Why 'BFG'
Why can't they call it "the big friendly giant" on the tv ads and cinema trailers? Sounds ridiculous when the narrator calls it "the B-F-G". Sounds like it's code for something. So stupid.
shareMaybe it's because neither the original book and the 1989 animated film didn't feel the need to explain it? Plus if you aren't familiar with the source material, it's an intriguing title; intriguing is a gold-plated word as far as marketing is concerned. So it's not stupid at all.
"The Big Friendly Giant" features as a subtitle in some foreign-language posters (e.g. the German poster and marketing materials), which is fair enough because the acronym probably doesn't translate very well.
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Hmm, seems like more parents would take their kids to see "Big Friendly Giant" rather than BFG, no matter what Country.
shareHmm, seems like more parents would take their kids to see "Big Friendly Giant" rather than BFG, no matter what Country.
Wrong.
More parents of kids the target age - let's say under 10 - would be familiar with The BFG than you would suspect. People of the age to be parents of young children grew up with Roald Dahl's books.
If the film were to be called The Big Friendly Giant, those parents would be scratching their head and asking 'is this the Roald Dahl book, but with a different title?'
Never defend crap with 'It's just a movie'
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I hear what you are saying and thank you for sharing your opinion.
shareWelp, looks like YOU are wrong. So far this movie has bombed at the box office. There is a whole generation who doesn't know the book so calling it the BFG is silly because a majority of the kids today are not going to know what it means.. Calling it The Big Friendly Giant would make more sense because its a more memorable title you at least get a understanding what the means would be about.
shareWhelp, I wasn't talking about kids, or box-office. I was talking about parents of kids.
I don't talk about box-office results. The modern obsession with box-office sickens me to the core. It's pretty much all anyone talks about on IMDB anymore. It's because of the proliferation of the 'franchise'.
But anyway...
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More parents of kids the target age - let's say under 10 - would be familiar with The BFG than you would suspect. People of the age to be parents of young children grew up with Roald Dahl's books.
That would be grandparents of young children. People of the age to be parents of young children grew up on Doom and Quake. share
I seem to be the exact age that I managed to grow up on both.
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Book titles are usually translated along with the book.
I know for a fact that, funnily enough, many Europeans thought the accronym stands for big fᴜcking giant.
I think the problem is a whole generation grew up with a completely different definition for the abbreviation BFG.
For me it means Big F'n Gun.
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Maybe it's because neither the original book and the 1989 animated film didn't feel the need to explain it?
In 1993 the meaning changed. share