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.

Tables turned, Will searches for an answer. He doesn’t have one.
Dr. Bennett hangs the chart back on the bed.
DR. BENNETT (cont’d) Did your father ever tell you about theday you were born?
WILL:
A thousand times. He caught an uncatchable fish.
DR. BENNETT Not that one. The real story. Did he ever tell you that?
WILL:
(suddenly interested) No.
DR. BENNETT Your mother came in about three in the afternoon. Her neighbor drove her, onaccount of your father was on businessin Wichita. You were born a week early, but there were no complications.
It was a perfect delivery. Now, yourfather was sorry to miss it, but itwasn’t the custom for the men to be in the room for deliveries then, so Ican’t see as it would have been much different had he been there. And that’s the real story of how you wereborn.
A long silence, just the sounds of the hospital, doctorsbeing paged.
DR. BENNETT (cont’d) Not very exciting, is it? And I suppose if I had to choose between thetrue version and an elaborate one involving a fish and a wedding ring, Imight choose the fancy version. But that’s just me.
Will half-smiles.
Patting Will’s shoulder, Dr. Bennett leaves. We STAY ON Will and his father for a long time, then Will takes his pen andstarts making a list.
110.
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - VARIOUS SHOTS Will flips to a new page. The list keeps getting longer.
He smiles, remembering something. On his fourth page, he looks up at his motionless father. A beat, then we slowly CROSSFADE TO: INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - PRE-DAWN It’s very early morning, and the first blue light of day isglowing through the vertical blinds. Still in his chair, Will wakes up a bit at a time. The notepad is on his lap, the pen in his hand.
He cracks his neck, crooked from sleeping on it wrong. What woke him up?
He looks to his right. Holds his gaze for a breath.
WILL:
Dad?
His father is awake, silently GASPING for breath. His eyesare open, scared and confused.
WILL (cont’d) Dad! Do you want me to get a nurse?
Edward shakes his head unambiguously. Will already has hisfinger on the orange “nurse call” button, but doesn’t pushit.
WILL (cont’d) What can I do? Can I help? Can I getyou something? Water?
Edward nods. Will pours a glass from the pitcher on thenightstand. He holds it to his father’s lips, but Edwardwon’t drink. He pushes it away. He wanted something else.
EDWARD:
(whispering) The river.
WILL:
The river?