On James and the Giant Peach 

LOVE THIS VIDEO!!! JATGP has been a growing special interest of mine (autism gang rise up) and finding this video made so so happy!! I love this idea of the bugs actually being metaphors for James's personality. I've always taken the plot literally-- as the book and other adaptions are pretty wacky-- but this is such an interesting perspective to think about. Also, I love the idea of Ladybug and Grasshopper being manifestations of the lessons and memories James has with his parents. In the musical adaptation, they especially push this idea of those two being Jame's parental figures, especially when they get married and. have kids?? (Which is a whole other jar of worms to dive into LOL.) And honestly having no idea for Glow-worm is so real LOL. Honestly, in all the adaptations, she's unfortunately mostly used as a plot device. There was an additional character in the book, Silk worm, that was removed from the movie because they're mostly only used to explain the seagull catching scene. So this book/movie/what have you is pretty familiar with simplistic characters LOL This is my first video I've ever seen from you, and I'd love to see any more of your analyses, advice, opinions, etc! I'd be happy with anything you'll upload but I'd love to hear your thoughts on the book as well!! You have a wonderful voice and sense of direction in your videos. Excited to see more :3c

i dont know if ive read james and the giant peach, but i am a huge roald dahl fan so im sure i probably did read it cuz i find that when i love an author i try to read everything by them at least once. i think ive seen the movie only once though, i think it was probably just not one of my personal fave roald dahl stories (i enjoy charlie and the chocolate factory but for one of those rare moments i preferred the sequel: charlie and the great glass elevator, i love the witches and bfg and matilda (though i think i preferred the movie adaption over the book) . but your analysis is interesting! so while i dont remember much of james and the giant peach, i still find it interesting take on it :) . i would love to hear/watch more video essays about other books/movies/etc even if its ones i dont really know much about haha (might even prompt me to watch/read/play it), i just enjoy people talking about what they passionate about and their own thoughts about it. i dont know if you know of matpat? he does (did? he is now retired but he still does his main channel) theories on all sorts of things and while a lot is media i dont personally consume or know very little about, i still enjoy listening to him and his theories (or even the new theorists that took over his other channels). everyone finds different meanings in things and i always enjoy listening to different perspectives! gives me things to think about, especially if its different to my own interpretation on something