Was this movie really reflective of those who live in the Deep South of America? In what way was the writer/director familiar with the South?
shareusually movies about the south, are made by people from the north who only have sterotypes they saw , oddly enough, in movies to go on.
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> Was this movie really reflective of those who live in the Deep South of America?
No more so than movies set in Manhattan are really reflective of those who live there. It's a movie; it has characters. The truths in a movie may not be literal truths about daily lives but metaphorical truths about us all.
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Yeah it's called the sh!thead shack. You ask me they should stick to makin' hershey bars.
shareYeah it's called the sh!thead shack. You ask me they should stick to makin' hershey bars.
Must confess, I do like to beat my wife on occasion though. Cain't help it.
JReb865 should learn to differentiate between the 'reply' key and the 'edit' key before he updates his posts, but apart from that he writes some CRACKINGLY funny material. The only thing he missed was to grin a gap-toothed grin at his faithful bloodhound 'Blue', before shotgunning a couple of passing bikers to death from the seat of his pick-up! Long may he continue posting!
However, We must return to business here. Speaking personally, I cannot see anything in Adrienne Shelly's film that is uniquely 'Southern' in its character. 'Waitress' could have have been set in any run-down small town in the US, North or South. In fact, the setting could easily have been transposed to the UK without any sense that the plot or characters were incongruous. There are a lot of satellite towns on the outskirts of Newcastle, Liverpool or London that are filled with Jims, Earls, and Jennas. Every former Scottish mill-town or Welsh pit-village has a greasy spoon cafe with a Joe, a Dawn and an Ogie in it. I, for one, recognised every single one of these people, and I'm pretty sure that a lot of other overseas viewers did too. I have no idea how familiar Adrienne Shelly was with the Deep South, but she was very familiar with human beings, wherever they may come from. The theme of 'Waitress' was pretty much universal, and so were the issues it addressed.
Whether one likes or dislikes the film is a seperate issue. But if a person DOES dislike the film, they need to have a lot better reason than that the writer/director was 'unfamilar with the South'. There are people from TIBET who would recognise themselves and their neighbours in Adrienne Shelly's film.