Big Fish and LA Confidenial Compared and Contrasted

Big Fish and LA Confidential are both well done and enjoyable movies in their own right. At the same time, they are also quite different.

Big Fish is a semi true story that borders on the possibility of being unbelievable due to the zany nature of the events that happened in William Bloom's lifetime.

LA Confidential is more believable due to its realist tones and realistic event portrayals.

Overall, LA Confidential was just more believable in the end. The style of Big Fish was very upbeat and its flair for unique, positive events gave it the presentation of a fun movie overall. LA Confidential's style was very downtrodden and more downbeat with its gritty depiction of the criminal and dark underbelly of Los Angeles and Hollywood in 1953.

It also portrays itself as a gritty picture with the honest and unapologetic look inside all the ups and downs of LAPD detectives.

The coloring of Big Fish was that of plush, vivid colors of a happier, simpler time in America where nothing went wrong. In contrast to the colorful nature of Big Fish, LA Confidential's color was more of a bland, neutral nature to depict the conformity and vanilla flavor of 1950's life and culture.

One way that you can see this is observing all of the bland and neutral colors of the suits that the detectives wear throughout the movie. Big Fish takes the crown here as a cheery, upbeat fun movie and LA Confidential takes the crown as a gritty, honest movie which exposes the flaws of a corrupt police department.