Was he the Coward of the county?
I do like that very dark movie. But you have to be in the right mood for it to really work.
(And the wife has to be away…)
Nothing against the man himself, but that character he played is a vicious stereotype and phantasm that lives in the minds and manufactured religion of leftist, arrogant and narrow-minded urban American elites across the nation.
Didn’t you hate this movie for slandering southerners? Even as a young lad seeing this it never struck me as being about backwoods southerners being gay and more about creepy people in general.
I once read that Howard approached the part pretty aggressively and the scene got so intense at one point Burt Reynolds stepped in and stopped it. Apparently it really got out of hand and Ned Beatty started freaking out.
From pedophilia to incest, rape to down-low homosexuality, and just the twisting of sexual norms among a population in general, I think that would be the inner city population, not country folk.
Think of the sexual stew of a huge percentage of the fatherless but filled with live-in males and male visitors to the households filled with plenty of children, plenty of them half-sisters, half-brothers, and steps with promiscuous moms and ever-changing men with a huge percentage of them having spent time in prison and being the most sexually predatory of the prison population.
“Coward; his girlfriend, Bertha Brooks; and two pets, a chihuahua and a squirrel, died at the scene, they said.”
nuff said
The only incest I’ve seen is from the Left- John Phillips molesting his daughter MacKenzie, Joe Biden diddling his daughter Ashley, and Ilhan Omar marrying her brother.
The film that defined rural America to urban Americans.
He was illiterate, which didn’t do no harm to his Show Biz career.
Come to think of it, Jackie Stewart, the “Mod Scot,” is illiterate, too (severely dyslexic), and it didn’t hold him back much.