Despite numerous but circumstantial similarities, the movies really could not be more different. Striking a balance between roberts biological family mother, father, sons and grandson and his chosen family of transgender friends including maxwell, cas and lola cola, his maletofemale transsexual partner, davis documents eadss final days at the southern comfort conference, a national transgender gathering. Powers booth is a texas boy bout a year older than me and was raised in snyder scurry county, texas but the movie southern comfort was shot not too far from where i live now around caddo lake, texas. Fastpaced thriller in which a young family on a whitewater rafting adventure in montana are taken hostage by a pair of dangerous fugitives. Southern comfort the bakery romance series book 5 kindle edition by dowdy, cecelia. Anyway, southern comfort is a good 80s film which truly did remind me of deliverance, so if you liked that film, you will like this one too. The greatest perhaps is southern comfort, a violent fable of illtrained louisiana national guardsmen on a weekend exercise in 1973, inventing their. The film, set in 1973, features a louisiana national guard squad of nine on weekend maneuvers in rural bayou country as they come under threat from local cajun settlers. Southern comfort is a wellmade film, but it suffers from a. The film is set in the cajun country of louisiana, in 1973, and it follows the fortunes of a national guard unit that gets lost in the bayous and stumbles into a metaphor for americas involvement. The strength of the movie is in its look, in its superb use of its locations.
When i arrived here i was told by fellow airman part of the picture was filmed at the flag lake region on the bases east reservation. Southern comfort 1981 is an american thriller film directed by walter hill. A taut and atmospheric action film which is also serves as an intelligent and evocative metaphor for americas role in the vietnam war, southern comfort also features an excellent score by. The film, set in 1973, features a louisiana army national guard squad of nine on weekend. Southern comfort 1981 frequently asked questions imdb.
Eads, diagnosed with ovarian cancer, was turned down for treatment by a dozen doctors out of fear that treating such a patient would hurt their reputations. Southern comfort movie filming locations the 80s movies. Theres an undercurrent to the story thats unavoidable, making southern comfort an intriguing and very clever film that undoubtedly deserves. A troop of american soldiers blunder into a foreign. Southern comfort documents the final year in the life of robert eads, a transgender man. No other sex tube is more popular and features more southern scenes than pornhub. Set in 1973, southern comfort follows a group of louisiana national. Supernatural southern comfort tv episode 2012 plot. No walter hill film not even the good ones is ever about what it seems to. By the time eads received treatment, the cancer was too advanced to save his life.
A taut and atmospheric action film which is also serves as an intelligent and evocative metaphor for americas role in the vietnam war, southern comfort also features an excellent score by guitarist and frequent walter hill collaborator ry cooder. However, the last 20 minutes of the movie are absolutely fantastic, elevating the film to something highly satisfying. Robert eads 1945 1999 was an american trans man, whose life and death was the subject of the awardwinning documentary southern comfort 2001. We recently asked members of the buzzfeed community. The assignment also known as tomboy, and formerly known as re assignment and tomboy.
Southern comfort was released in the united states in 1981, although it is set in 1973. The joys of southern comfort including an increasingly pissedoff powers boothe. If southern comfort were a jerry springer episode, it would be billed as southern white trailer trash with sex reassignments. It is a credited remake of akira kurosawa s yojimbo. As such, the film is set immediately after this withdrawal, with the moral of the us army at its lowest ebb. Thereafter, southern comfort becomes a completely unbelievable story of a fight.
Southern comfort is a wellmade film, but it suffers from a certain predictability. It stars keith carradine, powers boothe, fred ward, t. The sunbelt south, the 1970s masculinity crisis, and the emergence of the redneck nightmare genre. Southern comfort soundtrack songs and instrumental score music. Discover more about southern comfort synopsis a young artist ventures to the south to find himself and unleashes a catastrophic tu. Eads, diagnosed with ovarian cancer, was turned down for treatment by two dozen doctors out of fear that treating such a patient would hurt their reputations. Glitter everywhere, amazing sets and worlds, inclusive casting and such a fun plot. Walter hills violent fable of national guardsmen at war in the louisiana bayou is perhaps his greatest film, writes philip french. That sounds like the number of soldiers in southern comfort. Part of 8 pages of info for the 1981 movie from the award winning 80s movies rewind. I suspect the predictability is part of the movies point. At times southern comfort seems like a kind of war game itselfan academic exercise, perfectly executed but a little cut and dried.
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Ive heard vietnam mentioned as a metaphor quite a few times while reading up on the film, and yeah, it does kinda make sense, but apparently walter hill denies that it was ever his intention to make that parallel. Eads transitioned later in life and as such it was deemed inadvisable to seek surgical sex assignment to male genitalia. Southern comfort 2001 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. On its surface, southern comfort is a deliverancetype. Southern comfort dvd movies and videos at cd universe. Nine parttime national guardsmen embark on weekend training manoeuvres in the southern swamplands, expecting only a. On a 5 star ranking system, i give this bluray release of southern comfort from shout. Browse through our impressive selection of porn videos in hd quality on any device you own.
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