Best I can do for a picture of the roof is a toy model car.
All the pictures from the show show it from the bottom as it's jumping over something!
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.
oh dear, the PC crowd strikes again...
Oh, gawd, just freakin' shoot me. I am so sick and tired of this crap. Weren't all these annoying liberals supposed to move to Canada when George won again?
I was already planning on missing this movie. If this scene is in there I know I will miss it.
Like anyone was going to see this movie anyway.
It's not a controversy to as many people as the media makes it out to be.
I'm black and I loved the General Lee. Every kid black or white that I know loved that show, and that car. I watched it religiously.
Before the era of political correctness no one found it offensive.
Shoot me first, if I don't die from throwing up.
Get a load of this bovine excrement!
Lukes observation is true enough, but does he mention that said people who take offense at the CBF are dimwitted ignorant anti-Southern bigots?
BARF! Sorry if I said what I felt I'd be banned, not only from this site, but MA where I live.
Effing PC pukes. This makes me physically ill.
Gag
Puke
Choke
Not gonna waste my time on this misuse of celluloid ...
I would never go see the movie, but I wouldn't mind seeing some photos of Jessica Simpson wearing really short cut-off blue jeans.
Was that a hint for someone to post a picture.
you're dead on..that car was better than K.I.T., Herbie, and was right on par with the batmobile in TV automotive coolness..
Best I can do for a picture of the roof is a toy model car.
All the pictures from the show show it from the bottom as it's jumping over something!
Stupid people! Nuff said.
How hard is it to just make a movie where two Southern moonshiners and their crazy relatives and friends drive around in a cool car and outwit/outdrive the crooked county government?
All I want is to see Bo and Luke defeat a crooked band of counterfitters/smugglers/bank robbers and have Daisy look hot. Is that too much to ask?
I'm with you! I had a great-grandfather, his father, several of their brothers fight and die under that flag. They didn't own slaves. They were fighting for what they believed were states rights and against the opression of the northern states. I am sick of it too.
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