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The author sets out on a "journey of discovery" of his "roots" in the southern tobacco industry because he believes that the (completely and deservedly forgotten) movie "Bright Leaf" is about an ancestor of his.
Catherine Bach who played the original Daisy, was smart, sexy, strong, opinionated and a good IL' southern girl.
She can speak with a great southern accent, and she is gorgeous, and would have done a wonderful job.
With him gone Jigsaw shoots the sexy girl in the face and then gives an old man a heart attack with a slight twist of his head, he then saws up a nasty looking southern woman and then her hillbilly husband; Jigsaw then kills the nerdy guy with some headless deception.
But it might be on for a while yet because it gives the average American a personage to which they can truly identify.A "regular" guy just like you and me.I live in the southern U.S, so to me this show is just the opposite of escapism.Down here, that obnoxious character is everywhere, in some form or another.Seeing him on television is brutal overkill.
I paid attention to Kenneth Branagh's southern accent--it was better than the script.
The "southern" accent from the actress playing Amber's mom is laughable - I'm from Georgia and have friends from Texas - believe me NOBODY talks like that!
David Strathairn is diabolically sincere as the child molesting salesman and Danny Vinson plays a perfect pussy-whipped southern husband.
De Niro, as usual is good as the southern redneck who trains him.
She was the only one, in one or two lines, who actually tried a southern accent.
All the dialogue and character interaction that occurs within it comes out of the long wind-down of a late southern day.
I adore that southern accent.
The portrayal of Southern government rings all too true as well, but the sympathetic characters reminds one of the many good things about the South as well.
There is a Lucas Buck in every Southern town who has only to make a phone call to make things happen, and the storybook "po' white trash" are all too familiar.
A southern belle of a church goer has some bad experiences and leaves them behind to seek better times in New York City, where she gets into modeling, and from there a lot more.
"Cinderella" is no exception to Duvall's standard and in my opinion it's one of the top five of the series, highlighted by Jennifer Beals (remember her from "Flashdance"--and she's still in Hollywood today making a movie here and there) in the title role, Jean Stapleton as the fairy godmother with a southern accent and Eve Arden as the embodiment of wicked stepmotherhood.
The acting is strong, and I was amazed at the verisimilitude of Kenneth Branagh's southern accent.
I have seen several comments here about Brando using a Southern accent, some of which felt it was a mistake.
Could this have possibly been a subtle social commentary, a Southern man in love with a woman of another race?
Sporting a Southern drawl, Branagh is convincing as the lawyer, and Davidtz is alluring as the object of his desire.
Overall, on the 1-10 scale, this movie scores an 8 for those who like the southern gothic genre (ie: "Body Heat" or "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"), and about a 5 for those who don't.
Taking place almost entirely in various, non-descript spots in southern Los Angeles, the story itself is inconsequential, but like Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation", the film is far more about two strangers who meet unexpectedly, find a common bond and go back to their lives enlightened for the momentous encounter.
The jalopy they arrive in is a hoot - as is Davies outrageous southern costume.
Jean Stapleton plays the fairy godmother well, although I'm not sure I liked the "southern lady" characterization with some of the lines.
And so, the ladies involved with this film (three female producers, a female writer/ director, female co-writer and the lovely Gretchen Mol, who I'm sure helped shape this role with her own sugary influence) really captured the idea of a sweet, somewhat naive, southern girl who really enjoyed having her photo taken and hoped that good ol' JC wouldn't be too upset with her.
She plays a spoiled Southern belle whose fiancé (Henry Fonda) leaves her after a socially embarrassing event.
It has hunting, a bunch of Southern stereotypes (...like Oklahoma, where these guys are supposed to be from, is so urbane!), Clu Gallagher, Billy Bob Thornton (watch for him falling out of the pickup truck--NOT SURE IF THAT'S A SPOILER OR NOT?), Sam Bottoms (of "The Outlaw Josey Wales" fame--my very favorite movie, by the way), plus Kim Delaney (pre-"NYPD Blue")!
I found this movie an insult to the southern culture, and like all Altman movies, an arrogant jab at anyone living between the two coasts.
Amanda would not have yelled at the store clerk, it is against her southern genteel ways.
Taken as a period piece when the sexual revolution was completely redefining the country's moral code, the film is a shrewdly observed, sharply comic character study among the Southern California bourgeoisie.
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