History Literature / JamesAndTheGiantPeach

* AlienLunch: The foods the bugs sing about in "Eating the Peach"--like curried slugs and plates of soil with engine oil.

In 2013, the story was adapted into a musical, featuring all-new songs. The soundtrack can be download for free [[http://jatgp.com/ here.]]

--->'''Miss Spider:''' Centipede, I do not know whether to kill you or... kiss you.\\
'''Mr. Centipede:''' (blushes and smiles sheepishly)

--->'''Mr. Grasshopper:''' I say, old sport. I came to relieve you of your duties.\\
'''Mr. Centipede:''' (''sleepily'') I said I'd steer the peach. I have to steer the peach. Can't... quit... now.\\
'''Mr. Grasshopper:''' Good show, old boy.\\
(Mr. Grasshopper moves Mr. Centipede to the other side of the peach)\\
'''Mr. Centipede:''' (''sleepily'') Thanks... Mr. Grasshopper...\\
'''Mr. Grasshopper:''' (''puts the blanket over Mr. Centipede and smiles at him as he dozes off to sleep'')

* BigNo: James yells "NO!" towards the climax when he and the peach are falling onto the Empire State Building.

* SuddenlyShouting: Mr. Centipede has this moment when he goes stir crazy for being on the hill his whole life.
--> '''Mr. Centipede:''' (''through a megaphone'') ''LET"S GET OUT OF HERE!!''

* BigNo: James yells "No" towards the climax when he and the peach are falling onto the Empire State Building.
* BlackBeadEyes: James gets these as part of his ToonTransformation.

* BrooklynRage: Centipede in the adaptation, given he's played by native Brooklynite Creator/RichardDreyfuss. The others even call him "The Yank," and at one point he even shouts "I'm from Brooklyn!"

* GetTheeToANunnery: Modern day viewers will hear Grasshopper's infamous "You, sir, are an ass!" line and think he means "ass" as in "asshole." When the movie was made, "ass" was more commonly used to refer to someone who was particularly stubborn.

* OneBookAuthor: The film was Paul Terry's only film role. He retired from acting after ''Series/{{Microsoap}}'', a TV series in which he starred as Joe, in 2000 and would later become a mathematics teacher and novelist.

** Two humanoid bugs and a human child fight undead pirates underwater... and speak underwater... and in the ''North Pole''... but it could be an effect of the [[AWizardDidIt magic crocodile tongues]].

* AnimalsRespectNature: Miss Spider prides herself on catching flies (and is even puzzled that some humans are [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes arachnophobic]] when spiders kill flies), the earthworm brags about helping the soil [[ToiletHumour with his droppings]], and the centipede is even proud of being a "pest".

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: When James notes to Ms. Spider how kind she is with him she replies that its because he was kind to her first; she happens to be the spider on the window of James's bedroom, the one which he saved from his aunts.

** The Centipede starts out as a {{Jerkass}} MilesGloriosus who makes bold claims but is essentially useless when called upon to actually ''do'' something. Over the course of the movie he takes a level in both [[TookALevelInKindness Kindness]] and [[TookALevelInBadass Badass]], and becomes a hero in the end.

** The Earthworm, at first, is incapable of seeing the positive side of anything, but while he never quite loses his fundamental pessimism he learns how to "look at it another way."

** When James first meets the insects, Miss Spider is the one who knows James's name.

* HappilyAdopted: James. At the end of the film, it's made clear the bugs adopted him and care for him as their own son. It's clear that James is more than happy to be part of their family.

** Mr. Grasshopper have this when he and the other see Mr. Centipede deliberately dive into the Arctic Ocean to get a compass, fearing he's committed "pesticide" for berating him (and for kicking him in the face). Miss Spider tells them to knock it off, bemoaning the Centipede won't save him. She tethers herself to the peach and goes down with James to rescue Mr. Centipede. With that said, the bugs do briefly feel this again when James comes with a compass, saying Mr. Centipede risked his life to get one.

* ShuddenlyShouting: Mr. Centipede has this moment when he goes stir crazy for being on the hill his whole life.

** After finding a compass, Mr. Centipede takes his task very seriously to a point where he fends off of sleep so they won't get off course like what happened. As he tries so hard not to doze off, Mr. Grasshopper (who knocked one of his teeth out in anger) makes it up to Centipede by bringing him a chair and blanket so he can rest, and playing him off to sleep with his violin.

'''Mr. Centipede:''' (sleepily) I said I'd steer the peach. I have to steer the peach. Can't... quit... now.\\

'''Mr. Centipede:''' (sleepily) Thanks... Mr. Grasshopper...\\
'''Mr. Grasshopper:''' (puts the blanket over Mr. Centipede and smiles at him as he dozes off to sleep)

''(they grab the Earthworm, whose EatTheCamera scream transitions us to the next shot with him wearing the bell...)''\\

** The bugs have this when they see Centipede deliberately dive into the Arctic Ocean, fearing he's committed "pesticide" for berating him. Miss Spider tells them to knock it off, bemoaning the Centipede won't save him. She tethers herself to the peach and goes down with James to rescue the Centipede. With that said, the bugs do briefly feel this again when James comes with a compass, saying the Centipede risked his life to get one.

* StaticCharacter: Most, if not all, the characters stubbornly refuse any kind of CharacterDevelopment. Particularly blatant with the Centipede, who [[ButtMonkey suffers the most abuse]] but cheerfully refuses to learn any sort of lesson.

** The Centipede starts out as a {{Jerkass}} MilesGloriosus who makes bold claims but is essentially useless when called upon to actually ''do'' something. Over the course of the movie he takes a level in both [[TookALevelInKindness Kindness]] and [[TookALevelInBadass Badass]] and becomes a hero in the end.

* TheHero'sBirthday: James celebrates his eighth Birthday with his parents in the beginning of the film. They surprise him to a trip to New York City. Unfortunately the rhino came along to spoil the fun.

* Thehero'sbirthday: James celebrates his eighth Birthday with his parents in the beginning of the film. They surprise him to a trip to New York City. Unfortunately the rhino came along to spoil the fun.

* OneBookAuthor: The film was Paul Terry's only film role. He retired from acting after ''Microsoap'', a TV series in which he starred as Joe, in 2000 and would later become a mathematics teacher and novelist.

* InformedPoverty: While not explicitly stated, it is likely that Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge are poor, with their ramshackle house in a very remote location, with a bare garden, resentment at James being there, neither of them having any specified job or other source of income, and the way that Aunt Spiker jumps at the chance to make money from inviting people to see the giant peach.

Creator/RoaldDahl's first children's novel, published in 1961, was made into a 1996 live-action/stop-motion animated film from Creator/{{Disney}}, directed by Creator/HenrySelick and produced by Creator/TimBurton (the respective director and producer of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''), with music composed by Music/RandyNewman. Unlike the book, which is ambiguously set in contemporary times, the film explicitly takes place in the summer of 1958. Despite doing poorly at the box office, the film is one of the better adaptations of Dahl's work, though it can be considered... trippy.

Creator/RoaldDahl's first children's novel, published in 1961, was made into a 1996 live-action/stop-motion animated film from Creator/{{Disney}}, directed by Creator/HenrySelick and produced by Creator/TimBurton (the respective director and producer of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''), with music composed by Music/RandyNewman. Despite doing poorly at the box office, the film is one of the better adaptations of Dahl's work, though it can be considered... trippy.

* BagOfHolding: Ms. Ladybug pulls out a hand mirror (which is about half her size), a megaphone, three bouquets of fully bloomed flowers, and Grasshopper's top hat and cane!

'''Mr. Grasshopper:''' (puts the blanket over Centipede and smiles at him as he dozes off to sleep)

* ShoutOut: Look for the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Jack Skellington]] cameo in the film! The Jack cameo is made especially evident because of the Centipede's dialogue: "A s-skellington...? Jackpot!" Incidentally, they even sell action figures including that costume, though still under the banner of ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''.

* LaserGuidedKarma: The two aunts, after attempting to ''kill'' James, are frozen with fear when the bugs descend upon Manhattan. They then proceed to wrap the two women up in Miss Spider's silk until they are practically mummified. Having seen them for the monsters they are, the police order them hauled away to an unknown fate.