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Dahl, Roald (27 February 1973). "The Horn Book | "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory": A Reply". The Horn Book. Archived from the original on 19 August 2020 . Retrieved 14 October 2020. a b c d Laura Vinas Valle (14 January 2016). De-constructing Dahl. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p.132. ISBN 978-1-4438-8755-7.The Paley Center for Media: Way Out". The Paley Center for Media. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014 . Retrieved 16 September 2014. While his whimsical fantasy stories feature an underlying warm sentiment, they are often juxtaposed with grotesque, darkly comic and sometimes harshly violent scenarios. [10] [12] The Witches, George's Marvellous Medicine and Matilda are examples of this formula. The BFG follows, with the good giant (the BFG or "Big Friendly Giant") representing the "good adult" archetype and the other giants being the "bad adults". This formula is also somewhat evident in Dahl's film script for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Class-conscious themes also surface in works such as Fantastic Mr Fox and Danny, the Champion of the World where the unpleasant wealthy neighbours are outwitted. [76] [125] a b "Roald Dahl on the death of his daughter". The Telegraph. No.3 February 2015. Archived from the original on 14 July 2015 . Retrieved 3 April 2018.

Alberge, Dalya (25 February 2023). "Roald Dahl threatened publisher with 'enormous crocodile' if they changed his words". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 March 2023 . Retrieved 1 March 2023. Dahl, Roald (1999). "Min mor". I Roald Dahls kjøkken. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. p.65. ISBN 8205256136.According to Dahl's autobiography, Boy: Tales of Childhood, a friend named Michael was viciously caned by headmaster Geoffrey Fisher. Writing in that same book, Dahl reflected: "All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed literally to wound other boys, and sometimes quite severely... I couldn't get over it. I never have got over it." [40] Fisher was later appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, and he crowned Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. However, according to Dahl's biographer Jeremy Treglown, [41] the caning took place in May 1933, a year after Fisher had left Repton; the headmaster was in fact J. T. Christie, Fisher's successor as headmaster. Dahl said the incident caused him to "have doubts about religion and even about God". [42] He viewed the brutality of the caning as being the result of the headmaster's enmity towards children, an attitude Dahl would later attribute to the Grand High Witch in The Witches who exclaims that "children are rrreee-volting!". [37]

Matilda by Roald Dahl: Quentin Blake's sketches and original artwork". British Library. Archived from the original on 8 October 2022 . Retrieved 8 October 2022. Nunis, Vivienne (18 August 2016). "Roald Dahl: As popular - and profitable - as ever". BBC World Service. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020 . Retrieved 23 September 2020. Dahl's childhood sweetshop and its influence on his books". BBC News. 13 September 2016. Archived from the original on 22 September 2017 . Retrieved 8 October 2022. Terrace, Vincent (1985). Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials. VNR AG. ISBN 978-0-918432-61-2. Visit your favourite characters and locations from the beloved stories of Roald Dahl, but watch out for Wormwood Motors, The Witches RSPCC, jail and bankruptcy!For a brief period in the 1960s, Dahl wrote screenplays. Two, the James Bond film You Only Live Twice and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, were adaptations of novels by Ian Fleming. [133] [134] Dahl also began adapting his own novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was completed and rewritten by David Seltzer after Dahl failed to meet deadlines, and produced as the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). Dahl later disowned the film, saying he was "disappointed" because "he thought it placed too much emphasis on Willy Wonka and not enough on Charlie". [135] He was also "infuriated" by the deviations in the plot devised by David Seltzer in his draft of the screenplay. This resulted in his refusal for any more versions of the book to be made in his lifetime, as well as an adaptation for the sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. [136]