In the Big Fish Sequence Outline posted in the Library, you have boxes around certain sequences (i.e. sequences 3,5,8 etc.), but not around others. What do these boxes reference?
— Gerald
Mississippi
The boxes indicate which sections of the movie are Edward’s stories. I wanted to show the balance between real-world stuff and fable.
Why did Edward Bloom leave Ashland?
— Anonymous
Because it’s too small for a man of his ambition. That’s what Edward says to Karl the Giant before they head off on their adventure.
Beginner’s luck? Is that supposed to happen?
— Mark
It’s a fallacy. We expect someone trying something for the first time to fail, so when they succeed, we call it “beginner’s luck” to discount it. But depending on the nature of the task, it’s actually just skill or garden-variety luck.
A person who succeeds early and later fails may likewise try to diminish the first success by declaring it “beginner’s luck.” But it’s almost worth looking at the situation in which they were first successful, and what’s changed. Likely the “beginning” was an arbitrary point decided after the fact, and the subsequent efforts are being scored by different and perhaps unrealistic criteria.