The movie frequently flashes back to the present to show new people on the bench jumping into the story (some hilariously more interested in what he is saying than others).īig Fish is less of a story about life pushing you around like a feather in the wind than a story about a father and son reconciling in the final days they have together. It is there we get flashbacks throughout his life. Forrest ( Tom Hanks) is a man who is telling his life story to a circulation of strangers at a bus stop. Even in its questionable presentation of some topics, it still manages to have a lot of heart that makes the movie so memorable.
It is an incredibly well-made film, one that is almost unanimously said to be better than the book it is based on. From intense war sequences to a romance across decades, Forrest Gump has managed to place itself as one of the most iconic films of all time, and that is no small feat. Forrest Gump may be the most famous tale of life in American cinema. Wallace mixes the mundane and the mythical.Not only are Big Fish and Forrest Gump made up of oral stories told to other characters, but many events that take place within the stories seem too far-fetched to be true, even if they are true. An imaginative, and moving, record of a son’s love for a charming, unknowable father' Kirkus Reviews 'An audacious, highly original debut novel. 'Daniel Wallace has created a jewel in Big Fish' Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump The much beloved book by Daniel Wallace is soon to be a Christmas musical at The Other Palace in London. Through legends and myths, William makes Edward into a true Big Fish. He tames a giant, is dragged by an enormous fish through a lake and escapes a purgatory of lost dreams. So William sets out to tell his father's story, as he imagines it. But now Edward is dying, suddenly it matters a great deal. Edward told him stories too incredible to believe about his exploits as a younger man, but any attempt to find out serious truths have been met with laughter and brush-offs.
Like many sons, William Bloom never really knew his father.
** COMING SOON AS A MUSICAL starring Kelsey Grammer ** ** A MAJOR TIM BURTON FILM starring Ewan Mcgregor and Jessica Lange **
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