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CHAT: Has any Freeper watched the Ron Howard film Hillbilly Elegy?

Posted on 07/17/2024 2:34:07 PM PDT by mowowie

My GF and myself are planning on watching thos movie tonight on netflix to get a better grasp on J.D.

Is it worth the 2 hours?


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KEYWORDS: appalachia; appalachians; bluecollar; bookdeals; hillbillyelegy; jdvance; moviedeals; ronhoward; vanity; westvirginny
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To: chalkfarmer; Tell It Right
My people are from the Appalachian region of western WV bordering on eastern KY..., and that is where I grew up. I’m a proud hillbilly.

As Tell It Right's post 38 (above) points out, the people who come from there, for all its grinding poverty, do not want to leave. They are attached to their extended families and their home. Depending where one lives, there are few places in the U.S. as beautiful as the Appalachians and surrounding piedmonts.

61 posted on 07/17/2024 3:33:32 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Tall Wall Texan

My wife watched it on Netflix last night and really liked it. I’m out of town and didn’t join her. I’ll watch it myself soon.


62 posted on 07/17/2024 3:35:32 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: mowowie

Ordered the book. It is discounted for Prime Days, but Amazon would only let me order one
I would have ordered a DVD, too, if one was available.


63 posted on 07/17/2024 3:35:57 PM PDT by madison10
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To: mowowie

Watched it last night. Interesting, but depressing. After showing a horrendous childhood, it fails to show him succeeding as an adult. A lot of profanity.


64 posted on 07/17/2024 3:37:28 PM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . . ")
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To: sphinx

Your usual excellent synopsis!


65 posted on 07/17/2024 3:38:42 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: discostu
When it came out I saw a lot of flack, and of course its revival is bringing it all back around. Thus my answer.

This thread explains why it set off the left, which owns publishing in this country; so maybe you will give it a second chance.

66 posted on 07/17/2024 3:40:14 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Bullish

“Anything by Ron Howard is probably not worth your time. It’s probably hateful and slanderous to the right knowing Ron’s leftwing politics.”

You’re absolutely right. “Apollo 13” was a terrible, hateful anti-American screed.


67 posted on 07/17/2024 3:40:49 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: mowowie
On IMDB right now, it has a 6.7/10 based on about 48,000 votes. And Leftbots are probably downvoting it for political reasons.


68 posted on 07/17/2024 3:41:43 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: mowowie
I've got the book on my nightstand by my bed. I'm about 1/3 through it.

Already impressed with what Vance had to go through to get to where he is today.

69 posted on 07/17/2024 3:42:45 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (7,234,971 Truth | 87,532,095 Twitter)
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To: aimhigh
depressing. After showing a horrendous childhood, it fails to show him succeeding as an adult.

I recall reading the book jacket, which is where the author's bio is usually found, and being astounded at how far he had come—as of then.

70 posted on 07/17/2024 3:42:53 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: sphinx

Thank you for your excellent commentary on Vance’s book “hillbilly elegy“. Iyou
have expressed what I think about the book so much better than I can. I read the book several years ago with a group that included some liberals. Everyone liked it back then. It would be interesting to know what they would say now.

Another book that every American middle school child should read is Ben Carson‘s “Gifted Hands”. It is inspirational and so much better than the movie. The movie is hardly worth a look. Carson, unlike Vance, had a very good mother, though she was poor and illiterate. She was hard-working and guided her boys to become upstanding adults.


71 posted on 07/17/2024 3:44:07 PM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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To: sphinx

A better book on the Appalachian migration is “Born Fighting” by Jim Webb.


72 posted on 07/17/2024 3:44:27 PM PDT by chalkfarmer (I)
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To: Bullish

Do not pan it for that reason, give the book a chance.

My father-in-law’s family lived in that area for several years in the 1930s. The house had a dirt floor, and food was difficult to come by. I do not know why they moved from Michigan to that region, maybe living there was less expensive. They moved back to Michigan for auto industry employment.

Talking to my husband’s southern Ohio cousins was fun. Wish we could see them again.


73 posted on 07/17/2024 3:44:27 PM PDT by madison10
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To: mowowie

I have seen it. I thought it was a good movie. It gives you a good look into how drug addiction can wreck lives.


74 posted on 07/17/2024 3:48:17 PM PDT by Big E
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To: End Times Sentinel

As it happens, the Obama admin had special plans for the people of Appalachia, many of whom Obama and the Dems considered problematic because in general they are being obstinate about accepting welfare, etc.


75 posted on 07/17/2024 3:51:55 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Touche


76 posted on 07/17/2024 3:55:38 PM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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To: chalkfarmer; sphinx
A better book on the Appalachian migration is “Born Fighting” by Jim Webb.

It is on my shelf, read several times and copiously underlined, as is How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It by Arthur Herman, which is also great background about the Ulster Scots migration into the U.S. And let's not forget Thomas Sowell's incisive Black Rednecks and White Liberals.

77 posted on 07/17/2024 3:57:23 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Big E

“wreck lives”

And wreck the family and loved ones around the addict.


78 posted on 07/17/2024 3:57:51 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: sphinx

Watching it this weekend.


79 posted on 07/17/2024 4:00:32 PM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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To: mowowie

The movie views very slow. For a better sense read the book.


80 posted on 07/17/2024 4:01:57 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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