She's taken by the BFG after she sees him. Sophie is a lonely girl without any real friends.
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But I digress, you have to review the movie as it is and not as you want it to be. You can hint at things without fully showing them, you don't have to see the kids being hit or mistreated. Like, for example, the orphanage that the BFG takes Sophie away from is run by an abusive woman. I've, personally, never read it and I wish I would have gotten a sense of the darker elements. But I just wish the film contained some of the darker elements of the novel. Which I understand, the film cost a lot of money to make and they wanted to recoup as much of that money as possible. It's a movie that was co-financed by Disney, so you better fucking know that they'll want the film as family-friendly as humanly possible. It doesn't really surprise me that they went with a more family-friendly approach to Roald Dahl's darker novel. With that said, however, this is still a good movie. But it is missing something that I felt Pete's Dragon had. I think the BFG doesn't come close to that, but that's not to say that the connection between Sophie and the BFG isn't there, because it is. I'd say that Pete's Dragon did a better job by this one (though not by much) simply because of the fact that Pete was raised by the dragon and their connection went deeper than just being best friends.
Objectively speaking, it had more good than bad, but I didn't enjoy it that much nor did I buy into the bond. While I gave it three stars, it's a movie that I did not like for the most part. As far as the three movies are concerned, which one does the best job at creating the emotional bond between its leads? Honestly, I thought the Jungle Book, almost by a country mile, was the weakest of the three movies. You can bet people switched out Friendly for another F-word. And then there's this movie with Sophie and the eponymous BFG (Big Friendly Giant). Then there was Pete's Dragon with Pete and his, well, dragon. First it was The Jungle Book with Mowgli and his bond with Baloo and Bagheera. Yet another live-action Disney movie that tries to sell you on the bond that is built between a little kid and fantastical creature. I digress, let's move on to this movie, which is what really matters. I really hate that that took up so much of this review, but I really had to say that. Say what you will about the guy, and criticize his movies, which I implore you to do as that leads to interesting conversations between film geeks, but don't say something as ignorant as suggestig that every film in his repertoire is exactly the same and covers the same theme. The fact of the matter is that to sum up an entire career, that covers FIVE decades, to just one style of film is ignorant and neglectful of Spielberg's contributions to the world of films. There are many others on that list, but that's just some of them. Let's just look at a few of the movies in Spielberg's filmography: Jaws, Close Encounters, ET (the film that I'm assuming inspired the tweet), 1941, the Indiana Jones franchise (all o them), The Color Purple, Jurassic Park (and its first sequel), Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report, Munich, Lincoln, Bridge of Spies and, of course, The BFG (the film that brings us together now). It's the type of ignorant statement that's the equivalent of saying that Scorsese has only made gangster movies.
When you have a career as long and as prolific as Spielberg's you end up making every type of movie under the sun. To the point that I actually muted him on Twitter for a while. And this one, this one I really got a bit angered with. This was a month or so ago, so I'm paraphrasing, but that's the essence of his tweets. One of his other controversial opinions was that he felt that Spielberg's film were sentimental tripe. He then said that he thought Christopher Nolan was a scrub, which I disagree with, but he's more than entitled to believe that. A person I follow on Twitter, whose handle shall remain nameless, once said that his controversial opinions only involve films.
I hate to start out with this, but I almost feel like I have to.
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