too much like a stage play. I don't know the history of this story, or whether it was once a play before it was made into a film. But it certainly felt like stage play turned into a film. Some of the acting in the first half of the film (in the apartment and on the bus) seemed a bit dramatic. Sort of like the type of acting you'd see on stage. But other than that, it was very nice film.
shareFrom which actor or actress do you feel it felt like stage acting? I'm assuming Jessie Mae?
shareFrom which actor or actress do you feel it felt like stage acting? I'm assuming Jessie Mae?
well if you took 15 seconds when you went to IMDB to find this board, you would have Seen Horton adapted the movie from his own play.
I could tell during my first viewing of this film that it was a stage play. It was the elements all put together - such as the long scenes & dialog exchanges, minimum scene changes and the many close-ups.
I think that it's very possible to appreciate this film in its current form anyway. The story has a universal message about how "you can't go home".
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I felt it too, but Here's my 2 cents. The energy, volume, and big acting is present in lots of flix today if one presents working class ethnic family drama. Could it be we all associate Southern fussing and with its big gestures and close but not there accents and sweaty foreheads with stage plays: the work of Tenn. Williams, and the other Southern playwrights? . Fried Green Tomatoes, The Help, and Steel Magnolias kind of had this style too. Maybe too is the weird stagey feel when one casts non Southern actors.
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