Friday, August 05, 2005
Dammit, blogger...
I lost a long post earlier today about Dawn's post regarding the use of the Confederate flag in the Dukes of Hazzard movie. Short version - the Confederate flag is quite possibly the dumbest possible symbol of that which is good about the South, and the flag should be scrapped. On the other hand, those folks who place their "right to respect their ancestors" above the simple good manners that would require shelving the damn thing would probably make an even bigger stink if the General Lee were changed, and please oh please oh please can we not center any kind of political debate around Stifler and the guy from Jackass?
In short - the producers were in quite a pickle. And since getting out of said pickle would have required an original script with an original story, rather than updating a potentially dated TV show, which is beyond the capability of anyone in Hollywood these days, they were screwed.
Oh, and I'm going to start referring to my car as the General Sherman. Is that over the top for a 2001 Hyundai Elantra?
In short - the producers were in quite a pickle. And since getting out of said pickle would have required an original script with an original story, rather than updating a potentially dated TV show, which is beyond the capability of anyone in Hollywood these days, they were screwed.
Oh, and I'm going to start referring to my car as the General Sherman. Is that over the top for a 2001 Hyundai Elantra?
