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Big Fish
11 years ago
This is one of the few wolves who will growl or hiss, depending on the person i am looking at.
Okay so recently I've been watching some of my moms favorite movies that I have not seen since I was a kid
and today we watched Big Fish
I had only remembered the stories and not much else
It's a really good movie but as interesting as it is
it's also really sad
I missed so much when I was a kid
one reason I am watching movies I have not seen in years is because of everything I missed
it adds more emotion to what was just a series of events before
what really made me think about this movie was
that Will had gotten so tired of all fantasy that he really pushed everything away just seeking straight facts instead
which I tend to ignore the fantasy in everyday life and focus on the facts
one of my friends is obsessed with telling stories that are obvious lies and
it just astounds me that he has nothing better to do than tell stories
well for a while I actually believed some of it until I found out otherwise
but unlike the father in Big Fish it wasn't just exaggerated truths
it was flat out lies but if I end up dwelling on pure fact it will just push people
away and things won't have as much flare or dazzle anymore
hell the only fantastic dazzle in stories I tell is from Maeniels point of view
other than that it's really just facts with a little innuendo here and there
I like movies for the stories
I like books for the stories
I like stories that make me think
I would rather read a complicated story with 5 or 6 different perspectives alternating every other chapter
than read one perspective that is very cut and dry
I like to be challenged by the stories I read
if I am not then I get bored of the book
I adored the golden compass trilogy due to the fact that it had a few different perspectives each brimming with it's own adventure and stories different standpoints and completely different experiences
my mind needs more than 1 thing to work on otherwise the task at hand seems dull
I like to pile things up overlap timeframes so I can keep myself occupied with several tasks
if I wanted a simple story I would go back to reading books that are under 250 pages
I loved the Eragon cycle due to the fact that the books were quite long and involved
many different concepts and creatures
and a couple books over 700 pages is always fun
and today we watched Big Fish
I had only remembered the stories and not much else
It's a really good movie but as interesting as it is
it's also really sad
I missed so much when I was a kid
one reason I am watching movies I have not seen in years is because of everything I missed
it adds more emotion to what was just a series of events before
what really made me think about this movie was
that Will had gotten so tired of all fantasy that he really pushed everything away just seeking straight facts instead
which I tend to ignore the fantasy in everyday life and focus on the facts
one of my friends is obsessed with telling stories that are obvious lies and
it just astounds me that he has nothing better to do than tell stories
well for a while I actually believed some of it until I found out otherwise
but unlike the father in Big Fish it wasn't just exaggerated truths
it was flat out lies but if I end up dwelling on pure fact it will just push people
away and things won't have as much flare or dazzle anymore
hell the only fantastic dazzle in stories I tell is from Maeniels point of view
other than that it's really just facts with a little innuendo here and there
I like movies for the stories
I like books for the stories
I like stories that make me think
I would rather read a complicated story with 5 or 6 different perspectives alternating every other chapter
than read one perspective that is very cut and dry
I like to be challenged by the stories I read
if I am not then I get bored of the book
I adored the golden compass trilogy due to the fact that it had a few different perspectives each brimming with it's own adventure and stories different standpoints and completely different experiences
my mind needs more than 1 thing to work on otherwise the task at hand seems dull
I like to pile things up overlap timeframes so I can keep myself occupied with several tasks
if I wanted a simple story I would go back to reading books that are under 250 pages
I loved the Eragon cycle due to the fact that the books were quite long and involved
many different concepts and creatures
and a couple books over 700 pages is always fun
I don't remember that movie...
he grew older and wrote everything off as impossible
it goes through all the stories while skipping back and forth to the present
one of the original stories was there was a witch with a fake eye that could show you your death
and throughout everything he keeps saying "this is not how I die" and he lives when it seemed he would not
The father has terminal cancer
His son never really gets to know him because he was always gone for long periods of time
and would always tell stories with lots of flair that seemed to be lies at first
but the son starts going through his fathers old stuff looking for any truths in the stories
and as he digs through he finds a lot of things that were true and goes to investigate
and finds out that his father did so many things to help others throughout his life
by the time he gets back to his fathers place he finds his father is in the hospital
because he had a stroke and hadn't woken up yet so his son spends the night in the hospital with him
to keep and eye on him and he promised to call his mother if anything happened
when his father wakes up he tells his son that this was the beginning of the story of when he dies
and as he lays dying his song tells him how he dies in the story
in this story when his father woke up he was better and needed to get to the river
and they had to escape the hospital and make their way to the river in his fathers old car that had been
as if it were brand new and as they made it to the edge of the river everyone from each part of the stories
had been there at the river bed with smiles on their faces wishing him farewell
and when the son puts his father into the water he turns into a gigantic catfish which was part
of another story of his
and the last scene is Will the son having his kid telling his friends his grandfathers stories
you'd have to watch the movie for the stories since I'd take forever to type them out
it's a good movie although it's a sad movie as well
I will let ya borrow it next time I see you.
Just remind me to bring it with.