Deep South movie industry
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youroldpaljim — 16 years ago(January 28, 2010 01:09 PM)
Im very curious about the deep south movie industry that evolved after Hollywood stopped making movies for regional markets in the mid fifties. I read that film historian Bill Warren was considering some years ago writting a book about these southern drive in movies, but I don't think he ever got around to doing it. Information on films like this are hard to come by. These movies almost never turnup on TV or played outside the south.Has there ever been a book written on the southern movie industry? A yankee would like to know!
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CBikle — 13 years ago(May 19, 2012 02:56 PM)
Yeah, I've been thinking about this too.
A few months back, on the THIS channel there was a movie called Sixpack Annie and it was a weird combo of stupidly entertaining, nostalgic and very offensive to anyone who's easily offended by stuff.
Basically the movie is kind of a cross between the Dukes of Hazzard and Porky's and there are quite a few racial slurs and shots against homosexuals and not really done in an Archie Bunker-ish kind of way where we laugh AT the main protagonist.
It's pretty obvious that this movie was geared towards deep south audiences who'd enjoy it.
It's a little jarring because most of the slurs come from the main character, who is presented as an airhead-y naive but sexually-promiscuous southern girl in her late teens/early 20's.
Here's the link for Sixpack Annie:
http://www.imdb.com/board/10073716/