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| − | |image = [[File:James and the giant peach.jpg|225px]] |
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| − | |director = [[Henry Selick]] |
+ | | director = [[Henry Selick]] |
| + | | producer = [[Denise Di Novi]]<br>[[Tim Burton]] |
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| − | |writer = [[Jonathan Roberts]],<br />[[Karey Kirkpatrick]],<br />[[Steve Bloom]] (screenplay)<br />Roald Dahl (book) |
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| + | | screenplay = [[Karey Kirkpatrick]]<br>[[Jonathan Roberts]]<br>Steve Bloom |
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| + | | narrator = [[Pete Postlethwaite]] |
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| − | |producer = [[Tim Burton]]<br />Denise Di Novi |
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+ | | music = [[Randy Newman]] |
| − | |country = USA |
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| + | | cinematography = Pete Kozachik<br>[[Hiro Narita]] |
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| + | | editing = Stan Webb |
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| − | |release date = April 16, 1996 |
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| + | | studio = [[Walt Disney Pictures]]<br>[[Allied Filmmakers]]<br>[[Skellington Productions]] |
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| + | | distributor = [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista Pictures]] |
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| − | |rating = {{G}} |
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| + | | released = {{Film date|1996|04|12|United States|1996|08|02|United Kingdom}} |
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| − | |distributor = [[Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc.]] |
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| − | |budget = $38,000,000 [[United States dollar|USD]] (estimated) |
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| + | | country = United Kingdom<br>United States |
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| − | '''''James and the Giant Peach''''' is a film based on the Roald Dahl book of the same name. It was produced by [[Tim Burton]] and directed by Henry Selick, who also directed [[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]. The movie is a combination of live action and stop-motion. The film was released in theatres in 1996, and was written by [[Karey Kirkpatrick]]. |
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| + | | budget = $38 million |
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| + | | gross = $28.9 million |
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| + | '''''James and the Giant Peach''''' is a 1996 British-American musical fantasy film directed by [[Henry Selick]], based on the 1961 novel of the same name by [[Roald Dahl]]. It was produced by [[Tim Burton]] and [[Denise Di Novi]], directed by [[Henry Selick]], and starred [[Paul Terry]] as James. The film is a combination of live action and stop-motion animation. Co-stars [[Joanna Lumley]] and [[Miriam Margolyes]] played James's aunts in the live-action segments, and [[Simon Callow]], [[Richard Dreyfuss]], [[Susan Sarandon]], [[Jane Leeves]], and [[David Thewlis]] voiced his insect friends in the animation sequences. |
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==Plot== |
==Plot== |
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| − | + | James Henry Trotter is a young boy who lives with his parents by the sea in England. On James' birthday, they plan to go to New York City and visit the Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world. However, before that happens, his parents are killed by a ghostly rhinoceros from the sky and James finds himself living with his two neglectful and cruel aunts, Spiker and Sponge. |
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| − | He is forced to work all day and they threaten him with beatings to keep him in line and taunt him about the mysterious rhino and other hazards if he tries to leave. |
+ | He is forced to work all day and they threaten him with beatings to keep him in line and taunt him about the mysterious rhino and other hazards if he tries to leave. While rescuing a spider from being squashed by his aunts, James meets a mysterious man with a bag of magic green "crocodile tongues", which he gives to James to make his life better. The soldier warns him not to lose the "tongues" and disappears. When James is returning to the house, he trips and the "tongues" escape into the ground. |
| + | This turns a peach on a withered old tree into a gigantic size. Spiker and Sponge sell tickets to view the giant peach. James crawls inside a large hole he inadvertently creates in the peach, and he finds and befriends a group of life-size anthropomorphic bugs (Mr. Grasshopper, Mr. Centipede, Earthworm, Miss Spider, Mrs. Ladybug, and Glowworm). As they hear the aunts search for James, Mr. Centipede cuts the stem connecting the giant peach to the tree and the peach rolls away to the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| − | While rescuing a spider from being squashed by his aunts, James meets a mysterious man with a bag of magic green "crocodile tongues", which he gives to James to make his life better. The soldier warns him not to lose the "tongues" and disappears. When James is returning to the house, he trips and the "tongues" escape into the ground. |
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| ⚫ | Remembering his dream to visit New York City, James and the insects decide to go there with Mr. Centipede steering the peach. They use Miss Spider's silk to capture and tie a hundred seagulls to the peach stem, while battling against a giant robotic shark. Miss Spider reveals to James that she was the spider he saved from Spiker and Sponge. The next day, James and his friends find themselves in The Arctic; the Centipede has fallen asleep while keeping watch. After hearing Mr. Grasshoper wishing they had a compass, Mr. Centipede jumps off the peach into the icy water below and searches a sunken ship for a compass but is taken prisoner by skeletal pirates. James and Miss Spider rescue him and the journey continues. |
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| − | A peach is soon found on a withered old tree, and expands into immense proportions. Spiker and Sponge then use the giant peach as an attraction, making lots of money as James watches from the house, not permitted to leave. That night, James is sent to pick up the garbage. While doing so, he grabs a chunk of the peach to eat as one of the "crocodile tongues" unknowingly jumps into it. A large hole appears inside the peach and James crawls inside, where he finds and befriends a group of life-size anthropomorphic bugs who also dream of an ideal home (Grasshopper, Centipede, Earthworm, Miss Spider, Ladybug, and Glowworm), and is also turned into a more animated form. As they hear the aunts search for James, Centipede manages to cut the stem connecting the giant peach to the tree and the peach rolls away to the Atlantic Ocean with James and his friends inside it, seemingly crushing Spiker and Sponge's antique car as they try to chase it. |
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| + | As they reach New York City, a storm appears, along with the ghostly rhino. James is frightened but challenges the rhino and gets his friends to safety before the rhino strikes the peach with lightning; James and the peach fall to the city below, landing on top of the Empire State Building. After he is rescued by police officers, firefighters, and the largest crane in New York City, Spiker and Sponge arrive and attempt to claim James and the peach. James reveals Spiker and Sponge's abusive behavior towards him to the crowd, who gasp in shock at the revelation. Spiker and Sponge become enraged by James' betrayal and attempt to kill him. The bugs arrive and tie up Spiker and Sponge with Miss Spider's silk and the two aunts are arrested. James introduces his friends to the New Yorkers and allows the children to eat up the peach. |
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| ⚫ | Remembering his dream to visit New York City, James and the insects decide to go there with Centipede steering the peach |
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| + | The peach pit is made into a house in Central Park, where James lives happily with the bugs, who form his new family and also take important jobs in the city. James celebrates his 9th birthday with his new family. |
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| − | As the group finally reaches New York City, a storm appears. A flash of lightning reveals the rhino approaching them. James is frightened but faces his fears and gets his friends to safety before the rhino strikes the peach with lightning; The strings keeping the seagulls attached to the peach break and James and the peach both fall to the city below. James coughs up the crocodile tongue as he reawakens, transforms back into his normal form, and emerges from the peach realizing it has landed directly on top of the Empire State Building. |
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| − | After being rescued by police and firefighters, Spiker and Sponge arrive, supposedly having driven their car across the seabed, and attempt to claim James and the peach. James stands up to Spiker and Sponge, and they attempt to kill James. Using the remaining seagulls, the bugs arrive in New York City. They tie up Spiker and Sponge with Miss Spider's silk and they are taken away. James introduces his friends and allows the children of New York to eat up the peach. |
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| − | The peach pit is made into a house in Central Park, where James lives with the bugs and has the friends he could wish for. Centipede runs for New York mayor, Grasshopper becomes a professional violinist, Earthworm becomes a mascot for a new cream, Ladybug becomes a nurse, Glowworm lights up the Statue of Liberty, Miss Spider owns a club called "Spider Club", and James celebrates his 9th birthday with his new family. |
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In a post-credits scene, a new arcade game called "Spike the Aunts" is shown, featuring the rhino. |
In a post-credits scene, a new arcade game called "Spike the Aunts" is shown, featuring the rhino. |
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==Cast== |
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| + | * [[Paul Terry]] as James Henry Trotter |
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| + | * [[Miriam Margolyes]] as aunt Sponge |
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| + | * [[Joanna Lumley]] as aunt Spiker |
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| + | * [[Pete Postlethwaite]] as Narrator/the Magic Man |
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| − | | [[James Henry Trotter]] || Paul Terry |
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| − | | Mr. Grasshopper || Simon Cowell |
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| − | | Mr. Centipede || Richard Dreyfuss |
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| − | | Miss Spider || Susan Sarandon |
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| − | | Mrs. LadyBug || Jane Leeves |
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| − | | Mrs. Glowworm/Aunt Sponge || Miriam Margolyes |
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| − | | Mr. Earthworm || David Coles |
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| − | | Aunt Spiker || Joanna Lumley |
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| − | The movie was nominated for an [[Academy Award]] for Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score (by [[Randy Newman]]). |
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| + | * [[Simon Callow]] as Mr. Grasshopper |
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| − | *In the book there is a Silkworm (in the movie there is only spider silk used to tether the seagulls.) |
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| + | * [[Richard Dreyfuss]] as Mr. Centipede |
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| − | *In the book, Miss LadyBug is instead Miss Ladybird – the British name for this insect. |
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| + | * [[Jeff Bennett]] as Mr. Centipede (singing voice) |
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| − | *In the book, the friends are forced to tether seagulls to the peach to escape into the air from a swarm of living sharks. In the movie, they are also forced to do this, but instead of a swarm of real-life sharks, they get attacked by a single mechanical one. |
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| + | * [[Jane Leeves]] as Mrs. Ladybug |
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| − | *In the film, there is a sequence where the friends rescue the centipede (who had dove down into an icy ocean to find a compass) from a crew of undead pirates from whom the centipede had stolen the compass. There is no such sequence in the book. Instead, the book has a sequence where the centipede falls overboard accidentally and James and Ms. Spider go overboard to rescue him. |
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| + | * [[Susan Sarandon]] as Miss Spider |
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| − | *In the same scene mentioned above, the statue on the front of the ship as they look for centipide looks like the 2 aunts. |
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| + | * [[David Thewlis]] as Earthworm |
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| − | *In the book there are Cloud Rhinos living in the sky (and computer animation), but in the movie there aren't any, although the Cloud Rhinoceros – representing James's fear, as his parents have been eaten by a rhino – seems to replace them. |
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| + | * [[Miriam Margolyes]] as Glowworm |
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| − | *In the book, a jet airplane flies between the seagulls and the peach, severing the tethers and causing the peach to fall. In the movie, the Cloud Rhinoceros cuts the ropes. |
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| − | *In the book, James's two evil aunts are flattened and killed by the rolling peach. In the movie, they survive this and chase James all the way to New York (apparently driving their car across the sea floor, oddly enough), but James finally stands up to them and the bugs tie them up with Miss Spider's strings so the NYPD can take them away. |
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| − | *In the pirate ship scene, the Centipede exclaims, "A Skellington!" upon spotting a skeleton that looks like Jack Skellington from ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' (1993). Upon finding a compass moments later he exclaims, "Jackpot!" Another of the skeletons has the bill, sailor's cap, sailor's shirt and fuck of [[Donald Duck]]. There also is a regular looking Pirates, Vikings, and Inuits. |
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| − | *Andy Partridge of the British pop group OST was originally tapped to write the songs for this film. When Partridge backed out over the compensation he was offered, the producers called on Randy Newman instead. Partridge eventually released demo versions of the four songs he composed for the film. |
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| − | *The lyrics for the song ''Eating the Peach'' are those written by Roald Dahl and present in the book as one of the Centipede's songs. |
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| − | *Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker briefly recite a few lines from another poem written by Dahl in his book. |
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| − | *Rhinoceroses are actually herbivores. |
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| − | *From the director of ''[[The Lion King]]''. |
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Revision as of 23:13, 20 November 2015
James and the Giant Peach is a 1996 British-American musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi, directed by Henry Selick, and starred Paul Terry as James. The film is a combination of live action and stop-motion animation. Co-stars Joanna Lumley and Miriam Margolyes played James's aunts in the live-action segments, and Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Jane Leeves, and David Thewlis voiced his insect friends in the animation sequences.
Plot
James Henry Trotter is a young boy who lives with his parents by the sea in England. On James' birthday, they plan to go to New York City and visit the Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world. However, before that happens, his parents are killed by a ghostly rhinoceros from the sky and James finds himself living with his two neglectful and cruel aunts, Spiker and Sponge.
He is forced to work all day and they threaten him with beatings to keep him in line and taunt him about the mysterious rhino and other hazards if he tries to leave. While rescuing a spider from being squashed by his aunts, James meets a mysterious man with a bag of magic green "crocodile tongues", which he gives to James to make his life better. The soldier warns him not to lose the "tongues" and disappears. When James is returning to the house, he trips and the "tongues" escape into the ground.
This turns a peach on a withered old tree into a gigantic size. Spiker and Sponge sell tickets to view the giant peach. James crawls inside a large hole he inadvertently creates in the peach, and he finds and befriends a group of life-size anthropomorphic bugs (Mr. Grasshopper, Mr. Centipede, Earthworm, Miss Spider, Mrs. Ladybug, and Glowworm). As they hear the aunts search for James, Mr. Centipede cuts the stem connecting the giant peach to the tree and the peach rolls away to the Atlantic Ocean.
Remembering his dream to visit New York City, James and the insects decide to go there with Mr. Centipede steering the peach. They use Miss Spider's silk to capture and tie a hundred seagulls to the peach stem, while battling against a giant robotic shark. Miss Spider reveals to James that she was the spider he saved from Spiker and Sponge. The next day, James and his friends find themselves in The Arctic; the Centipede has fallen asleep while keeping watch. After hearing Mr. Grasshoper wishing they had a compass, Mr. Centipede jumps off the peach into the icy water below and searches a sunken ship for a compass but is taken prisoner by skeletal pirates. James and Miss Spider rescue him and the journey continues.
As they reach New York City, a storm appears, along with the ghostly rhino. James is frightened but challenges the rhino and gets his friends to safety before the rhino strikes the peach with lightning; James and the peach fall to the city below, landing on top of the Empire State Building. After he is rescued by police officers, firefighters, and the largest crane in New York City, Spiker and Sponge arrive and attempt to claim James and the peach. James reveals Spiker and Sponge's abusive behavior towards him to the crowd, who gasp in shock at the revelation. Spiker and Sponge become enraged by James' betrayal and attempt to kill him. The bugs arrive and tie up Spiker and Sponge with Miss Spider's silk and the two aunts are arrested. James introduces his friends to the New Yorkers and allows the children to eat up the peach.
The peach pit is made into a house in Central Park, where James lives happily with the bugs, who form his new family and also take important jobs in the city. James celebrates his 9th birthday with his new family.
In a post-credits scene, a new arcade game called "Spike the Aunts" is shown, featuring the rhino.
Cast
- Paul Terry as James Henry Trotter
- Miriam Margolyes as aunt Sponge
- Joanna Lumley as aunt Spiker
- Pete Postlethwaite as Narrator/the Magic Man
Voices
- Simon Callow as Mr. Grasshopper
- Richard Dreyfuss as Mr. Centipede
- Jeff Bennett as Mr. Centipede (singing voice)
- Jane Leeves as Mrs. Ladybug
- Susan Sarandon as Miss Spider
- David Thewlis as Earthworm
- Miriam Margolyes as Glowworm