Steve Reviews: The BFG (1989)

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• SQ

  @squirreltracks · 4 years ago

  At the point where Sophie understood the threat, went straight to the authorities, and the military was sent out and took care of the problem; the first time I read the book I remember thinking "I can't believe it, it never works that way!"

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• MA

  @Matteus2109 · 4 years ago

  I always loved how NOT condescending Dahl's books were to kids. People died in his books. People who you should have trusted turned out to be selfish, worthless, or just plain mad. I liked how he didn't speak down to kids in  his books, all the while still having so much wonder and imagination.

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• PY

  @pyrrhusofepirus8491 · 4 years ago (edited)

  The giants were scary in this film, they weren’t silly, childlike or funny, they were terrifying. Unlike in the live action Spielberg one.

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• TH

  @thetruehispanicchipmunk690 · 4 years ago

  In the book, the BFG actually keeps dreamcatching, just that he lives in England and has all his dream bottles transported there. The queen also appoints him as England’s official dreamcatcher and he fixes his broken English, writing a book based on his adventures under a different name which is then revealed to be the BFG book itself.

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• RI

  @ripleyandweeds1288 · 4 years ago

  I can't get over how the Queen is so much more realistically drawn compared to the other characters, like its actually hilarious how much she sticks out.

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• AS

  @asherz2 · 4 years ago

  god, i remember my english teacher reading the book to us in 6th grade, he'd do voices for the characters, read the most intense parts of the chapters and left us on cliffhangers, which just made us excited to read the next chapter, and even put on this movie for us, and we all heavily enjoyed it, next after this was the Hobbit which got me into fantasy and my love for DND, easy to say that my teacher, Mr. P, helped me find my love for literature, fantasy, story writing, and character creation

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• EE

  @eeveestar6826 · 4 years ago

  This book, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Fantastic Mr Fox were my favourite books as a child. They all got their own movie adaptions, but I'm only now discovering that they made an animated movie of The BFG?!

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• SH

  @Shoxic420 · 4 years ago

  The fact that adults, authority figures and the Queen especially are actually competent and reasonable is refreshing.<br><br>The film and book both also scared the crap out of young me, especially the line about the three men being eaten alive.

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• LE

  @LeoricDaKnight · 3 years ago

  I love how Sofie and the giant don&apos;t go on a crazy adventure to fight the giant king or something, they just alert the authorities and the military actually handles it lol.

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• VJ

  @vjpearce · 3 years ago

  Fun fact: David Jason liked doing the voice to the BFG so much, that he named his daughter after Sophie in 2001.

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• SL

  @slakmansauce3390 · 4 years ago

  Fun fact! The illustrator for the original book based his illustrations of the BFG on Roald Dahl himself. Dahl liked it so much that he changed the description of the BFG to fit it.

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• SV

  @svoloch125 · 4 years ago

  You are right, Queen is on point in this adaptation, so quintessentially British.<br><br>&quot;Oh dear, giant eating our country&apos;s children? That is dreadful indeed. Would you like crumpets or biscuits with your tea?&quot;

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