Matilda Page #3

- What do you want?

- Matilda has a brilliant mind.

- Yeah, right. Give me a beer.

- Her math skills are extraordinary.

- Do you want one?

No thank you. She's reading material

that I didn't see until college.

College!

With private instruction, she'd be

ready for college in a few years.

A girl does not get anywhere

by acting intelligent.

Look at you and me.

You chose books. I chose looks.

I have a nice house and a husband.

You teach children their ABC's.

You want Matilda to go to college?

I didn't go to college.

I don't know anybody who did.

A bunch of hippies

and cesspool salesmen.

Don't sneer at educated people.

If you became ill, your doctor

would be a college graduate.

If you were sued, your lawyer

would have gone to college, too.

Sued by who?

Who have you been talking to?

Nobody.

I can see

we're not going to agree. Are we?

I'm sorry

I burst in on you like this.

We ought to sue her

for interrupting our show.

- Why's he standing in the middle?

- Because it's over.

- Thank you.

- See you tomorrow.

- Who won?

- I don't know. You shut it off.

The entire school will go

to the assembly room immediately!

The entire school will go

to the assembly room immediately!

Sit!

- What's up?

- Beats me.

Bruce Bogtrotter.

Would little Brucey come up here?

He lives on my block.

This boy, Bruce Bogtrotter,

is a vicious sneak thief.

- You're a disgusting criminal.

- What are you talking about?

Chocolate cake.

You slithered like a serpent

into the kitchen and ate my snack!

Do you deny it?

Confess!

- I can't remember a specific cake.

- This one was mine.

- It was the best cake in the world.

- My mom's is better.

How can you be sure

unless you have another piece?

Sit down, Bog.

Here we go.

Smells chocolaty, eh?

Now. eat it!

I don't want any. Thank you.

Eat it!

Don't eat it.

- She wouldn't give him cake.

- It's poison.

- You look like you enjoyed that.

- Yes. ma'am.

- You must have some more.

- No thanks.

But you'll hurt the cook's feelings.

She made this cake just for you.

Her sweat and blood

went into this cake.

You will not leave this platform

until you have eaten the whole cake!

- The whole cake! See you at lunch.

- Thank you, Cookie.

You wanted cake, you got cake.

Now eat it!

Poor Brucey.

He's going to puke.

- I can't look. Is he going to puke?

- Without a doubt.

- Bruce looks real bad.

- Give up?

You can do it, Brucey!

Yeah, you can do it!

Go. Bruce!

Silence!

Silence!

Stop! Silence!

The entire assembly

will stay five hours after school!

Any children who object will go

straight into the Chokey. Together!

Code R's the official way of saying

we've caught a bad one.

- Where were you?

- Miss Trunchbull kept us late.

That's a lie! The packages were left

outside because you weren't here.

You get all this stuff from

catalogues and I don't get anything!

It's car parts. It's business.

- Why isn't it sent to the office?

- The cops are watching the office.

The cops are watching the house.

- They're parked outside, right now.

- Those are speedboat salesmen.

- Really nice guys.

- Cops.

Speedboats?

There are no lakes around here.

- Some people go away on weekends.

- And some people are cops.

They're not cops!

Go to bed, you lying little earwig!

With the FBI watching her father,

and the Trunchbull at school. -

- it was a rare moment when Matilda

could just play.

A frog! A frog! A frog!

- What is it. Lavender?

- A frog!

- It's a salamander.

- It's a chameleon.

"Any of the semiaquatic salamanders

from the genus triturus."

"Some are brightly colored

and secrete irritating substances."

Useless, flaming car!

Wormwood! Sell me a lemon!

You're heading for the Chokey!

Teach you a lesson!

You and your father think

you can make a fool out of me!

- I'm nothing like my father!

- You're the spitting image!

The apple never rots

far from the tree!

The apple never rots

far from the tree!

- Miss Honey!

- Trunchbull is teaching our class.

She'll be here any second!

Make sure the water is cold.

Cover the fish!

Put away the art projects.

Most great ideas

come from careful planning.

But sometimes.

they just jump out at you.

Last time, you forgot yourselves.

Don't speak unless you're spoken to.

- Don't laugh. Don't breathe loudly.

- Don't breathe at all.

Good morning, Miss Trunchbull.

Sit!

Shoo.

I don't understand

why children are so disgusting.

They're like insects.

They should be got rid of.

The perfect school is one in which

there are no children.

Do you agree, Miss Honey?

You! Front of the class!

Are you okay?

Next time I tell you

to empty your pockets, do it faster!

This could be the most

interesting thing you've ever done.

Sit down, you squirming worm!

Get up!

- Can you spell?

- We can spell "difficulty".

- You can't spell "difficulty".

- She taught us with a poem.

How sweet. What poem is that?

Mrs. D. Mrs. I.

Mrs. F. F. I.

Mrs. C. Mrs. U.

Mrs. L. T. Y.

Why are all these women married?

You teach spelling, not poetry!

Why do small children

take so long to grow up?

They do it deliberately,

just to annoy me.

What's funny?

Spit it out! I like a joke

as well as the next fat person.

It's a snake!

It's a snake!

One of you tried to poison me. Who?

Matilda! I knew it.

- It's not a snake. It's a newt.

- What did you say?

- It's a newt. Miss Trunchbull.

- Stand up! You did this.

- No. Miss Trunchbull.

- Did you have accomplices?

- I didn't do it!

- You thought you'd pay me back?

- Well, I'll pay you back.

- For what. Miss Trunchbull?

- For this newt, you pissworm!

- I'm telling you, I didn't do it!

Anyway, I'm big and you're small,

I'm right and you're wrong.

There's nothing you can do about it.

You're a liar and a scoundrel.

Your father is a cheat! You're the

most corrupt low-lifes in history!

Am I wrong? I'm never wrong.

In this classroom. in this school,

I am God!

- You!

- I didn't move!

- You did this.

- She was sitting way over here.

I'll be watching you.

Each and every one.

When you turn the corner,

when you get your smelly coats.

When you skip merrily to lunch.

I'll be watching you. All of you.

And especially you!

- Thanks for not telling.

- Best friends don't tell.

She can really dance.

I'm gonna clean up this mess.

I'll be out there in a minute.

- Miss Honey...

- Yes. Matilda?

- I did it.

- Did what?

- I made the glass tip over.

- Don't let her make you feel bad.

- It was an accident.

- I did it with my eyes. Watch.

It's wonderful you feel so powerful.

Many people don't.

Come on. Tip over.

- Tip over.

- It's all right, Matilda.

- I really did do it, Miss Honey.

- Sometimes you can do things.

But when you want to show someone,

then you can't.

- Or maybe something is broken...

- This isn't like that.

I don't know.

Maybe I made myself tired.

- Would you like to go to my house?

- I'd like that very much.

Good.

Good.

I just stare very hard

and I can feel the strongness.

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