The Borrowers: Difference between revisions

 

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* [[Animated Adaptation]]: ''The Borrower Arrietty''.

* [[Bamboo Technology]]: Loads. Seems less evident in the Ghibli trailer, although Arrietty's sporting a nifty clamp as a hair clip.

** The anime movie by [[Studio Ghibli]] now has its own [[The Borrower Arrietty|trope page.]]

* [[No Name Given]]: The human boy who befriends the Clock family. In the early '90s films, he's called George, in the '97 film he's called Pete [[Meaningful Name|Lender]], in the Ghibli film he's called Sho, and in the 2011 film he's called James. Only the '70s [[Hallmark Hall of Fame]] version kept him anonymous.

* [[Posthumous Character]]: Within the [[Framing Device]] story, ''all'' of the major characters might be considered this, since the main story takes place so long ago -- though only the Boy (who was the younger brother of Mrs. May, who first tells "Kate" the story of the Borrowers) is actually confirmed to have died; the Borrowers themselves simply left and were never seen again.

** Within the main story of the first book, several Borrower families are described -- all gone by now. The [[Posthumous Character]] who gets the most attention, however, is Arrietty's cousin Eggletina -- it was her death that caused Uncle Hendreary and his family to leave the house for good. {{spoiler|However, this is [[Subverted]] in the second book, when Eggletina proves to be very much alive.}}

 

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== Tropes exclusive to the 1997 film: ==