The centerpiece of town is the church at the end of the street. Acres of sod had been brought in, laid out, and meticulously irrigated using sprinkler systems fed from the lake surrounding the island in preparation for filming. All of the bright green grass covering the town of Spectre was real. Windslow says “There is no softer ground than town”, indicating that Spectre is a place that you would never want to leave, and thus everyone leaves their shoes up on the wire. Over the years as people have come to visit the old film set, they have taken up the tradition of tossing their shoes on the wire: While eating apple pie with the Mayor and the Poet Laureate, Norther Windslow (Played by Steve Buscemi) little Jenny steals the shoes off Bloom’s feet and races down the greenway to the edge of town where she ties them together and tosses them up and over a wire. Burton’s crew did some detective work and found Redden who was working in a restaurant a few hours away and brought him over for the scene.īloom gets invited into the Mayor’s house (which was the only building with a finished interior). This actor is actually Billy Redden who played Lonnie in Deliverance in 1972. There’s an Easter Egg in the movie! – The very first person we see in Spectre is a man on a porch playing “Dueling Banjos”. Some of the surface has been worn away over the years revealing the Styrofoam beneath. They were then sculpted, sealed, and painted to look lifelike.
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The circular portal of old trees that is his entrance into Spectre, is still there today, and if you look closely, you will find that they are not trees at all, but Styrofoam movie props! The trees were created by forming a wire mesh around a steel skeleton, and then blowing Styrofoam into the mesh. In the film, Edward Bloom travels through a dark foreboding forest, his hat stolen by a crow, stung by wasps, attacked by a slew of jumping spiders, and eventually stumbles into the too-perfect-to-be-true, town of Spectre. These houses and buildings were never meant to be inhabited, or even last longer than was needed for filming, which makes it all the more incredible that they are still here over 13 years later. Since these buildings were made for the set, most were built with plywood, without interiors, and were unfinished on the back. The entire town was custom built for Big Fish. The lady in the water scene, Jenny’s house, the enchanted forest, and several others, were all filmed on and around the tiny island. During this time, the town of Spectre was born.īurton’s crew scouted out Jackson Lake Island near Millbrook, Alabama, and found that not only would it be a perfect location for the town of Spectre, but they could film other key scenes on the island. Principal photography began in January of 2003, and filming was completed on time, and under budget ($70 million), in just two months. It also left something behind… The town of Spectre.Īpart from a scene filmed in Paris, Big Fish was filmed in entirely in Alabama. B ased on the 1998 novel of the same name by Daniel Wallace, Burton’s Academy Award nominated film, left a mark with its tour de force of stunning visuals, tall tales, and big hearts. Anyone who has seen the film, will probably agree that the movie itself, is indeed touched by something extra. “There are some Fish that cannot be caught, it’s not that they are faster or stronger than other fish, they are just touched by something extra.” This is the opening line, spoken by Edward Bloom (played by Ewan McGregor) in Tim Burton’s film, Big Fish.
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