What was your vision/theme for the look of this key set? SET DECOR: The film opens with the orphanage… In a thoughtful conversation with SET DECOR, Wilcox takes us deeply into the making of the film… Together, they come up with a plan to get rid of the giants once and for all.ĭirector Steven Spielberg brings Roald Dahl’s fantasy adventure to life, with the help of his outstanding production teams, including Director of Photography Janusz Kaminski, Production Designer Rick Carter, Set Decorator Elizabeth Wilcox SDSA and myriad other skilled and talented magic-makers.

Sophie and the BFG soon depart for London to see the Queen and warn her of the precarious giant situation, but they must first convince her that giants do indeed exist. Having both been on their own in the world up until now, an unexpected friendship blossoms, b ut the other giants have become increasingly more bothersome. The BFG brings Sophie to Dream Country where he collects dreams and sends them to children, teaching her all about the magic and mystery of dreams. Sophie is initially frightened of the mysterious giant, but soon comes to realize that he is actually quite gentle and charming. His brothers are twice as big and at least twice as scary, and have been known to eat humans, but the BFG is a vegetarian. Standing 24-feet-tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell, the BFG has an endearing manner of speech and keeps to himself for the most part. That something is a giant who, since Sophie has seen him, must whisk her away to his home in a land far, far away.įortunately for Sophie, he is the Big Friendly Giant and nothing like the other inhabitants of Giant Country. Outside, in the ghostly, silvery light, her familiar street looks more like a fairy tale village than the one she knows, and out of the darkness comes something long and tall…very, very, tall.

Sophie, a precocious 10-year-old, lies sleepless in her bed at a London orphanage. While all the other girls in the dormitory dream their dreams, Sophie risks breaking one of many rules to climb out of her bed, slip on her glasses, lean out the window and see what the world looks like in the moonlit silence of the witching hour. In the middle of the night, when every child and every grown-up is in a deep, deep sleep, all the dark things come out from hiding and have the world to themselves.

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