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Big Fish
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTim Burton
Screenplay byJohn August
Based onBig Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
byDaniel Wallace
Produced byRichard D. Zanuck
Bruce Cohen
Dan Jinks
Starring
CinematographyPhilippe Rousselot
Edited byChris Lebenzon
Music byDanny Elfman
Production
companies
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing
Release dates
Running time
125 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$70 million[1]
Box office$123.2 million[1]

Big Fishis a 2003 Americanfantasydrama filmdirected byTim Burton,and based on the 1998 novelBig Fish: A Novel of Mythic ProportionsbyDaniel Wallace.[2]The film starsEwan McGregor,Albert Finney,Billy Crudup,Jessica Lange,Helena Bonham Carter,Alison Lohman,Robert Guillaume,Marion Cotillard,Steve Buscemi,andDanny DeVito.The film tells the story of a frustrated son who tries to distinguish fact from fiction in the life of his father, a teller oftall tales.

ScreenwriterJohn Augustread a manuscript of the novel six months before it was published and convincedColumbia Picturesto acquire the rights. August began adapting the novel while producers negotiated withSteven Spielbergwho planned to direct after finishingMinority Report(2002). Spielberg consideredJack Nicholsonfor the role of Edward Bloom, but eventually dropped the project to focus onCatch Me If You Can(2002).Tim BurtonandRichard D. Zanucktook over after completingPlanet of the Apes(2001) and broughtEwan McGregorandAlbert Finneyon board.

The film's theme of reconciliation between a dying father and his son had special significance for Burton, as his father had died in 2000 and his mother in 2002, a month before he signed on to direct.Big Fishwas shot on location inAlabamain a series of fairy talevignettesevoking the tone of aSouthern Gothicfantasy.Big Fishpremiered on December 4, 2003, at theHammerstein Ballroomand was released in limited capacity on December 10, 2003, by Columbia Pictures followed by a wide release on January 9, 2004. It garnered mostly positive reviews from critics. The film received award nominations in multiple film categories, including fourGolden Globe Awardnominations, seven nominations from theBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts,twoSaturn Awardnominations, and anOscarand aGrammy Awardnomination forDanny Elfman's original score. The set for the town ofSpectrestill remains and can be found inWetumpka, Alabama,atJackson Lake Island.

Plot[edit]

At William Bloom’s wedding party, his father Edward recalls the day Will was born, claiming he caught an enormouscatfishusing his wedding ring as bait. Will, having heard these stories all his life, believes them to be lies and falls out with his father. Will disputes his father's tales openly at the party, causing a scene that leads to their estrangement. Three years later, Edward is stricken with cancer, so Will and his pregnant French wife Josephine spend time with his father in Will's childhood home in Alabama.

Edward’s life is told through flashbacks, beginning with his encounter with awitchin his hometown, Ashton. She shows him his death, which doesn't faze him. As he grows into adulthood, he finds his home too confining, and sets out into the world with a misunderstoodgiant,Karl, who joins a traveling circus. Edward initially leaves Ashton alone and meets Karl at the circus, where they become fast friends.

Edward and Karl find a fork in the road and travel down separate paths. Edward follows a path through a swamp and discovers the secret town of Spectre. There, he befriends Ashton poet Norther Winslow, and the mayor’s daughter Jenny. Unwilling to settle down, Edward leaves Spectre but promises Jenny he will return.

At Joséphine's request, the bed-ridden Edward tells her how he met his wife Sandra, with Will listening outside the door. Returning to his reminisces, Edward reunites with Karl and they visit the Calloway Circus, where Edward falls in love with a beautiful woman. Karl and Edward get jobs in the circus where theringmasterAmos Calloway reveals to Edward one detail about the woman at the end of every month.

Three years later, Edward discovers that Amos is awerewolfbut shows no ill will towards his employer. In gratitude, Amos reveals the woman's name as Sandra Templeton, who attendsAuburn University.Edward confesses his love to Sandra, but she turns him down despite numerous romantic gestures. He learns she is engaged to Don Price, a fellow Ashton citizen. Don beats Edward in a fight (as Edward had promised Sandra that he would not hit Don moments before), prompting Sandra to break off their engagement and marry Edward. Don later dies while sitting on a toilet.

Shortly after, Edward isconscriptedinto the army and fights in theKorean War.He parachutes into the middle of aNorth Koreanmilitary show, steals important documents, and persuades theconjoined twinsPing and Jing to help him escape in exchange for making them celebrities. Upon returning home, Edward becomes atraveling salesmanand crosses paths with Winslow, unwittingly helping him rob a failing bank, inspiring the poet to work onWall Street.

In the present, Will investigates the truth behind his father’s tales and travels to Spectre. He meets an older Jenny, who explains that Edward rescued the town from bankruptcy and rebuilt it with help from his friends from Calloway Circus. Refuting Will's suspicion that she had an affair with his father, Jenny reveals while she loved Edward, he remained loyal to Sandra.

Will returns home but learns Edward has had astrokeand stays with him at the hospital. Edward wakes up but, unable to speak much, asks Will to narrate how his life ends. Though struggling, Will tells his father of their imagined daring escape from the hospital to the nearby lake, where everyone from Edward’s past is there to see him off. Will takes Edward into the river, where he transforms into a giant catfish and swims away. A satisfied Edward dies, knowing Will finally understands his love for storytelling.

At the funeral, Will and Joséphine are surprised when all the people from Edward’s stories come to the service, though each one is a slightly less fantastical version than described. Finally understanding his father’s love for life, Will passes on Edward’s stories to his son.

Cast[edit]

Themes[edit]

Big Fishis about what's real and what's fantastic, what's true and what's not true, what's partially true and how, in the end, it's all true.

—Tim Burton[3]

The reconciliation of the father-son relationship between Edward and William is the key theme inBig Fish.[4][5]Novelist Daniel Wallace's interest in the theme of the father-son relationship began with his own family. Wallace found the "charming" character of Edward Bloom similar to his father, who used charm to keep his distance from other people.[6]In the film, Will believes Edward has never been honest with him because Edward creates extravagant myths about his past to hide himself, using storytelling as an avoidance mechanism.[7]Edward's stories are filled withfairy talecharacters (a witch, mermaid, and werewolf) and places (the circus, small towns, the mythological town of Spectre), all of which are classic images and archetypes.[8]Thequestmotif propels both Edward's story and Will's attempt to get to the bottom of it. Wallace explains: "The father's quest is to be a big fish in a big pond, and the son's quest is to see through his tall tales."[6]

Screenwriter John August identified with Will's character and adapted it after himself. In college, August's father died, and like Will, August had attempted to get to know him before his death, but found it difficult. Like Will, August had studied journalism and was 28 years old. In the film, Will says of Edward, "I didn't see anything of myself in my father, and I don't think he saw anything of himself in me. We were like strangers who knew each other very well."[9][10]Will's description of his relationship with Edward closely resembled August's own relationship with his father.[9][10]Burton also used the film to confront his thoughts and emotions concerning the death of his father in 2000:[5]"My father had been ill for a while... I tried to get in touch with him, to have, like in this film, some sort of resolution, but it was impossible."[8]

Religion and film scholar Kent L. Brintnall observes how the father-son relationship resolves itself at the end of the film. As Edward dies, Will finally lets go of his anger and begins to understand his father for the first time:

In a final gesture of love and comprehension, after a lifetime of despising his father's stories and his father as story-teller, Will finishes the story his father has begun, pulling together the themes, images and characters of his father's storied life to blend reality and fantasy in act of communion and care. By unselfishly releasing the anger he has held about his father's stories, Will gains the understanding that all we are is our stories and that his father's stories gave him a reality and substance and a dimension that was as real, genuine, and deep as the day-to-day experiences that Will sought out. Will comes to understand, then, that his father—and the rest of us—are our stories and that the deeper reality of our lives may, in fact, not be our truest self.[11]

Production[edit]

Development[edit]

About six months before it was published, screenwriterJohn Augustread a manuscript ofBig Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions(1998) by authorDaniel Wallace.[12]August read the unpublished novel following the death of his father. In September 1998,[13]August convincedColumbia Picturesto acquire thefilm rightson his behalf.[14]August worked hard to make the episodic book into a cohesive screenplay, deciding on several narrators for the script.[8]In August 2000, producersBruce CohenandDan Jinksbegan discussions forSteven Spielbergto direct. Spielberg planned to haveDreamWorksco-finance and distributeBig Fishwith Columbia, and planned to have filming start in late 2001, after completingMinority Report(2002).[15][16]

Spielberg courtedJack Nicholsonfor the role of Edward Bloom Sr. and towards this end, had August compose two additional drafts for Nicholson's part. August recalls: "There was this thought that there wasn't enough for Jack Nicholson to do in the movie so we built new sequences. Pieces got moved around, but it wasn't a lot of new stuff being created. It ended up being a really good intellectual exercise in my explaining and defending and reanalyzing pieces of the story."[14]Spielberg eventually leftBig Fishwhen he became involved withCatch Me If You Can(2002), and DreamWorks also backed out of the film.[15][17]

My father had recently died and, although I wasn't really close to him, it was a heavy time, and it made me start thinking and going back to the past. It was something that was very difficult for me to discuss, but then this script came along and it actually dealt with those same issues, and so it was an amazing catharsis to do this film—because you're able to work through those feelings without having to talk to a therapist about it.

—Tim Burton[8]

With Spielberg no closer to committing, August, working with Jinks and Cohen,[14]consideredStephen Daldryas a potential director.[18]"Once Steven decided he wasn't going to do it, we put the script back to the way it was," recalls Jinks. "Steven even said, 'I think I made a mistake with a couple of things I asked you guys to try.'" August took his favorite elements from the previous drafts, coming up with what he called "a best-ofBig Fishscript "." By the time we approachedTim Burton,the script was in the best shape it had ever been. "[14]

Burton had never been particularly close to his parents, but his father's death in October 2000 and his mother's in March 2002 affected him deeply. Following the production ofPlanet of the Apes(2001), the director wanted to get back to making a smaller film. Burton enjoyed the script, feeling that it was the first unique story he was offered sinceBeetlejuice(1988). Burton also found appeal in the story's combination of an emotional drama with exaggerated tall tales, which allowed him to tell various stories of different genres.[8]He signed to direct in April 2002,[19]which promptedRichard D. Zanuck,who worked with Burton onPlanet of the Apes,to joinBig Fishas a producer. Zanuck also had a difficult relationship with his own father,Darryl F. Zanuck,who once fired him as head of production at20th Century Fox.[14]

Casting[edit]

Ewan McGregor in 2012

For the role of Edward Bloom, Burton spoke withJack Nicholson,Spielberg's initial choice for the role. Burton had previously worked with Nicholson onBatman(1989) andMars Attacks!(1996). In order to depict Nicholson as the young Bloom, Burton intended to use a combination ofcomputer-generated imageryandprosthetic makeup.The director then decided to cast around for the two actors in question.[8]Jinks and Cohen, who were then working withEwan McGregoronDown with Love(2003), suggested that Burton cast both McGregor andAlbert Finneyfor Edward. Burton later compared McGregor's acting style to regular colleagueJohnny Depp.[8]Viewing Finney's performance inTom Jones(1963), Burton found him similar to McGregor, and coincidentally found aPeoplemagazinearticle comparing the two.[14]McGregor, being Scottish, found it easier performing with aSouthern American Englishaccent. "It's a much easier accent to do than a standard American accent because you can really hear it. You can get your teeth into it. Standard American is much harder because it's more lyrical."[20]The same dual casting applied to the role of Bloom's wife, Sandra, who would be played byJessica LangeandAlison Lohman.[8]Burton commented that he was impressed with Lohman's performance inWhite Oleander(2002).[21]Burton's girlfriend,Helena Bonham Carter,was also cast in two roles. Herprosthetic makeupfor The Witch took five hours to apply. "I was pregnant throughout filming, so it was weird being a pregnant witch," the actress reflected. "I hadmorning sickness,so all those fumes and the make-up and the rubber... it was hideous. "[22]

Burton personalized the film with several cameos. While filming in Alabama, the crew tracked downBilly Redden,one of the original banjo players fromDeliverance(1972). Redden was working as a part-owner of a restaurant inClayton, Georgia,and he agreed to reprise his role in the Spectre vignette. As Edward Bloom first enters the town, Redden can be seen on a porch plucking a few notes from "Dueling Banjos".Burton was pleased with the result:" If you're watching the film and don't recognise the solitary, Enigma tic figure on the porch, that's fine. But if you do – well, it just makes me so happy to see him and I think other people will feel the same way. "[23]OriginalBig FishauthorDaniel Wallacemakes a brief appearance as Sandra's economics teacher in the "Courtship of Sandra Templeton" sequence.[24]

Filming[edit]

Burton focused on the story and limited the use of digital effects. Costume designerColleen Atwoodcreated special dresses for identical twins Ada and Arlene Tai. One set of dresses created the effect of fused twins on camera, while another set enhanced the addedCGIof conjoined twins.[25][26]

Burton planned to start filming in October 2002, but principal photography inAlabamadid not begin until January 13, 2003.[15]Apart from filming in Paris for one week in May,Big Fishwas entirely shot in Alabama,[8]mostly inWetumpka[27]andMontgomery(such as theCloverdaleneighborhood).[17]Brief filming also took place inTallasseeand on the campus ofHuntingdon College.[28]Scenes for the town of Spectre were filmed on a custom set located on Jackson Lake Island between Montgomery andMillbrook, Alabama,adjacent to theAlabama River.[29][30][31]Principal photography forBig Fishin Alabama continued until the first week of April.[8][32]and is estimated to have generated as much as $25 million for the local economy.[27]

Burton filmed all the dramatic hospital scenes and most of those involving Finney first, before moving on to the McGregor section of Bloom's life.[14]Although McGregor was on set from the beginning of filming, Burton chose to shoot all Finney's scenes first.[8]Location filming in Alabama was delayed by inclement weather; during the Calloway circus scenes filming, a tornado watch was issued and flooding on the set interrupted filming for several weeks.[33][34]Despite the delays, Burton delivered the film on budget and on schedule.[14]

The director attempted to limit the use of digital effects. However, because he wanted to evoke aSouthern Gothicfantasy tone forBig Fish,color gradingtechniques were applied bySony Pictures Imageworks.[8]Stan WinstonStudios, with whom Burton worked with onEdward Scissorhands(1990) andBatman Returns(1992), designed Helena Bonham Carter'sprosthetic makeupand created theanimatronics.[35]Scenes with Karl the Giant were commissioned usingforced perspectivefilmmaking.[26]

Music[edit]

Main article:Big Fish (soundtrack)

The soundtrack was composed by regular Burton collaboratorDanny Elfman.[8]Burton approachedPearl Jamduringpost-productionto request an original song for the soundtrack and closing credits. After screening an early print of the film, Pearl Jam vocalistEddie Vedderwrote "Man of the Hour",completing the demo by the next day. It was recorded by the band four days later.[36]GuitaristMike McCreadystated, "We were so blown away by the movie... Eddie and I were standing around talking about it afterwards and were teary-eyed. We were so emotionally charged and moved by the imagination and humanity that we felt because of the movie."[36]

Release[edit]

Columbia Pictures planned towide releaseBig Fishin the United States on November 26, 2003[37]before pushing it back to December 10 for alimited release.[38]The film’s world premiere took place on December 4, 2003, at theHammerstein Ballroomin Manhattan.[39]The domestic wide release in the US came on January 9, 2004, with the film appearing in 2,406 theaters and earning $13.81 million in its opening weekend. The film eventually grossed $66.81 million in U.S. totals and $56.11 million in foreign countries, with a total of $122.92 million worldwide.[40]

Critical response[edit]

Big Fishreceived positive reviews from film critics. Based on 219 reviews collected byRotten Tomatoes,75% of critics positively reviewedBig Fish,with an average score of 7.13/10. The site's consensus states: "A charming father-and-son tale filled with typical Tim Burton flourishes."[41]Metacriticcalculated an average score of 58/100, based on 42 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[42]Audiences polled byCinemaScoregave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[43]

Critics compared the film toForrest Gump(1994).[44][45]"Big Fishturns into a wide-eyedSouthern Gothicpicaresquein which each lunatic twist of a development is more enchanting than the last, "Owen GleibermanofEntertainment Weeklywrote. "It's likeForrest Gumpwithout the bogus theme-park politics. "[2]Peter TraversfromRolling Stonemagazine praised Burton's direction, feeling it was a celebration of the art of storytelling and a touching father–son drama.[44]

Mike Clark ofUSA Todaycommented that he was most fascinated by the casting choices. "Equally delightful is the Alison Lohman character's evolution into an older woman (Jessica Lange). It's a metamorphosis to equal any in screen history."[45]Internet reviewerJames Berardinellifound the fairy tale approach reminiscent ofThe Princess Bride(1987) and the films ofTerry Gilliam."Big Fishis a clever, smart fantasy that targets the child inside every adult, "Berardinelli said," without insulting the intelligence of either. "[46]Roger Ebert,in a mixed review, wrote "there is no denying that Will has a point: The old man is a blowhard. There is a point at which his stories stop working as entertainment and segue into sadism."[47]Richard CorlissofTimemagazine was disappointed, finding the father-son reconciliation storyline to be over-dramaticallycliché."You recallThe Boy Who Cried Wolf?Edward Bloom is the man who cried fish. "[48]Big Fishwas No. 85 onSlant Magazine's best films of the 2000s.[49]

Home media[edit]

TheRegion 1 DVDwas released on April 27, 2004,[50]and Region 2 was released on June 7.[51]The DVD features a Burtonaudio commentarytrack, seven featurettes and a trivia quiz. A special edition was released on November 1, 2005, with a 24-page hardback book entitledFairy Tale for a Grown Up.[52]The film was released onBlu-ray Discon March 20, 2007.[53]

Accolades[edit]

Award Category Recipient Result
Academy Awards[54] Best Original Score Danny Elfman Nominated
BAFTA Awards[55] Best Film Nominated
Best Direction Tim Burton Nominated
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Albert Finney Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay John August Nominated
Best Makeup and Hair Jean Ann Black andPaul LeBlanc Nominated
Best Production Design Dennis Gassner Nominated
Best Visual Effects Kevin Scott Mack,Seth Maury,
Lindsay MacGowan, Paddy Eason 		Nominated
Golden Globe Awards[56] Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Albert Finney Nominated
Best Original Score Danny Elfman Nominated
Best Original Song Pearl Jam
For "Man of the Hour" 		Nominated
Grammy Awards[57] Best Score for a Motion Picture Danny Elfman Nominated
Saturn Awards[58] Best Fantasy Film Nominated
Best Actor Albert Finney Nominated
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards[59] Best Actor Nominated
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards Best Foreign Film, Not in the Spanish Language Tim Burton Nominated
Awards Circuit Community Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role Albert Finney Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay John August Nominated
Best Cinematography Philippe Rousselot Nominated
Best Original Score Danny Elfman Nominated
Best Visual Effects Nominated
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards[60] Best Picture Nominated
Best Director Tim Burton Nominated
Best Writer John August Nominated
Best Composer Danny Elfman Nominated
Best Song Eddie Vedder Nominated
Casting Society of America Awards[61] Best Casting for Feature Film, Drama Denise Chamian Nominated

Adaptations[edit]

Amusical adaptationstarringNorbert Leo Butzpremiered in Chicago in April 2013.[62]

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