![]() The parade for Ed and Karl as they leave town, is on East Bridge Street and Court Street, Wetumpka. Karl’s cave is on the banks of the Tallapoosa River at the Lower Boat Ramp behind 2171 Highway 229, Tallassee.Īfter befriending Karl, Ed is given the Key to the City on the steps of ‘Ashton Courthouse’, which is Elmore County Courthouse, 100 Commerce Street. The film held a special significance for Burton as his father passed away a few years before Big Fish was released. The movie follows a son trying to make amends with his father, who has a knack for telling wild, far-out stories. A few miles to the east, he courageously rescues the doggy from a fire on James Street, Tallassee.Įd is ‘the biggest thing Ashton had ever seen’ until Karl the Giant ( Matthew McGrory) shows up. The best Big Fish quotes show why its still one of the best movies in Tim Burtons filmography. ![]() Also in the state capital, he demonstrates his prowess at baseball on the football field of Capitol Heights Junior High School, 206 Federal Drive. ![]() ’Auburn University’ campus, where Ed goes to find Sandra Templeton ( Alison Lohman) is the Gothic Huntingdon College, East Fairview Avenue, in Montgomery itself. The ‘witch’s house’ is on the Dicksonia Plantation in Lowndesboro, on Highway 80 about 15 miles west of Montgomery. Near Millbrook, the picture-perfect town of ‘Spectre’ was a set built by designer Dennis Gassner and, yes, that really is Billy Redden, the boy from Deliverance playing Duelling Banjos on the porch.īig Fish location: the ‘witch’s house’: Dicksonia Plantation, Lowndesboro, Alabama | Photograph: Alabama Bureau of Tourism More scenes of ‘Ashton’ were filmed in the town of Prattville, about eight miles to the southwest.īetween Wetumpka and Prattville is Millbrook, where young Ed ( Ewan McGregor) tells the story of catching the big fish to a bunch of kids around the campfire in Jackson Lake Park. The grand Victorian house of the older Ed Bloom ( Albert Finney) and his wife Sandra ( Jessica Lange) is the old Collier House, 401 East Bridge Street (with the addition of a second story), on the Coosa River overlooking downtown Wetumpka. The subsequent Montgomery Bus Boycott resulted in the desegregation of the transport system). Its probably not a surprise that this film would receive generally mixed-to-good reviews but was virtually ignored by the Academy. It was also the location for TV movie The Rosa Parks Story (in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and was subsequently arrested. Tim Burton continues to demonstrate his maturation as a director despite having a soft spot for the fantastic and the weird. Wetumpka was previously the setting for the 1995 film of Truman Capote’s The Grass Harp, with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon (directed by Matthau’s son, Charles). ![]() The fictitious town of ‘Ashton’ is mainly downtown Wetumpka, on Route 231, about 15 miles north of Montgomery. Big Fish Director Tim Burton Producer Richard D. Big Fish location: the town of ‘Ashton’: Wetumpka, Alabama | Photograph: Alabama Bureau of Tourism ![]()
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