BIG FISH river scene Tim Burton
von Capucine · old hollywood: Tim Burton
The way BIG FISH builds to Will telling his father the river story, then follows it with that funeral, is just wrecking. Tim Burton made grief feel impossibly beautiful in this one.
Transkript (en)
Dad? Hey, Dad. Hey, you want me to get the nurse? Huh? What do you want? What can I do? What can I get? You want some water? A little bit of water? The river. The river? Tell me how it happens. How what happens? Why come? You mean what you saw in the eye? I don't know that story, Dad. You never told me that one. Okay. Hey, okay. I'll try. I need your help. Tell me how it starts. Like this. okay okay okay so so it's uh it's in the morning and you and i are in the hospital and i'd fall asleep in the chair and i wake up and i see you somehow you better dad you uh different dad let get out of here and I say Dad you in no condition Get that wheelchair Hurry up, we haven't much time. Once we get off this floor, we're in the clear. And, uh, we get in the wheelchair. Faster! Like we're escaping from the hospital and... Well, what are you doing? Best Dr. Bennett who tries to slow us down. There it is! Stop him! We're flying down the hall. Orderly after orderly is chasing us. And Mom and Josephine are at the end of the hall. No time to explain. Stall them! Come flying out the front over the curb. Your old red charger is there. But it's new, brand new. And I pick you up. And somehow, you hardly weigh anything. I can't explain it. Leave it, we don't need it. Water, I need water. Where are we going? The river. We have to take Glenville to avoid the church traffic because of them. Church people drive too slow. No! you and uh as we get as we get close to the river He's here! We see that everybody is already there. And I mean... everyone. It's unbelievable. The story of my life. And the strange thing is there's not a sad face to be found. Everyone is just so glad to see you. and send you off right. Goodbye, everybody. Farewell. Adieu. My girl in the river I'm sorry. You become what you always were. A very big fish. And that's how it happens. Exactly.
