Word: redneck
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Port St. Joe, in the panhandle of Florida, is in one of those swampy, redneck, Southern counties where everything moves at a slow and measured pace-except the courts when they are dealing with black defendants. After Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee were charged with murder, it took just three weeks before they were found guilty and sentenced to the electric chair. Evidence suggesting that their "confessions" had been coerced slowed the process not a bit. Later investigations strongly suggested that the two men were innocent but by then the local law was back in its familiar subtropical torpor...
...spectacle at Snake River Canyon was not "a blue-collar Woodstock." It was more of a redneck Altamont. It's great to know that the good ole heartland is just as frivolous and decadent as the East and West Coasts...
...blossom, more or less in that order. The pair pass a great deal of time making love, going skinny-dipping and observing the photogenic glories of nature, while Buster's buddies become increasingly irked. The love affair violates the tenets of what the film makers see as ingrained redneck bigotry, swinishness and evil. The boys decide to do something about Buster and Billie, almost as if acting out Last Summer. That was a movie they could never have seen, of course. But it almost seems as if the screenwriter caught...
Cool Hand Luke. A cheaper, shallower bourbon, but the taste is as smooth. This film is all tanned bodies against blue workshirts against a deep Southern green--everything looks great, and the redneck myth is comforting: the reflecting sunglass man did as much for the stereotype of southern law enforcement as Red Man chewing tobacco. Paul Newman sings "Plastic Jesus...
Inevitably, perhaps, Wallace has been moving toward the middle of the road, seemingly giving up his militant segregationism and many of his longtime redneck associates. "We are glad to be rid of the kooks," says a close Wallace aide. "We were never comfortable with that crowd. We may have been segregationists at one time, but we weren't crazy. They didn't fit well at all with the Governor's new image." The ordeal of his paralysis seems to have mellowed Wallace, now 54. He does not even bear a grudge against his would-be assassin...