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* ActorAllusion: The way Pod shouted [[{{DoctorWho}} "Run!"]] sounded obviously familiar.
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* ActorAllusion: The way Pod shouted [[{{DoctorWho}} [[Series/DoctorWho "Run!"]] sounded obviously familiar.
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* HollywoodToneDeaf: Spiller, when trying to sing ''Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.''
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* [[spoiler:DeathByAdaptation: Eggletina, who is set up as a PosthumousCharacter in the books, but is later revealed ComedicUnderwearExposure: Happens to be alive. In the film, there seems Pod when Jenny attempts to be little doubt that she died.]]look at his anatomy!
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Neither Homily nor Pod were described as very good-looking in the books. In this movie they're played by [[HotMom Sharon Horgan]] and Creator/ChristopherEccleston.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played for (somewhat morbid) laughs with Mildeye.
-->'''James:''' You're going to put [the Borrowers] on display?\\
'''Mildeye:''' Only for a very short period before we get down to the serious business of anatomical analysis -- physical tests, blood work...\\
'''Jenny:''' Dissection.\\
'''Mildeye:''' Obviously dissection.\\
'''James:''' You're going to cut them up?!\\
'''Mildeye:''' Well, it's not as bad as it sounds. We'll gas them first. We're not ''monsters,'' you know.
-->'''James:''' You're going to put [the Borrowers] on display?\\
'''Mildeye:''' Only for a very short period before we get down to the serious business of anatomical analysis -- physical tests, blood work...\\
'''Jenny:''' Dissection.\\
'''Mildeye:''' Obviously dissection.\\
'''James:''' You're going to cut them up?!\\
'''Mildeye:''' Well, it's not as bad as it sounds. We'll gas them first. We're not ''monsters,'' you know.
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* CurseCutShort: Homily, to Mildeye, when she and Pod are held captive in a glass container:
--> "Well, you know what you can do with your 'scientific discovery'? You can stick that ''right up your'' --" ''*the rest of her tirade is is unaudible because Jenny places a glass lid over the container*''
--> "Well, you know what you can do with your 'scientific discovery'? You can stick that ''right up your'' --" ''*the rest of her tirade is is unaudible because Jenny places a glass lid over the container*''
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** When Pod and Homily are captured by Mildeye, Pod initially tells Homily not to speak to him. In the fourth book, when the Clocks are captured by humans, Pod warns Homily and Arrietty not to speak to them, because if the humans don't suspect they're intelligent they won't suspect them of devising plans to escape. In the movie, Homily blows this opportunity fairly quickly, slinging out quite a few insults and angry demands at Mildeye.
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** At one point, Spiller and Arrietty hide in an empty church, and Arrietty clearly does not know what a church is, and is fascinated by the Christmas mass they witness. In the fifth and final book in the series, ''The Borrowers Avenged,'' the Clocks find their relatives living in the rectory of the local church, and they don't know what a church is (or who this [[{{God}} "Lord"]] is supposed to be).
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** At one point, Spiller and Arrietty hide in an empty church, and Arrietty clearly does not know what a church is. In the fifth and final book in the series, ''The Borrowers Avenged,'' the Clocks find their relatives living in the rectory of the local church, and they don't know what a church is (or who this "Lord" [[{{God}} "Lord"]] is supposed to be).
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* AgeLift: Arrietty is thirteen-going-on-fourteen in the book; sixteen in the movie.
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* ActionGirl: Arrietty develops into this over the course of the movie.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Spiller tries to invoke this with Arrietty. Not played completely straight, though; she's enticed by him but quickly begins finding him annoying.
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* ShoutOut: A lot of the events, themes and things from the books that didn't technically make it into the movie are still alluded to and given {{Shout Out}}s at various points.
** In the book, the Borrowers live so far apart from one another that they never see one another and have no real society -- and it's hinted that they may be a dying race. In the movie, this is what Pod and Homily tell Arrietty, but it turns out to be a massive lie constructed to stop her from leaving their home; Borrowers are plentiful and have a thriving civilization hidden from the humans.
** The Clocks escape the house through a ventilation grate. In the original book, a ventilation grate played a central and important part in the plot and in Arrietty's life, and the Clocks did eventually escape their pursuers through it (though in a different fashion than here).
** Arrietty calls Spiller grubby and filthy. In the book she does this because he's a NobleSavage who never bathes -- in the movie she says it because he's eating rat meat, not realizing that such meat is commonly eaten by Borrowers who aren't her.
** Mildeye doesn't remember James's name and just calls him "Boy." In the book, the character's name was never revealed and he was consistently referred to as "the boy."
** In the book, the Borrowers live so far apart from one another that they never see one another and have no real society -- and it's hinted that they may be a dying race. In the movie, this is what Pod and Homily tell Arrietty, but it turns out to be a massive lie constructed to stop her from leaving their home; Borrowers are plentiful and have a thriving civilization hidden from the humans.
** The Clocks escape the house through a ventilation grate. In the original book, a ventilation grate played a central and important part in the plot and in Arrietty's life, and the Clocks did eventually escape their pursuers through it (though in a different fashion than here).
** Arrietty calls Spiller grubby and filthy. In the book she does this because he's a NobleSavage who never bathes -- in the movie she says it because he's eating rat meat, not realizing that such meat is commonly eaten by Borrowers who aren't her.
** Mildeye doesn't remember James's name and just calls him "Boy." In the book, the character's name was never revealed and he was consistently referred to as "the boy."
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* SpoiledSweet: Arrietty, compared to the other Borrowers, is ''incredibly'' spoiled, living a life of plenty that most of them can only dream of, but which she takes for granted. It takes until a while out in the movie before she realizes just how luxurious her life has been and how rare it is for Borrowers to live like that. Though prone to sulky and selfish moments, she's nevertheless a kind-hearted and sympathetic girl.
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* RaceLift: Professor Mildeye. In the books, Mildeye was a villainous [[{{UsefulNotes/Romani}} Rom]]. In the movie he's a pompous scientist played by Stephen Fry. Basically the two characters have nothing in common apart from the name and the role as antagonist.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: Borders on being an InNameOnly adaptation, as almost everything has been changed, updated and modernized -- but the relationships between the characters has stayed largely the same as in the book, and the theme and overall spirit of the story is pretty much unchanged.
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''The Borrowers'' is a 2011 [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] TV movie adaptation of [[Literature/TheBorrowers the book of the same name by Mary Norton]]. It stars Creator/StephenFry and Creator/ChristopherEccleston.
It diverges considerably from the book, taking place in a modern-day city, featuring a mostly original plot and drastically altered characters -- the most notable ones being Spiller, who's been changed from NobleSavage to a TroubledButCute biker boy in a red leather jacket, and the human Mildeye, who's gone from an evil, brutal [[{{UsefulNotes/Romani}} Rom]] to an evil-but-bumbling professor played by Stephen Fry. It completely goes away from the "borrowers as a dying race" idea; here there turns out to be enough of them in one place to populate an entire underground city (built on the platform and partly on the tracks of an abandoned railway station). The critics noted, though, that while the movie had very little to do with Mary Norton's books, it still stayed fairly true to the themes and spirit of them, making it more of a PragmaticAdaptation.
!!This film has examples of:
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Neither Homily nor Pod were described as very good-looking in the books. In this movie they're played by [[HotMom Sharon Horgan]] and Creator/ChristopherEccleston.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Spiller tries to invoke this with Arrietty. Not played completely straight, though; she's enticed by him but quickly begins finding him annoying.
* TheAtoner: Pod, or at least he feels so. [[spoiler: The Borrowers view him as a hero, since he several years ago saved them from being discovered by humans and killed -- but Pod never got over the one little girl he ''couldn't'' save, his niece Eggletina. Her death is the reason why he's now being overprotective towards Arrietty.]]
* BigDamnHeroes:
-->'''Homily:''' I don't know how much more I can take of this.\\
'''Pod:''' It's gonna be all right.\\
'''Homily:''' ''How?'' How is it gonna be all right, how can you say that?!\\
'''Pod:''' Because Arrietty's just about to save us.
* [[spoiler:DeathByAdaptation: Eggletina, who is set up as a PosthumousCharacter in the books, but is later revealed to be alive. In the film, there seems to be little doubt that she died.]]
* GildedCage: Arrietty lives in luxury, with her father bringing her anything she could want, but is kept completely cut off from the outside world.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain:
** Borderline case with Mildeye; he ''is'' a genuine threat to the Borrowers largely because he's so much bigger than them, but he bumbles so much that you almost have to feel sorry for him when he loses out and makes a fool of himself. It helps that he's played by Stephen Fry, no doubt.
** Subverted with his assistant Jenny, who at first seems like a shy and awkward, but harmless girl -- only to reveal a rather disturbing sadistic streak later on.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Spiller. With a side-order of HandsomeLech.
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Spiller, when trying to sing ''Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.''
* LargeHam: Stephen Fry is about as hammy in this movie as John Goodman was in the 1997 one.
* MissingMom: James's mother is recently dead.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: James, the human boy who befriends the Clock family.
* RaceLift: Professor Mildeye. In the books, Mildeye was a villainous [[{{UsefulNotes/Romani}} Rom]]. In the movie he's a pompous scientist played by Stephen Fry. Basically the two characters have nothing in common apart from the name and the role as antagonist.
* ScreeningTheCall: Arrietty is stated to have inherited a natural gift and thirst for adventure from her father. Pod, however, refuses to let her go out Borrowing, and unlike his book counterpart won't let himself be talked into it. He turns out to have his reasons.
* SoftspokenSadist: While she at first just seems to be a socially-awkward [[TheStoic Stoic,]] Jenny reveals herself to be one. While Mildeye is simply interested in catching the Borrowers ForScience (and for personal glory), Jenny wants to kill and cut them up for the hell of it.
-->'''Jenny:''' ''(pulling out a scalpel)'' Does this mean I get to dissect the little skebangas?\\
'''Mildeye:''' ''(looking at the scalpel)'' I have to say I find it a little disconcerting that you had that quite so readily to hand.
* StepfordSmiler: Homily in the early parts of the movie; she's keeping up a happy facade for Arrietty's benefit but only really manages to come off as delusional.
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It diverges considerably from the book, taking place in a modern-day city, featuring a mostly original plot and drastically altered characters -- the most notable ones being Spiller, who's been changed from NobleSavage to a TroubledButCute biker boy in a red leather jacket, and the human Mildeye, who's gone from an evil, brutal [[{{UsefulNotes/Romani}} Rom]] to an evil-but-bumbling professor played by Stephen Fry. It completely goes away from the "borrowers as a dying race" idea; here there turns out to be enough of them in one place to populate an entire underground city (built on the platform and partly on the tracks of an abandoned railway station). The critics noted, though, that while the movie had very little to do with Mary Norton's books, it still stayed fairly true to the themes and spirit of them, making it more of a PragmaticAdaptation.
!!This film has examples of:
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Neither Homily nor Pod were described as very good-looking in the books. In this movie they're played by [[HotMom Sharon Horgan]] and Creator/ChristopherEccleston.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Spiller tries to invoke this with Arrietty. Not played completely straight, though; she's enticed by him but quickly begins finding him annoying.
* TheAtoner: Pod, or at least he feels so. [[spoiler: The Borrowers view him as a hero, since he several years ago saved them from being discovered by humans and killed -- but Pod never got over the one little girl he ''couldn't'' save, his niece Eggletina. Her death is the reason why he's now being overprotective towards Arrietty.]]
* BigDamnHeroes:
-->'''Homily:''' I don't know how much more I can take of this.\\
'''Pod:''' It's gonna be all right.\\
'''Homily:''' ''How?'' How is it gonna be all right, how can you say that?!\\
'''Pod:''' Because Arrietty's just about to save us.
* [[spoiler:DeathByAdaptation: Eggletina, who is set up as a PosthumousCharacter in the books, but is later revealed to be alive. In the film, there seems to be little doubt that she died.]]
* GildedCage: Arrietty lives in luxury, with her father bringing her anything she could want, but is kept completely cut off from the outside world.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain:
** Borderline case with Mildeye; he ''is'' a genuine threat to the Borrowers largely because he's so much bigger than them, but he bumbles so much that you almost have to feel sorry for him when he loses out and makes a fool of himself. It helps that he's played by Stephen Fry, no doubt.
** Subverted with his assistant Jenny, who at first seems like a shy and awkward, but harmless girl -- only to reveal a rather disturbing sadistic streak later on.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Spiller. With a side-order of HandsomeLech.
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Spiller, when trying to sing ''Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.''
* LargeHam: Stephen Fry is about as hammy in this movie as John Goodman was in the 1997 one.
* MissingMom: James's mother is recently dead.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: James, the human boy who befriends the Clock family.
* RaceLift: Professor Mildeye. In the books, Mildeye was a villainous [[{{UsefulNotes/Romani}} Rom]]. In the movie he's a pompous scientist played by Stephen Fry. Basically the two characters have nothing in common apart from the name and the role as antagonist.
* ScreeningTheCall: Arrietty is stated to have inherited a natural gift and thirst for adventure from her father. Pod, however, refuses to let her go out Borrowing, and unlike his book counterpart won't let himself be talked into it. He turns out to have his reasons.
* SoftspokenSadist: While she at first just seems to be a socially-awkward [[TheStoic Stoic,]] Jenny reveals herself to be one. While Mildeye is simply interested in catching the Borrowers ForScience (and for personal glory), Jenny wants to kill and cut them up for the hell of it.
-->'''Jenny:''' ''(pulling out a scalpel)'' Does this mean I get to dissect the little skebangas?\\
'''Mildeye:''' ''(looking at the scalpel)'' I have to say I find it a little disconcerting that you had that quite so readily to hand.
* StepfordSmiler: Homily in the early parts of the movie; she's keeping up a happy facade for Arrietty's benefit but only really manages to come off as delusional.
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