大鱼 Big Fish (2003) Movie Script

杰瑞发布于2023-11-21

爱德华（伊万·麦克格雷格 Ewan McGregor 饰）生性热爱自由，成年之后，他选择离开家乡，踏上了环游世界的旅程。一路上，爱德华遇见了各种各样稀奇古怪的角色，经历了无数精彩绝伦的的冒险，而他日后最大的兴趣，就是向他人喋喋不休的重复讲述他的这一段奇幻旅程。　　威尔（比利·克鲁德普 Billy Crudup 饰）是爱德华的儿子，他并不相信父亲所讲述的那些光怪陆离的故事，甚至对此感到无比厌烦。婚后，他同父亲中断了联系，一晃眼就是数年过去。当再次得到爱德华的消息之时，威尔才知道父亲即将不久于人世，他决定去见爱德华最后一面。然而，这一次，威尔终于发现了隐藏在这些故事背后的奥秘和真相。 When Edward Bloom (Albert Finney) becomes ill, his son, William (Billy Crudup), travels to be with him. William has a strained relationship with Edward because his father has always told exaggerated stories about his life, and William thinks he's never really told the truth. Even on his deathbed, Edward recounts fantastical anecdotes. When William, who is a journalist, starts to investigate his father's tales, he begins to understand the man and his penchant for storytelling.

The woolly kind. A mammoth.
WILL:
(interrupting) Dad!
EDWARD:
What?
WILL:
I’m trying to make a metaphor here.
EDWARD:
Then you shouldn’t have started with aquestion. Because people want toanswer questions. You should have started with, “The thing about icebergsis...”
WILL:
(frustrated) The thing about icebergs is you onlysee 10 percent of them. The other 90 percent is below the water where youcan’t see it. And that’s what it is with you Dad. I’m only seeing thislittle bit that sticks above the water.
EDWARD:
(joking) What, you’re seeing down to my nose?
My chin?
WILL:
I have no idea who you are because youhave never told me a single fact.
EDWARD:
I’ve told you a thousand facts. That’s all I do, Will. I tell stories.
WILL:
You tell lies, Dad. You tell amusinglies. Stories are what you tell a five- year old at bedtime.
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WILL (cont'd) They’re not elaborate mythologies youmaintain when your son is ten andfifteen and twenty and thirty. And the thing is, I believed you. I believed your stories so much longer than Ishould have. And then when I realized that everything you said was impossible-- everything! -- I felt like such afool to have trusted you. You were like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunnycombined. Just as charming and just asfake.
EDWARD:
You think I’m fake.
WILL:
Only on the surface. But that’s all I’ve ever seen.
Edward looks away, angry and disbelieving.
WILL:
Dad, I’m about to have a kid of my ownhere. It would kill me if he went through his whole life neverunderstanding me.
EDWARD:
It would kill you, huh?
Finally -
EDWARD:
What do you want, Will? Who do youwant me to be?
WILL:
Yourself. Good, bad, everything. Just show me who you are for once.
EDWARD:
I have been nothing but myself sincethe day I was born. And if you can’tsee that, it’s your failing, not mine.
EXT. BACKYARD - DAY With a skimmer pole, Will cleans the leaves and debris out ofthe pool, but it’s a fool’s errand. The pool has long sincegone native, a shiny slick of algae on the surface, slimecovering the cemented rocks.
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Suddenly, an underwater shape RIPPLES against the water’ssurface. Will is so startled that he drops the pole, whichdisappears into the murky water.