| 1 | * ActingForTwo: [[spoiler: Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter as Jenny Beamen and the Witch]]. |
| 2 | * TheCastShowoff: When young Edward Bloom is singing in the church and his voice breaks, that single note that we hear is actually Creator/EwanMcGregor singing. |
| 3 | * DuelingMovies: With ''Film/SecondhandLions'', another story about an aging man confronting his mortality while recounting the larger-than-life adventures from his youth to a younger relative, where it's left ambiguous how many of his past escapades actually happened. |
| 4 | * FakeAmerican: Both Edward (played by English Creator/AlbertFinney and Scottish Creator/EwanMcGregor) and Jenny (played by English Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter). They do it quite well. No OohMeAccentsSlipping here. |
| 5 | * HideYourPregnancy: Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter was pregnant during filming. |
| 6 | * MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor: Creator/MarionCotillard originally performed her on-camera lines in English, and would later go on to re-record her lines for the French release. |
| 7 | * PlayingAgainstType: |
| 8 | ** This movie seems surprisingly [[LighterAndSofter bright and cheery]] for a Creator/TimBurton film. |
| 9 | ** Creator/EwanMcGregor had first made a name for himself in the extremely dark ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' as a heroin addict; he then played a dashing romantic lead in ''Film/MoulinRouge'' and, when ''Big Fish'' was made, had settled into being an action hero by playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequels. His suddenly playing the mannerly romantic lead in a fantasy family film, then, was something of a surprise. |
| 10 | * RealLifeRelative: Ping and Jing are played by real-life twins Ada and Arlene Tai. |
| 11 | * SeparatedAtBirthCasting: |
| 12 | ** Creator/JessicaLange doesn't look much like [[http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/7400000/Alison-Lohman-Big-Fish-screencaps-alison-lohman-7479979-1016-570.jpg Alison Lohman]]... now. [[https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2aUrWr9NRHs/XODS6ppICwI/AAAAAAADhG4/8F0KGAf1EkktMqqUc-K06Fu-4O-V99SuACLcBGAs/s1600/jessica-lange-25.jpg But she did back in the]] [[TheEighties 'eighties]]. |
| 13 | ** Same goes for [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1407815168/nm0000191 Ewan McGregor]] and a young [[https://nighthawknews.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/albertfinney.jpg Albert Finney]]. The only difference being that [=McGregor=] has a cleft chin while Finney doesn't. The resemblance is so uncanny that ''[=McGregor=] himself'' mistook one of Finney's old photos for a photo of himself. |
| 14 | * ThrowItIn: The gag where an elephant poops right next to Edward while he's dreaming blissfully of Sandra? That was unscripted: the elephant started actually defecating during filming, and the crew hurriedly zoomed out to make sure they got the moment in the shot. |
| 15 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/StevenSpielberg was attached to this project and wanted Creator/JackNicholson to star, but dropped out due to his full schedule, soon after which Creator/TimBurton signed on to direct. |
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