But stars Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter nail a pair of southern accents, as do co-stars like John Goodman, William Forsythe, M. Of course, they don't ever specifically confirm the film actually takes place in the titular state, with one of the characters' names being Arizona, after all. Yet this is the world the Coens created to tell this story.
I've personally never been to Arizona, but I wouldn't guess they'd talk precisely like the folks in Alabama do on a daily basis. Sticking with the Coens for a moment, you might scratch your head and think.Arizona? What makes it so southern? The accents, the wackiness. When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated. The film moves at a slow and steady tick, much like many of its characters speak. First of all, they cast prominent roles with a couple of actors who actually pull off the accents with precision - Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and Woody Harrelson - also casting smaller roles with real-life southerners like Beth Grant, Gene Jones, Margaret Bowman and Kathy Lamkin. For a pair of Minnesota boys who now live in New York, the Coen brothers latched on to more southern "isms" than most modern filmmakers born outside the region (and heck, born inside it, too). Here comes the "Texas ain't even the South" chatter, and it can just get on for all I care. What makes it so southern? The pace, the tone, the dread.
It won Oscars for best picture, directors, screenplay and supporting actor (Javier Bardem). Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than $2 million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande in Joel and Ethan Coens' bleak adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's bleak novel. Thornton knocks his two scenes out of the park as a racist construction worker and non-believer keen on destroying Duvall's new church, delivering one of the more powerful scenes of the 1990s late in the film.
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And if "Sling Blade" ever had movie "kin," this is it, considering Duvall and Billy Bob Thornton trade cameos in each film. Look for Alabama native Walton Goggins in a small role as a member of Duvall's congregation.
Duvall shot most of the film in Louisiana, and he rounded up locals to fill the shoes of its colorful characters in need of the Holy Ghost. What makes it so southern? The people, the setting and the church. A California native and longtime Hollywood vet would seemingly have no business understanding the South as much as he clearly has throughout his career in films like "The Great Santini" and "Get Low." But the Oscar-winner gets it like too few do, and his masterpiece reflecting that knowledge comes in this redemption drama exploring the importance the Christian faith in the area. After his happy life spins out of control, a charismatic preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts a new community church.
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