Big Fish
Practice!
Assessment Presentation Task
In preparation of your next formal assessment task, you are to present a short speech about one of the symbols in the film we have been studying, Big Fish
It should be approximately 1 minute in length.
Choose one of the following symbols or one of your own choosing to analyse. * White Picket Fence * Eyes * Key to Ashton * Town of Spectre * Bare Feet * Divided Roads * Daffodils * Wedding Ring * Lady in the River
Your analysis should cover examples from the film and meaning the symbols conveys.
(See teacher example of the ‘Big Fish’ for assistance.)
Film director plot characters set stars genre
Good morning miss and class. The film Big Fish written by Daniel Wallace and John August is a tale of a dying father Edward Bloom and his son Will. He has a very strained relationship with his father when he gets the idea the all his stories are 'lies'. The movie is called "Big Fish" because there's a common motif of 'Fish Tales" where a fisherman comes home from fishing and says he caught a big fish. The son winds up re-creating his father's mysterious life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father's great accomplishments and his great failings. This movie follows the incredible life of Edward Bloom, through a series of flashbacks that begin when his son Will visits him for the last time. Edward is dying of cancer, and Will hasn't spoke to him for years because he believes him to be a liar that never really cared for his family. As Edward's story unfolds once again, Will tries to finally understand the truth about who his father really was.
There are a lot of symbols used in this movie; Symbolism is when the writers use an object or reference to add deeper meaning to a story. Symbolism in movies can be obvious, used cautiously or a lot more complicated and require some thinking ultimately a symbol is a
Assessment Presentation Task
In preparation of your next formal assessment task, you are to present a short speech about one of the symbols in the film we have been studying, Big Fish
It should be approximately 1 minute in length.
Choose one of the following symbols or one of your own choosing to analyse. * White Picket Fence * Eyes * Key to Ashton * Town of Spectre * Bare Feet * Divided Roads * Daffodils * Wedding Ring * Lady in the River
Your analysis should cover examples from the film and meaning the symbols conveys.
(See teacher example of the ‘Big Fish’ for assistance.)
Film director plot characters set stars genre
Good morning miss and class. The film Big Fish written by Daniel Wallace and John August is a tale of a dying father Edward Bloom and his son Will. He has a very strained relationship with his father when he gets the idea the all his stories are 'lies'. The movie is called "Big Fish" because there's a common motif of 'Fish Tales" where a fisherman comes home from fishing and says he caught a big fish. The son winds up re-creating his father's mysterious life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father's great accomplishments and his great failings. This movie follows the incredible life of Edward Bloom, through a series of flashbacks that begin when his son Will visits him for the last time. Edward is dying of cancer, and Will hasn't spoke to him for years because he believes him to be a liar that never really cared for his family. As Edward's story unfolds once again, Will tries to finally understand the truth about who his father really was.
There are a lot of symbols used in this movie; Symbolism is when the writers use an object or reference to add deeper meaning to a story. Symbolism in movies can be obvious, used cautiously or a lot more complicated and require some thinking ultimately a symbol is a