why is the title of the movie "american quilt"??
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It's stories of different people's lives, each piece being a part of the whole of human experience.
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I dont know the answer, but once you get it, let me know. It sounds very interesting. At least you know the nationality of the movie?
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No its not and yes it is....here you can read about it from the author...the book is a work of fiction...it is found in the fiction section....i have placed them in " " the part of the passage that come from the "idea" for the work..... so mainly the answer is no.\n\nJames Dickey's first novel, Deliverance, is an adventure story of a three-day canoe trip  \nDeliverance \nin the rugged wilderness of southern Appalachia, in which four suburbanites are brutalized both by the sheer force of the river and by violent and degenerate mountain men. Although James Dickey, an Atlanta native, never identified Georgia as the book's setting, the city from which the four men come was widely assumed to have been Atlanta. The river where most of the book's action takes place, the Cahulawassee, closely resembles the Chattooga River, which forms the border between Georgia and South Carolina in the former's northeasternmost corner in Rabun County. \n\nOnly a few months after the book's publication in March 1970, a film adaptation confirmed its Georgia setting by filming on location in Rabun County and on the Chattooga.  \nDeliverance \nReleased in 1972, the film became one of the most popular of the year. Both book and movie had much to do with confirming to a national audience the hillbilly stereotypes that had long plagued southern Appalachia. The film, in particular, stands as the most degrading depiction of southern mountaineers ever put on film and led to strong protests both by north Georgians and by Appalachian scholars. \n\nThe Novel\n\n"Dickey, already a well-regarded poet, conceived the idea for the book after his involvement in a traumatic canoe accident on the Coosawattee River in the early 1960s."\n\n His story centers on four middle-aged suburbanites who head north for a weekend of whitewater canoeing on a wild river shortly before the completion of a new dam that would make it inaccessible. Three of the men, including Ed Gentry, who is the narrator and Dickey's alter ego, are inexperienced in the ways of the wilderness, and they defer to Lewis Medlock, a seasoned outdoorsman and survivalist, who plans the trip and leads the group. Once underway the novice adventurers encounter not only a far more physically challenging and dangerous river than they were prepared for but also some equally threatening local inhabitants. The novel's centerpiece is an attack and sexual assault by two mountaineers on the banks of the river that leads to a series of murders, including that of one of the four Atlantans. Their ever-escalating struggle for survival becomes a moral dilemma as well, as the would-be adventurers find themselves forced to cover up their ordeal when they reach the town of Aintry at the river's end. \n\nThe novel has been interpreted in a variety of ways, most of which focus on the tensions wrought when the sensibilities of modern suburbia are pitted against the more elemental values of the natural world or the primitivism of rural mountain life. The four men bring to their adventure different attitudes and assumptions. For Lewis and Ed, in particular, the challenges they face in defending themselves, individually and collectively, serve as a deliverance not only from the hostile forces of man and nature but also from their own mental and psychological shortcomings as the products of a soft, comfortable, materialistic culture. \n\nThe book faced a mixed reception initially. Deliverance was widely acknowledged as a compelling adventure story, but some critics found its violence excessive and its stereotypical portrayal of mountain people demeaning and simplistic. It was an unqualified success commercially and became a best-seller.
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The movie is called "Where the Heart Is." Hope that helps. :)
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It is about a Black family, the Logans, that goes thru terrible racism in Missippi (I think?). They are the only black family that owns their own land, and are very proud of it. Many things happen during the book, including other Black families being lynched and killed, and one of their friends, TJ, gets in trouble with some white kids who use him as a "plaything."
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The best American war movie.  You have to look at this question in two ways.  The best American war movie that glorifies fighting for the U.S and makes it fun to fight a war.  OR The best anti-American war movie that shows the real chaos and inhumane acts that happen in wartime.  For the first one I would have to say Pearl Harbor and Wind Talkers.  Both are Pro U.S films that are filled with inaccuracies and make the enemy (Japan) seem as a bad evil empire that needs to be stopped.  While the main characters shoot up enemy soldiers by the hundreds (especially in wind talkers). There is always a love story between some one in the movie evident in Pearl Harbor and Wind talkers both. These movies and many others (Black Hawk Down, and The Green Berets) tend to stretch truths and make the U.S seem as the all-powerful good guy when that is not always the case. \n\nFor the second one I would choose the film Platoon.  It for the most part is accurate and shows the horrors and unjust acts that took place during Vietnam.  The film is overall anti-U. S and is filled with chaotic battle sequences that show a real sense of combat.  Full Metal Jacket would also be another film that would be a good example.  It is very anti-U. S showing a soldier and his horrible experiences in boot camp leading up to his suicide.  Then shifting into Vietnam showing horrible acts of murder and senseless killing.  There are two kinds of American war films pro and anti.  Movies directed by Hollywood directors tend to be pro American and big budget features made to attract millions of moviegoers.  Those few movies that are anti-American aren't usually as popular with the American public and are less as common.  The American public I guess would much rather see two famous actors kiss and win a war than see an accurate portrayal of a battle.
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I don't like Michael Moore movie and it was a stupid movie\nBut "Flight 93" I feel so sad about all those people that die I don't know if I could take all that hurt and knowing it real people that die because of some stupid people that got in their head they should show the american,the movie may cause many American to turn on some of the arabs here...\nThis isn't a make believe movie like all of hollywood have made it like seening your FAMILY and close FRIENDS dying in mid-air I hope people do go out and support the movie I know I will
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Actually it's about the mass murder of native Americans by early settlers. \n\nTurkey anyone?
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We have a pretty thorough understanding of American slang, so if anyone thought the song was about footwear, well the filmclip would have dismissed that idea!\n\nThe song sucked. Period. No matter where in the world.
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It's a play on the movie released in Clinton's Term, allegedly, about Clintons use of the Military or lack there of, All put up in a movie studio. The Movie ... Wag The Dog. Dustin Hoffman was in it.\n     Check it out. \n\n     http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/
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The film's title was derived from a familiar, tongue-twisting Mother's Goose children's folk song (or nursery rhyme) called Vintery, Mintery, Cutery, Corn. The ones that fly east and west are diametrically opposed to each other and represent the two combatants in the film. The one that flies over the cuckoo's nest [the mental hospital filled with "cuckoo" patients] is the giant, 'deaf-mute' Chief:\n\nVintery, mintery, cutery, corn,\nApple seed and apple thorn;\nWire, briar, limber lock,\nThree geese in a flock.\nOne flew east,\nAnd one flew west,\nAnd one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
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Off the top of my head I would say the biggest difference between the two was that in the book it's obvious that Idgie and Ruth (Mary Stuart Masterson and Mary Louise Parker) are a couple.  In the movie they sort of gloss over that fact, as if lesbianism was inappropriate, but cannibalism was okay!
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Yes it is.  It not only is a great action flick, but it also shows the stupidity of the clinton administration.  That movie is a true story on how Clinton abandoned our troops and refused to reinforce to save their lives.  And you think Bush is a killer!?!?!?  No wonder terrorists think we are a pushover country!  With presidents like Clinton, we don't even protect our own!
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its wild america.  i bought it out of the 2 for $11 bin at walmart.  AWESOME MOVIE!!
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Maybe "Boycott"?\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255851/
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Actually, that movie was filmed here, in my hometown (Benton, Arkansas). It's really neat to see it, and recognize so many places and people in it. It's a good movie, I like it a lot. \n\nMy only problem with it, is the ridiculous amount of foul language used in it. They could have really toned it down.. a LOT.\n\nGood movie though.
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Of course not… Both movies were-obviously-going to be nominated based on their themes.  It was basically a choice between whether the Academy wanted to be labeled as Homophobic or racist.  Crash was chosen because it was the lesser of two evils.  It would be easier to quiet the crowd complaining about homophobia than the one crying about racism.  Crash was an extremely overrated, preachy, 'holier-than-thou' movie that only got to the level it was at because of the issues it addressed.  I found through personal experience that it's almost mandatory to like Crash: My liberal sister-in-law actually called my wife and I racist because we didn't like the movie.  So, obviously Crash is going to get higher marks if it was a good movie or not, based solely on people being afraid of being labeled as a racist which I can almost guarantee someone on this board will do to me after reading this.