What Movies Take Place in the South of the U.S.
 

I just saw Nashville and I will have you know that it was a fun 2 1/2 hours about some country artists and the election. One of my favorite parts was any of the parts where one character named Sueleen sings poorly and then she has to strip to keep the audience happy. What made this movie fun to watch was mostly the music. This might need a rewatch as there were so many characters to follow and they handled it very well here but also because this movie was great.

Because I saw this, I got in the mood to see what other movies took place in the South. The next one thought about was Smokey and the Bandit which I saw most of to the finish, but not the start of it though. Maybe I can rewatch that.

What are some movies that you like that has a setting of the South of US.

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Southern Comfort is one I enjoy. Deliverance is another.

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Hard Times: Charles Bronson as a bareknuckle boxer in Depression-era New Orleans. It's Walter Hill's first movie. The fight scenes are exciting and it's often quite funny, especially due to Strother Martin's doctor and James Coburn's gambling-addicted manager.

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds
Shanty Tramp

This is good? I like Mawra’s Olga movies (the ones I’ve seen at least), interested in digging further.

It's sweaty and scandalous. Is anything else necessary.

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Cool Hand Luke
In the Heat of the Night
The Big Easy

I’ll be sure to pat my brow with a handkerchief and sip on an iced tea during my viewing.

(I assume that’s what people do in the south. At least when they’re not wolfing down their delicious barbecue.)

Porky's
Fried Green Tomatoes
Forrest Gump
Ghosts of Mississippi
My Cousin Vinny
The Long, Hot Summer
Undertow
Loving
To Kill a Mockingbird
Walk the Line
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Big Fish
Steel Magnolias

Deliverance

The Beyond
Redneck Miller
Harlan County, USA


Those are movies and they exist.

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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If we are including documentaries...


One of the greatest music ones ever...


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The Beyond.


Edit - Ah, I see I'm not the first.

Eve's Bayou is one I really love.

Isn't McConaughey from the Deep South?

Does Texas count? Because I'd vote Texas Chain Saw Massacre if it does.

Not sure where he's from but Texas is as south as it gets.

I double checked, and his birth place is Texas. Ooh another one is No Country for Old Men. I don't know how I missed that when it's an amazing film. Where's Night of the Hunter placed? I think it's Mississippi but I don't recall. I love that one, too.

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So, just where IS the South? It could be the Mason Dixon line, or the old slave states, or the confederate states or a place where people have one of those particular speech accents, but if it's about latitude, then do western states that were not part of that whole slavery-accent-civil war-culture war-secession, "seecesshh" thing count as "The South" (the mythic South, that is)?

Often movies present it as a place full of all of those stereotypes that we've all seen way too many times. It's one those interesting things, considering that, living in Baltimore, I see elements of both regions right in my neighborhood, and having been in lots of places in the more verifiable South, I've realized that much of it is a matter of a cultural myth and exactly where you are who you are with.

I'm thinking of Barry Levinson's movies, set in Baltimore (once a haven of secessionists), but having pretty much nothing to do with that culture, which still exists in places around here. If you live here, you probably have a little cognitive map that tells you "where you are", so you know which accent to use today.

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I find my self thinking that the mythic movie South is anywhere south of Boston, where people talk funny and have lurid affairs and romances that end up on posters like these. It might even end up with a shoot out with the sheriff or the police, but will involve lots of yelling and accents and probably some booze and maybe a couple of accents. Then, there's the accents. Gotta have that and some whiskey and maybe living in a disheveled wood frame house with smoke going up the chimney. Some religion helps, especially when there's "Whiskey and blood on the highway, spread on the road where they lay....but I didn't hear nobody pray".

Black Snake Moan

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I can't help but think that all you ever need to know about the movie South is in O Brother, Where Art Thou. You have sepia tint, dusty roads, cotton fields, a chain gang, a jail break, the Klan, bluegrass, old-timey religion, a scary, one-eyed sheriff, a guy named "Delmar", lawyers with white suits and everybody is sweaty, mopping their brow.

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I don't like it anymore, but Django Unchained takes place in the South.