Reply #13: Banjo boy: [View All]

[CanuckAmok]

"As it turned out, though, there wasn’t much demand in Hollywood for banjo boys. Several months ago, when the director Tim Burton was on location in Montgomery, Alabama, shooting “Big Fish,” he kept asking where the boy from “Deliverance” was now, because he had a banjo-picking role in mind for him. No one knew. “The state film commissioners down there tried to placate me, or laugh it off,” Burton says. “But I was serious; the banjo boy was such an iconic figure to me. Whatever that visceral thing is in film, when you can’t explain why a scene grabs you—well, that scene had it.” Eventually, two “Big Fish” crew members drove through northeast Georgia one Sunday, asking, “Anyone know where the banjo boy lives?”..."



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