Matilda

Matilda (1996)

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Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, you see that the baby Matilda's eyes are brown, but they change colour to blue when she's in the car.

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Suggested correction: It was just the lighting. The sun was shining through the window in the morning.

Audio problem: When Zinnia combs back Harry's hair with the grey stuff in it, we see her lips moving, but we hear Michael's voice.

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Suggested correction: At 00:34:00, Zinnie combs Harry's hair, and she says to him, "Come here. OK." It is 100% her voice that we hear, and not Michael's.

zenee

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Suggested correction: Clearly no sign of it.

Suggested correction: When the TV set explodes, it's a close-up of the screen and no device is seen. When it changes to a wider shot of the actual explosion, the glass breaks and some components of the TV set are shown. There is no way to distinguish between what is a component and what is, as you say, an explosive.

Ssiscool

Suggested correction: There is no view of the explosive.

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Suggested correction: Well, there was a pole attached to the bottom of the pitcher, which was used to make it levitate, and it was edited out in post. But there is no visible shadow of the pole in any of the shots.

zenee

Visible crew/equipment: Two wires can be seen attached to Lavender (because light shines on them) as she floats back to the ground after the Trunchbull charged towards her. This is only visible on video, and has been taken out of the DVD, although you can (barely) see the shadow of the equipment letting her down on the wall behind her.

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Agatha Trunchbull: You wanted cake, you got cake! Now EAT IT.

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Answer: The "real world" answer is that it's a movie, and without Trunchbull, there's no villain at the school for Matilda to battle. Within the context of the film, everyone, including the staff, is afraid of her and fear if they speak up, she'll retaliate.

Answer: They would have been simply too afraid of the Trunchbull to report her.

Answer: Some of the staff also appear to be on her side, as we see the lunch lady appears to hate kids too. I always found it interesting that when she is scared away at the end, we don't appear to see any other teacher cheering her away except for Miss Honey. There may have been other teachers who had a "beat them and discipline them" idea just like hers.

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