Roald Dahl—the author of the book ‘The BFG,’ now a Steven Spielberg movie—made famous the word scrumdiddlyumptious. Here’s where it comes from.

New BFFs Spielberg, Rylance team up for 'The BFG' and big things beyond. For some, it might be a little too safe. There's never a sense that Sophie is in any real danger, even when surrounded by a ...

Mark Rylance has been chosen to play the Big Friendly Giant in Steven Spielberg's film based on Roald Dahl's book. The BFG has sold millions of copies around the world and the giant's weird words ...

And so Sophie and The BFG become BFFs, though the threat to both is considerable when Fleshlumpeater and the rest of the odious ogres sniff out the presence of a human ‘bean’. Sophie’s solution?

Human Bean Also in the above quote from The BFG, the mispronunciation of human being is actually recorded as early as a century before – in an issue of British satirical magazine Punch from 1842 ...

In fact, it’s not that the BFG, nicknamed “Runt” by the other giants, won’t eat kids – he doesn’t like the idea of eating meat at all. “I is not understanding human beans at all,” he says to Sophie in ...

A mispronunciation of ‘human being’ used by the Big Friendly Giant in The BFG. However, the first use of the ‘human bean’ dates back to British satirical magazine Punch, who used the ...

Watch a film clip from "The BFG," starring Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill and Penelope Wilton. Photo: Walt Disney Co./Everett Collection Mark Rylance on Shakespeare, Spielberg and CGI (June 29, 2016 ...

Mark Rylance has been chosen to play the Big Friendly Giant in Steven Spielberg's film based on Roald Dahl's book. The BFG has sold millions of copies around the world and the giant's weird words such ...

Mark Rylance Is Human Bean Chosen To Play BFG. The award-winning stage actor will transform himself into the giant who collects dreams and loves whizzpopping. Tuesday 28 October 2014 08:25, UK.