"You were hot shit back in Hickville...."

First and foremost, Big Fish is my favorite movie and I know that may surprise you. I saw the movie around the time that it came out on DVD and instantly fell in love. The stories, the characters, and not to mention my love for Ewan McGregor and Danny DeVito (whom I met :) ). But it wasn't until I read the connections that Edward Bloom wanted to be immortalized just as others did in the books that we read. The thought of that never crossed my mind in the 100s of times I have seen Big Fish. The thought of it kind of left a taste in my mouth and I thought of what Amos Calloway said, "Sure I do! You were hot shit back in Hickville, but here in the real world, you got squat! You don't have a plan, you don't have a job, you don't have anything except the clothes on your back." So Edward Bloom made himself immortalized in his stories that would be passed on by his family members. His different and exciting life filled with all sorts of adventures is exactly how he would be known. Not by extreme beauty or his magical abilities (or whatever happened in The Stranger), but by his family. And I think that mainly this is a masculine thing, to be remembered by future generations. They erect buildings or want their names on the side of a plane (Up in the Air) so that people will remember them when they're gone. And honestly, I would like the same thing to happen, to be remembered. And the transition that high school students are going to make this fall from a small pond to the ocean is frightening. I know that I can be seen as a somewhat big fish and that people will remember me for some years, but how long will that last? How can I immortalize myself in such a way that people will remember me? The whole thought scares me, because in college I want to be known. Not as the kid who sits in the classroom and sneezes to loud, but as someone that my classmate will remember. Oxford can be seen as a "Hickville," but I know that I'm going into the ocean, and I don't want to drown.......