Leonard Maltin’s mid-term exam
I was hoping you could clarify something for me–well actually, a bunch of us from Leonard Maltin’s film class at USC have the same question. One of our potential midterm questions asks: “John August commented that Big Fish differed from typical family films in one specific way. What was the difference he spoke about?”
Nobody seems to have a specific answer to that question; could you please help us out? I realize that your time is precious but I would really appreciate if you could give me the briefest of responses so I don’t fail!
–Catherine
Los Angeles
Honestly, I might get this wrong as well. But I suspect I said that most movies about families have the big blow-out argument at the end. In BIG FISH, the only argument is at the start of the movie.
Good luck on the test.
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July 19th, 2006 at 7:28 am
Not to mention the majority of family films don’t feature giants, werewolves, siamese twins, meremaids, robbery-prone poets and anachronistic witches.