You know, in the movie I always interpreted the “rhino” to be a metaphor for a car crash that James created to cope with the trauma. The eyes reminded me of headlights, and when Aunt Spiker mentions “He never even saw that *rhino* coming…” it just felt like she was referring to a car crash. Idk, I might be crazy
When I first saw James And The Giant Peach when I was young, not only did I interpret James' parents getting killed by the Rhino but I also took it as a sort of metaphor for horrible thunderstorms, given how the Rhino was made up of clouds and lightning in the movie. Though, then again, that's on me.
If the aunts didn’t constantly threaten to feed him to the rhino, I’d say that was a valid interpretation. 😂 But since they keep saying it was a rhino, and I don’t think James would have been trauma dumping on them for any reason, I think we are just meant to assume it was a rhino.
@@Longshanks1690 "If the aunts didn’t constantly threaten to feed him to the rhino, I’d say that was a valid interpretation" TBF, they could just be fucking with him
Why the Ladybug married the fire chief: "Lady bug! lady bug! fly away home! your house is on fire! and your children are alone!" it's a childhood chant.
@@AthenaPOfficial That opening joke, when I heard "disgraced UA-camr", I think of Doug Walker and how he doesn't understand Roald Dahl. I mean, the guy chose a corporate adaptation that the author himself hated, over a passionate adaptation that had the blessing of the author's estate. Sure, there are elements in the first movie that did appear in the book previously (like Fizzy Lifting Drinks, Slugworth and Everlasting Gobstoppers), but Roald Dahl never intended them to be plot relevant. It was just Charlie starving, he gets a Gold Ticket, he has a tour, the other kids get punished (and are alive, BTW) and Charlie won the factory. Also, 1:57: If we're to go by real-life logic, it's likely the Rhino attacks James' parents, because he was mistreated at the Zoo; animals being provoked by mistreatment are prone to being dangerous; do not underestimate the animals, they will attack you if you cross with them. In fact, Hippos, though also vegetarians, will attack you by chomping on you, if you were to disturb them. If anything, Roald didn't want the Rhino to be the main focus, because it's besides the point. The point is that James lost his parents because of events that is beyond his control. Speaking of which.... 3:31: before the 1980s, the word "queer" was meant to be a word that invokes it's weird and bizarre appearance, like if the Aunts' House was in ruin or something. You can tell from the movie that this is likely the case. I just hate it when people perverse certain words that meant different things back in the older generations, like how "Gay" use to mean "Merry", like "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Day, an Actor's Life is Gay", or "Don we now our Gay Apparel, Falala, Falala, LaLaLa", or my personal favorite "When you're with the Flintstones, we'll have a Yabba-Dabba-Doo Gay Ol' Time". Just want to point that out so you can stop PC-hating the dead person. I know words like "Midget" or "Nigger" are outdated terms for small people and Afro-People, but these accusations on words that had different terms originally, but are now given derogatory meanings, wasn't really necessary.
Fun fact: very few herbivores are exclusively plant eaters. So if that Rhino wasn't being fed correctly, it actually might have actually eaten his parents.
Don't know about rhinos, but many herbivores don't even have to be lacking anything in their diet, they'll just eat meat whenever it's available. Some examples of this are deer and cows, but especially deer. Eating a live human is pretty desperate though lol usually it's just stuff that's already dead, or tiny and defenseless, like baby birds. I've heard of hunters using dead animals to bait deer before.
I think we’re ignoring the fact that this happened in the narrators words in Broad, daylight heavily suggesting that there was an audience to this event which honestly shocks me more then them getting eaten by said rhino. Also, I’m not sure how desperate a rhino would have to be to eat a person, but I know it’s more than possible considering hippos on occasion do the same thing when boundaries aren’t minded. 👩 🧓 🦏
Oh same, but i wasn't terrified by the movie. I think it was because i was already traumatized by the movie i watch before, which was the adventures of mark twain (the satan scene still keeps me up at night)
Peaches, along with pears, apricots, and other fruits like that are called stone fruits, because the pit inside is the “stone”, though it may be a British thing to refer to the pit as the stone rather than the pit.
Idk I can see the spider making a low key jazz club, poetry nights and peach booze. Maybe she even makes some more friends after being encouraged by James, but still values her alone time
yeah!! i really thought the idea of a jazz club where likeminded people like miss spider congregate was a perfect ending for her. i imagined it was less like a typical nightclub for dancing, drinking, and partying and more like how you described it. kinda like the coffee place from an extremely goofy movie where the beret girl performs.
HELP THIS IS SO PERFECTLY TIMED.. IM GETTING READY TO AUDITION FOR THE EARTHWORM ON TUESDAY BC MY SCHOOL IS DOING A PRODUCTION OF THIS 😭 update: it's over!! i tried my hardest, but nerves kicked in and i'm not sure how good of a job i did :c thank you all for the support though! ❤ update 2: i was invited to callbacks along with a few of the better people!! update 3: callbacks are over!! chances or high i'm either the creepy old man or centipede, i'll update again tomorrow morning!!!! update 4: I GOT CENTIPEDE CHAT!! THIS IS GONNA BE SO MUCH FUN OMG
If you're still in school perhaps you should not be watching a video specifically stated as "for adults" and sponsored by a sex toy company. I mean I don't really care, but I feel like some people might.
Athena should definitely do a video on The Upside-Down Show. It has these 2 brothers living in a magic house of doors that lead to variously themed rooms. So much lore to occur.
The one thing I do remember about this book is that it’s where I inadvertently learned the word “ass”, though it was blacked out in sharpie when we were reading it in class
Similar story, 4th grade we read "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and the term "bitch" was used uncensored (if I remember the context correctly I believe it was Wonka talking to one of the Ompa Loompas). That was the day we had a very important lesson on the fact that "bitch" has two definitions.
So, I know Athena is 100% joking about the aunts being canonically gay (queer=odd/strange looking in context of the house, and they are straight up described as sisters in screenplays and stageplays). But when I tell you I had a friend who DID NOT KNOW THAT when she first read this book. Explaining to her that, no, the book was not saying the house was gay, took way too long.
As someone who did the musical in MS, this show is golden material for that age group. Particularly the song Plump and Juicy, the stage direction of “we hear the sounds of bones being crunched” when the Aunts die, and the flirty relationship between Ladybug and Grasshopper (mostly the lie “who doesn’t like ladybugs?/I like ladybugs”
Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker making up the story about the rhino would make sense. I mean, this isn't the first time a Roald Dahl villain killed someone's parent.
28:06 The reason why the ladybug marries the head of the fire department is (I think) a reference to the nursery rhyme "Ladybird Ladybird, fly away home/ Your house is on fire and your children are gone". It's also sometimes recited as "Your house is on fire, Your children shall burn." Wait that's actually really messed up wait a second
Every little "Peach🗣✨️" from the start of each section took me out every single time, I kept forgetting about it and for some reason I found it really funny
Roald Dahl is so interesting to me, like I don’t care for him as a person but learning about him is always interesting, similar feelings about him as Frank Lloyd Wright
Interestingly, _James and the Giant Peach_ was my first stop motion film I watched, prior before watching _"The Nightmare Before Christmas"_ and the funny thing is at the time when I first watched this film It didn't occurred to me that the Skeleton Pirate Captain that kidnapped Mr. Centipede was Jack Skellington, so when I re-watched the film for the second time years later after seeing _The Nightmare Before Christmas_ for the first time ever, I said to myself, _"Hey that Pirate Captain looks like Jack Skellington._ Even Jack Skellington wasn't the only Disney cameo, cause Donald Duck himself also appears in this film as a Skeleton Pirate. Finally, this film was my introduction to Roald Dahl, however when I was a Kid when I first watched _James and the Giant Peach_ I wasn't to familiar with Roald Dahl nor did I realize that this film along with the film adaptations of _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,_ _The Witches_ from 1990 (starring Angelica Huston) and _Matilda_ were also based on books and also by the author, Roald Dahl. So it wasn't until the 3rd/4th grade during my Elementary School years later when our class read _The BFG_ and _James and the Giant Peach_ where I became familiar with Roald Dahl as an author and that both _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James And the Giant Peach, The BFG, The Witches, The Twits, Fantastic Mr. Fox_ and his various children's books he's written were done by Dahl himself.
IM SO HAPPY THAT YOU USED THE PROPER TERMS FOR LITTLE PEOPLE!! I am one just like my dad and I watch your videos all the time! Im so happy that you used the proper terminology! Thank you our goddess Athena!!
Omg I was terrified of this movie as a kid. I didn’t get past the first few minutes, as soon as the scary rhino appeared I went “NOPE” and turned the TV off 😂
25:34 In the musical, spider and grasshopper are implied to be reincarnations of james' parents! Also, the old man(ladahlord) is implied to be James himself influencing the story as it happens! Edit: I just reached the part where you talk about the musical, I agree, but my lenses aren't only tinted once but twice. I have blood tinted glasses from doing this show twice
So funny story: My high school theatre teacher/ director did a production of "James" my freshman year. It was the first time he let someone else direct the show (some local theatre director I think). I remember two things about it: 1- The set was unfinished on opening night. And 2- If anyone brought it up to our teacher afterward, he would remind us that he did not direct that particular show.
The spider and centipede and Morticia and Gomez were my og awakening,I was watching and went oh,wow I love both of these people and Orlando Bloom definitely also Orlando Bloom
I'm here at "posted 15 seconds ago" I remember that movie, and for some fucking reason, my brain for some fucking reason remembers like 10 seconds of the giant peach in fucking new York city
I was scared of the Rhino and had to close my eyes for the fish heads, but the scene where they eat the inside of the peach is right up there with studio Ghibli food for me. Like I am 100% sure that peach tasted better than any peach I've ever eaten
Saw this with perfect timing! I was in a community theater production that wrapped last week, and tomorrow we’re all meeting back up to do a watch party of the show since one of our cast members set up a recording for us. This show has been my life for the past three months :’)
my husband grew up a disney kid, but i grew up watching the most random movies/tv shows that you cover😂 thank you for your service in creating content for random children’s movies and shows that no one else is brave enough to!
Technically what James made out of paper was not a balloon, it was a lantern. I had this movie on VHS growing up. It's always been one of my all-time favorite movies. I will say after all these years, the whole arrangement with the robot shark always seemed random and absurd
Childhood memory: I remember watching this movie in 4th grade. I still remember us dramatically gasping and chatting everytime a charavters cussed and our teaching telling us to shut up
As a welsh person (The place where Roald Dahl grew up) I never actually knew about how much of an awful person he was. We usually have festivals and celebrations around the time of his birth. Growing up, we always pronounced his name as Rold but I am not sure if that is just the way we speak but other than that i'm so happy you are covering this as it is literally my childhood.
Athena, thank you just so much for being such an amazing person with these videos. It’s been a really just awful day and I feel like the worst person in the world; but I got so excited when I saw you uploaded so thank you for letting me go to bed happy today.
There's 3 things I never understood about the movie why James turns into clay, what's up with the rhino, and why the aunts lived. As a kid nothing in media scared me except Chucky but when I got a lil older and watched it he just made me laugh so I was literally afraid of nothing after that
I read so many Roald Dhal books as a kid. Including the sequel to Charlie and the chocolate factory. The twits,the magic finger, and many others,including James and the giant peach
As I’m watching this video all I can think is how much you would like Lost in Adaptation lol. Seriously though great video I loved this book and Matilda as a kid and it’s interesting to get a different perspective on it.
my mom has beef with this movie (and Mumfie, but that's a topic for another day). lil ol' autistic me would rewatch James and the Giant Peach over and over and over again with no stop in sight. it's a wonder the VHS was still in one piece
I'm telling you now, watch The Night Garden. It's so surreal and cute but spooky and funny, you'll have a field day with it. Great vid btw, it was cool to look back on a movie I strangely favourited when I was younger.
If you’re talking about In the Night Garden then 100%, it always felt like Teletubbies but slightly sadder to me, I always cried a little at the end of episodes for some reason
I was traumatised by the pig transformation scenes in "Spirited Away", "Willow" and that one episode of "Goosebumps"; seriously, I had nightmares about pigs of all things. But now the former movie is one of my all-time favourites, it's a masterpiece of cinema, and the other two are just cheesy fun to me. And now I think pigs are very underrated and wonderful animals :3
I hope we get another film adaptation of _James and the Giant Peach_ adaptation where it closely follows the book and this time the aunts are literally squashed by the Rolling Peach. Look I understand the majority are so skeptical and ambivalent on another adaptation of _James and the Giant Peach_ when we had different adaptations of _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_ through the 1971 and 2005 films, _Matilda, The BFG_ and _The Witches._ And don’t get me wrong I love the 1996 adaptation, but it did took a lot of liberties that made it different from the original novel (e.g. The Aunts surviving, the Skeleton Pirates, The Robot Shark, less of the cloud men, etc..) and I think a new film adaptation of _James and the Giant Peach_ could introduce to a new generation of people who weren’t acquainted with the 1996 film adaptation or the original book.
You should do a lore video on the Disney villain, backstory books. All of them have an interconnecting story except for Cruella’s book that one doesn’t tie into the other ones, but there is an order, and there is an interconnected story to all the Disney villain back stories
The live action Grinch used to terrify my older sister. It was so bad that when I told her I wanted to watch it, she disagreed, so I said I would go watch it in my room alone and she freaked and snapped my DVD in half. Luckily it was during the time of Prime so my mom let me buy a digital copy that she could never break again but she was way too grown (at least 12) to be acting like that😭😭😭 (obviously she didn't like Coraline or Nightmare Before Christmas either, which I do love even tho Coraline scared me a little--probably just to spite her)
@@MrDarthbono don’t be alarmed, but some people don’t know that queer has different meanings! I got the joke, but took it as an opportunity to teach people what it can also mean.
I was James in this show through a professional company and it was really awesome I'm ngl. I grew up to hate being in productions because theatre kids were mean but that show somehow lives on in my memory as a good experience through all of that.
Both the book and the movie are so nostalgic to me. I grew up reading Roald Dahl and while James and the Giant Peach wasn't my favourite of his stories, it was still a good book, but the movie was the real kicker for me. My nan and pop had a VCR and had very few VHS tapes of movies like the first Harry Potter and Ice Age, but the one I always loved watching was the film version of James and the Giant Peach (which is definitely in myTop 5 Roald Dahl film adaptations). This movie also has so much emotional value for me since it's one of a few things I associate with my nan and pop since I don't see my nan much since she's very frail and lives in a nursing home (we still visit her every now and again though) and my pop died in 2018 of lung cancer. As soon as I saw this choice on the community poll win, I was so fucking happy to see a deeper look at such a staple of my childhood.
I was always scared of reading the book because the version I always came across had illustrations by Lane Smith. If you ever read a book with pictures by Lane Smith, you would know why I was scared. I remember flipping through the books and landed on this picture of James as a bug. It was the most nightmarish thing I have ever seen. I immediately closed the book and put it back on the shelf.
decided to look it up, HOLY FUCK THAT DO LOOK TERRIFYING! as if Dahli tried to do kids books illustrations but also very clearly the inspiration for how everyone looks in the movie
I think it may be a British thing to call the pit a stone, but all fruits with pits are called stone fruit. like cherries, plums, and of course peaches.
the movie Coraline scared me so much as a kid I didn't even watch past the first 5 minutes, I have recently finally watched it in theaters for the 15 years anniversary and it was in 3D and actually they had to reshoot the entire movie for 3D to be an option
this absolutely IS a safe space because i never felt more seen than when athena said that the grasshopper is hot. listen- the "insufferable genius" (as tv tropes calls it) who's better at books than people is one of my favorite tropes of fictional man... the fact that he's also old man coded in the film is not only not a detractor, but an additive bonus.
Yeah glad to know I want the only one as a kid 😂 I leaned more toward the centipede, I'm a sucker for "little shithead who actually has a heart of gold" tropes
3:09 OMG, please do a video on A Series of Unfortunate Events, it'd be amazing! You could do the powdered makeup from the women in Count Olaf's troupe or the VFD symbol!
As I quite recently read this book, I also for a sec thought that the aunts might be lesbians, but they do call eachother sister at some point, which I remember thanks to be having that same thought...also they don't seem to like eachother that much and call eachother ugly.
These books were my childhood. If it was written by Roald Dahl, I was obsessed with it as a child. The movie adaptation of James and The Giant Peach was one of my fav movies back then, (which explains a lot tbh,) and I’m pretty sure the spider was my lesbian awakening.
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You know, in the movie I always interpreted the “rhino” to be a metaphor for a car crash that James created to cope with the trauma. The eyes reminded me of headlights, and when Aunt Spiker mentions “He never even saw that *rhino* coming…” it just felt like she was referring to a car crash. Idk, I might be crazy
No no no you’re 1000% correct I got a vague feeling but didn’t explore it enough! Thank you for your comment 🫡
When I first saw James And The Giant Peach when I was young, not only did I interpret James' parents getting killed by the Rhino but I also took it as a sort of metaphor for horrible thunderstorms, given how the Rhino was made up of clouds and lightning in the movie. Though, then again, that's on me.
If the aunts didn’t constantly threaten to feed him to the rhino, I’d say that was a valid interpretation. 😂
But since they keep saying it was a rhino, and I don’t think James would have been trauma dumping on them for any reason, I think we are just meant to assume it was a rhino.
@@OddMoonlightMakes sense if the car crash happened because of a storm.
@@Longshanks1690 "If the aunts didn’t constantly threaten to feed him to the rhino, I’d say that was a valid interpretation" TBF, they could just be fucking with him
the “ᵖᵉᵃᶜʰ” transition is making me laugh every time
SAME it's so funny, it caught me off guard every time
Why the Ladybug married the fire chief: "Lady bug! lady bug! fly away home! your house is on fire! and your children are alone!" it's a childhood chant.
OHHHHHHHHH I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THAT but because of how out of left field it was it makes a looooooot of sense that it’s a reference I didn’t catch 😅
@@AthenaPOfficial Subtle references to trauma.... For Kids 8D
@@AthenaPOfficial That opening joke, when I heard "disgraced UA-camr", I think of Doug Walker and how he doesn't understand Roald Dahl. I mean, the guy chose a corporate adaptation that the author himself hated, over a passionate adaptation that had the blessing of the author's estate. Sure, there are elements in the first movie that did appear in the book previously (like Fizzy Lifting Drinks, Slugworth and Everlasting Gobstoppers), but Roald Dahl never intended them to be plot relevant. It was just Charlie starving, he gets a Gold Ticket, he has a tour, the other kids get punished (and are alive, BTW) and Charlie won the factory.
Also, 1:57: If we're to go by real-life logic, it's likely the Rhino attacks James' parents, because he was mistreated at the Zoo; animals being provoked by mistreatment are prone to being dangerous; do not underestimate the animals, they will attack you if you cross with them. In fact, Hippos, though also vegetarians, will attack you by chomping on you, if you were to disturb them. If anything, Roald didn't want the Rhino to be the main focus, because it's besides the point. The point is that James lost his parents because of events that is beyond his control. Speaking of which....
3:31: before the 1980s, the word "queer" was meant to be a word that invokes it's weird and bizarre appearance, like if the Aunts' House was in ruin or something. You can tell from the movie that this is likely the case. I just hate it when people perverse certain words that meant different things back in the older generations, like how "Gay" use to mean "Merry", like "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Day, an Actor's Life is Gay", or "Don we now our Gay Apparel, Falala, Falala, LaLaLa", or my personal favorite "When you're with the Flintstones, we'll have a Yabba-Dabba-Doo Gay Ol' Time". Just want to point that out so you can stop PC-hating the dead person. I know words like "Midget" or "Nigger" are outdated terms for small people and Afro-People, but these accusations on words that had different terms originally, but are now given derogatory meanings, wasn't really necessary.
@@robbiewalker2831 I ain't reading all that shit fuck Roald Dahl.
@robbiewalker2831 You seem like you’d be fun at parties
I was _terrified_ of this movie as a kid. The aunts, the claymation bugs, the RHINO... To this day I feel anxious watching it
REAL i was HORRIFIED of miss spider mostly ,, it made me so uncomfortable
It was a hell of a ride that's for sure.
YESSS the rhino was straight nightmare fuel!
The rhino was terrifying
@@nbunnysnowboard REALL the rhino fucking terrified me as a kid
The "He's committed PESTICIDE" line has stuck with me since I was five years old I'm not even joking
Same.
"Series of unfortunate events type shit" everyday i yearn for the lemony snicket video.
We all do
I feel like she would really wanna perfect it if she does 😂
Fun fact: very few herbivores are exclusively plant eaters. So if that Rhino wasn't being fed correctly, it actually might have actually eaten his parents.
That must have been an extremly desperate Rhino
@@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard oh definitely
Don't know about rhinos, but many herbivores don't even have to be lacking anything in their diet, they'll just eat meat whenever it's available. Some examples of this are deer and cows, but especially deer. Eating a live human is pretty desperate though lol usually it's just stuff that's already dead, or tiny and defenseless, like baby birds. I've heard of hunters using dead animals to bait deer before.
@@IceRiver1020 that is true, but it's more likely to happen if they're desperate enough.
I think we’re ignoring the fact that this happened in the narrators words in Broad, daylight heavily suggesting that there was an audience to this event which honestly shocks me more then them getting eaten by said rhino. Also, I’m not sure how desperate a rhino would have to be to eat a person, but I know it’s more than possible considering hippos on occasion do the same thing when boundaries aren’t minded. 👩 🧓 🦏
My school did a production of James and The Giant Peach once. I was devastated when I wasn’t allowed to audition to be the peach 😔
Why couldn't you be the peach?? 🍑
@@kikigam7113 It would've upset both Mario and Bowser!
Waluigi would've been fine with it.
I WAS the peach. Trust me dude, it's not worth it. It sucks
@@kikigam7113 because they were gonna build a huge peach
That’s hilarious
Man, the peach-eating scene in the film made peaches seem like the tastiest food in the world. I was so disappointed as a kid when I actually ate one.
Peaches are like apples in that you have to get a REALLY good one in order to get the full effect
yeah they’re better fresh, rather than from a grocery store imo, that’s how u get the full peach experience
I mean, James’ aunts had been starving him, so…
@@gemstone108 I grew up eating home grown peaches at my grandparents' house every summer, and nothing else compares, they're amazing.
Honestly as great as peaches are, nectarines are kinda just the cooler Daniel to their Daniel
I was one of the few kids who actually LIKED James and the giant peach. I still can't figure out why, because that movie is TERRIFYING
Oh same, but i wasn't terrified by the movie. I think it was because i was already traumatized by the movie i watch before, which was the adventures of mark twain (the satan scene still keeps me up at night)
Yeah same. That movie was my LIFEE!
I was OBSESSED with this movie as a kid, along with nightmare before christmas😭😭
Loved how it looked i was so hyperfixated on it haha
same, but i also just generally liked scary stuff as a kid (and now i’m a horror fan as an adult lmao)
I was scared of the Labyrinth when I was a kid because I thought my sister would be kidnapped by goblins. I love that film now.
Peaches, along with pears, apricots, and other fruits like that are called stone fruits, because the pit inside is the “stone”, though it may be a British thing to refer to the pit as the stone rather than the pit.
So therefore it's a book about a stoner
i've heard both in pennsylvania/ohio
I should've scrolled down the comments a bit more before commenting 😅 I just commented the same thing lol
Never heard of this ever
I learned this from Atomic Shrimp!
Idk I can see the spider making a low key jazz club, poetry nights and peach booze. Maybe she even makes some more friends after being encouraged by James, but still values her alone time
There's an actual nightclub called Spiders but probably just a coincidence
yeah!! i really thought the idea of a jazz club where likeminded people like miss spider congregate was a perfect ending for her. i imagined it was less like a typical nightclub for dancing, drinking, and partying and more like how you described it. kinda like the coffee place from an extremely goofy movie where the beret girl performs.
@@jitterbuggsok now I need an aesthetic centered around esoteric artsy women who are very into coffee, poetry night, & dressing French😭
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING!!! 💜
HELP THIS IS SO PERFECTLY TIMED.. IM GETTING READY TO AUDITION FOR THE EARTHWORM ON TUESDAY BC MY SCHOOL IS DOING A PRODUCTION OF THIS 😭
update: it's over!! i tried my hardest, but nerves kicked in and i'm not sure how good of a job i did :c thank you all for the support though! ❤
update 2: i was invited to callbacks along with a few of the better people!!
update 3: callbacks are over!! chances or high i'm either the creepy old man or centipede, i'll update again tomorrow morning!!!!
update 4: I GOT CENTIPEDE CHAT!! THIS IS GONNA BE SO MUCH FUN OMG
Good luck friend! Let us know if you get it!! 😊
Good luck!
If you're still in school perhaps you should not be watching a video specifically stated as "for adults" and sponsored by a sex toy company. I mean I don't really care, but I feel like some people might.
Watch out for shovels
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"He's committed pesticide" has lived with me all this time. This movie taught me i could choose my family and didn't have to love my abusers.
Athena should definitely do a video on The Upside-Down Show. It has these 2 brothers living in a magic house of doors that lead to variously themed rooms. So much lore to occur.
my older sister loved that show, super entertaining and odd
YESSS
I love that show and the youtube channel it's hilarious 😂
GOD YES. THAT SHOW INFLUENCES MY DREAMS TO THIS DAY. SO MANY ABOUT LIVING IN A QUIRKY HOUSE AND GOING ON ADVENTURES WITH MY FRIENDS.
Yes please!!
The one thing I do remember about this book is that it’s where I inadvertently learned the word “ass”, though it was blacked out in sharpie when we were reading it in class
Similar story, 4th grade we read "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and the term "bitch" was used uncensored (if I remember the context correctly I believe it was Wonka talking to one of the Ompa Loompas). That was the day we had a very important lesson on the fact that "bitch" has two definitions.
This movie felt like a fever dream. It never felt scary, though.
Legit! People keep saying it was scary to them, but to me it was like a weird memory you weren't sure was real or not 🤷♀️
So, I know Athena is 100% joking about the aunts being canonically gay (queer=odd/strange looking in context of the house, and they are straight up described as sisters in screenplays and stageplays). But when I tell you I had a friend who DID NOT KNOW THAT when she first read this book. Explaining to her that, no, the book was not saying the house was gay, took way too long.
I’m just imagining their crappy house painted in gaudy rainbow colours 😂
As someone who did the musical in MS, this show is golden material for that age group. Particularly the song Plump and Juicy, the stage direction of “we hear the sounds of bones being crunched” when the Aunts die, and the flirty relationship between Ladybug and Grasshopper (mostly the lie “who doesn’t like ladybugs?/I like ladybugs”
Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker making up the story about the rhino would make sense. I mean, this isn't the first time a Roald Dahl villain killed someone's parent.
28:06 The reason why the ladybug marries the head of the fire department is (I think) a reference to the nursery rhyme "Ladybird Ladybird, fly away home/ Your house is on fire and your children are gone". It's also sometimes recited as "Your house is on fire, Your children shall burn."
Wait that's actually really messed up wait a second
*walks up to a bug*
"YOU'RE CHILDREN ARE DEAD!!"
That's what I was thinking, I'm glad someone else noticed!
0:10 thats even bigger than the first one
Every little "Peach🗣✨️" from the start of each section took me out every single time, I kept forgetting about it and for some reason I found it really funny
I blame Miss Spider for my love of French culture and goth “mommies”
French Goth...even better.
Same!
Roald Dahl is so interesting to me, like I don’t care for him as a person but learning about him is always interesting, similar feelings about him as Frank Lloyd Wright
Dare I ask?
Interestingly, _James and the Giant Peach_ was my first stop motion film I watched, prior before watching _"The Nightmare Before Christmas"_ and the funny thing is at the time when I first watched this film It didn't occurred to me that the Skeleton Pirate Captain that kidnapped Mr. Centipede was Jack Skellington, so when I re-watched the film for the second time years later after seeing _The Nightmare Before Christmas_ for the first time ever, I said to myself, _"Hey that Pirate Captain looks like Jack Skellington._ Even Jack Skellington wasn't the only Disney cameo, cause Donald Duck himself also appears in this film as a Skeleton Pirate.
Finally, this film was my introduction to Roald Dahl, however when I was a Kid when I first watched _James and the Giant Peach_ I wasn't to familiar with Roald Dahl nor did I realize that this film along with the film adaptations of _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,_ _The Witches_ from 1990 (starring Angelica Huston) and _Matilda_ were also based on books and also by the author, Roald Dahl. So it wasn't until the 3rd/4th grade during my Elementary School years later when our class read _The BFG_ and _James and the Giant Peach_ where I became familiar with Roald Dahl as an author and that both _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James And the Giant Peach, The BFG, The Witches, The Twits, Fantastic Mr. Fox_ and his various children's books he's written were done by Dahl himself.
18:21 funny that you mention the tunnel reminding you of Coraline, because both movies were directed by Henry Selick! :D
I was hoping someone would mention this! 🙌❤
Cool BTS fact.
he also basically directed nightmare before Christmas (burton was working on a batman film at the time)
I love that she’s covering this because I am assistant stage managing for a production of James and the giant peach
THATS SO COOL OMGOSH
@@thememeqween Thank you
This movie felt like a fever dream! thanks for covering it!
"I guess he just won a race?" Girlie look at the pictures hes THE MAYOR
The note throwing gage has big older sister energy about it 😂
As the big older sister, I can confirm 👌😍
IM SO HAPPY THAT YOU USED THE PROPER TERMS FOR LITTLE PEOPLE!! I am one just like my dad and I watch your videos all the time! Im so happy that you used the proper terminology! Thank you our goddess Athena!!
Omg I was terrified of this movie as a kid. I didn’t get past the first few minutes, as soon as the scary rhino appeared I went “NOPE” and turned the TV off 😂
me but with Coraline
25:34 In the musical, spider and grasshopper are implied to be reincarnations of james' parents! Also, the old man(ladahlord) is implied to be James himself influencing the story as it happens!
Edit: I just reached the part where you talk about the musical, I agree, but my lenses aren't only tinted once but twice. I have blood tinted glasses from doing this show twice
So funny story:
My high school theatre teacher/ director did a production of "James" my freshman year. It was the first time he let someone else direct the show (some local theatre director I think). I remember two things about it: 1- The set was unfinished on opening night. And 2- If anyone brought it up to our teacher afterward, he would remind us that he did not direct that particular show.
16:17 Fun fact: Paul Terry (the actor for James) was bitten by the spider used on set which made him decide to quit acting
WAKE UP MY ELDRITCH HORROR, THE QUEEN UPLOADED
The spider and centipede and Morticia and Gomez were my og awakening,I was watching and went oh,wow I love both of these people and Orlando Bloom definitely also Orlando Bloom
I'm here at "posted 15 seconds ago" I remember that movie, and for some fucking reason, my brain for some fucking reason remembers like 10 seconds of the giant peach in fucking new York city
Ronald Dahl also write Matilda and the Fantastic Mr. Fox. Also the iconic BFG.
This made me terrified of peaches....
🍑 BOO
I was scared of the Rhino and had to close my eyes for the fish heads, but the scene where they eat the inside of the peach is right up there with studio Ghibli food for me. Like I am 100% sure that peach tasted better than any peach I've ever eaten
are you kidding me? this movie made the inside of peaches look so good! i never wanted to eat peaches so bad
🥺💔 oh no
I'm sorry 😞
@@isaiahdooley5953evil😭😭😭🍑
26:58 KITTY!!!🤩
Yooooooo I legit was just looking for something to watch. Let’s go!!!!
Saw this with perfect timing! I was in a community theater production that wrapped last week, and tomorrow we’re all meeting back up to do a watch party of the show since one of our cast members set up a recording for us. This show has been my life for the past three months :’)
19:24 i remember reading the book for school and thinking about how this grasshopper isn't a tumblr sexyman
my husband grew up a disney kid, but i grew up watching the most random movies/tv shows that you cover😂
thank you for your service in creating content for random children’s movies and shows that no one else is brave enough to!
Technically what James made out of paper was not a balloon, it was a lantern. I had this movie on VHS growing up. It's always been one of my all-time favorite movies. I will say after all these years, the whole arrangement with the robot shark always seemed random and absurd
Childhood memory: I remember watching this movie in 4th grade.
I still remember us dramatically gasping and chatting everytime a charavters cussed and our teaching telling us to shut up
As a welsh person (The place where Roald Dahl grew up) I never actually knew about how much of an awful person he was. We usually have festivals and celebrations around the time of his birth. Growing up, we always pronounced his name as Rold but I am not sure if that is just the way we speak but other than that i'm so happy you are covering this as it is literally my childhood.
7:26 Squidward: We serve food here, sir.
I don’t know, that part kind of gave me a similar vibe to Bubble Bass’s order
Athena, thank you just so much for being such an amazing person with these videos. It’s been a really just awful day and I feel like the worst person in the world; but I got so excited when I saw you uploaded so thank you for letting me go to bed happy today.
"And then a giant rhino ate his parents" will forever be the most hilariously out of nowhere line in all of cinema 😂
8:49 and this is the first time I've heard someone call a stone a pit
As a field trip in primary school we went to watch the James and the giant peach musical. And I slept through all of it lol
My local children’s theatre did a production of “James and the Giant Peach” too! I only have a *faint* memory of it bc I was in kindergarten.
32:34 I played the mum 😭
There's 3 things I never understood about the movie why James turns into clay, what's up with the rhino, and why the aunts lived. As a kid nothing in media scared me except Chucky but when I got a lil older and watched it he just made me laugh so I was literally afraid of nothing after that
Me too! I was scared of Chucky but now I love the movies/series!
my teacher in the 5th grade made the entire class watch this during a rainy day and me and my friends were super weirded out
I read so many Roald Dhal books as a kid. Including the sequel to Charlie and the chocolate factory. The twits,the magic finger, and many others,including James and the giant peach
I stopped everything I was doing for this
As I’m watching this video all I can think is how much you would like Lost in Adaptation lol. Seriously though great video I loved this book and Matilda as a kid and it’s interesting to get a different perspective on it.
i kinda think that the spider opening a club was suppposed to tie into her character arc of warming up to other people
I was in James and the Giant Peach for my school musical, and it was whimsical and wonderful!!!!
My favorite Roald Dahl books as a kid were Matilda and Witches.
Same! Matilda especially affected how I saw the world at a young age and it was my favorite movie as a kid too.
My favourite was the twits, but the witches were definitely fun
Danny the champion of the world is AMAZING
my mom has beef with this movie (and Mumfie, but that's a topic for another day). lil ol' autistic me would rewatch James and the Giant Peach over and over and over again with no stop in sight. it's a wonder the VHS was still in one piece
I'm telling you now, watch The Night Garden. It's so surreal and cute but spooky and funny, you'll have a field day with it. Great vid btw, it was cool to look back on a movie I strangely favourited when I was younger.
the kids show called In the night Garden? with iggle piggle and that or are you talking about smth else
@@pi3.14etc That's the one :D
If you’re talking about In the Night Garden then 100%, it always felt like Teletubbies but slightly sadder to me, I always cried a little at the end of episodes for some reason
Thank you for uploading. My dad passed away today in a tragic accident and your videos have been a huge source of comfort today.
I’m so sorry for your loss, praying for you and your loved ones.
I was traumatised by the pig transformation scenes in "Spirited Away", "Willow" and that one episode of "Goosebumps"; seriously, I had nightmares about pigs of all things. But now the former movie is one of my all-time favourites, it's a masterpiece of cinema, and the other two are just cheesy fun to me. And now I think pigs are very underrated and wonderful animals :3
I hope we get another film adaptation of _James and the Giant Peach_ adaptation where it closely follows the book and this time the aunts are literally squashed by the Rolling Peach.
Look I understand the majority are so skeptical and ambivalent on another adaptation of _James and the Giant Peach_ when we had different adaptations of _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_ through the 1971 and 2005 films, _Matilda, The BFG_ and _The Witches._ And don’t get me wrong I love the 1996 adaptation, but it did took a lot of liberties that made it different from the original novel (e.g. The Aunts surviving, the Skeleton Pirates, The Robot Shark, less of the cloud men, etc..) and I think a new film adaptation of _James and the Giant Peach_ could introduce to a new generation of people who weren’t acquainted with the 1996 film adaptation or the original book.
You should do a lore video on the Disney villain, backstory books. All of them have an interconnecting story except for Cruella’s book that one doesn’t tie into the other ones, but there is an order, and there is an interconnected story to all the Disney villain back stories
AS A THEATER KID WHO JUST DID THIS SHOW IM SCREAMING
The live action Grinch used to terrify my older sister. It was so bad that when I told her I wanted to watch it, she disagreed, so I said I would go watch it in my room alone and she freaked and snapped my DVD in half. Luckily it was during the time of Prime so my mom let me buy a digital copy that she could never break again but she was way too grown (at least 12) to be acting like that😭😭😭
(obviously she didn't like Coraline or Nightmare Before Christmas either, which I do love even tho Coraline scared me a little--probably just to spite her)
Fun fact! Queer also means “Odd”, so the usage of the word Queer in the book doesn’t explicitly mean Gay given the time period it was written in.
Don't be alarmed, that whooshing sound is just the joke going over your head.
@@MrDarthbono don’t be alarmed, but some people don’t know that queer has different meanings! I got the joke, but took it as an opportunity to teach people what it can also mean.
I LOVE when you talk abt books! frindle and hw machine are some of my fave vids of yours
Thank you so much!!! I’ve had so much fun with these videos
I was James in this show through a professional company and it was really awesome I'm ngl. I grew up to hate being in productions because theatre kids were mean but that show somehow lives on in my memory as a good experience through all of that.
The Labyrinth scared the absolute shit out of me as a kid, despite simultaneously loving the plot and Jareth 😭
I support authenticity unapologetic Athena P, uncut and uncensored 🙌🏻
glad to see someone enjoy the movie as well! i feel like not enough people talk about it positively
Both the book and the movie are so nostalgic to me. I grew up reading Roald Dahl and while James and the Giant Peach wasn't my favourite of his stories, it was still a good book, but the movie was the real kicker for me. My nan and pop had a VCR and had very few VHS tapes of movies like the first Harry Potter and Ice Age, but the one I always loved watching was the film version of James and the Giant Peach (which is definitely in myTop 5 Roald Dahl film adaptations).
This movie also has so much emotional value for me since it's one of a few things I associate with my nan and pop since I don't see my nan much since she's very frail and lives in a nursing home (we still visit her every now and again though) and my pop died in 2018 of lung cancer.
As soon as I saw this choice on the community poll win, I was so fucking happy to see a deeper look at such a staple of my childhood.
I was always scared of reading the book because the version I always came across had illustrations by Lane Smith. If you ever read a book with pictures by Lane Smith, you would know why I was scared. I remember flipping through the books and landed on this picture of James as a bug. It was the most nightmarish thing I have ever seen. I immediately closed the book and put it back on the shelf.
decided to look it up, HOLY FUCK THAT DO LOOK TERRIFYING! as if Dahli tried to do kids books illustrations
but also very clearly the inspiration for how everyone looks in the movie
26:59 Oh look a kitty cat!
27:17 Oh look TWO kitty cats!
The aunts scared me. Not so much miss Sponge but miss Spiker. She is very formidable.
The one picture you show of Rodahl literally looks like the “have you seen this man in your dreams?” Guy
This movie truamatized me worse than my mothers death
I also had a crush on the sailor centipede 😐
he was genuinely the only character I remembered from this movie 😭😭
I think it may be a British thing to call the pit a stone, but all fruits with pits are called stone fruit. like cherries, plums, and of course peaches.
the movie Coraline scared me so much as a kid I didn't even watch past the first 5 minutes, I have recently finally watched it in theaters for the 15 years anniversary and it was in 3D and actually they had to reshoot the entire movie for 3D to be an option
They didn't have to reshoot it, the original movie was first released in 3D, where did you get your information?
i never actually read the full book. but when i was younger, i remembered my teacher would read it to us😭😭 (we never finished it.)
This book and movie were such fever dreams
this absolutely IS a safe space because i never felt more seen than when athena said that the grasshopper is hot.
listen- the "insufferable genius" (as tv tropes calls it) who's better at books than people is one of my favorite tropes of fictional man... the fact that he's also old man coded in the film is not only not a detractor, but an additive bonus.
Yeah glad to know I want the only one as a kid 😂 I leaned more toward the centipede, I'm a sucker for "little shithead who actually has a heart of gold" tropes
5 minutes ago i didn’t know that my funny little childhood claymation movie is being seen
3:09 OMG, please do a video on A Series of Unfortunate Events, it'd be amazing! You could do the powdered makeup from the women in Count Olaf's troupe or the VFD symbol!
This was my favorite movie as a kid and to this dayyyy. Can't wait to watch this video!
I remember this story from elementary school. I still have the book, but I haven't read it in years. Good video.
"THANK YOU, ATHENA" we all say in unison.
As I quite recently read this book, I also for a sec thought that the aunts might be lesbians, but they do call eachother sister at some point, which I remember thanks to be having that same thought...also they don't seem to like eachother that much and call eachother ugly.
These books were my childhood. If it was written by Roald Dahl, I was obsessed with it as a child. The movie adaptation of James and The Giant Peach was one of my fav movies back then, (which explains a lot tbh,) and I’m pretty sure the spider was my lesbian awakening.
like honestly i could not finish the movie like you mentioned as well it spooked me sm😭
I was NOT prepared for a sponsorship being an adult toy.
“Oh cool a sponsor is that lip balm?……..oh”
Lmao