The film Matilda directed by Danny DeVito released in 1996 is a film about a bright, young girl who gets forgotten about by her parents and gets revenge on them and the principle of the school she is going to for her teacher. The antagonist of this film is Agatha Trunchbull. Ms Trunchbull is illustrated this way by the way she acts such as unpleasant, strict, mean and her bitter language towards the kids. Some of the techniques used to outline her evil and malicious character are appearance, personality and language, and camera angles and shot.
Firstly, Ms Trunchbull’s appearance illustrates her as an evil character. Through-out the movie Matilda Ms Trunchbull has formal army wear such as pulled up white socks to the bottom of her knees, blazer, army boots, belt, shirt tucked in, bike gloves a whip and her black hair in a bun to make her look like a sergeant who is powerful and unapproachable as she is in a school full of children which she doesn’t like. She is plump and tall/big which makes her look intimidating and manly and tough. Ms
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Trunchbull’s unclean teeth makes her look like she is a boss because she has no time to brush her teeth since she is working too hard and it also makes her look mean. She never smiles unless she is snarling at a kid for no reason and even that is a bit creepy because it is half a smile which you would associate with an evil person. Thus, Ms Trunchbull’s unflattering appearance helps the viewers interpret her as a strict and awful lady to be around. Secondly, Ms Trunchbull’s strict, bitter, forceful and loud mannered personality and language really presents her as an enemy. Her manly, loud voice, strict, cruel and rude is shown through-out this whole movie in the way she acts towards the teachers and students. This is shown when Ms Trunchbull says “My idea of a perfect school is one in which there is no kids”, “Fresh meat” and “Your mummy is a twit.” Ms Trunchbull’s house also signifies her personality. This is shown by her house always been cluttered with different things such as shotputs, helmets and bats, she also had pictures of herself on her walls and the house always has low key lighting no matter what time of day it is until Miss Honey moves into it when Ms Trunchbull runs away. Therefore, that is how Ms Trunchbull’s personality and language appears in the movie and shows how she is as a person. Thirdly, Ms Trunchbull’s camera angles show how she is the dominate one in this film.
Her low camera angles make her look like she is really big and evil. In the opening scene for Ms Trunchbull they use an extreme close up on her feet and work their way up to her face where she has a malicious look on her face. Ms Trunchbull’s second extreme close up in a part of the movie where she is yelling at a kid they have only put in her face and the snarl of a look that she is giving. They also gave her a high camera angle to make her look powerful by all the kids running away from her in the school yard when she walks out. Ms Trunchbull always takes up a lot of the space in a camera shot to make her look like she owns the place and doesn’t let anyone else in. Ms Trunchbull always has a shadow following her around no matter what sort of light she is in. Therefore, Ms Trunchbull is shown in this film as evil and malicious by her camera
angles. In conclusion, the film matilda depicts Agatha Trunchbull as an evil and malicious character which is all shown by the techniques such as her apperance, personality and language and the camera angles and shots.
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