Those douche bag cops really pissed me off by sayings "an old *beep* and a old Jew woman taking off down the road". Wtf!! I just don't understand it. I was raised not to be a racist or judgemental. I honestly can't comprehend what it must have really been like to be black or a Jew back in those days!!
shareHate to tell you this: It's still like that in parts of the U.S.
shareI have to admit that I thought the US had made significant progress away from racism and bigotry in the 21th century. But with the 2016 Presidential race I was shaken from my daydream - horrible racism, sexism and bigotry has a stranglehold on a huge portion of the nation. And the huge number of people who really don't believe in those tenets but still allow for it in a Presidential candidate - they remind me of the people in 1930's Germany and Italy who just stood back and let it happen because they weren't personally affected.
shareTriggered much? Sorry to inform you, but the Democrat party is the party of slavery, the party of Jim Crow and the KKK, plus they’re the party that fought tooth and nail against the civil rights movement.
Of course, nowadays the Democrat party has other more important issues they’re interested in: Infanticide, adult males being allowed in women’s restrooms, and hating Trump.
You need to open up a history book kiddo.
https://www.history.com/news/how-the-party-of-lincoln-won-over-the-once-democratic-south
The initial reason for detaining him, because he was in a nice car, was just as disturbing to see. My grandfather has told me some hard to believe stories from those days.
shareI've worked at remote sites in Alaska feeding drillers from rural Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and the like. You talk about some racist, opinionated a'holes! Worse than many southerners!
shareYes, oddly enough that scene was probably the most exciting this movie ever came close to. I guess they just wanted to demonstrate the prejudice and racism that ran rampant at the time, but it just went no where. We see a bunch of racist cops and... that's it. This movie is horribly overrated.
shareHoke would have been in a world of hurt had he not had Daisy to protect him when the cops were around! A black man in the rural south driving a brand new Cadillac by himself would have had him hanging on a rope, even though there were well-off blacks living north back then
I think much of the travel scene implies it was dangerous and inconvenient for a black person to travel across the south back then. Hoke couldn't even use the washroom at the filling station!
Not every film is supposed to be filled with excitement. I'm glad they didn't do the predictable drama thing of letting those cops stop them from their trip or something, so we can have a big drama fest about it. Great scene, saying a lot with little.
Horribly overrated? Do you appreciate and know good or great cinema when you see it? Often, for me, the wonderful performances by great and skilled actors overcomes the shortcomings of a script. Another great example is "The Green Mile".
shareThose cops were such despicable rednecks. Nothing disgusts me more than some so-called "authority figure" abusing their power, and these two jack offs were exactly that.
shareCome to think of it, those cops were actually sweethearts compared to the cops and Klan members in Mississippi Burning! They just wanted to have some fun with an elderly Jew and black and Daisy puts them in their place refusing to go along with their charade when she simply declares her surname as a "German derivation" and signals Hoke to just "go on".
shareI don't see what all the fuss is about. That scene was realistic for the time (1950s Alabama). It would've been highly unusual for a black man to be driving a new Cadillac. You're trying to apply today's PC rules to another era. Film does not work that way.
Was Alfred Uhry or Bruce Beresford supposed to omit that scene because it might have offended a moviegoers sensibilities? That would cheapen their work. I'm glad they included that scene. It served to remind the audience that she was also subject to bigotry, just as the Temple bombing scene served the same purpose. Should they have omitted that as well given that it actually happened in Atlanta (though in 1958, not '66)? If one finds oneself offended by historical accuracies, then perhaps this is not the film for them.
I'm not offended by it. It's the *beep* way that black people were treated in those days. It's horrible and I am deeply saddened by it considering that a lot of them were sweet honest people. And we're treated like crap because the uppity white people were complete *beep* You think people don't act the same way now? I know quite a few, I'm glad my parents raised me with morals and not to be prejudice.
shareGood for you, Musicalfreakgirl, good for you.
shareI just saw this film again @ a university film series for retired university folks. I'd seen it when it first came out but didn't remember it being so good and emotionally moving.
I had a year's internship at hospitals in Mississippi in 1959-60 and this movie did an excellent job of capturing the tenor of similar times in the South. I remember in Gulfport, MS, that the few blacks who used the city's public library had to climb a separate set of stairs at the rear of the building leading to a back door where they were allowed to check out only those books reserved to be held in black hands.
People "knew their places" and stayed well within those places -- or invited serious troubles.
It wasn't until 1967 that the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional in the U.S. for states to bar marriages between blacks and whites.
While things have definitely improved since then, we still have a l--o--n--g way to go before we reach a reasonable equality for all. Look at the shootings of innocent blacks in just this past year (2013-2014) in the USA. And Americans have no monopoly on showing inequality -- consider, for example, the murders around the world of those people who hold slightly different religious beliefs than their murderers do.
Reality is much scarier than any movie. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Any time a country and its people fall on hard times, eventually they will look for a scapecoat to blame. Simply pick a historical period and fill in the blank however you wish. Blacks? Jews? Japanese? American Indians? Gypsies? the list is endless. The scary part?.....it could all happen again today in our :modern & enlightened" society.😞
share@Yogi.....most intelligent point anyone has made on IMDB in years.
The bad news is you have houseguests. There is no good news.
PC rules??? WTH are PC times?
sharei think one of the interesting things about the film us that it shows that everyone can be prejudiced. Being a Jew, Miss Daisy was no stranger to discrimination, but it didn't stop her being prejudiced herself.
shareShe was not prejudiced. But set in her ways,and a demanding woman. Hoke and Idelia were her employees. Not her friends. And she treated them as such. keeping their relationship,all business. Not personal.
shareI don't understand,what gave the cops,the idea that she was Jewish. She looked and acted,and spoke, as any old southern woman. Her name,is not a typical Jewish name.
shareYeah, I had a problem with this, too. As a Jew myself with relatively accurate Jewdar, Werthen is NOT a name that screams out "JEW!" It sounds just like she put it, a name of German derivation, and that's all.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.