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Atlanta
Filmmaker Neill Calabro had no intention of making another film after
the poor reception to his quirky first feature, Cultivision. Juliette's
charms changed his mind after a visit in 2003. "It reminded me of
when you went to Helen, GA, in the 1970's, when it was so quaint and neat,
,but now it's so overcrowded and built up. I thought Juliette could die
out or it could boom like Helen, which would be terrible, too. So I thought,
why not make a movie about it now, while it's still like it was when the
movie finished 15 years ago?"
Currently Calabro is completing his self-financed, all-volunteer documentary on Juliette called Fried Green Tomorrows. He hopes to get Fannie Flagg to narrate the history section, open the film in Macon before the end of the year, then shop it around to Southern or regional-interest TV outlets and finally to the film festival circuit. Calabro has been paying for the film by working temp jobs, including one as a stand-in for the cast of Randy and the Mob. At the shoot, he wore a green T-shirt that read "Get Fried in Juliette, GA."
It's
an example of the unpredictable impact of movies:
someone can work on one film, to help fund their own film, about the lasting
influence of yet another film.