What's amusing is when movies set outside the South or the South Midland feature "hicks" speaking with pseudo Southern or Southern Appalachian accents.
As if "hick" was a universal accent!
I know it's just "movie shorthand" but still . . .
What's amusing is when movies set outside the South or the South Midland feature "hicks" speaking with pseudo Southern or Southern Appalachian accents.
Jackie Gleason is what makes the movie! Sally Field and Burt Reynolds have great chemistry and started dating after this film--though ultimately it doesn't sound like it was the best relationship.HoldenIsHere wrote: ↑February 2nd, 2023, 3:21 pmI planned to watch SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (for the first time) when it was available on Watch TCM last month, but I missed it.speedracer5 wrote: ↑February 2nd, 2023, 2:40 pmI love "Smokey and the Bandit." I've seen that movie at least two dozen times and never tire of it. I even saw it in the theater last year.TikiSoo wrote: ↑February 2nd, 2023, 8:11 am
Sorry, not any real genre or category. Just my description of Muscle Car Chase type entertainment popular in the 70's-80's like Smokey & The Bandit '77 and Dukes Of Hazzard.
The heroes all come across as crackers- light on brains, heavy on testosterone. My generalization is completely from outside impressions, having never actually seen any.
It looks like fun movie even though I'm not a big fan of Burt Reynolds or Jackie Gleason.
There are many older examples like the Ma and Pa Kettle series and the film Murder, He Says (1945).
Yeah, from the clips I've seen of SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, it looks Jackie Gleason is hilarious as the police officer.speedracer5 wrote: ↑February 2nd, 2023, 3:38 pmJackie Gleason is what makes the movie! Sally Field and Burt Reynolds have great chemistry and started dating after this film--though ultimately it doesn't sound like it was the best relationship.HoldenIsHere wrote: ↑February 2nd, 2023, 3:21 pmI planned to watch SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (for the first time) when it was available on Watch TCM last month, but I missed it.speedracer5 wrote: ↑February 2nd, 2023, 2:40 pm
I love "Smokey and the Bandit." I've seen that movie at least two dozen times and never tire of it. I even saw it in the theater last year.
It looks like fun movie even though I'm not a big fan of Burt Reynolds or Jackie Gleason.
I've seen it a couple of times. I thought it was creaky and primitive, but warmed to it a little more the second time around.Detective Jim McLeod wrote: ↑February 3rd, 2023, 1:16 pm Coquette (1929)
If anyone has seen it, what do you think?
That was based on a book published in the late 1800s, that still is popular in some areas. I remember because I had to do the book for a book report in high school, and while this film is faithful to the book, it certainly does not drag the story out quite as long. Definitely not a story for everyone though.
Oddly enough, I was curious about Fannie Hurst after seeing this, being familiar with the name but not much else, so I read up on her a bit last night. She seemed like a good person, and was hugely successful in her time, but then apparently became a source of ridicule and synonymous with bad or hack writing. Her most famous book seems to have been Imitation of Life.CinemaInternational wrote: ↑February 5th, 2023, 11:51 am That was based on a book published in the late 1800s, that still is popular in some areas. I remember because I had to do the book for a book report in high school, and while this film is faithful to the book, it certainly does not drag the story out quite as long. Definitely not a story for everyone though.
Part of the issue with Hurst and the reception to her work was likely the big sea change in what the public liked after WWII. If you look at what was popular before that time, there was great public affection for sentimental, soapy tearjerkers, and after the war, general interest in such material went down considerably, with the rare exception of some of the Douglas Sirk films in the 1950s. The same held true for music as well. Last year, i watched 1954's Deep in my Heart, with Jose Ferrer playing the composer of many sugary-sweet operettas, and it was almost remarkable to me that the film was made when it was, because most of that music ended up getting erased from the public's memory after the Rock and Roll revolution which began apoximately at the same time the film was made.LawrenceA wrote: ↑February 5th, 2023, 12:11 pmOddly enough, I was curious about Fannie Hurst after seeing this, being familiar with the name but not much else, so I read up on her a bit last night. She seemed like a good person, and was hugely successful in her time, but then apparently became a source of ridicule and synonymous with bad or hack writing. Her most famous book seems to have been Imitation of Life.CinemaInternational wrote: ↑February 5th, 2023, 11:51 am That was based on a book published in the late 1800s, that still is popular in some areas. I remember because I had to do the book for a book report in high school, and while this film is faithful to the book, it certainly does not drag the story out quite as long. Definitely not a story for everyone though.