Word: cajun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this movie makes it sound like the stickiest entertainment since Shirley Temple retired from Sunnybrook Farm. Casey's Shadow is about a family -one crusty dad, three cute sons, no mom -that raises quarter horses in Cajun country. The family is dirt poor and luckless, until the day Dad gets his hands on a promising foal. He names the colt Casey's Shadow because of its attachment to his youngest son, and decides to race it in the $1 million All-American Futurity at Ruidoso, N. Mex. Will Dad be able to come up with the race...
Southerners also enjoy a legacy of shared celebration. From the epicurean crab feasts of Maryland's Eastern Shore to a catfish fry in Tennessee, from Texan barbecue orgies to the days-long shrimp or gumbo feasts of Louisiana's Cajun country, Southerners are united in their love of a party-and its morning-after reconstruction. An old New Orleans saying: "The rabbit says, 'Drink everything, eat everything, but don't tell everything...
...myth turns on itself; as Braudy's Prince begins to metamorphose into a frog, she reaches out to other men for confidence and adventure, and to assert her independence. Becoming involved first with a long-haired, melancholic Cajun singer and later with a slick, prurient East Side music critic, she self-deceptively convinces herself that "momentary pleasure won't cause you or your husband later pain...
...cumbersome, the soundtrack amateurish, the crowd scenes lifeless, the final moral conflict dance like and played so badly that you actually oppose the hero's crowning heroics. Yet it is, particularly for director Hill's first effort, stunning to look at. Bleached New Orleans pink and plaster white, lush Cajun greens. But mostly a million browns-browns that dwarf humans in the bulk of an industrial life that has left them out. The empty oyster-processing factory where Bronson fights among discarded shells is piled with hues of lifelessness; a shoeshine and a buck-and-wing echo eerily...
...life and background to refer to. When you know that Hellman had an elegant aunt who was actually a morphine addict and the lover of her black chauffeur, who so resented the large loans she had made to her husband--the one who was having an affair with a Cajun girl--that she would never communicate with him except through the medium of her son Honey (a slightly off-beat character himself, who tried to rape Hellman when she was fourteen and after several more attempts on various women finally ended up in a Mobile sanitarium): when you know...