Editing Big Fish (section)

==Plot==
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At William Bloom's wedding party, his father Edward recalls the day Will was born, claiming he caught an enormous [[catfish]] using his wedding ring as bait. Will has heard his father's fanciful tales many times, and believes they are lies. Fed up by the stories, Will has a falling out with his father. Three years later, Edward is diagnosed with cancer, prompting Will and his pregnant wife Joséphine to spend time with him in [[Alabama]].

Edward's life is chronicled through flashbacks, beginning with his boyhood encounter with a witch. She shows Edward how he will die, which does not faze him. As he reaches adulthood, he finds his home too confining, and sets out into the world. He meets a giant named Karl, and they begin traveling together. When they find a fork in the road, they take separate paths. Edward traverses a swamp and discovers the hidden town of Spectre, where he befriends the poet Norther Winslow and the mayor's daughter, Jenny. Not ready to settle down, Edward leaves Spectre, but makes a promise to Jenny that he will return.

At Joséphine's request, the bed-ridden Edward tells her how he met his wife, Sandra. In more flashbacks, Edward and Karl visit the Calloway Circus, where Edward falls in love with a beautiful woman. Edward and Karl get jobs in the circus, and the ringmaster Amos Calloway reveals to Edward one detail about the woman each month. Three years later, Edward discovers that Amos is a [[werewolf]], but shows no ill will towards him. In gratitude, Amos reveals the woman's name as Sandra Templeton. Edward confesses his love to Sandra, but she rebuffs him despite his romantic gestures. Sandra's fiancé Don Price beats Edward up, which prompts Sandra to break off their engagement and marry Edward instead.

Shortly after, Edward is conscripted into the army and fights in the [[Korean War]]. He parachutes into the middle of a North Korean military show, steals important documents, and persuades the twins Ping and Jing{{Efn|During flashback scenes, Edward describes Ping and Jing as "Siamese twins". In these scenes they are depicted as [[conjoined twins]], a reference to the real-life [[Thai people|Thai]] conjoined twin performers [[Chang and Eng Bunker]]. In the funeral scene at the film's conclusion, Ping and Jing are depicted as twins who are not conjoined.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wijdicks |first=Eleco F.&nbsp;M. |title=Cinema, M.&nbsp;D.: A History of Medicine on Screen |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2021 |isbn=9780190685799}}</ref>{{Rp|page=248}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Duarte |first=José |title=Tim Burton's Bodies: Gothic, Animated, Creaturely and Corporeal |last2=Martins |first2=Ana Rita |publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-4744-5690-6 |editor-last=Hockenhull |editor-first=Stella |pages=219–232 |chapter='A Giant Man Can't Have an Ordinary-sized Life': On Tim Burton's ''Big Fish'' |doi=10.1515/9781474456920-020 |editor-last2=Pheasant-Kelly |editor-first2=Fran}}</ref>{{Rp|pages=222–230}}}} to help him escape in exchange for making them celebrities. Upon returning home, Edward becomes a traveling salesman. In the present, Will investigates the truth behind his father's tales. He meets an older Jenny, who explains that Edward rescued Spectre from bankruptcy and rebuilt it with help from his circus friends. Jenny reveals that although she loved Edward, he remained loyal to Sandra.

Edward has a stroke and Will visits him at the hospital. Unable to speak much, he asks Will to narrate how his life ends. Will tells his father a fantastical tale of their daring escape from the hospital. They travel to a lake, where everyone from Edward's past is there to see him off. Will carries his father into the river, where he transforms into a giant catfish and swims away. Satisfied by Will's story, Edward dies peacefully. At the funeral, Will and Joséphine are surprised to see all the people from Edward's stories, although they appear slightly less fantastical. Later, Will passes on Edward's stories to his son.