In the context of the history of world fairy tale literature, "fairytale novel" refers to short and medium-length literary fairy tales created by modern and contemporary writers. Under the impact of the double wave of the British Industrial Revolution and the Children's Literature Revolution in the mid-19th century, the British fairy tale novels with imagination and playful spirit sprung up with remarkable results.
From the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, the creation of British fairy tale novels began a "golden age" of brilliant clouds, which has since formed a mainstream of fairy tale novel creation that has continued to this day, inheriting the past and opening up, unlike the German romantics, British fairy tale novels are the fantasy literature that sprung up in the context of British children's literature in the Victorian era, although initiated with children's literature, but beyond children's literature...
From the macro perspective of the history of the development of British fairy tale novels, modern and contemporary British fairy tale novels have experienced four historical periods of rise and development:
The first period was the Victorian and Edwardian periods (1840-1910);
The second period was around the time of the two world wars (1910-1949);
The third period was the 1950s and 1960s;
The fourth period is the British fairy tale novel since the 1970s.
Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a Norwegian-British writer of outstanding children's literature, playwright and short story. He is the winner of the Edgar Poe Literary Award, the White Bread Children's Book Award, the British Children's Book Award, and the World Fantasy Literature Congress Award.
His works have been passed down to children and adults alike, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlle and the Great Glass Elevator, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and The Witch Witches), "The Big Friendly Giant" and "Going Solo."
The 2016 film "The Dream Giant", directed by Steven Spielberg, is based on the novel of the same name by the famous British children's writer Roald Dahl: "The Big Friendly Giant"
This is a very fantastic, funny, positive and touching story from the perspective of a child.
It tells the story of a little girl in the orphanage, who was brought back to the fantasy land of "Giant Country" by chance by the "kind-eyed giants" of the Giant Kingdom, and the two experienced a fantasy journey together, followed by an adventure fairy tale that joined forces to send the man-eating giants away.
Nordic style + British flavor, insomniac night was caught by the friendly giant to the giant country, and the giant went to catch dreams with the giants, where there was a giant tree, full of all kinds of glowing dreams, dreams fluttering like fireflies, and in the distance was the aurora... It is rare to return to a very orthodox classical fairy tale, and we can also see the enthusiastic support of the older generation of Directors for the innocence of childhood.
The whole film, whether it is the background of the story "Dreamy Giant Kingdom"; or the character modeling "Sophie, an ordinary little girl with no father and no mother"; and the adventure journey "from victimization to conquest" experienced by Sophie and the giant; and the presentation of the theme of the novel "Good finally triumphs over evil!" ”。
All this can be seen that the movie "Dream Giant" is a restoration and inheritance of The long-standing fantasy fairy tale literature in Britain.
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"Can you hear ants talking, you can hear spider webs, you can hear the stars singing, can you hear me?" Dream-like lines, cute little girls with bare feet, stupid kind and kind eyes, and even the ending is to punish bad eggs for growing vegetables, this is a fairy tale! Some people may think that the plot of this movie is too childish, but this is the best gift for the childlike adult.
Both the giant and the little girl are the loneliest people in each other's world.
Sophie lives in an orphanage, has no parents, and the treatment from the director can be described as very poor.
But Sophie's character is brave and strong, she is decisive, and this "indomitable" character trait is like a shot in the arm, which can give viewers a kind of courage and encouragement at the same time. Of course, Sophie is not completely without weaknesses. Loneliness is her weakness and the reason why she meets the "good eye".
Giant Good-hearted Eye lives in the Giant's Kingdom, and unlike other giants, other giants feed on human flesh, he only eats a plant called "Big-nosed Melon", and in order to make up for the mistakes committed by his companions, he will collect beautiful dreams and send them to the children's dreams, and the "Good-hearted Eye" in the film is full of helplessness. He is like a Santa Claus who brings surprises, and also like an obscure nightcrawler in black.
In fact, the image of the giant in the movie has an archetype, he is the author Roald Dahl himself.
Roald loved his two daughters very much, and created this fairy tale to commemorate his daughter who died early, just like the well-meaning giant is relatively big to people, but compared to his people, he is a short existence, but he is still insisting on what he thinks is right, making up for it, and guilt. He intruded into human life and took great risks to send sweet dreams to children.
Just as he himself tells his daughter bedtime stories every night.
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Spielberg, the great director's, left us with a feast - "Dream Giant"
The director is like the big-eyed giant--- BFG (Big friendly giant) who fulfills a childhood dream for us.
It is worth mentioning that the film never involves cruel and bloody killing scenes, and the relevant plot is only a passing point. "Dream Giant" is a thorough fairy tale world, although there is good and evil, but it loses or weakens the ugly side of the human world such as killing, lies, deception, etc., and focuses on portraying the "truth, goodness and beauty" of human nature.
This story contains the truth that as long as you have good intentions, no matter how strong your opponents are, you can defeat them.
In the end, it is worthy of the master's hand, so that the audience can see the director's childlike heart in this fantasy fairy tale world. It's really a movie that can only be made by adults with childlike hearts... After watching the movie, I was curious about the rating of this movie, so I went to Douban to see it, and I felt that the rating of 6.8 was indeed underestimated, in fact, looking at this fantasy fairy tale, don't worry about whether it is real, just dig out its hidden meaning and understand the meaning behind the story.
The little girl and the giant in the movie symbolize the children and adults in the real world, the friendship between the two also represents the friendly connection between children and adults, every adult is raised from childhood, we see ourselves now and our childhood selves from the movie, with the plot, we will find the original forgotten dreams, find the courage and confidence that we had in our youth, and the movie also tells us that whether it is now or in the past, innocence and kindness are our original essence.
I have to say that "Dream Giant" is quite warm as a fairy tale for adults.
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