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This is my 100th

post for 

BLOG DAY AFTERNOON, 

it deserves recognition. 

It has been 3 years , more than 9000 views, 99 different films, topics or crazy ideas. To me,what started with a conversation about why i can´t stop talking about movies, became a way of pursuing this creative lifestyle i love. By using my memories, images and the written word, i´ve been able to connect with so many of you. The avid readers. Most of you i know in person, we have spoken, laughed or drank a cup of coffee together. What makes this experience unique is the fact that with this blog i can recconect with you with films. 

I haven´t seen a single movie with most of you, but we have shared a lot of films together here. In this tiny little reality. It has been quite a trip, i´ve found out more about myself now that i´ve writen about 

the movies i love .

Your opinion is always welcome and encouraged.

Thank you the readers of this 

carefully crafted and no deadline Blog.

For 10,000 more posts!

For the Love of Movies !

This is dedicated to you, 

that is why we needed a movie 

that standed right beside you.

BIG

Anne Spielberg, Steven Spielberg´s  sister, wrote the Big script with Gary Ross, with the idea that Harrison Ford would star and Steven Spielberg would direct. When they dropped out, producer James L. Brooks presented the script to Penny Marshall.

Push Play to 

listen to the soundtrack

Fantasy comedy:

Fantasy comedy films are types of films that uses magic, supernatural and or mythological figures for comic purposes. Most fantasy comedy includes an element of parody, or satire, turning many of the fantasy conventions on their head such as the hero becoming a cowardly fool, the princess being a klutz. 

In 1988 when director Penny Marshal decided to make a film about a boy who becomes a man overnight, she did not expect 3 more studios had the same idea.

Like Father Like Son 

 opened October 2, 1987

VICEVERSA opened March 11, 1988

18 AGAIN! opened April 8, 1988

Big opened last. Starring Tom Hanks, it became the first film directed by a woman to gross over US$100 million and was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Hanks) and Best Writing, Original Screenplay.  

With a budget of 18 million it made more than $151.7 million world wide,  because it did something the other films didn´t. It connected with us all with movie magic. 

On June 3, 1988 the world met Twelve-year-old Josh Baskin who lives with his parents and infant sister in Cliffside Park, New Jersey. He is told he is too short for a carnival ride called the Ring of Fire, while attempting to impress an older girl. 

He puts a coin into an unusual antique arcade fortune teller machine called Zoltar Speaks, and makes a wish to be "big". It dispenses a card stating "Your wish is granted", but Josh is spooked to see it was unplugged the entire time.

When Penny Marshall got the script, nobody was interested in doing the movie. It was only when she got Robert De Niro interested and  announced he wanted the part of Josh Baskin, that the script received attention from people wanting to do it. 

Harrison Ford turned down the role. Then John Travolta was one of director Marshall's top choices for Josh Baskin, and he wanted to do it, but the studio didn't want him, considering him to be "box office poison" at the time.  Robin Williams , Steve Guttenberg ,  Bill Murray, Judge Reinhold and Michael Keaton were considered for the role of Josh Baskin .

The Shimmy Coco Pop rap was not in the screenplay and was Tom Hanks's idea and he made up the words to the rap.

Tom Hanks was  unavailable due to scheduling conflicts . Robert De Niro was then offered the lead role, and was rejected because his salary demand ($6 million) was too high. Hanks then became available and accepted the lead role for $2 million. David Moscow was originally cast not as young Josh, but as Billy, since he didn't look like De Niro. When Hanks was given the role, Moscow was recast as young Josh.

I believe you don´t need 5000 extras to make an extraordinary film . I think after watching many films,  i prefer a good story and a small tight cast . As if we were watching a theatre play where actors trully react to one an other in specific spaces. The house, the office, the toystore, the playground. Another key element is the soundtrack.

THE MUSIC OF HOWARD SHORE

Howard Shore is one of today’s premier composers whose music is performed in concert halls around the world by the most prestigious orchestras and is heard in cinemas across the globe.

Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer who is notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. 

 Shore was one of the creators of Saturday Night Live and served as musical director from 1975 – 1980. Shore continues to distinguish himself with a wide range of projects, from Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, The Departed, The Aviator (for which he won his third Golden Globe Award) and Gangs of New York to Ed Wood, Se7en, The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, and Mrs. Doubtfire and his most recent score for Tom McCarthy’s Academy Award-winning Film Spotlight.

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Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin

David Moscow as 

Young Josh Baskin

Elizabeth Perkins as Susan Lawrence

Salvatore "Robert" Loggia as Mr. MacMillan   

(January 3, 1930 – December 4, 2015)

Jared Rushton as Billy 

To give star Tom Hanks an idea of how a 12 year-old would behave, director Penny Marshall filmed each "grown-up" scene with David Moscow (Young Josh) playing Hanks' part, who then copied Moscow's behavior.

The computer game Josh plays in the film, "Cavern of the Evil Wizard", was not a real computer game. It was created for the film.

It was rumored that an alternate ending has been filmed in which Susan had used the Zoltar machine and had made herself a little girl again and is seen sitting in Josh's class and that this ending was used in the CBS/FOX video release in New Zealand. However, no alternate ending had been filmed.

THE COSTUMES

The costumers of the movie took special care to ensure that Susan's character realistically transitions from uptight businesswoman at the beginning of the film, to a sweet, almost girl-like persona that she is at the end of the film. Notice that her wardrobe and hair gradually scene by scene become less and less adult (hair goes from pinned up to loose and with schoolgirl hand bands, clothes from tight suits to loose girlish angora separates and young skirts, shoes from heels to flats), and more more that of a schoolgirl. "Susan" may turn down the offer to become a little girl again, but we are left with the clear impression that thanks to her relationship with the Tom Hanks "adult" character, she has found her inner child.

Revisiting movies is one of the goals of this blog. Watching them again can bring a new light on the past. On our Past. How our perception has grown or change  also. We become more aware of evrything that happens on screen.

"i have to understand 

(the character )

his motivations "

-Tom Hanks

 (about acting)

"Someone (will) text me every once in a while and say, 'Hey, it's on Showtime and you're about to come on!' Usually it's when I'm in a big suit, right at the end," 

-David Moscow

Most films remain in our minds for a few days. This film is special to me, because it has remained with me my whole life. It showed me the adult life from a childs point of view. And how important is every step growing up. Now that i´m a grown up,  i´m happy to say i´ve never lost that child like wonder or laughter. I believe this is Tom Hanks finest performance. It is perfect and flawless. It connects with all of us in so many levels. As kids we want to be grown ups as grown ups we wish we could be kids again. Movies can give us that chance to remember the first times we watched something and were innocent. That is the spirit of BLOG DAY AFTERNOON.

This is a timeless film worth watching over and over again.  I am very privileged to have the opportunity of doing what i love. I love movies and ove writing about them .

TO YOU 
THANK YOU

FOR READING.