Big Fish：重建乐园
曾是千万人心目中的乐园的丰都镇因遭受贷款和信贷重压而一片萧条，面临着被拍卖的命运。爱德华买下丰都镇并通过不懈的努力使其重现光彩。
Jenny: Fate has a way of circling back on a man and taking him by surprise. A man sees things differently at different times in his life. This town didn't seem the same now that he was older. A new road had brought the outside world to Spectre and with it, banks, liens and debt. Almost everywhere you looked, people were bankrupt.
Auctioneer: The auction today is for the town of Spectre, all streets, lands and accoutrements thereto. The opening bid will be $10,000.
Jenny: So Edward Bloom decided to buy the town.
Edward: 50,000.
Jenny: He was never a wealthy man, but he had made other men rich, and now he asked for their favors. Most of them hadn't seen Spectre. They only had Edward's words to describe it. That's all he needed. He sold them on the dream. So first he bought the farms. Then he bought the houses, and then he bought the stores. Whatever he bought, the people were not asked to leave or pay for rent or anything. They were just asked to keep doing as they were doing. In that way, he could make sure the town would never die. Within six months, his trust had purchased the entire town, with one exception.
(At last, even Jenny sold her house. Spectre was restored.)
Jenny: One day, Edward Bloom left and never returned to the town he'd saved. |
