Was Anyone From Alabama Offended by this Movie???

I most defenitely know that alabama is not exactly the way it was portrayed in this movie, and i know that the south is a very warm and friendly place. (my dad lives in kentucky) and yes i have also heard many stereotypes about the south that i found ridiculous. However, if they would have portrayed the people from New York City and the people from Alabama as basically the same type of people than what would have been the point? Both places reflect part of who melanie is so they couldn't have been the same, or else it wouldn't have mattered where she was. They had to portray Alabama and new york as two polar opposites to get the point across that alabama is where she belonged.

I'm sure it was not their intention at all to make people from Alabama all look like redneck hicks, because unless the people working on this movie are completely thick, then they know that southerners are not like that.

And a side note, i'm from michigan and we find just as much offense in being called yankees and you guys find in being called hicks. It's not like you're a minority, the people from new york portrayed in this movie isn't exactly true either, not all of us are arrogant socialites. I live in a tiny town in michigan about the size of the, i am guessing, fictional town in this movie. If i went to new york city i'm sure i would be blown away. Plus i have heard many people refer to the people in my town as rednecks. So don't think you're the only ones that could be offended from this movie.

I am a born an bread ALabamain with numerous degress, a Bachletor of Arts in Education, A Bachelor or Scienve in Mathematics and History.

I am not at all offended by the people depicted in SHA....AS a matter of fact I am married to a Chicago attorney, we are sending out children to the finest univestitites in the south.......WAR EAGLE and ROLL TIDE and we have no conflict in our methods of doing things, however it is hard to get him to wipe his feet when he comes from the "out house" (ha)

This is a movie for Christ sake.....a funny movie at that....all you bleeding heart true red necks who were offended by the moving need to do something own your won self concept, get out and do something about your perception of yourself and let Hollywood alone.

IT was a comedy....a parody..uhhh hooo, a big word I know..

GET OVER IT......IF you find it offensive...maybe you should do something to make your life no so much like what you see on the screen.

You have the problem....not the rest of the EDUCATED people in the STATE.

I am a born an bread ALabamain with numerous degress, a Bachletor of Arts in Education, A Bachelor or Scienve in Mathematics and History.

I am not at all offended by the people depicted in SHA....AS a matter of fact I am married to a Chicago attorney, we are sending out children to the finest univestitites in the south.......WAR EAGLE and ROLL TIDE and we have no conflict in our methods of doing things, however it is hard to get him to wipe his feet when he comes from the "out house" (ha)

This is a movie for Christ sake.....a funny movie at that....all you bleeding heart true red necks who were offended by the moving need to do something own your won self concept, get out and do something about your perception of yourself and let Hollywood alone.

IT was a comedy....a parody..uhhh hooo, a big word I know..

GET OVER IT......IF you find it offensive...maybe you should do something to make your life no so much like what you see on the screen.

You have the problem....not the rest of the EDUCATED people in the STATE.


Spelling is a joke.......just wanted to see if you guys would notice........

OK, I'm from Minnesota and I've NEVER heard anyone speak like the people in the movie Fargo. Do you hear me having a fit over it? Why do people have to pick apart everything in every movie?? If y'all can't just relax and enjoy watching a movie..try doing something else!

Thats kind of stupid.I'm not from Alabama,but I live in Georgia.I have family that live there.Yeah,we have accents,but so does everyone else.I try not to talk as bad as most people down here do.I actually live about 45 minutes from where they filmed the part where Bobby Ray and Melanie were in the Carmichel plantation.It's Berry College and that place is amazing.
Yeah,most people here are redneck hicks,but they're pretty nice people.

I loved the movie,but I was a bit offended.

I've never been further south than Virginia in my life, but one of my best friends is from Kansas, and despite living in one of those 'hick towns' and having a very pronounced accent, she's one of the most intelligent people I know. My parents are from Russia and Ireland, respectively, so I get asked more often than I'd like whether my family gatherings consist of bad tempers and alcohol. Every region in the world has their stereotypes, unfortunately; and the people who take every stereotype at face value, in my opinion, are people whose opinions are not worth getting offended over. They're only revealing their own ignorance in displaying a blatant lack of understanding.