The speed limit would have been 55 at the time the movie was made. The shortest route I see says 626 miles, so a minimum of 11.4 hours one way if you can go 55 the entire time. The only way to do it is to get a blocker so the truck can exceed the speed limit and not draw attention.
One person wrote that when Huck said “All right then, I’ll go to Hell” when he thought helping Jim escape was a sin, but still the Right thing- was a breakthrough. But I agree- HF is the greatest American novel.
It use the “Ten Little N-” only in early brit editions, in America it was changed to And Then There was None, except for one PB company that used Ten Little Indians.
In 1943, things have changed since then, but yeah it wasnt considered quite as offensive then. That word was also used for people from the subcontinent.
I’m guessing most of them would have honestly answered no. If you go back and look at the discourse over movies like RotN, Sixteen Candles, Porky’s, etc., etc., there weren’t many people in mainstream circles talking about that kind of thing. Even absence movies, if you had asked a lot of students if X behavior constitued rape there’s a good chance they would have said no even if most people today would say yes.
they used to do it here too as mom rescued one with that name she trained to come to “dog” or boy"
I thought the bet in Smokey and the Bandit was 400 cases of Coors in 28 hours. The easy way would have been to fly to Texas, rent a truck, fill it with the beer, and drive to Atlanta.
What was the deal with taking Coors east of Texas, anyway?
Maybe not as much as you think:
Tl;dr, unpasteurized beer, unrefrigerated trucks.
Coors always hauled in refrigerated trucks (I think they still do, even if they don’t have to any longer). They just wouldn’t haul it east, apparently. 70s vintage hauler:
The UK publisher didn’t change it until 1985.
Interesting article, and it confirms that it was 28 hours. Although we have to subtract the time Bandit spent buying a Trans Am, loading it onto his truck, and driving to Snowman’s house. I still think the smart plan would be to fly to Texas and get a truck there.
That’s the same phrase in the Agatha Christie book! Never heard it before.
It was probably a mystique and availability. Back in the early to mid 70’s Coors wasn’t available in the Houston area, while it was plentiful and relatively cheap in Dallas where I lived. On the weekends, we would load up our car with as much Coors as we could afford and drive down to the beach and make enough profit to pay for the whole weekend.
Not to belabor this, and I’m honestly asking out of ignorance, was this in a direct reference to black people? Because the “sniffer dog” in the linked article is white.
Check again.
Here’s one that I saw when I was 11 years old (1974). A TV movie on ABC’s Movie of the Week. Billed as a comedy. And about a man played by Paul Sorvino who is raped by a beautiful woman played by the star of the Saturday morning kiddy show, Isis.
Burton Gilliam, who played Lyle in Blazing Saddles, said in an interview about the movie that he had a hard time using the N-word, especially in the presence of the African-American actors. Cleavon Little finally pulled him aside and said, “If this were real life, and you called me that, I’d kick your ass. But it’s a movie - we all know you’re just playing a part.” Little had to grant Gilliam what TvTropes calls “N-word Privileges” before he could use it naturally.
Yeah, since UK MP is suspended for using the term “nigger in the woodpile.” Note that word- suspended. In 1943 few would care. He might get a couple of boos.
Yeah, and so? I quoted the same wiki.
That’s not quite the change. The change is that the racists were in absolute power back then, and the people who found it offensive had much less power to enact consequences on racists for using it.
If anything, it might have been more offensive to its targets, as the threat of violence it carried was much more immediate.
While I would admit the the Brits have their share of racists, they dont use all words the same way we do. When we say “Bloody” they think nasty curse word, when they say “fag” they mean a cig. Now if that had been an American pilot, it would have been different.
My Tarheel grandmother, born in 1901, would not permit her children or grandchildren to use the N-word. But only because people who did were “common”. Her preferred term was “colored”. So there was a taboo, but it was class-based and aimed at poor whites, the folks from “Mill Hill” who Grandmother was very careful to distinguish herself and her family from. (Which, now that I think about it, is probably why she insisted on “Grandmother”, rather than “Grandma” or 'Granny". She would also correct us if we pronounced her native state “North C’lina”).