Big Fish

Congo, they speak only French. 398 00:41:58,023 --> 00:41:59,285 Really? 399 00:41:59,891 --> 00:42:03,190 You're lucky to get four words out of them in English. 400 00:42:03,361 --> 00:42:06,262 But if you were to walk through the jungle... 401 00:42:06,431 --> 00:42:10,128 ...you'd hear them speaking the most elaborate French. 402 00:42:10,836 --> 00:42:15,967 Those parrots talk about everything. Politics, movies, fashion. 403 00:42:16,141 --> 00:42:18,837 Everything but religion. 404 00:42:19,945 --> 00:42:21,276 Why not religion, Dad? 405 00:42:21,980 --> 00:42:26,644 It's rude to talk about religion. You never know who you're gonna offend. 406 00:42:31,990 --> 00:42:35,187 Josephine actually went to the Congo last year. 407 00:42:36,828 --> 00:42:38,887 Oh, so you know. 408 00:42:54,546 --> 00:42:56,980 Hello. 409 00:42:57,149 --> 00:42:59,515 Hi. How are you feeling? 410 00:43:00,485 --> 00:43:03,818 Oh, I was dreaming. 411 00:43:04,356 --> 00:43:06,847 What were you dreaming about? 412 00:43:07,926 --> 00:43:10,952 Oh, I don't usually remember... 413 00:43:11,129 --> 00:43:15,463 ...unless they're especially portentous. Do you know what that word means? 414 00:43:15,767 --> 00:43:18,895 It means when you dream about something that's gonna happen. 415 00:43:19,638 --> 00:43:22,129 Like one night, I had a dream... 416 00:43:22,307 --> 00:43:27,074 ...where this crow came and said: 417 00:43:27,245 --> 00:43:29,736 "Your aunt is gonna die." 418 00:43:30,916 --> 00:43:34,147 I was so scared, I woke up my parents... 419 00:43:34,319 --> 00:43:38,551 ...but they said it was just a dream and to get back to bed. 420 00:43:38,723 --> 00:43:42,215 But the next morning, my Aunt Stacy was dead. 421 00:43:42,594 --> 00:43:44,562 That's terrible. 422 00:43:44,729 --> 00:43:49,860 Terrible for her, but think about me, young boy with that kind of power. 423 00:43:50,435 --> 00:43:55,168 Wasn't three weeks later when the crow came back to me in a dream... 424 00:43:55,340 --> 00:44:00,039 ...and said, "Your daddy's gonna die." 425 00:44:00,879 --> 00:44:02,938 I didn't know what to do. 426 00:44:03,315 --> 00:44:06,978 I finally told my father, but he said: 427 00:44:07,152 --> 00:44:12,988 "Oh, not to worry." But I could see he was rattled. 428 00:44:13,158 --> 00:44:15,991 The next morning, he wasn't himself. 429 00:44:16,161 --> 00:44:20,757 Kept looking around, waiting for something to drop on his head. 430 00:44:20,932 --> 00:44:26,029 Because the crow didn't say how it was gonna happen, just those words: 431 00:44:26,204 --> 00:44:28,434 "Your daddy's gonna die." 432 00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:34,945 Well, he left home early and was gone a long time. 433 00:44:35,113 --> 00:44:37,843 When he finally came back, he looked terrible... 434 00:44:38,016 --> 00:44:41,281 ...like he was waiting for the ax to fall all day. 435 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,083 He said to my mother: 436 00:44:44,256 --> 00:44:48,022 "I've just had the worst day of my life." 437 00:44:48,193 --> 00:44:52,186 "You think you've had a bad day?" She said. 438 00:44:52,364 --> 00:44:57,495 "This morning, the milkman dropped dead on the porch." 439 00:44:59,638 --> 00:45:03,836 Because, see, my mother was banging the milkman. 440 00:45:05,644 --> 00:45:10,308 -Can I take your picture? -Oh, you don't need a picture. 441 00:45:10,482 --> 00:45:14,680 Just look up the word "handsome" in the dictionary. 442 00:45:14,853 --> 00:45:16,184 Please? 443 00:45:17,822 --> 00:45:19,289 All right. 444 00:45:22,694 --> 00:45:24,753 I have photos of the wedding to show you. 445 00:45:24,930 --> 00:45:27,364 There is a great one of you and my father. 446 00:45:33,705 --> 00:45:38,335 I want to see pictures of your wedding. I've never seen any. 447 00:45:38,510 --> 00:45:41,946 That's because we didn't have a proper wedding. 448 00:45:42,113 --> 00:45:45,514 Your mother-in-law was never supposed to marry me. 449 00:45:45,684 --> 00:45:49,518 -She was engaged to somebody else. -I never knew. 450 00:45:49,688 --> 00:45:52,282 Will never told you? 451 00:45:52,891 --> 00:45:55,325 Probably just as well. 452 00:45:55,493 --> 00:45:58,121 He would have told it wrong, anyway. 453 00:45:58,296 --> 00:46:01,493 All the facts, none of the flavor. 454 00:46:01,666 --> 00:46:05,329 Oh. So this is a tall tale. 455 00:46:06,204 --> 00:46:09,662 Well, it's not a short one. 456 00:46:12,477 --> 00:46:12,978 <i>I'd just left Spectre and was</i> <i>on my way to discover my destiny.</i> 457 00:46:12,978 --> 00:46:13,979 <i>I'd just left Spectre and was</i> <i>on my way to discover my destiny.</i> 458 00:46:13,979 --> 00:46:14,479 <i>I'd just left Spectre and was</i> <i>on my way to discover my destiny.</i> 459 00:46:14,479 --> 00:46:15,180 <i>I'd just left Spectre and wa