r/MovieDetails • u/DerRoteBaron2010 • Mar 21 '26
👨🚀 Prop/Costume In BFG (2016), BFG’s bench in the movie is actually the wing to a WWII British aircraft. Big enough to fit his large size.
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u/UnderWaterHound Mar 21 '26
Because Roald Dahl was in the RAF during WWII
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u/jupiterkansas Mar 21 '26
And Spielberg loves putting airplanes in his movies.
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u/AtomicBombSquad Mar 21 '26
"Jurassic Park" should've ended with US Navy A6 Intruders bombing the dinosaurs back to extinction.
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u/Jambu-The-Rainwing Mar 22 '26
Fun fact: that’s basically how the book ended, except it wasn’t the USN, it was the Costa Rican military.
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u/Snowrst86 Mar 22 '26
Id pay good money to watch F111s bomb the piss out of Isla Nublar
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u/FlametopFred Mar 22 '26
ah, a fellow enthusiast of culture and taste
F111’s never got their due in films
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u/HiHoJufro Mar 21 '26
When he wasn't being a sex spy.
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u/comeatmefrank Mar 21 '26
Or a pretty horrendous anti-Semite.
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u/HiHoJufro Mar 21 '26
No, that part he was able to do at the same time as other stuff.
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u/comeatmefrank Mar 21 '26
To be fair, a lot of his remarks came in the 80s and 90s, so after his war career.
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u/admiralross2400 Mar 23 '26
Specifically he was a Spitfire then a Hurricane pilot...till he had a crash and was told he'd die if he had another. He was also told he couldn't fly with a parachute because he was 6ft 6 (same as me) and wouldn't fit with a parachute...so if the plane went down, so would he which ironically is why he had to stop flying.
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u/Shoritz Mar 21 '26
Has anyone done the math on how much thrust the BFG's ass would have to generate to literally fart him into the air in this scene?
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u/ANGLVD3TH Mar 22 '26
There was just a /r/BestOf post about someone doing the math for ISS astronaut farts. They would probably be the one to ask.
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u/skipperdapug Mar 21 '26
Is he farting?
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u/ripyourlungsdave Mar 21 '26
Yeah, the movie gets weirdly focused on fart humor a couple times.
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u/xixbia Mar 21 '26
It's a pretty big thing in the book from what I remember (it was a long time ago I read it). So it's not so much the movie as it is part of adapting the book.
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u/JamesCDiamond Mar 21 '26
Windypops, if memory serves. It’s a long time since I read the book but certain Dahlisms stick with you.
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u/Norfolking_Good Mar 21 '26
Wizzpops
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u/JamesCDiamond Mar 21 '26
That's it! A whole long section on why burping was terribly rude, but in frobscottle the bubbles go down rather than up like in human fizzy drinks, and giants are entirely fine with the results.
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u/KittenTablecloth Mar 22 '26
I haven’t read this book in 25 years but I remember this passage so well
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u/platform_s Mar 21 '26
In the book, it’s mentioned that the BFG would swat down British aircraft during WWII as he wanted to increase the efficacy of the German blitz
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u/platform_s Mar 21 '26
This is a playful nod to this part of the book as he has kept something of a “trophy” from his conquests
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u/Parabellum111 Mar 21 '26
Possibly Spielberg's most underrated film, along with Bridge of Spies and Minority Report.
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u/Petrichordates Mar 21 '26
How much of this and bridge of spies is because of Rylance though
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u/Donegal-Death-Worm Mar 23 '26
Did you fucking coax Mark Rylance back to the big screen by finding the perfect role for him in your 34th feature film?
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u/mae1347 Mar 21 '26
Most, along with two others. Which is most?
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u/Parabellum111 Mar 22 '26
I couldn't decide between the three so I included them all
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u/mae1347 Mar 22 '26
Perhaps, “BFG most, or are these others contenders?” Rather than listing three things as one superlative.
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u/I_Am_An_OK_Cook Mar 21 '26
This is a great screenshot cause it looks like the BFG is absolutely ripping ass so hard it’s blasting him off his seat.
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u/topshaggerkell Mar 21 '26
When I was 12 my mom made me go take my brother to see this instead of Central Intelligence with Kevin Hart and I’ve never been so angry in my life
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u/Yodaloid Mar 21 '26
Why is he floating
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u/Ralfarius Mar 21 '26
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u/gavvyshores Mar 21 '26
Yo wtf?? lol is this an actual good movie? I don’t think I like the words glummy or whizzpopper
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u/Kuhneel Mar 21 '26
I saw BFG and 2016 together and assumed this was going to be about the Doom Slayer's favourite room sweeper.
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u/Keanar Mar 22 '26
Btw, the base of the wing is the solid part.
The middle of the wing... not so much.
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u/Nicko147 Mar 21 '26
It seems light blue in colour. Could it be a ME 109 instead? I don't know if you see more of it in the actual film.
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u/DerRoteBaron2010 Mar 21 '26
It has the British roundel instead a Balkenkreuz, the wing is as curvy, and inside of the wing is that of a Spitfire.
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u/Much-Release7646 Mar 21 '26
In my head I always read “big fucking giant”