This adaptation, however, still keeps most of Dahl’s original intact, whilst happily allowing for more diversity and colour-blind casting across the principal performers. Now we have perfunctory, yet sometimes cleverly worded songs by Tim Minchin as well, derived from a hit Christmas stage musical adaptation produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company that’s still running in the UK.Ī further intriguing recent news cycle has involved Dahl’s historic offensive and anti-Semitic statements coming to light, as well as scrutiny over the racial and gender stereotyping in his books and other widely read children’s literature. Matilda 2022 is closely adapted from the original 1988 Dahl text (it was one of his final works to be published), hitting all of the familiar beats square on the head. So it wasn’t enough to hew close to the fondly remembered, Americanised 1996 film, both directed by and starring Danny DeVito. Another element familiar from IP- or “pre-awareness”-driven blockbusters of the past several years is their attempt to give you something familiar-tasting or -seeming, yet a bit different.
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