【剧本】BIG FISH 大鱼.doc

BIG FISH Written by John August Based on the novel by Daniel Wallace Final Production Draft This is a Southern story, full of lies and fabrications, but truer for their inclusion. FADE IN: A RIVER. Were underwater, watching a fat catfish swim along. This is The Beast. EDWARD (V.O.) There are some fish that cannot be caught. Its not that theyre faster or stronger than other fish. Theyre just touched by something extra. Call it luck. Call it grace. One such fish was The Beast. The Beasts journey takes it past a dangling fish hook, baited with worms. Past a tempting lure, sparkling in the sun. Past a swiping bear claw. The Beast isnt worried. EDWARD (V.O.) By the time I was born, he was already a legend. Hed taken more hundred- dollar lures than any fish in Alabama. Some said that fish was the ghost of Henry Walls, a thief whod drowned in that river 60 years before. Others claimed he was a lesser dinosaur, left over from the Cretaceous period. INT. WILLS BEDROOM - NIGHT (1973) WILL BLOOM, AGE 3, listens wide-eyed as his father EDWARD BLOOM, 40s and handsome, tells the story. In every gesture, Edward is bigge