This is astoundingly bad
Unbelievable awful.
shareA bit of a white wash! Too sugary sweet....
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night"
You do know "white wash" means putting white actors in a role that was originally for or more suitable for a person of color right?
shareBurlywop, you do know that there are other definitions of "white wash" out there and that one of them means "to gloss over" right?
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You do know "white wash" means putting white actors in a role that was originally for or more suitable for a person of color right?
Embarrassing comment. "White wash" was a way of sprucing up things like picket fences. Watered down paint...Tom Sawyer cons all the neighborhood kids into doing it.
It has taken on other meanings. Sort of.
I'm not a grammar or fact Nazi, but you said it so rudely.
A black person?
What the hell? That's not what the poster was saying.
Dolly Parton and her Irish Appalachian Hillfolk is about as white as it gets. There were black people their in the hills too but poverty is the great equalizer.
You are defensive and off the mark.
You do know "white wash" means putting white actors in a role that was originally for or more suitable for a person of color right?Nope. Never heard it used that way. Ever. And just to be sure, I checked about a dozen on-line dictionaries and can't find a single one that lists it that way.
My girlfriend wrote a book called White Trash...Could have been the Dolly Parton story..they called her family White Trash..they were dirt poor...had dirt floors....
Well, White Wash and White Trash are obviously two different things and from what someone has just informed me, White Wash has a whole other meaning....
I had expected Dolly's family to be dirt poor..... maybe not with dirt floors but rougher than what was depicted in this film. I also expected it to be about the family...... not entirely about the folk's focus on Dolly. I guess this was suppose to be her point of view.....
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night"
Um. Poor doesn't equal trash. Somehow I don't think your girlfriends story could have been Dolly's story.
Y'all obviously aren't Dolly fans! I think it is GREAT and spot on!
Y'all obviously aren't Dolly fans! I think it is GREAT and spot on!
Oh it most certainly is not. It's actually very sweet and good.
shareOh it most certainly is not. It's actually very sweet and good.
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I agree...I could have done without the preachy side of it. Watching a film about a family struggling in the TN mountains is interesting, not this Christian garbage.
I was expecting Kirk Cameron to show up at any minute.
I was expecting Kirk Cameron to show up at any minute.
Oh my God, did you expect them to be reciting the shahada and all running around in burkas or something?????? Of course it's a Christian culture that they were in at that time and place! You must be a real "genius", NOT!!!! Hahahaha idiot!
shareYou DO realize this is fact-based, right?
It would be dishonest to leave the driving force in the Parton's lives that Christianity played.
Please don't refer to it as "Garbage" either.
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So let me see if I understand this: a biopic about the granddaughter of a Pentecostal preacher, who grew up in a culture in which the teachings of Evangelical Christianity were a big factor in dealing with family problems, in a story that takes place in the 1950s when American culture - particularly in the South - was at least nominally more Christian than it is today, and whose work today frequently references her religious upbringing, should not have mentioned religion at all.
I would remind you that the subject of this film wrote songs like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oud8vr2y38k
And in case you missed it, one point of the story was that all the preaching and Bible reading and church going and praying, singing, and shouting doesn't mean much of anything unless it's supported by ordinary, everyday human love. It was people like the sanctimonious hypocrites at the general store who made the father feel like he could drive the family to church, but not go inside. He repented at the end (in the exact sense of changing his mind and attitude), not because of all the people preaching at him (in spite of that, actually), but because he suddenly realized how deeply he loved his wife and his family, and that love could only be fully expressed by participating in the faith community that they belonged to. He finally entered the church building, not because he suddenly found Jesus in his heart, but because that's where his family was and always would be.
Another point you missed is that this story was not just about nitwit religious beliefs (viz, the Kirk Cameron reference): it was about how real people in real situations facing real tragedies have to question their religion, and wrestle God down to the ground sometimes, to make sense of the world and their place in it. Dolly Parton in particular has always been interesting to me because of her lifelong inner debate between deep personal faith and worldly ambitions. At the end, the child Dolly stated that she had one more thing to do: she had to forgive God.
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"Oh, well," said Zanoni, "to pour pure water in the muddy well does but disturb the mud!"
Thank you. Perfectly put...
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