Short film animation
Oscar wilde
THE SELFISH GIANT
Based on a story by Oscar Wilde
Adapted and animated by Amin Bardjeste
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Children enjoy playing in a beautiful garden owned by a Giant. The Giant is away staying with a Cornish ogre, but after seven years away from his garden, he returns one day and frightens the children away, not wanting them to play on his property. He builds a wall around the garden to keep the children out and puts up a sign warning that ‘trespassers will be prosecuted’.
The children have to play in the road instead, but they miss playing in the selfish Giant’s garden. The garden, too, misses the children: when spring arrives, the garden remains under the spell of winter, with snow, frost, wind, and hail all assailing it and preventing the trees and flowers from blooming and flourishing.
The selfish Giant realises that he has been selfish for barring the children from his garden, and is delighted one day to see that the children have crept into the garden, causing he wintry weather to give way to glorious spring. The trees are in blossom. However, the cold weather remains in one portion of the garden, where a single solitary boy is unable to reach up and climb a nearby tree.
The Giant strides out into his garden to welcome the children back, but, fearing that he will shoo them away as he did before, they leave. Only the boy remains, and the Giant picks him up and helps him up into the tree, which embraces the child. The boy, in turn, embraces the Giant for helping him.
The other children, seeing that the Giant is selfish no longer, return to play in the garden, and he tells them that it is their garden now, for them to play in, and he leaves them to do so, having cut down the wall he built. However, at the end of the day when the children have to return home, the Giant notices that the boy he helped up into the tree has disappeared. None of the other children knew who he was; all they know is he has ‘gone away’.
Years go by and the boy doesn’t return. The Giant is sad. But then one day, he sees the boy in the garden, and goes to greet him. But he notices that the boy is wounded, with the prints of nails in his hands and feet. The boy tells him that they are the wounds of Love, and that the Giant shouldn’t be afraid. He then tells the Giant that, because the Giant let him play in his garden once, he will now take the Giant to his garden, which is Paradise.
When the other children arrive to play in the Giant’s garden, they find the Giant has fallen down dead.