Britain's treasures of children's and young people's literature go beyond Harry Potter. In fact, there was such a person in Britain long before Harry Potter and JK Rowling came into our sight. He topped a 'My Favorite Author' poll in the UK and was hailed as one of the greatest children's writers of the 20th century. And his works not only enjoy an important position in the entire British literary world, but even have a profound impact on the whole world of children's literature. You feel like you haven't heard his name, maybe just because you were too young to hear his story. The old grandfather's name is Roald Dahl, a well-deserved literary genius JK Rowling's "Harry Potter" itself has a lot of brain holes, from nine and four points The third platform to the magic school and then to so many different spells, so how big is the brain hole of Roald Dahl's "The Dreaming Giant"? Let's first experience the painting style of other works of Grandpa. "Little George's Magic Potion": The little boy is afraid of his bad grandma with a mouth full of brown and broken teeth, because the old woman tortures him every day, telling him that he is a witch who eats bugs, so the little boy puts the shampoo, skin cream, High-end perfume, vehicle antifreeze, bleaching powder, etc. are mixed together (anyway, except for deadly drugs, he put all the household items you can think of...) and boiled a pot of "magic medicine" to cure grandma... "Charlie and Chocolate" Factory: A fictional chocolate brand that dominates the world, but its factory is the most magical place in the world: mixing chocolate with a waterfall, sorting nut ingredients with a group of wise squirrels, and realizing products with a super TV Teleport and hire a group of savages from the rainforest as company employees. "Flying Giant Peach Adventure": The little boy wanted to escape from his two vicious aunts. In an accident, a huge peach grew out of the peach tree in his backyard. The little boy got in and found a group of characters just like him. Gao, and intelligent, talking bug friends, led by a flock of seagulls, escape the bad aunt's house and fly to far-flung New York. "The Witch": It is proposed that "witches" really exist in this world. They are ugly and have no hair or toes. They can only hide their identities by makeup , I didn't even know that the witches concocted a magic potion. By dripping it on chocolate, they tricked the greedy little boys into eating them, turning them into mice... You can imagine what the "Dream Giant" must be like. brain hole... "Dream of Giants" is about the world outside our life, there is another world, where there are 10 giants, 9 are bad, 1 is good. Bad giants come to our world every night to catch children to eat, and good giants quietly visit sleeping children every night with boxes of bottles and jars. Those bottles and jars contain "sweet dreams" carefully prepared by him for the children. That's right, those funny dreams you had as a child were quietly brought by this good giant and blown into your ears. "The Dreaming Giant" (formerly known as the BFG) is also translated as "the giant with a good heart". The novel won the German Youth Literature Award "Best Children's Book Award" in 1985. In fact, this is not the first time that "The Giant of Dreams" has been put on the screen. The United Kingdom has quietly launched a long-form animated version as early as 1989. The full film is available on Tudou and YouTube. If you are interested, you can go and see it and compare it with this latest version. (Reminder, the sound and picture in the second half of the Tudou version are slightly out of place...) After the film was released, Zhongwei found that the people who eat melons had mixed praise and criticism for the film. Among the comments that depreciated the film, the most common One of them is to say that "Dream Realizing Giant" is too naive. However, using "naive" to summarize "Dream Realizing Giant", in Zhongwei's personal opinion, he really underestimates its value. To say that "Giant of Dreams" is naive, let's put it another way: "Giant of Dreams" looks at the world and tells stories from the perspective of a child. Children's perspective is one of the most important elements of children's literature. Throughout the well-known works of Roald Dahl cited above, children have always been the protagonists of his works. All the plots are developed from the child's first point of view. "Dream of the Giant" tells the story of the kingdom of giants in the eyes of a little girl. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is about a chocolate factory in the eyes of a young boy. "Little George's Magic Potion" is about a young boy dealing with his terrible grandmother. If you have time to read Roald Dahl's original novels, you will find that many of his works are written in the first person. Of course, rich imagination is also the "standard" of Roald Dahl's children's literature. The giant kingdom that exists in parallel with our world in "The Dreaming Giant", the pot of "magic potion" full of inexplicable "magic" in "Little George's Magic Potion", the magic potion in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" chocolate factory. Of course, these imaginings all have one thing in common: seeing the world and solving problems with a simple, direct perspective and way of thinking. For example, "Little George's Magic Potion", Zhongwei believes that many people like to pour various "liquids" in their homes together when they are young to see what magical effects will be produced. I believe that many people are beginning to understand the subject of "chemistry" for the first time because of this. As for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, until we really learn the science related to food engineering, we should only use "magic" to explain how chocolate is made. When we first heard the concept of "dream" when we were young, we should be curious about how it appeared, and the answer provided by "Dream Giant" should also be easy for children to think of. Fortunately, Spielberg himself is very good at telling stories from a child's point of view. His blockbuster films, such as "Jurassic Park" and "Schindler's List", feature children. And his "ET Aliens" and "Artificial Intelligence" simply use children as the protagonists, especially "E. "T Aliens", shot from an upward angle of view and full backlighting, most of the adults in the film are like giants, high above and invisible. However, if we look again at a few of the examples above, including The Dreaming Giant, we find some elements that are "not right" for children's literature: man-eating giants, odious grandmothers, terrifying witches, Evil aunt. These rather dark elements appear in a work of children's literature called "naive", which will inevitably make people feel a little "inappropriate". If you have the opportunity to watch movies based on Roald Dahl's original works, such as "The Adventures of Peach" and "The Witch", you will find that some of the paintings are even dark and scary. In the case of our closest "Dream Giant", its beginnings are even comparable to some horror movies to some extent. This rather dark style is also typical of Roald Dahl's literature. If you savour his literary works carefully, you will find that the world in these works is not complete, or even does not have the "innocent, brilliant and innocent" that "children's literature" in our understanding should have. Instead, Roald Dahl seems to relentlessly put the dark side of the world in front of children's eyes with a magnifying glass. If you look back at Roald Dahl's childhood, there is nothing wrong with this style of writing. He lost his father at the age of 3 and left his mother's arms to spend a lonely childhood in a harshly managed boarding school. Roald Dahl had an unfortunate childhood. But, a question: Does this dark writing style contradict the "children's perspective"? Not at all contradictory. Because the child's perspective has never only been bright and beautiful. One of the most important psychological characteristics of a child is vulnerability. Fear of the dark, of bad-tempered adults, of the unknown, of inability to withstand the slightest setback or injury, should be traits that most children have in common. The process of growth is to get rid of this fragility little by little, and the heart is getting stronger and stronger. To a certain extent, the growth of children is to let their fragile heart begin to feel fear little by little, and to learn to face and even overcome fear little by little. There may be two reasons why we think the "children's perspective" is naive and wild: First, we have grown up and we have adapted to, and even taken for granted, the things we once feared. Second, we understand the child's perspective simply and rudely as "they don't understand anything". However, children understand things far beyond the imagination of our adults. They just don't like us and accept everything.
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