#so like there’s. no ‘real’ specter. there’s no ‘real’ Jenny hill

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me when I see a post I disagree with on tumblr dot com but I don’t wanna reblog it because it’s really just someone expressing their opinion and it’s years old anyway

[ID: A version of the man at a party “they don’t know” meme. It reads:

“They don’t know Spectre in the movie was already a merger between the place that had no name, a purgatory-like place just outside of Ashland, and the town of Specter, a cute town Edward buys just for the hell of it, and also that the story of the witch is a merger of the old lady with the glass eye and Jenny Hill, the girl who lives in a swamp and acts strange and crazy and mysterious after Edward leaves her with a broken heart, so that’s why they’re the same person in the movie. And also that John August wrote the book to the musical too and Daniel Wallace approved of his adaptations for both movie and musical.” End ID]

#original post #big fish #also that musicals and movies have different methods of storytelling and different purposes a lot of the time so things are gonna change #you can fit a lot more into a movie and have the audience understand it #and even more in a book #cause it’s easier to pause and rewatch or reread and stuff #so I think some things were cut to make the story less confusing #but also I see it as. the book is the original. the movie is John August’s (and tim Burton’s?) fantastical adaptation #where there’s like more magic than myth. like it’s more like fun fairytales than myths that are sometimes dark #and also where everything turns out to be based in truth #and then the musical is like refining the movie plot and treating that story as it’s own thing #not as worried about fitting in as much from the book as possible because things are gonna have to be cut anyway #so instead it’s just fitting in some of the most spectacular (like visual spectacle) parts of the movie #also I’m pretty sure (though I just realized this a few days ago) #that specter in the book isn’t even a town Edward told William about. that’s not Edward’s story #it’s William’s story. it’s his first attempt at adding to his father’s mythology #but it’s dark and it doesn’t paint Edward in an entirely positive light because at first William can only think of him as an absent father #so the myth he writes is an explanation of why he was so absent #so like there’s. no ‘real’ specter. there’s no ‘real’ Jenny hill #so tbh if the goal is complete accuracy to the source #or at least accuracy of all the themes of the source #the movie already ‘bungled’ a lot lol #anyway. not that the one person who made that post will see this #also I don’t really want them to #also anyway big fish night 2 tonight yippee #you’ll never guess who I play. based on all my big fish posts