Big Fish

Edward Bloom's "story" is set in a nostalgic, idealized "yesteryear" and not any historic time period, so factual inaccuracies are irrelevant.

When the senior Ed Bloom and his wife are both in the bathtub together, there are separate shots of each of them at their respective ends of the tub.

The water levels are noticeably different.

When Edward and Norther Winslow escape from the bank, Edward turns to look at the clerk in apology and leaves, jumping over a customer lying on the floor.

You can see his mark - a black dot - on the floor where he was standing.

When Ed Bloom is left to die and become the fish in the river at the end of the movie, you can see the cables under the water beneath the son's right hand.

Before Will leaves Jenny's house, Jenny signs a quitclaim deed and hands it to Will.

On it we see a notary seal.

A notary would not have placed a seal until after it was signed in the notary's presence.

The document also states that the property is being conveyed for zero dollars of consideration.

Real estate interests cannot pass without "consideration" and a one dollar amount is usually included to meet this requirement.

The document would be regarded as void without any money being exchanged.

When Edward is picked up by the scary tree in the woods, the key to the city falls to the ground.

In a close-up, the key is still around his neck.

Returning to the long shot, the key is again on the ground.

When Ed is dying in the hospital, his son watches him in anguish and there is only one light reflected in each of Will's and Ed's eyes.

When Ed's eyes become fixed, the light in his eyes brightens, and a second light can be seen reflecting in the corner of his eyes.

When the camera pans back to Will, two spots of light are now reflected in his eyes showing the addition of a second light off camera.

When Sandra joins Edward in the bathtub, they are sitting at opposite ends of the tub.

When Edward holds his hand out to Sandra, she puts both of her hands into the water to move toward him.

But in the next shot, both of her hands are on the rim of the tub as she moves toward him.

When Edward surprises the enemy soldiers and the enemies are preparing for the fight and are finished showing off their fancy moves, they are standing back to back (from Edward's point of view).

In the view from behind the enemies and looking at Edward, they are about 2 feet apart, then they are back to back again in the next shot.

When Will takes the Deed and puts it between the Handi-matic's fingers, it can be read "Deed of Trust".

When Eddie takes the deed Jenny has just signed, we read "Quitclaim Deed".

When old Edward is drinking the healthy can of something, he opens it, then in the next shot it hasn't been opened, then in the next shot it is open and he drinks from it.

When Ed Bloom (Young) comes to buy Jenny's house, he enters to see her playing piano, but the movement of her hands does not match the notes we hear.

When Edward is in Spectre having lunch together with Norther Winslow and the mayor, Norther is holding his cup with both hands.

When the camera goes down under the table to shoot Jenny while she steals Edward's shoes, Norther has his own hand close to his knee.

In the very next shot Norther Winslow is holding his cup with both hands again.

After Jenny has thrown Edwards's shoes up on the wire Norther, Mildred and the mayor invite Edward to follow them by putting their hands on his shoulders.

Mildred's hand is on Edward's back in the first shot, on his shoulder in the second one and again on his back in the following.

When the mayor is giving Young Edward Bloom the key to the city, watch the girl in the band with the clarinet.

From the camera angle when the mayor finishes his speech, she has her clarinet in her mouth.

The angle changes yet we can still see her, clarinet out of her mouth, then the angle changes back and the clarinet is back in her mouth.

When Edward first sees Sandra, and time stops, there is a woman swinging hula hoops.

At first, she holds the hula hoop with her hand at the top, but when Edward goes through the hula hoop to get to Sandra, she is holding it from the side.

Where the crowd gathers at the end of Edward's funeral, either Ping or Jing is seen talking in a small crowd, clearly separated from the other.

As the camera pans to another crowd gathered in the foreground, the other Siamese twin is seen simultaneously.

The twins were conjoined in Edward's tall tale, but when seen in real life they are ordinary identical twins.

This scene was clearly meant to reveal this fact.

Also, we can also see that Carl the "Giant" was not really a giant.

As the camera shows an overview of the people crowded around the casket, we can clearly see that Carl is just a little taller then everyone else.

All characters in Ed's stories are just fantastical exaggerations of real people.

When Edward Bloom infiltrates the "North Korean" concert there are multiple languages being spoken (not just Korean).

These languages include Mandarin, Cantonese, and Tagalog.

In addition, the translation book Edward reads on the plane in simply entitled "English to Asian".

This is done deliberately in order to obfuscate a reference to any country/war in which Ed might have been.

Ed is old enough to be a veteran of WWII, but he is fighting the Chinese, who would have been allied with the US at the time.

This is simply to let the audience know that the war is not WWII nor any specific war but is symbolic of all wars.

When Sandra is hanging laundry, right before Edward returns from the war, she is hanging a sheet on a clothes line.

A satellite television dish is clearly apparent on the house past her and to the left, right above the laundry basket on the ground.

In the "frozen" circus, a woman blinks to Ed's right as he reaches the floor level.

Will and Josephine live in Paris as the movie begins.

As they enter their apartment, they carry paper grocery bags.

No such bags are used in France.

Since the 1970s, all French supermarkets and grocery stores have been handing out plastic bags.

Ed Bloom has scratches on his face after the run-in with the werewolf.

The next day the scratches are gone.

In the bank robbery scene, a small portion of the FDIC logo on a gold colored plate is seen.

That particular logo was not used during the era of the movie.

When Edward leaves Spectre, there are fresh tire tracks in the grass, probably from the crane being used to film the scene.

Calloway tells young Edward that Sandra is in her last semester at Auburn.

Auburn's system used quarters, not semesters.

When Ed dives into the river after the water snake, he was all wet when he emerges from it, with leeches on his legs.

However when he returns to Spectre with Jenny in the next scene, his shirt and pants are completely dry.

While playing football in Ashton, Edward Bloom is running with the ball when two players from the opposing team dive to try to tackle him, and dive off screen.

As the camera continues to reveal more of the field, the players are nowhere to be seen.

They should have still been on the ground where they had fallen.

-- Maybe MILD, MILD SPOILERS -- for those who want to know what to expect from the movie but don't want to be spoiled of key aspects.If you knew exactly when you were going to die, would you live life differently?

This is a fantastic story. Ewan McGregor best performance in his career.

Burton creates one of his most Burton films in quite sometime. He brings that mixture of storytelling and folklore.

Big Fish should be filed under 'what could have been'. Having been a big Tim Burton fan in my formative years, having loved Batman and Beetle Juice in my early teens and then growing into Ed Wood later on, my interest was dwindling with Sleepy Hollow and turned into real concern with Planet of the Apes.

Nowadays there are very few movies like this. Nice plot, well made and intelligent scenes.

This movie changed the way I look at the world, people and situations around me. A masterpiece.

Ever know someone who exaggerates or just plain makes up everything they say? Sure you have, everyone has known someone like this, they're called B.

Will Bloom, a journalist, had been told the stories which his father, Ed Bloom, made up when he was a child. He is fed up with them and ashamed of him.

This is the story that a son and a father reconciled, but is a work having the big theme, reality and the fiction.The charm of this movie is scene constitution distributed neatly.