If Alabama were a movie what would it be? | 50 States of Film
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2024
- What do Lynyrd Skynyrd, Helen Keller, and Joe Pesci all have in common? You guessed it: we're talking about Alabama movies this week on 50 States of Film.
Every State Has a State Bird, a State Tree, but what about a State Movie? In this show, we set out to choose the state movie for each of these 50 nifty United States. This week, we're talking Alabama.
Host: Michael Strauss
Director: Michael Strauss
Executive Producer: Gabrielle Williott
Director of Photography: Rob Menzer
Editor/Color: Rob Menzer - Komedie
"Greenbo ALABAMA!"
Pepperidge farms remembers
Wait...what?
I honestly forgot Forrest was a Bama boy since all the Alabama scenes (and 'Nam) were filmed in Georgia, and most of the movie takes place in other parts of the country or world as well.
This is a truly inspired idea for a video essay series and I am completely here for it
Had a few friends in the Air Force (black btw) who reminisced about Mobile. One went home with his family after four years in service and left after two days of racism. Came back to Cali and joined the Coast Guard. My other Alabama friend, never planned to go back. Bennie Lee Smith III moved to Mecca instead.
Why is this dude hating on grits? They are fine, add butter and cheese and they are yummy!
"Why is this guy insulting the flavor and consistency of a food that is fine so long as you add other things to change its flavor and consistency?" That's you. That's what you said.
@@ChristmasPterodactyl Do you eat raw flour?
Fun history fact about Nathan Bedford forest. He did create the orginal KKK, as a way to put down and scare former slaves, but he disbanded it because "it became too violent" the modern KKK was started in the 1920s by a preacher. There was a third one that was started later in the 50s and that's probably the one that appeares in the film and that one was made to fight the civil rights movement violently. I just find it really funny that the original guy was like " yall are too mean" and stopped. Btw i know all this cause i did a school project on superman vs the KKK which is a whole other interesting story.
How noble of Mr. Forrest./s
Stone Mountain, Georgia. Where they resurrected the Klan.
Lynyrd Skynyrd is from Jacksonville, Florida. The bands most famous song, ‘Sweet Home Alabama’, was a written and recorded as a response to Neil Young’s ‘Southern Man’ and ‘Alabama’. As they felt the Young’s songs were unfairly grouping all Southern States as a Pro Slavery and the reason for the civil war. Non of the band members or writers of the song ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ ever lived in the state of Alabama.
Honestly if any movie should be the state movie of alabama it should be forest gump edit... I was right!!! Lol
Best series on Cracked 🙌🏻🙌🏻
2:09 He made the best video of 1988.
13:36 He made the fourth-worst video of 1993.
Also, this should've been the first episode and Texas should've come towards the end.
Next do Chicago, Illinois.
Yes my home state
Great video.
Shitty video
The Hills Have Eyes
Except Lynyrd Skynyrd is from Florida
I swear this company used to be funny. At least when I bought the magazines back in the nineties.
They did record in mobile Alabama.
Sand mountain alabama A great deal of people there. Have the same last name and look off. A lot of it's famous around east tennessee
“Plan 9 from Outer Space”
Goergia next
Alabama football, is what the use to distract from the previous 9.
Bring Back People Watching!!
Wow, missed the Help. Really demonstartes Alabama heritages and post slavery aristocracy.
That takes place in Jackson, Mississippi
It’s so sad what happened with this channel!
„After hours“ was a great show and greed crushed
The cast was great I’m missing it
First comment thankyou
Whoever has been poisoning this guy's grits his whole life. Shame on you
I'll just go with "The Devil's Rejects" because it's got "Free Bird" in it and fuck this shit!
Don't Sufjan this series!
I wonder if the Dambuilders will ever get back together.
Best stuff is from a decade ago...
If you just wanna roast Alabama, call the video Poopin on Bama. Felt like a diss session and not a movie comparison. There are some backward things about the place, but there are a lot of good things too.
Wow, Cracked has gotta stop ruining it every time they have good video teams. This shit was unwatchable.
I actually learn something from this series: Hollywood has a long history of oversimplified stereotypes for each state, used mainly for Progressive propaganda. It's interesting to see that displayed so plainly and unwittingly by Cracked writers just trying to make lame jokes.
"Progressive"😂😂
You're half correct, and not for the reason you think. Oversimplified stereotypes exists so that moves can appeal to the most people possible and therefore make as much money as possible. Don't like it, blame capitalism.
It's unfortunate you go along with the false trope, that the flag is racist.
Putz
The flag we associate with the Confederacy didn't come till much later, it wasn't a flag used during the actual fighting. Same thing with the statues, a lot of them were put up in the 1920s. There was a whole lot of racism in the 1920s, like a sicking amount lol like if you can think of a modern racist thing it probably started in the 20s. I mean don't get me wrong you had plenty of racism before that, but things like the civil war statues, the modern KKK, stuff like the birth of a nation and other big racist movies, and like a lot of other stuff of that nature came to prominence in the 1920s.
@@darkmyro count the stars.
13.
It was the original 13 colonies' flag.
Period.
Do you know how many Natives the 'Union' killed?
Down south, we still fight against 'the union', knowing it was all about mass control.
But...I'm betting the government makes you 'feel safe'.
@@marcusmiller5443 the modern confederate flag wasn't used during the American revolution if that's what your implying. In both the American Revolutionary and civil wars, they used a bunch of different flags. The one they eventually settled on during the American revolution was called the Gadsden flag. Though they had a bunch of different one, the "Dont tread on me" one was another popular flag during that time. The closest things to the modern confederate flag was the stainless flag and the blood- stained flag which most soldiers didn't even like cause they looked like flags of surrender cause they were mostly white. There were also similar ones used by the infantry and artillery units, but they had writing on them and were based of a flag that Robert E Lee used. those ones were much smaller and square too. The more modern rectangular confederate flag became popular because, you guessed it, movies around the *1920s* like birth of a nation and gone with the wind. The reason people don't like the confederate flag is cause its been used by a bunch of different racist and hate groups like the KKK. Its sorta like the punisher symbol, its a symbol that's been used in problematic ways or from problematic people to spread hate or violence, that's why its seen as bad. also I'm from the south, I'm largely indifferent to the government, and I know how to do my own research before you go tell me to " look it up."
@@marcusmiller5443What did the confederacy want to do that they disagreed so strongly with the union about?
@@thagrammarnazi they didn't jive with you nazis. (Nazi is in youre handel)