We are in a summer in which to find an excuse not to go to the movies with children is almost impossible because there are proposals that are more than appealing to all family tastes, no matter how many people are at home ... that there may be.
Next week the story also comes in a big way and with the help of two greats in this entertainment.
That Steven Spielberg brings to the big screen a story by Roald Dahl… Well what do you want me to say to many it will push us to go to the movies with the children or the children will push us to take them to the cinema That does not matter to me.
On July 8, “My friend the giant” opens the latest animation production directed by Steven Spielberg and in which he adapts a story by Roald Dahl entitled “The great good-natured giant”.
It is not the first time this story is taken to the cinema, seven years after its publication it was already adapted and released under the direction of Brian Cosgrove.
And it's not the first time that Spieberg directs an animation production, in fact, next year he plans to release a new, the second installment of the adventures of the reporter Tintin.
On this occasion, in "My friend the giant", the protagonist is an orphan girl named Sofia who lives in an institution so strict that she is not even allowed to peer out the window at will.
In the beginning, the option that was considered to give life to the main character was Robin Williams who unfortunately could not do it.
Mark Rylance It has been who has gotten into the wrinkled skin of this giant good-natured and has done it through the technique of capturing movements, something that Spielberg has already used in his animated films as “Polar Express” where he had Tom Hanks as reviewer of This peculiar train. By the way, another great movie to watch with children this hot summer afternoons have you seen at home?
The girl and ... the monster?
Sofia is not that she is disobedient, she is a girl and sometimes, as happens to our own children, the need collides with the rules, perhaps because they are not very rules based on logic or at least she does not find it.
The point is that Sofia finds a new world that will change her own completely by meeting a new friend, a peculiar friend and something marginalized by his as happens to the girl herself but a kind and generous friend.
Yes, it is obvious that it is a formula that works both in cinema and in literature. Who doesn't remember Frankenstein from Mary Sheely! Steven Spielberg likes the formula, in fact it is not the first time he has used it with this story by Roald Dahl.
The same year in which this story was published by the well-known author of children's literature, "The Giant Bonachon" back in 1982, Steven Spielberg premiered one of his great films in which the connection between a child and a monster? It completely changes the lives of both of you. Do you remember "E.T." Have you seen her with your children?
Coincidentally, yes ... you see that the history of the film is full of coincidences and coincidences, coincidentally Juan Antonio Bayona It also premieres this year (or next at the latest ...) a film raised almost in the same terms with the title "A monster comes to see me" in which we will see a child, a window and ... a monster?
Well, we will talk about that at the time if it is appropriate to go with the children to the movies ... For now remember that next day 8 you have a most cinephile date with "My friend the giant."
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