Big Fish

0115483: Final Project for Journalism 2

Final Project, Semester 1, Academic Year 2012Final Project: Make a film blog.

1. Choose a scene from the screenplay. Post the scene, then answer these questions about the scene.

Who is involved in the scene?

Ans. Young Dr. Bennett, Doctor, Nurses, Will (baby), Edward bloom, and Mrs. Bloom

Where does it take place?

Ans. Hospital Room, Hospital hallway, and Half-Dark Paris Apartment.

When does it take place?

Ans. Day.

What is happening?

Ans. Young Dr. Bennett stands between wife's legs. She's flustered and sweating, but the doctor has comforting beside manner. Suddenly, we hear a Pop as slimy mass of human being rockets into the doctor's unprepared hands. Bennett tries to hold tight, but the infant is slippery like a fish. The nurses and the husband try to grab the baby, but no one can hold it. As the newborn sails upward Towards Camera, we can see a giggling smile on its face.

Why is this scene taking place?
Ans. This is the scene of the newborn.

How do the protagonists feel?
Ans. He is very glad his son was born, but wonder that why his born is not like other?.

2. Give basic information about the film:

Directed by : Tim Burton
Produced by :   Dan Jinks
Bruce Cohen
Richard D. Zanuck
Screenplay by:   John August
Based on: Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace
Starring: Ewan McGregor
Albert Finney
Billy Crudup
Jessica Lange
Marion Cotillard
Alison Lohman
Steve Buscemi
Danny DeVito
Helena Bonham Carter
Hailey Anne Nelson
Matthew McGrory
Music by: Danny Elfman
Cinematography: Philippe Rousselot
Editing by: Chris Lebenzon
Studio : Jinks/Cohen Company
The Zanuck Company
Tim Burton Productions
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release date(s): December 10, 2003
Running time:    126 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $70 million
Box office : $122,919,055

3. Describe, in your own words, how the following people contributed to the film.

Film producer

In the case of Big Fish, it’s not your average, ordinary movie. It’s very hard to describe even after you've seen it because it has so many elements. He didn't want to give away the whole movie in the trailer.

Film director

The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. The son winds up re-creating his father's elusive life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father's great feats and his great failings.

Director of photography

Cinematographer Philippe Rousselot, who filmed hope and glory and dangerous liaisons. He did the visual work which is perhaps a bit too unsubtle with scenes in the real world having a cold, washed-out look and fantasy scenes having richer color. But somehow the fantasy images have a decided Americana feel to them. In the scenes where this American fantasy works it is effective and has a different flavor from the fantasy that Burton has put on the screen in the past.

Sound director

Big Fish adapted from Daniel Wallace's novel. It tells a tear-jerking dramatic tale in the context of a wildly imaginative distortion of reality. It's lavish production values, Big Fish is the story of a dying father in Alabama who has spent a lifetime telling his son tall tales about his own youth, with most of the stories far too bizarre to be true.

4. Write an original, five-paragraph review of the film.

Tim Berton, the director who chose Big Fish, written by Daniel Wallace to be movie. He makes the scenes in American fantasy works. It is effective and has a different flavor from the fantasy that he has put on the screen in the past.

But, the best thing about the film is that it successfully challenges to make a novel to be realistic. First of all, the biggest challenge is plot story. The big fish movie that made from big fish novel, writer wrote by beautiful and emblem language. Second, playwright must translate from novel book to movie screenplay that must clear and make audience understanding. It’s very hard work but John August can do it well. Yet in duty of director, Tim Berton is success to make perfect movie. The audience can get movie and approach it.

However, don’t forget that the big fish is dramatic tale in the context of a wildly imaginative distortion of reality. At the end of the movie is happy ending because the son can find out the real life of his father. So, it make someone who like a strange and cruel ending to be disappointed.

Big Fish is the fantastic movie that suitable with someone who like to find out something in the real and it’s include with the imagination that make you exciting every times. All of you can touch with the imagination and fantastic movie.

5. Post photos of the film.