Fish food for thought
One benefit of leaving the comment threads open is that sometimes a long-dead post gets a surge of new activity. Over the past month, I’ve noticed a few new comments on a 2004 post featuring this photo…
…which is, according to Snopes, probably real in the sense that it’s not Photoshopped — though it’s probably not a catfish, and the fishermen may not even be American. (Imagine!)
I originally used the image because it bears an uncanny resemblance to the final incarnation of Edward in Big Fish.1
- Which I’ve now ruined for people who haven’t seen the movie. Did that deserve a spoiler warning? It’s hard to say where the line is once a movie’s been on DVD for a while. ↩
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May 7th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Not for nothing, but the movie is called Big Fish, after all. If there is no fish in the movie that turns out to be big, it’s a misleading title. So I think you’re alright as far spoilers go.
May 7th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Wait a second! I was under the impression that Big Fish was about the mating habits of the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna. Maybe I should go check it out.
May 7th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
I’m sure that would be the worst tasting fish you could imagine.
May 8th, 2007 at 12:32 am
BRUCE WILLIS WAS DEAD THE ENTIRE TIME!!!
To redeem myself, I will say that Big Fish was an awesome movie. And yes, it is hard to draw the line of when it’s safe to spoil a movie when it’s been on DVD for so long.
May 8th, 2007 at 4:25 am
It just so happens I saw the movie, for the first time, last Saturday. And I’m not ashamed to admit; I cried at the end. I cried like a….uh..(thinking)..I got it; I cried like my mother-in-law does whenever someone gets booted off American Idol. Lets just say, the river runs wild.
Great story. I’m using the outlines and screenplay as a, sort of, study guide. Thanks, John.
May 8th, 2007 at 11:58 am
I cried at the end, too. Actually, I cry at the end every time I watch it. It is a wondeful story.
May 8th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
eric netrup’s comment on the original post was right. that’s a wels catfish, silurus glanis, from europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wels_catfish
May 9th, 2007 at 3:14 am
Anyone else who subscribes to the comments via RSS may have seen the vaguely disturbing comments on an old post about Freddie Highmore as well…
May 14th, 2007 at 8:55 am
‘I cried at the end, too. Actually, I cry at the end every time I watch it. It is a wondeful story.’
That’s funny, John cries whenever he gets his residuals check too!