Comments on: Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade…

By: omeara

omeara — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:00:37 +0000

Indeed … “Randy” is played by Ian Moore. Check out his solo album from a few years back — “Luminaria”. It’s beautiful.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:19:53 +0000

The DVD has a lot of extra stuff about this scene…an hour long conversation with BBT, Dwight and Mickey Jones; a behind the scenes video of the band actually playing and an extra scene of Col. Bruce and Mickey Jones playing a song (in character…”I’m baking the cookies of discontent.”)

By: John McGraw

John McGraw — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:40:05 +0000

Sling Blade and All the Real Girls are both fabulous. I'll nod knowingly to the recommendation for Ray McKinnin above. I'm also super fond of Junebug and Thornton's The Gift for southern gothic.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:49:08 +0000

Check out Ray McKinnin flicks for more southern tales. The Accountant is a fabulous short film about the south, Chrystal is an extremely deep and touching movie (also starring Billy Bob T.) and the latest one Randy and the Mob is hilarious.

I love Slingblade too. These are very much in that vein.

My new favorite Col Bruce quote as of late:
“People say I play country music. Not sure which country that is.”

By: wardo

wardo — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:12:12 +0000

Thanks for posting “Darlin’” — a great tune nobody knows.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:45:49 +0000

The other guy (the vaguely American Indian fellow) I believe is Ian Moore, the Texas guitarist/singer-songwriter.

By: JoeyC

JoeyC — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:16:52 +0000

I gotta agree with you on “All The Real Girls.” Say, there’s a real nice Will Oldham song that open up that movie…

By: duke

duke — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:55 +0000

Karl: [Eating potted meat] I reckon it tastes alright.
Frank: You really think it’s got peckers in there?
Karl: You know better than that. You ought not say that word.
Frank: It smells funny.
Karl: Yeah, it’s pretty loud. Looky there. I believe you right. I believe I see one right in there.
[They laugh]

By: dc

dc — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:58:09 +0000

“mmm…french fried taters”…great call on all the real girls, by the way, phenomenal movie…not sure how i feel about david gordon green’s upcoming foray into the stoner comedy genre, though.

By: malcolm sosa

malcolm sosa — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:14:13 +0000

Just added it to my netflix. Ashamed to say I’ve never really seen it. This scene blew my mind though.

By: Analog Moon

Analog Moon — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:58:15 +0000

This is one of the greatest scenes of any movie ever made, and I’ll fight the first one’a'you sons’a'bitches that tries to say otherwise.

All kidding aside, some buddies and I like to recite this particular scene occasionally. It’s so perfectly dark and comedic at the same time. What? It’s not suppose to be funny? I beg to differ.

By: jon

jon — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:23:29 +0000

being a huge widespread panic fan, sling blade has lots of WP ties. Col Bruce Hampton is generally accepted as panic’s “daddy”…in fact their new guitarist Jimmy Herring is from Aquarium Rescue Unit and Col Bruce’s Codetalkers.

Vic Chesnutt is a frequent panic collaborator, both with panic itself and in the form of the Vic-led, panic-backed sideproject “brute.”

And of course Billy Bob directed Panic’s first live concert release and one of their first music videos.

hate hippies? so do i. but widespread’s the real deal.

By: j. neas

j. neas — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:43:46 +0000

May I just throw in – a movie that I really enjoy, even though it has its faults, is Big Bad Love. Its main character is a struggling Southern author who drinks too much and has a failed marriage he keeps trying to rekindle and the line between his written world and reality keeps blurring among the drinking binges and narrative shifts, but the soundtrack really makes it lovely and I’ve enjoyed it more and more over the years.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:15:56 +0000

A truly amazing film, on every level. One of my favorite components is the kid who plays Frank; what an incredible, natural actor. I read recently that acting is secondary to him; he wants to become a professional fisherman (his name escapes me). Stellar performances all around.