Demystifying Dad and Big Fish with Guest Louisa Smith
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Tim Burton's Big Fish is about a man who hopes to get a better sense of who is yarn-spinning father is. Are there larger truths in our parents’ self-constructed myths? In their “amusing lies”? Who were our parents before we were born, anyway? Is it possible to get to know those people?
It's another movie about a dad so on the nose with its themes that it is impossible to open with a pithy line about the issues it offers for unpacking.
Join Sarah, Alex and guest Louisa Smith as they unpack.
Why Are Dads is a show in which we attempt to understand what the hell it means to be the grown children of dads and other dad-like figures. And, as we do with all difficult subject matter, we this by looking through a pop culture lens.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. You are listening to Why Our Dads with Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed. I am the |
| 0:08.3 | Alex side of that equation. We'll get to Sarah soon and our guest for today's episode, |
| 0:13.5 | Louisa Smith. We're so lucky to have Louisa Friend of the show, Louisa Smith, on this |
| 0:19.8 | episode where we talk about Big Fish. |
| 0:22.6 | Why are Dads as a show where we watch movies and talk about pop culture generally, |
| 0:27.0 | though it's movie focused all the time to better understand dads and dad themes and very |
| 0:33.9 | specifically what it's like to be the grown children of dads what the dad |
| 0:40.1 | aftermath wrought and this one this movie big fish is this is like kind of the ultimate |
| 0:46.8 | understanding the dad aftermath in one way or another and we're so lucky that louisa suggested |
| 0:52.9 | that we watch it and that Louisa came on to |
| 0:55.4 | talk about it with us. Oh, you know, I should tell you, or I want to tell you, that we have a Patreon, |
| 1:00.4 | which if you can support, that's fantastic. If you're not able to support, that's also totally fine. |
| 1:05.8 | We're just glad that you're here. Though people who support the Patreon get a couple bonus conversations |
| 1:10.7 | every month. |
| 1:12.4 | So you can find us on Patreon at Why Are Dads? |
| 1:15.2 | Okay, so Big Fish, this is a movie that came out, I believe, in 2003. |
| 1:19.5 | It is based on a book. |
| 1:20.9 | It is a Tim Burton film. |
| 1:22.4 | If you listen to this show, there's always a way to find dad themes in every movie. |
| 1:26.3 | But this is a big one. It's about a man who |
| 1:28.8 | at the end of his dad's life is hoping for a bit of resolution, a bit of understanding who his |
| 1:36.8 | father really was. Is he all of these tall tales that he's told his entire life? Or is there, |
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