Film
Many critically acclaimed movies have been set in the cultural background of the South. A partial list of these films follows – for a more complete listing of Southern cinema, see list of films set in the Southern United States.
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- The Yearling (1946)
- Song of the South (1946)
- All the King's Men (1949)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- The Miracle Worker (1962)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Deliverance (1972)
- Scarface (1983)
- The Color Purple (1985)
- Mississippi Burning (1988)
- Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
- Steel Magnolias (1989)
- Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
- A Time To Kill (1996)
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
- Big Fish (2003)
- The Notebook (2004)
- Ray (2004)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
- The Blind Side (2009)
- The Help (2011)
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Famous quotes containing the word film:
“I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you’re making a horror film doesn’t mean you can’t make an artful film.”
—David Cronenberg (b. 1943)
“If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you’ve got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you’re dumb and blind.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
“The obvious parallels between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz have frequently been noted: in both there is the orphan hero who is raised on a farm by an aunt and uncle and yearns to escape to adventure. Obi-wan Kenobi resembles the Wizard; the loyal, plucky little robot R2D2 is Toto; C3PO is the Tin Man; and Chewbacca is the Cowardly Lion. Darth Vader replaces the Wicked Witch: this is a patriarchy rather than a matriarchy.”
—Andrew Gordon, U.S. educator, critic. “The Inescapable Family in American Science Fiction and Fantasy Films,” Journal of Popular Film and Television (Summer 1992)