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James and The Giant Peach Lyrics


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Clouds She said I’m getting sick of this town And I've gotta…
Family You should have seen my family's fall Yeah Uh-uh I just won'…
Floatin Girl I got a cold one with your name right…
Good News Come here sister, Papa's in the swing He ain't too hip,…
I Got You#comment-box Whoa! I feel good, I knew that I would, now I…
Lullaby Come on along and listen to The lullaby of Broadway The hip…
My Name Is James Oh she’s a virus One nobody understands We’re all just playi…
New York City New York City It was love was first sight You knew how…
On Your Way Home When you step into the sky my friend Your shoes won't…
On Your Way Home#sel-vid Help me to walk in your way Help me to be…
Shake It Up No New Years Day to celebrate No chocolate covered candy hea…
That How you do that, how you do that I ain’t wanna…
That's The Life CILLA, CILLA CILLA BLACK, yeah I'm on a plane sipping grain …
That's The Life For Me Brand new day, brave new man It's a miracle what love…
there There's always another day to hope you'll come home There's …
Trailer In the cold sunlight truth came smiling down on me Tell…
We This is not, this is not a song This is a…



Welcome Home Cold room Green suit First day And everybody's watching you …


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Mandi

Ok, so here are some explanations behind some of the confusing parts about this story.

Roald Dahl was a fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force and fought in World War II. When he settled down to become a writer a lot of his books contained metaphors for WWII, some of the stories entirely being about that time in English history. James and the Giant Peach was one of those stories, and like all of Roald Dahl's books, it was told from the perspective of a child and thus had a lot of imaginative explanations behind things that the child couldn't comprehend at the time.

James lost his parents to a sudden event where a giant black rhino descended from the sky and destroyed them, resulting in him getting evacuated to the rural area of England where his aunts lived. That is a reference to the air raids, meaning his parents were likely killed by a bomb. Children living in populated areas of England were evacuated during the air raids to rural areas for their safety. He and his parents had aspirations to migrate to America because the war was not happening at the time over there (America only got involved at the last possible second of WWII).

Now stuck with his abusive aunts, he wanted more than ever to migrate to America. He was given something he didn't understand by a man in military garb (it was most likely a ticket or a passport of some sorts) that guaranteed getting him to America. He then stowed away on a giant flying peach with 5 giant bugs. If you noticed, the bugs were either foreigners or elderly. Those were most of the people fleeing the country to America at the time. The peach was suspiciously similar in shape and function to a hot air balloon. It was likely a military zeppelin, which explains why it sailed in the water. Occasionally to save power (especially on long journeys) pilots would deactivate them on nights where the wind was favourable and let them sail in the water for a while.

Enter the mechanical shark. One of the most popular German vessels in World War I and II was the Untersee, or submarine. After World War I, a rumour spread that if submarines were painted a certain way, they could avoid sonar (it was obviously not a true rumour and resulted in a lot of ridiculous looking submarines from that era). Some of these submarines were painted to look like sharks. There's actually an old relic of one of these in the harbour of my hometown! The shark that they encountered in the story was most likely a German submarine that attacked them because that's just what people tend to do in a war.

I can't really explain the bit about diving into the Arctic Ocean, but I hope this little brief lesson in British history actually helped clear up a few things! :D Thankyou for reading



lordnastrond1

IT'S ALL IN JAMES' IMAGINATION
the Rhino is his way of coping with whatever killed his parents in front of him (most likely a storm or natural disaster considering how it appears), his aunts play on his explanation to torment him. He even admits in his confrontation with it - "You're not even a real rhino!". The shark resembles the old oven he has to clean, and it spits out the fish heads he is forced to eat. The bugs, including the spider he sees earlier in the movie, are the only living things he comes across that don't torment him, so he projects anthropomorphic qualities onto them so that he can pretend to have friends. They all want to go to New York because that was the holiday with his parents he never got to go on so he idealizes it as a place where wonderful things can happen. He imagines the giant peach because the idea of being free is almost as impossible as the old dead peach tree he sees every day finally producing fruit. The reason the aunts keep turning up, his dream, the figurehead on the underwater ship, and finally at New York is because they are his harsh reality threatening to shatter his escape into dreams. This is also why so many strange little flourishes in the story exist - like the objects floating around the peach during the "love" song.
This is the story of an incredibly lonely boy using his powerful imagination to craft a better reality for himself - its very sad.
BUT in the end he uses his imagination, this story "he dreamed up" to find some strength in himself and realize his self-worth: he has real dreams and ambitions and that's something to be proud of, the Rhino is just "smoke and noise" used to scare him, and its his aunts who are "nothing" - not him.




This is of course in the context of the movie, not the book - I feel like this is the direction the director was going, not Road Dahl.



J

The movie turns 25 today!
I remember actually having the book too.
I forgot Tim Burton produces and Henry Selick directs. You recognize Danny Elfman's music here.
The movie acts as a direct response getting through difficult times. Continues to resonate as poignancy, tenderness, and sweet charm.
Love the stop-motion animation, the world is imaginative, and the bug characters are charming.
It's a story no less attuned to issues of pain, grief, hostility in the home, and, in the form of big bugs wearing inexplicably tailored clothing, the treatment of society’s maligned and marginalised.
The little boy as James is good and the late Pete Postelewaithe.
The rhino is an amalgamation of James’ pain and suffering: a striking representation of the all-encompassing darkness that consumed his parents and, in turn, any hopes of a happy existence.
The film is at times clumsy but remains timeless as well as creative.
Still it's all about growth, a touching reminder of the value of perspective. Sometimes looking at things another way helps us look to the horizon of hope and happiness overcoming fear and sadness.
It's too bad it failed at the box office but it won over many critics and the book is still treasured to this day by many celebrities.



David Nissim

The movie wasn't only trauma-inducing for kids, it also strayed away from the book SO many times

In the book, a regular rhinoceros escapes from the zoo and eats James' parents (I know, a bit graphic).

In the book, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker are killed immediately after James escapes (the peach rolls over both of them and crushes them)

In the book, the peach is attacked by a swarm of regular sharks, not a single robot shark.

In the book, a jet plane cuts the seagulls off from the peach, not the rhino.



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Mandi

Ok, so here are some explanations behind some of the confusing parts about this story.

Roald Dahl was a fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force and fought in World War II. When he settled down to become a writer a lot of his books contained metaphors for WWII, some of the stories entirely being about that time in English history. James and the Giant Peach was one of those stories, and like all of Roald Dahl's books, it was told from the perspective of a child and thus had a lot of imaginative explanations behind things that the child couldn't comprehend at the time.

James lost his parents to a sudden event where a giant black rhino descended from the sky and destroyed them, resulting in him getting evacuated to the rural area of England where his aunts lived. That is a reference to the air raids, meaning his parents were likely killed by a bomb. Children living in populated areas of England were evacuated during the air raids to rural areas for their safety. He and his parents had aspirations to migrate to America because the war was not happening at the time over there (America only got involved at the last possible second of WWII).

Now stuck with his abusive aunts, he wanted more than ever to migrate to America. He was given something he didn't understand by a man in military garb (it was most likely a ticket or a passport of some sorts) that guaranteed getting him to America. He then stowed away on a giant flying peach with 5 giant bugs. If you noticed, the bugs were either foreigners or elderly. Those were most of the people fleeing the country to America at the time. The peach was suspiciously similar in shape and function to a hot air balloon. It was likely a military zeppelin, which explains why it sailed in the water. Occasionally to save power (especially on long journeys) pilots would deactivate them on nights where the wind was favourable and let them sail in the water for a while.

Enter the mechanical shark. One of the most popular German vessels in World War I and II was the Untersee, or submarine. After World War I, a rumour spread that if submarines were painted a certain way, they could avoid sonar (it was obviously not a true rumour and resulted in a lot of ridiculous looking submarines from that era). Some of these submarines were painted to look like sharks. There's actually an old relic of one of these in the harbour of my hometown! The shark that they encountered in the story was most likely a German submarine that attacked them because that's just what people tend to do in a war.

I can't really explain the bit about diving into the Arctic Ocean, but I hope this little brief lesson in British history actually helped clear up a few things! :D Thankyou for reading

Christian Ruffin

Wow…that actually makes a whole lotta sense now that I have read this. Thanks a lot man.

OoeyGooeyGoodra

Across the Key of Sea i feel so informed!!!!!

Άγγελος Μιχαηλίδης

Across the Key of Sea




After 5,sth years.. it starts to make sense...


;_____;

Gwen Brooks

Wow, makes me want to reread the book with this in mind. Thank you!

me mo

Across the Key of Sea thank you

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lordnastrond1

IT'S ALL IN JAMES' IMAGINATION
the Rhino is his way of coping with whatever killed his parents in front of him (most likely a storm or natural disaster considering how it appears), his aunts play on his explanation to torment him. He even admits in his confrontation with it - "You're not even a real rhino!". The shark resembles the old oven he has to clean, and it spits out the fish heads he is forced to eat. The bugs, including the spider he sees earlier in the movie, are the only living things he comes across that don't torment him, so he projects anthropomorphic qualities onto them so that he can pretend to have friends. They all want to go to New York because that was the holiday with his parents he never got to go on so he idealizes it as a place where wonderful things can happen. He imagines the giant peach because the idea of being free is almost as impossible as the old dead peach tree he sees every day finally producing fruit. The reason the aunts keep turning up, his dream, the figurehead on the underwater ship, and finally at New York is because they are his harsh reality threatening to shatter his escape into dreams. This is also why so many strange little flourishes in the story exist - like the objects floating around the peach during the "love" song.
This is the story of an incredibly lonely boy using his powerful imagination to craft a better reality for himself - its very sad.
BUT in the end he uses his imagination, this story "he dreamed up" to find some strength in himself and realize his self-worth: he has real dreams and ambitions and that's something to be proud of, the Rhino is just "smoke and noise" used to scare him, and its his aunts who are "nothing" - not him.




This is of course in the context of the movie, not the book - I feel like this is the direction the director was going, not Road Dahl.

Snoop Dogg The Certified G

How did I understand most of this as a kid?

DecoyOctopus🤘

I needed this

Santiago Lopez

@Connor Wood I think the shark was sent by the aunts.

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