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Originally Posted by OleMissGlitter
Growing up in New Orleans and living in Mississippi now, I thought the novel was very true to the time in which it was written. I saw the movie as well and I cried and laughed! My husband even liked it. I thought everything was wonderful about it! (Really loved it when they mentioned Ole Miss a few times!!!) I think it is a must-see! Of course read the novel too!!!
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I grew up in the segregated South, and read the book, thinking the entire time that I was in that room, that house, and could hear those conversations. It was the "way things were" when I was a girl. We didn't have a maid, but we did have a cleaning lady from time to time.
I spent the summer of '62 with my aunt and uncle in Hattiesburg, and found things to be noticeably more structured as far as "coloreds", which was the language of the era. I remember being in the sorority house when our elderly handy man was still called the House Boy. What a courtly gentleman he was, but to think back to how he must have felt to have teenage white girls call him that gives me pause. Same with our cooks and maids, who had to "wait" on us and take our breakfast and lunch orders with no complaints.
I saw the movie yesterday AFTERNOON which makes me a senior citizen I guess. Whatever that infers. And aside from one or two exaggerated portrayals of certain characters like Celia and Mae Mobley's mama, who was just dumber than dirt, the regional dialect of all the characters was spot on.
Bryce Howard was chillingly good, Viola Davis will rightfully be nominated for an Oscar, and Sissy Spacek didn't need a dialect coach, that's for sure. She was delightful, by the way.
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