I loved this book as a child. I still fondly remember it and often recall it as one of my favorites. I was excited to see this big-budget Spielberg-helmed film adaptation of one of my favorite childhood experiences. Unfortunately, some things are better left to the imagination.
I think this book is just impossible to properly adapt to film. It's not Spielberg's fault that the source material works best in the head of the reader rather than on the big screen. I honestly believe Spielberg did an amazing job with what he was given, but unfortunately some of Roald Dahl's tone was lost in translation to the big screen format.
Not sure if this will ever be properly adapted. If Spielberg can't do it, then who can?
The BFG
2016
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy
The BFG
2016
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy
Plot summary
The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!
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November 16, 2016 at 01:45 AM
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Impossible to adapt this amazing book to film
A cool movie from Disney, it's good to see Spielberg going back to making children's films.
The BFG surprised me, I expected nothing but a boring and bland movie from Disney, luckily the movie is cool, has funny moments, the giant is a very charismatic character, Ruby Barnhill is fine, Ruby's chemistry Barnhill with Mark Rylance is very good, the look is beautiful, it has good moments, the final scene is cool, the script has problems, the movie takes a while to get nice, I found the beginning very slow and tedious, the direction of The master of Steven Spielberg is good, even though it is not comparable to his best works, The BFG is a fun movie, with some funny moments, has a nice story, even a script with problems, and some weak dialogues, the chemistry of the main characters is Very good, and the movie soundtracks are pretty cool. Note 6.7
Not as captivating
Roald Dahl's The BFG is brought to CGI life by Steven Spielberg.
Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) is a lonely 10 year old girl living in an orphanage. One night she spots outside her window the Big Friendly Giant (Mark Rylance) wandering around the streets of London. He takes her to giant country, his world of giants.
The BFG cannot take the risk that Sophie will tell the world about him. However in his world, the BFG is not that much of a giant. He is friendly, he can read, he collects dreams and he is a vegetarian.
The others giants are much bigger, crueller and eat humans. The BFG needs to protect Sophie from the other giants who might smell her.
Sophie has a plan to forge a nightmare of giants eating British children and give it to Queen Elizabeth II. This would prompt her to send the army to battle these flesh eating giants.
The special effects and the performance capture is very good. The story less so. The film is too long, sluggishly paced, I felt bored and once it gets to Buckingham Palace the film lost something when it entered the human world. There was no whimsy.