He speaks in a funny and endearing manner, using a mix of incorrect grammar and made-up words. For example, he calls humans "human beans"and dreams "phizzwizzards." This adds a touch of humor to the story and makes the BFG even more lovable. One of the things I enjoyed most about ...
Locate the “made-up” words that the BFG uses and make a chart that shows the words that the BFG really wanted to use. Websites The Official Roald Dahl Website http://.roalddahl Roald Dahl Fans – resources http://roalddahlfans The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Gre...
BFG speaks in a poignantly mixed-up English that is replete with manufactured words and malapropisms, and one of the film's sweetest moments is when Sophie, ever so proper in that very British kind of way, tells him that he speaks beautifully and he responds as if he's seeing light for...
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Rylance's leading performance is particularly spectacular, he notes, as "his cracked, tender Cockney voice with its ebbs and flows is exquisite, and he all but sings those made-up words that tickle the ear and confound the spell-checker. Watching him slurp down a dozen runny fried eggs in...
The OxfordWords blog has a fun quiz to determineWhich Roald Dahl character are you?. My result was – THE BFG! Well, I am kind of tall. What did you get? The BFG stars in the World’s Largest Dot-to-Dot How cool! The folks at Puzzler in the UK have created the world’s larges...
Rylance, who has entered the most rarified realms of comedy onstage and can channel greats like Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel at will, takes things more slowly here, rolling some of the words around in his mouth and altogether trying to create a fully rounded character out of a children’...
animated short that details the story of the little boy who befriended BFG before Sophie; "Gobblefunk: The Wonderful Words ofThe BFG" is a hectic 4-minute tutorial on some of the more creative words used in the film; and "Giants 101" is a 5-minute featurette that introduces us to all...
Sophie says that if she is left behind, she is likely to be eaten up by the other giants.As they leave, they cross a field full of giants who are sleeping during the day (as they all wake up during the night). They accidentally wake up the Bloodbottler (Bill Hader) who awakens ...
Fantastical words aside (something that I wonder if the author hadn’t picked up from the Sherman Brothers when penning the screenplay for their Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), I wonder if the source material just isn’t as inspired as Dahl’s other work, or that perhaps whimsical magic just isn...