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James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach film poster
Directed by	Henry Selick
Written by	Steven Bloom Karey Kirkpatrick Jonathan Roberts (screenplay) Roald Dahl (book)
Produced by	Tim Burton Denise Di Novi
Starring	Paul Terry Simon Callow Richard Dreyfuss Susan Sarandon Jane Leeves Miriam Margolyes David Thewlis Joanna Lumley
Narrated by	Pete Postlethwaite
Cinematography	Pete Kozachik Hiro Narita
Music by	Randy Newman
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release dates	1996 April 12 - country past of USSR (Russia, Ukraine)
Running time	84 min.
Countries	United Kingdom United States
Language	English
Budget	$38,000,000 USD (estimated)
Box office	$28,946,127

James and the Giant Peach is a 1996 fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, based on the Roald Dahl book of the same name. It was produced by Tim Burton, who also produced The Nightmare Before Christmas. The movie is a combination of live action and stop-motion.

This film is rated PG by the MPAA for "some frightening images".

Plot

A magical, musical fairy tale concerning a little boy, James Henry Trotter, who finds himself living with his two aunts, Spiker and Sponge, after his parents were gobbled up by a mysterious rhinoceros from the clouds. Life with his aunts is hard and he dreams of a better place, specifically New York City, a "dream like" place his parents had talked about. His dream comes true when a stranger appears with a bagful of magic which among others things, changes insects (a Grasshopper, Centipede, Lady Bug, Spider, Earthworm, and Glow Worm) into real life characters and causes an ordinary peach to grow to immense proportions. It's upon this peach that James and his new insect friends travel and make their way toward his "dream land."

Novel vs. Movie

• The book says that the rhinoceros escaped from the zoo. In the movie,the rhinoceros"appears out of nowhere."
• In the book,Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge are crushed by the peach when it rolls out of the yard. In the movie,they don't die at all(but they are arrested).
• In the book,the sharks show up before,not after,as in the movie,the creatures on the peach start eating it(or portions of it). Also,in the book,they start eating the while in the water,rather then in the air.
• The rhinoceros also takes the place of the "cloud men" for the reason they had to cut down the string holding up the seagulls in midair.
• The character of the silkworm is also ommited.
• The book does not say they needed a compass.
• The book also does not mention the dream James had.
• The book also does not mention James and the creatures being separated when the peach hits the empire state building.
• In the book,it is said James wrote the book himself. Possibly to keep up with the shelf-to-screen translation,Tim Burton changed this to the movie.

Cast

• Paul Terry as James Henry Trotter
• Simon Callow as Grasshopper (voice)
• Richard Dreyfuss as Centipede (voice)
• Jane Leeves as Ladybug (voice)
• Susan Sarandon as Miss Spider (voice)
• David Thewlis as Earthworm (voice)
• Joanna Lumley as Aunt Spiker
• Miriam Margolyes as Aunt Sponge/Glowworm
• Pete Postlethwaite as Old Man
• Mike Starr as Beat Cop

Crew

• Directed by Henry Selick
• Produced by Denise Di Novi and Tim Burton
• Screenplay by Karey Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Roberts and Steven Bloom
• Executive Producer Jake Eberts
• Co-Producers Brian Rosen and Henry Selick
• Songs by Randy Newman
• Music by Randy Newman
• Director Of Photography Pete Kozachik and Hiro Narita
• Production Designer Harley Jessup
• Conceptual Designer Lane Smith
• Animation Supervisor Paul Berry
• UK Casting by John Hubbard and Ros Hubbard
• US Casting by Robin Gurland and Brian Chavanne

Awards

The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score (by Randy Newman). It won Best Animated Feature Film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

Pre-Enchanted: Queen Narissa

In 1937, this featurette went wild as the audience, in songs, rock, swing, jazz, roots, blues, and hybrid. Before Enchanted, Queen Narissa was the host in a cinema, by the silver screen, Technirama, and technicolor, with the orchestra's original music with a host, Queen Narissa were hosts in the lake. In Disney's first film, the Evil Queen looked into the mirror, and the mask appeared. And the Evil Queen had a chest, and turned into the witch, later. And, Snow White performed a culture film, called "The Wizard of Oz" from MGM, where Dorothy Gale was trapped into a cyclone, and the Wicked Witch appeared in Munchkinland, and in her castle, he melted, before the wizard (Frank Morgan) and his balloon, and the curtain in the throne room, in the palace, throughout a silver screen's giant cinema. Queen Narissa was designed by the animators. And, in 1959, Disney's 16th animated "Sleeping Beauty" first appeared in Technirama 70, and the wind blew on the things, and thunder & lightning appeared. The kids said, "What is it?" And the last Queen Narissa was Maleficent, with her raven, and a hypnotizer. Maleficent hypnotized Aurora, that she could prick on a spindle of a spinning wheel with her finger, and die, and Maleficent said the raven turned into a stone, and Maleficent casted two spells, and casts a spell of lightning in Ron Stephen's castle, and Maleficent flew and Maleficent transformed into a dragon! The children shouted, because children ate M&Ms, and went off to do The Crying Game, 101 Dalamatians, The Wizard of Oz, Who are you?, Shrek, and Chicken Run, and Flubber, in the 2000s. And, in 1996, the film went off, before Queen Narissa, the host from the 1959 cartoon "Sleeping Beauty" where Merryweather tries to announce it in pronounciation.

Special Effects of the Peach All the Way Down to the Pit

It's known as Mickey Mouse's friend, Walt Disney. Everybody calls him buddy, his Hollywood's demon of special effects. And James presents him with his greatest challenge with the movies Enchanted and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Who are you? and Susan Sarandon must create a dazzling erray of special effects, many of the never before attempted: The string on the aunts, the moving, the telephone calls, the siren, the spotlight, and the eating. In a movie theater, children went to it, as the kid was either a boy and a girl. Queen Narissa was there on December 21, 1937 and the Evil Queen Narissa peeked into the window and despited the Magic Mirror in a castle hall. Around the cinema's set, it said "SLEEPING BEAUTY A". And the movie James is designed in originals. And, in March 7, 1986, the re-issue pointed them from Walt Disney Pictures. At two halls, Merryweather tried to announce in pronounciation on the screen. Dorothy Gale reprimands "Who are you?" on the kid's adventure, and Dorothy Gale reprimands, and Dorothy Gale says "Who are you?" to the wizard or the audience in 1939, and the "Who are you" joke has the kids eating popcorn, dumping popcorn, and Dorothy Gale says "Who are you?" in the stage show, and Dorothy Gale says Who are you? instead of Queen Narissa, and Queen Narissa tells with King Stephen that Queen Narissa's granny spell and Queen Narissa's transformation. That's the original Maleficent.

Trivia

• The film begins with normal live-action, but becomes stop-motion animation after James enters the peach, and then live-action when James enters New York (although the mutated insect characters remained in stop-motion).
• In the pirate ship scene, the Centipede exclaims, "A Skellington!" upon spotting a skeleton that looks like (and is) Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) with a beard and pirate gear. Upon finding a compass moments later, he exclaims, "Jackpot!" One of the pirates looks like Mickey Mouse's dog, Pluto. Another of the skeletons has the bill, sailor's cap, sailor's jacket and voice of Donald Duck.
• Andy Partridge of the British pop group, XTC, 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.

External links

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• James and the Giant Peach at IMDb