Comments on: Reader Review: Leaves of Grass Movie Review http://www.atomicpopcorn.net/reader-review-leaves-of-grass-movie-review/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:34:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Wayne Padgettehttp://www.atomicpopcorn.net/reader-review-leaves-of-grass-movie-review/#comment-11751 Wayne Padgette Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:41:00 +0000 http://www.atomicpopcorn.net/?p=9669#comment-11751 Living as I do in the area the book was supposedly about, Idabel (not "Little Dixie", there is no such town) I found the movie completely off the mark. The accent was wrong, in fact, nothing seemed right. True, there is a drug culture here, but aside from that, nothing looked even remotely like the area. Nobody here calls the area "little Dixie", and, well, the couple of times that they actually said "Idabel", they pronounced it horribly wrong (sounded more like "audible" when they said it).The movie was supposedly trying to show how the rest of the country has a provincial attitude about Oklahoma. What it does is show how Tim Blake Nelson, and some from his part of the state (Tulsa) have a provincial attitude about Oklahoma's Southeast.At the time the two brothers supposedly lived in Idabel, there was a high school there. There would have been absolutely no reason for two boys living in Idabel to attend school in Hugo, over 40 miles away (especially since there are quite a few schools much closer, including 2 in very nearly a direct line between the two). That, coupled with the fact that Hugo only has only one public high school, thus the movie's use of "Hugo Central High" was another one of the many "WTF?" moments for me.Basically, most of the movie came across as being the work of someone who had only peripherally heard about the area, and had done absolutely ZERO direct research. I could write a better, more accurate, movie about Casper, Wyoming (a place I have not only never lived, but have never visited) just by doing a little internet research. Living as I do in the area the book was supposedly about, Idabel (not “Little Dixie”, there is no such town) I found the movie completely off the mark. The accent was wrong, in fact, nothing seemed right. True, there is a drug culture here, but aside from that, nothing looked even remotely like the area. Nobody here calls the area “little Dixie”, and, well, the couple of times that they actually said “Idabel”, they pronounced it horribly wrong (sounded more like “audible” when they said it).

The movie was supposedly trying to show how the rest of the country has a provincial attitude about Oklahoma. What it does is show how Tim Blake Nelson, and some from his part of the state (Tulsa) have a provincial attitude about Oklahoma’s Southeast.

At the time the two brothers supposedly lived in Idabel, there was a high school there. There would have been absolutely no reason for two boys living in Idabel to attend school in Hugo, over 40 miles away (especially since there are quite a few schools much closer, including 2 in very nearly a direct line between the two). That, coupled with the fact that Hugo only has only one public high school, thus the movie’s use of “Hugo Central High” was another one of the many “WTF?” moments for me.

Basically, most of the movie came across as being the work of someone who had only peripherally heard about the area, and had done absolutely ZERO direct research. I could write a better, more accurate, movie about Casper, Wyoming (a place I have not only never lived, but have never visited) just by doing a little internet research.

]]> By: Jackhttp://www.atomicpopcorn.net/reader-review-leaves-of-grass-movie-review/#comment-10091 Jack Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:24:57 +0000 http://www.atomicpopcorn.net/?p=9669#comment-10091 Tim Blake Nelson has done the nearly impossible in writing, directing, and acting in a sparkling movie of pot, poetry, philosophy, and the power of place and love, Leaves of Grass. It is difficult enough to do one well, two perhaps, but rarely, all three hardly ever. A gem, dense, polished, glittering, and warm, it makes you want to look at a different facet time and again. Tim Blake Nelson has done the nearly impossible in writing, directing, and acting in a sparkling movie of pot, poetry, philosophy, and the power of place and love, Leaves of Grass. It is difficult enough to do one well, two perhaps, but rarely, all three hardly ever. A gem, dense, polished, glittering, and warm, it makes you want to look at a different facet time and again.

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