![]() ![]() Same thing."īig Fish is, in fact, the story of a story teller. As the father in this story, Edward Bloom tells his son (in the movie version), "We're storytellers, both of us. ![]() I'm no longer surprised that Tim Burton produced the film, as although it does seem magical and inviting, it also has its rather dark side. ![]() The New York Times Book review says of this book, "Comic and poignant." (That's an incomplete thought but whatever.) It is both of those things. Subtitled "A Novel of Mythic Proportions" it certainly is worth looking at how we tell stories and why we tell them the way that we do. The book made it appearance on the scene in 1998 and like many modern books, it caught the attention of Hollywood filmmakers for all the reasons I remembered it having been a good and entertaining film. I watched the movie when it first came out back in 2004 and remembered thinking that it had a fun premise, focused on the art of story telling. I didn't realize that Big Fish started out as a book but I found a copy of it at Goodwill last week and snatched it up. Chronicles of Narnia Reading Challenge (74). ![]()
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