Big Fish

Big Fish (2003)

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Corrected entry: During the scene showing a C-47 transport plane flying at night over enemy territory during the Korean War, in the background we hear the song "All Shook Up" to establish a time frame. This song by Elvis Presley was not released until March of 1957, almost four years after the end of the Korean War.

Correction: The song isn't actually being heard by the characters. It is for the audience to hear as part of the soundtrack.

Corrected entry: Towards the end at the hospital, the doctor tells Will what really happened at his birth, as opposed to the big fish and wedding ring story Ed tells at the beginning, and Will acts as though he has never heard the real story before. But Will already knew the real story because he used it to rebuff his father when they were arguing at the wedding about him telling the made up version.

Correction: The doctor probably didn't know that Will knew the truth, so Will was just being polite and pretending the doc's story was new to him.

Xofer

Corrected entry: When the young Edward Bloom meets up with Carl, after taking different roads outside of Ashton and Edward loses his shoes in Spectre, Carl says to him "Frank, what happened to your shoes?"

Correction: Carl asks, "FRIEND, what happened to your shoes?"

JustJudy

Corrected entry: How did Edward afford all those daffodils? He had no money when he started work at the circus, and he worked there for free for a couple of months.

Correction: Perhaps Amos loaned/gave him the money.

Xofer

Corrected entry: In the scene where Edward Bloom is about to parachute out of an airplane on his secret mission, he checks his watch, which is a Hamilton Khaki. This line of watches by Hamilton wasn't introduced until the early 1990s.

Correction: The young girl he meets in Spectre is also shown to be an old woman during his childhood. Chronological idiosyncrasies are a natural part of Ed's embellished stories.

Phixius

Continuity mistake: When Edward is walking through the forest and the trees grab him the key he is wearing falls off his neck, but in the next couple shots you can still see it hanging on his neck.

Nick N.

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Trivia: Helena Bonham Carter, who plays the grown up version of Jenny (from the town of Spectre), also plays the witch. She was at the time in a relationship with and eventually married director Tim Burton from 2001-2014.

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Question: The end credits say that BLUE'S CLUES and DORA THE EXPLORER are referenced and the "References" in the movie's IMDb page say that Edward was watching them on TV, but when did he? I don't see clips of either show.

Cody Fairless-Lee

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