什麼是Matilda Roald Dahl?

Matida 是 Roald Dahl 作品, 於 1998 年出版, 並於 1996 年拍成電影.


Matilda



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1998 Puffin ed.

Author
Roald Dahl

Illustrator
Quentin Blake

Language
English

Publisher
Jonathan Cape (England), & Penguin Books (United States)

Released
1988

Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

ISBN
ISBN 0-224-02572-4
Wikipedia 有詳細介紹書版及電影片之分別
Differences in the film adaptation
As befits the visual medium, the film version is more active and visually impressive than the book. Some plot points are shortened or removed, while new details and action sequences are added. Miss Honey's poverty is not addressed; she lives fairly comfortably in her small cottage and is not mentioned to be paying money to Trunchbull, though the way she is dominated by her aunt at school suggests some kind of indentured servitude arrangement. The parrot prank is removed. Matilda is briefly locked in The Chokey, only described in the book, and Trunchbull's mansion undergoes two expeditions with their share of narrow escapes. Ironically, if appropriately, the book goes into much greater detail about the benefits of books and even gives a list of the classical works Matilda reads.
The film is modernized and Americanized as a retelling: for instance, it takes place in the United States instead of the United Kingdom, Lavender Brown is black (dark-skinned people being missing in the book), and a boy is thrown out the window for eating M&M's in a literature class instead of Licorice Allsorts during a Bible study class.
Smaller changes are those of ages, TV programs and the like, and Matilda's brother is turned from a more-or-less ordinary boy to an idiot after his parents, while their mother shows some humanity by giving her daughter away because she's better suited for a life with Miss Honey - but "some" only compared to the book, where both parents drop their daughter like a rock. Trunchbull's violence to children is also slightly mitigated. When Miss Trunchbull hurls a pigtailed girl over the fence, the girl lands safely gathering flowers for class. In the book version, she lands flat on her face and is hurt.
The most significant divergence is that Matilda's powers are treated more as a conventional superpower and less as a miracle. The film and book both have her start by inadvertent, tiny movements (an exploding cathode ray tube aside), but in the film Matilda eventually goes on to lift and control child-sized objects, and to throw multiple small ones around at will. The final confrontation with Trunchbull turns into a match of overt physical force versus mental powers, powers she retains to use for trivialities. In contrast, characters in the book never lose their sense of awe and a degree of fear about dealing with forces larger than human. Matilda's triumph is moving a piece of chalk well enough to write a few dozen words, at the cost of considerable drain to herself, and she loses her abilities afterward. The characters' working theory is that her mental capacity is now being expended in her schooling.
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