DeVito

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    What techniques does the director‚ Danny DeVito‚ use in the filmMatilda’ to illustrate that the character‚ Jennifer Honey‚ is benevolent and sweet? The filmMatilda’ released in 1996‚ directed by Danny DeVito stars Mara Wilson as Matilda. ‘Matilda’ a film about a young child genius (Matilda) who is born into a family that does not care for her. The movie follows Matilda as she dives into a world of hammer throws and chokeys to prove Agatha Trunchbull the brawny‚ muscular woman serving as the remorseless

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    What techniques does the director‚ Danny DeVito‚ use in the film Matilda to illustrate that the character‚ Jennifer Honey‚ is benevolent (kind) and sweet? The filmMatilda’ directed by Danny DeVito‚ released in 1996. DeVito uses techniques such as high camera angles‚ high key lighting and soft sounding music. These techniques used for Miss Honey makes her seem very nice‚ sweet and approachable. Firstly‚ Miss Honey appears to be an approachable‚ bright‚ friendly teacher. In the first scene

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    MATILDA Michael Skourtis The film Matilda is a clear representation of the concept of belonging‚ the ideas that are conveyed in the film are relevant to belonging by how they are displayed. The ideas of belonging in Matilda are that Matilda doesn’t belong in her family; Matilda finds a sense of familial belonging with Miss Honey‚ Matilda finds a sense of familial belonging but with classmates and that the catalyst for belonging is the personality of Ms Trunchbull‚ it creates a sense of unity

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