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re: Is Southern Comfort the most authentic movie about Louisiana ever
Posted on 10/24/23 at 5:11 pm to athenslife101
Posted on 10/24/23 at 5:11 pm to athenslife101
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the most authentic movie about Louisiana ever
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Posted on 10/24/23 at 10:29 pm to athenslife101
So just like saying a movie set in Georgia wouldn't have anything about UGA if it was made before 2022?
Posted on 10/25/23 at 12:08 am to Kafka
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One of the most surprising things I learned from this board is that some people in South LA, even Cajuns, actually like Southern Comfort -- you'd think they'd want to burn down Hollywood just to make sure they kill everyone connected to that film. Southern Comfort does however have one of my all time favorite lines: Our heroes are hiding at a Cajun picnic, and Powers Boothe is still worried the villains may find them. Keith Carradine reassures him: "Relax -- these are the good Cajuns". Meaning there are roaming bands of bad Cajuns out there terrorizing the bayous.
I’m honestly going to say, why wouldn’t they like it?
Look, the plot of the movie is (spoilers) that a bunch of arse—— steal their boats, and then one thinks it’s funny to shoot an M60 full of blanks at them. They only returned fire.
Then Brion James/ Amos Moses gets kidnapped and has a rope tied around his neck, has his house blown up,
gets drug around and they try to drown him. Now, Powers Booth and Keith Caradine are standup guys, and they get directions out of the swamp from the one armed Cajun for it.
Even if a less educated national audience may not see it, it’s certainly not an indictment on Cajuns.
And fwiw, it’s really a movie about Vietnam.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 12:13 am to The Torch
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Live and Let Die In 1973, “Live and Let Die” was filmed and set in Louisiana. The high chase boat scenes were filmed out in Irish Bayou and Bayou Liberty in Slidell. Sheriff J.W. Pepper: There's that son of a bitch. I got him. · [to Bond] · Sheriff J.W. Pepper: What are you? Some kinda doomsday machine boy?
I’ll throw out that while the ending may not be, a large number of the scenes in “rural” Louisiana in Easy Right are authentic - for a reason. They actually hired local townspeople for the diner scene, although they told them lies about the characters to increase the negative reaction. You can also see a cardboard LSU schedule poster quite prominently (1969 I think, it’s been a while).
Now, of course the New Orleans scenes involve hallucinations so those may not be true to form.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 12:51 am to lsusa
quote:not on the good Cajuns
it’s certainly not an indictment on Cajuns
Just the evil Cajun gangs pillaging in their pirogues
Posted on 10/25/23 at 10:58 am to athenslife101
If HBO series are up for consideration season 1 of True Detective nailed it pretty well. And if you look at True Blood through the lens of a spunout methhead waitress in a dive bar it's a pretty accurate look at North Louisiana .
Posted on 10/25/23 at 11:07 am to tgrbaitn08
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Lol wut???
I think this is a UGA thing. I heard this almost exactly walking out of the SECCG in 2003 after LSU had beaten UGA (for the second time that year) and was waiting to hear if they'd made the BCSCG.
Dawg fans walking out talking about how it wasn't that big a deal, it was just LSU.
Keep in mind, this was 2003...23 years since UGA had last won a title, and nearly another 20 years before they'd win another one.
But yes...LSU fans suddenly discovered LSU in 2000 when Nick arrived to save us all.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 2:50 pm to GeauxTigerTM
Ugh, it’s not a Georgia thing. It’s a joke I’ve heard for a long time. It’s a dumb joke but still chuckle worthy.
I thought people would be way more offended about the “smartest person in the movie is from Texas” joke
I thought people would be way more offended about the “smartest person in the movie is from Texas” joke
Posted on 10/25/23 at 4:57 pm to Jake88
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Yes. Just like Deliverance is the most authentic movie about Georgia.
I mean, outside of the greater Atlanta metro area, it pretty much is.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 8:05 pm to shinerfan
quote:The most Louisiana thing said in the series.
If HBO series are up for consideration season 1 of True Detective nailed it pretty well
Our sheriffs have their own fiefdoms. Some handle it well, but we've had some pretty infamous one's that couldn't handle the power they are given.
Posted on 10/25/23 at 8:15 pm to chinese58
I have a soft spot for Angel Heart.
But definitely not authentic.
But definitely not authentic.
This post was edited on 10/25/23 at 8:16 pm
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