Hollywood's portrayal of the South has never been sympathetic…

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Novtej_Dil — 9 years ago(December 11, 2016 02:38 AM)

Like in this movie, as great as it is - the South are portrayed like disheveled country bumpkins, hana

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agracier-574-436194 — 9 years ago(December 13, 2016 04:13 PM)

It was a region of vast disparities of wealth versus poverty. Wealthy plantation slave owners convincing dirt poor farmers and laborers that it was in their interest to give their lives so the rich could continue to enjoy their ill-gotten wealth.
You can't have been all that smart to have fallen into that slave-owners trap

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NOTACLERK1 — 9 years ago(December 15, 2016 09:06 PM)

The slave owners owned the land and stores . poor whites were forced to fight or their families kicked out and what little they had taken from them. Kind of like today

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amcalabrese-2 — 9 years ago(December 14, 2016 04:25 PM)

Hollywood has always played up the myth of the "Lost Cause" and until recently has generally viewed the South's cause favorably.

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digitaldiva — 9 years ago(January 01, 2017 04:31 PM)

Agreed, amcalabrese. The South has always been treated well in films like the original
Birth of a Nation, Gone With the Wind, So Red the Rose
and many others. Only recently have filmmakers looked at the reality of slavery and presented a less romantic view of the South.

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fnj-07126 — 9 years ago(January 16, 2017 08:40 AM)

Gods and Generals
was about the only film I can think of that ever portrayed the Confederacy fair and balanced. Sympathetic? Even that. Certainly a deeply moving and informative work.

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Premmie — 6 years ago(February 20, 2020 07:44 PM)

Like in this movie, as great as it is - the South are portrayed like disheveled country bumpkins, hana
You making a fair point, buna

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Gunga Ding — 5 years ago(May 17, 2020 08:03 PM)

Bumpkins is the funny word, buna

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Dalit Sangha — 4 years ago(June 04, 2021 06:48 AM)

I was laugh when I read this one also, hana

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Premmie — 1 year ago(November 11, 2024 04:55 PM)

Bumpkins is the funny word, buna
I was not laugh too much about this one, hana

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Mafti Patel — 9 months ago(June 19, 2025 08:37 PM)

Also I am not laughed, hana

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