The film also used the rotoscoping technique for some of the characters, particularly for Queen Elizabeth II and her servants. ĭuring production of the film, which took over 3 years, 750,000 cels were used against watercolour backgrounds designed by a team led by DC Thomson cartoonist John Geering. At the time she wore John Lennon glasses, so we took it from there. I had read that Dahl based her on his granddaughter, Sophie Dahl. Sophie, the little girl who befriends the BFG, was easy. I got a lovely note back from Dahl saying it was perfect, he was right behind it, and to just get on and do it. I painted a watercolour of how we saw him. Īccording to Brian Cosgrove, the director and producer of the film, Roald Dahl was very supportive to the studio in production. ĭevelopment of the film can be traced as far back as 1984, when only 5 people, including Cosgrove, were working on the film before being joined by other crew members. Cosgrove also produced the film along with Mark Hall, while John Hambley, who also executive produced the film, scripted the film after Brian Trueman's initial draft was rejected. The BFG was one of Cosgrove Hall Films' only feature-length films, which was directed by Brian Cosgrove, along with The Wind in the Willows.
After the Bloodbottler leaves, the BFG makes her a new dress out of her blanket to replace her heavily soiled nightgown and treats her to a delicious and remarkable drink called "frobscottle". Sophie and the BFG quickly become friends but Sophie is soon put in danger when a gruesome giant known as the Bloodbottler intrudes and unknowingly comes dangerously close to eating her. He explains that he took her so she couldn't tell anyone that she had seen him and start a giant hunt.
Not wanting to eat or steal from humans, the BFG subsists on eating "snozzcumbers" revolting vegetables which are all that grows in Giant Country. In his cave, the Giant identifies himself as the Big Friendly Giant (or BFG for short) who blows dreams into the bedrooms of children at night, while all the other nine giants are vicious, bestial child-eaters.
One night, Sophie wakes up and looks out of her window to see a cloaked giant blowing something through a trumpet into a bedroom window down the street whereupon the Giant Man notices her and snatches her through the window, carrying her away to a mysterious realm known as "Giant Country". (Refers to the Nikon brand of camera.)ĭocument.getElementById("tfd_idiom_div").style.Sophie is a young orphaned girl living in the orphanage of the cantankerous and abusive Mrs. The Nikon choirThe paparazzi or a large group of photojournalists, especially when actively engaged in photographing someone or something of great interest.
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