History Film / TheBFG

* MasochistsMeal: Snozzcumbers, a gigantic cucumber that tastes horrid, are the only things the BFG has to eat. [[spoiler:At the end, the other giants are left with only snozzcumbers to eat and their seeds to plant if they want to keep living.]]

* TheEvilGenius: The unnamed skinny, disheveled giant whom is always at the Fleshlumpeater's side.

* WeaksauceWeakness: As powerful and intimidating as they are, the evil giants are all terrified of water. Presumably they leave and return to the Giant Country by jumping. [[spoiler:The British Military imprison them on a remote abandoned island in the middle of nowhere where that can't get off.]]

* ContrivedCoincidence:
** The giants' language is intelligible to English speakers.

* DemotedToExtra: The Bloodbottler suffers criminally from this. In the original book and the animated movie, he is the one who barges into the BFG's home, not the Fleshlumpeater. In this film? Good luck even guessing which one the Bloodbottler is...

* TheEvilGenius: The skinny, disheveled giant whom is always at the Fleshlumpeater's side.

* FaceHeelTurn: The BFG mentions that giants used to be "gentry".

* DemotedToExtra: The Bloodbottler suffers criminally from this. In the original book and the animated movie, he plays a more prominent role in the story, being the Fleshlumpeater's [[TheDragon right-hand mook]] as well as the first major giant to appear. Originally, it is ''he'' who almost eats Sophie rather than the Fleshlumpeater. In this film? Good luck even guessing which one the Bloodbottler is...

** [[spoiler:In the illustrations Sophie finds, it turns out the child before her also called the giant "the BFG".]]

* AdaptationInducedPlothole: A small line from the book is left out of the film, but it raises a little plot hole with the ending. In the book, the BFG has only snozzcumbers to eat because he refuses to steal fruits and other foods from human lands, to which Sophie responds that [[MoralMyopia he was fine with stealing her]] and he rationalizes it as "[[SkewedPriorities I did not steal you very much, you is only a small girl]]." The ending of the film establishes him having planted lots of human fruits and vegetables in Giant Country, but doesn't explain why he hadn't done that before.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler:The Queen of England, who in part thanks to the dream she was given, she fully supports and is kind to Sophie and the BFG the entire time.]]

* DemotedToExtra: The Bloodbottler suffers criminally from this. In the original book and the animated movie, he plays a more prominent role in the story, being the Fleshlumpeater's [[right-hand mook TheDragon]] as well as the first major giant to appear. Originally, it is ''he'' who almost eats Sophie rather than the Fleshlumpeater. In this film? Good luck even guessing which one the Bloodbottler is...

* ContrivedCoincidence: The giants' language is intelligible to English speakers.

* GroinAttack: When bullying the BFG, the other giants make a game of putting him on a dump truck and throwing him off a hill, while another giant skies down another hill on two cars and sees if he can pass over him. Unfortunately for that giant, he isn't able to leap over the BFG in time and ends up getting smacked right in the bangers.

* WillOTheWisp: Dreams take the form of glowing light orbs, born from starlight filtered through a Dream Tree's leaves. Nightmares look more monstrous and spider-like, and are often clawing to break free and attack. This is a bit contrary to the book where the dreams are invisible unless placed inside a jar, and the BFG uses his hearing to catch them.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Unlike the book, the giants regret their actions when BFG and Sophie give them the same nightmare specifically meant to torment them with guilt. The exception is Fleshlumpeater since he's the only one of the giants NOT to experience the dream.

* AdaptationHeroism: Unlike the book, the giants regret their actions when BFG and Sophie give them the same nightmare specifically meant to torment them with guilt. The exception is Fleshlumpeater since he's the only one of the giants NOT to experience the dream.

* AdapationalHeroism: Unlike the book, the giants regret their actions when BFG and Sophie give them the same nightmare that they gave the queen earlier. The exception is Fleshlumpeater since he's the only one of the giants NOT to experience the dream.

* AdaptationInducedPlothole: A small line from the book is left out of the film, but it raises a little plot hole with the ending. In the book, the BFG has only snozzcumbers to eat because he refuses to steal fruits and other foods from human lands, to which Sophie responds that [[MoralMyopia he was fine with stealing her]] and he rationalizes it as "[[SkewedPriorities I did not steal you very much, you is only a small girl]]." The ending of the film establishes him having planted lots of human fruits and vegetables in Giant Country, but doesn't explain why he hadn't done that before.
** [[spoiler:Because the mean giants were there.]]

* WillOTheWisp: Dreams take the form of glowing light orbs, born from starlight filtered through a Dream Tree's leaves. Nightmares look more monstrous and spider-like, and are often clawing to break free and attack.

* KleptomaniacHer: The BFG has many human sized objects in his home.

* AmbiguousTimePeriod: The book was released and set in the 1980s, as shown by the Queen being fairly young and brown-haired then. In the film the cars seen are rather old-fashioned but the Queen is much older and looks like her present day self. Adding to the date clouding is a scene where she calls "Nancy" on the phone and asks if "[[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Ronald]]" is there.