Disney manufactured pop-tarts need not apply.
Posted on 12/30/2004 11:00:21 AM PST by Ellesu
The cast member on the Dukes of Hazard movie that had the filmmakers scratching their heads has not been publicity-drenched Jessica Simpson or her rabble-rousing smart-ass co-star, Johnny Knoxville.
It's the General Lee, the bright orange 1969 Dodge Charger central to all Duke boys escapades. More specifically, it's the Confederate Flag emblazoned on the General's roof, a symbol that has become quite the object of controversy since the original TV series' seven-season run starting in 1979.
The filmmakers didn't want to alienate modern audiences, the Wall Street Journal reported recently in a story headlined "Flag wavering." Nor did the moviemakers want to anger long-time fans by tinkering with the Warner Bros show. "So they struck a compromise with the studio."
Quoting a source involved with making the film, the Journal says the film includes scenes where the flag is "derided as an inappropriate symbol of the dark past."
For example, Bo and Luke ask a group of African-American college students for directions. "Is this a joke? Some kind of reality show?" one of them asks. Bo, the dimmer of the Dukes, explains the flag is cool and that their friend Cooter, a Civil War buff, painted it when he fixed the car. But Luke understands, and explains to Bo that some people find the flag offensive and a "symbol of slavery." That Luke, he always was perty' smart.
Now where's Foghorn Leghorn's buddy the dog? :)
100% Correct.
The Confederacy only had to avoid losing and keep up the fight. They gave up the fight. If the lost cause had been so noble to begin with, it would have never become a lost cause.
I agree
When large confederate areas were regained by the Union, many confederate soldiers lost their heart for the fight. They were fighting for their homes, not for the plantation owners' beloved peculiar institution and not for any cause that needs revival today.
I agree with stipulation. Many, maybe most, did not fight for slavery per se, but the agitators who started the war, the "Apostles of Disunion" as Gallagher calls them in his book titled the same, the politicians, rich, plantation owners, and related diplomats and elected officials DID start the war because of slavery and even the average soldier WAS worried about how emancipation would effect his lifestyle.
In other words, I will concede that your average Johnny-Reb cared little about slavery per se, and fought for home and heart, but that he had a vested interest in seeing the social order stay the same AND, more importantly, the CAUSE from the level where it mattered, ie; the political level which advocated and forced session, WAS slavery.
Oops...forgot that part.
100% agree.
Disney manufactured pop-tarts need not apply.
No. It is not.
Yes! Stick it where the sun don't shine!
Kwanzaa has a flag?
I lived for several years on one of the former Northwest Territory states, so I know y'all ain't really a bunch of poofs ...
NO! The Wilson Brothers!
I wonder if anyone remembers this...
When the Dukes of Hazzard premiered, the networks were still volutarily complying with Jimmy Carter's "Family Hour" between 8 and 9. Apparently it was PC to put Daisy on in the skimpiest costume possible at that hour...the only stipulation was, there could be NO GUNS!
Being an inventive sort, the producers of Dukes of Hazzard cooked-up a story line where the boys were paroled from prison on two conditions...Uncle Jesse would promise to give up the moonshine biz, and they would not own any guns.
As a substitue though, the Dukes were allowed to strap sticks of dynamite to arrows, light them and fire them into the bad guys with a crossbow. More than one way to skin a peanut farmer I guess.
TS
Well, they might as well have said that.
"Disney manufactured pop-tarts need not apply"
Great picture. Catherine Bach was at her best when she used those spike heels for kicking.
My parents are Indian (I always disliked that Indo-American label... but I digress), but I loved the Dukes of Hazzard. I've got a model of the General Lee a friend gave me for my birthday. I haven't built it yet. But man, that show was fun.
Funny thing is that most people don't get offended by it unless they are told to. Most of my friends just thought it was stupid and moved on.
Because of this story I am not going to watch the movie. But I am keeping my Dukes of Hazard lunch box. The PC crowd can kiss my @$$!
Agree! And while this thread probably wasn't intended as a discussion of the rights and wrongs of the Civil War there are those who feel very strongly about being robbed of the right to fly that flag. The idea that it offends the PC and the way it is presented as a flag of hatred and bigotry is offensive to me.
Nice try Darth. We know you are planning on downloading it and viewing it over and over again.
not that far off.
It is a flag of hatred and bigotry (as well as treason and a flag flown against my Country, the USA) as I and many see it. To me, it is highly offensive.
However, I have no right to NOT be offended.
I feel very strongly about your rights, and other's rights, to fly it, wear, it, draw it, whatever. You should have that right. Absolutely. 100%. A PERSONAL right. Anywhere you want. I would fight any attempts to limit that PERSONAL right.
Please tell me you didn't think I was serious.
I prefer his acoustic planet stuff to the flecktones, but that's just me.
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