If you find a slightly strange Hollywood premise recurring through film history — as we often do on this genre-hopping podcast — chances are we should look closely at how it plays on our fantasies.
After all, what kid doesn’t dream of being, well, big? From “Big” (1988) to “13 Going on 30” (2004) to the latest DC Comics adaptation “Shazam!,” movies in which children magically hit adulthood overnight are almost inherently aiming for mass appeal as they engage in two separate, sentimental dialogues: Kids, don’t go growing up too fast now; adults, give a little love to the child within.Continue reading I Wish I Was ‘Big’: ‘Shazam!’ Is The Latest Instant-Adulthood Comedy [Be Reel Podcast] at The Playlist.
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