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Ode to Billy Joe (Movie Plot)
Posted on 1/3/19 at 8:44 am
Posted on 1/3/19 at 8:44 am
If you're not aware, this movie is based on the song "Ode to Billy Joe" by Bobbie Gentry. The song itself kind of leaves you hanging on the reason for the death of Billy Joe. However, the movie tells you he commits suicide for having sex with a man. How did the writer get that from just a song? 
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Posted on 1/3/19 at 8:59 am to finchmeister08
Great movie.
Directed by this guy:
Directed by this guy:
Posted on 1/3/19 at 11:38 am to finchmeister08
SPOILERS. SPOILERS, SPOILERS, SPOILERS
Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.
Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 12:04 pm to finchmeister08
My question would be how did he die from jumping off of this bridge?
Posted on 1/3/19 at 12:15 pm to finchmeister08
Saw it at the theater as a 2nd grader. Man-on-man relationships weren't really talked about in our home. Deliverance hadn't come out yet for me to know there were stump-broke rednecks, that would screw a snake if they could catch it. Ha, ha. It was definitely a movie I shouldn't have seen at that age.
Today a 2nd grader can turn on the TV, and see there are ole boys on Sons of Anarchy that catch snakes, women, or men, kill them, and then screw them. My, my hasn't the world changed.
Today a 2nd grader can turn on the TV, and see there are ole boys on Sons of Anarchy that catch snakes, women, or men, kill them, and then screw them. My, my hasn't the world changed.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 12:20 pm to finchmeister08
as for bobbie gentry
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The enigma of her best-known song is nothing compared to that of Bobbie Gentry herself. In the early ’70s, she was riding high—headlining in Vegas, duetting with Glen Campbell on several hits, hosting her own TV series. Then around 1975, after contributing music to a movie based on “Ode,” she simply checked out. She has not been heard from in over 35 years. All requests for interviews, recordings and performances have been denied. She is said to be living in the Los Angeles area.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 1:03 pm to chinese58
quote:I've got a gay friend who hates gay dramas because too many of them end with tragic endings for the gay guys. He said this movie specifically fricked with his mind, being a gay kid in the South in the 70's... then he sees this movie and the star kills himself after sleeping with one guy.
It was definitely a movie I shouldn't have seen at that age.
We asked if he saw Brokeback Mountain. He said, "No way that ends well for those guys." We had to admit he was right.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 1:15 pm to cgrand
Nobody’s bumpkin: Unmasking Mississippi Delta chanteuse Bobbie Gentry
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From all appearances, Gentry is healthy and happy. She quietly resides in a grand English estate 30 miles east of Memphis surrounded by lush trees and rolling hills.
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In perhaps her most recent image taken in 2000, Bobbie Gentry is seen with half-brother Robert Streeter
Posted on 1/3/19 at 1:20 pm to Kafka
Good for her. I hope she cashed in her winnings and lived a happy life away from the spotlight.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 1:21 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Looks like she lives fairly well.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 1:39 pm to finchmeister08
and this was the guy Billy Joe was having sex with
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Posted on 1/3/19 at 4:02 pm to finchmeister08
Who was the girl in that movie?
She was pretty hot.
I don't remember seeing her in anything else
She was pretty hot.
I don't remember seeing her in anything else
Posted on 1/3/19 at 4:09 pm to L1C4
Glynnis O'Connor.
She's been in stuff as recently as last year.
She was in the John Travolta classic Boy in the Plastic Bubble
She's been in stuff as recently as last year.
She was in the John Travolta classic Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Posted on 1/3/19 at 5:16 pm to hobotiger
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Glynnis O'Connor. She's been in stuff as recently as last year. She was in the John Travolta classic Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Dude, I remember her in a cheap movie that was on in the early days of HBO with Dennis Christopher, entitled California Dreaming.
You got to see a lot more of her in THAT movie.
It also had future Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts, too...
Posted on 1/3/19 at 5:24 pm to hobotiger
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Glynnis O'Connor
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Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Posted on 1/3/19 at 6:28 pm to finchmeister08
quote:Yeah, the song tells us that Billy Joe and the narrator (a girl) were seen by a preacher, throwing something off of the bridge the previous day. Gentry has been aloof about it for years, and she says she knows, but nothing about a boy and girl throwing something off of a bridge spells homos.
However, the movie tells you he commits suicide for having sex with a man. How did the writer get that from just a song?
The obvious answer is that showbiz is full of homos, it was the 70's and they wanted a young gay victim hero. Plus, they likely paid Gentry not to refute it. The real crime is that everyone now thinks song Billy is a homo, when in fact he likely killed himself because a child was aborted. So, pretty much the exact opposite end of the spectrum.
So there you have it. Hollywood homos gay raped a fictional character and then threw him off a bridge. The end.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 6:38 pm to blueboy
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As Gentry told Fred Bronson, “The song is sort of a study in unconscious cruelty. But everybody seems more concerned with what was thrown off the bridge than they are with the thoughtlessness of the people expressed in the song. What was thrown off the bridge really isn’t that important.
“Everybody has a different guess about what was thrown off the bridge—flowers, a ring, even a baby. Anyone who hears the song can think what they want, but the real message of the song, if there must be a message, revolves around the nonchalant way the family talks about the suicide. They sit there eating their peas and apple pie and talking, without even realizing that Billie Joe’s girlfriend is sitting at the table, a member of the family.”
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Posted on 1/3/19 at 6:57 pm to blueboy
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So there you have it. Hollywood homos gay raped a fictional character and then threw him off a bridge. The end.
I don't see Max Baer Jr. as an SJW or homosexual.
Posted on 1/3/19 at 8:00 pm to PowerTool
quote:I definitely get that, but she definitely hung that meatball out there for people to wonder about. She's just being coy if she says it's irrelevant.
the nonchalant way the family talks about the suicide. They sit there eating their peas and apple pie and talking, without even realizing that Billie Joe’s girlfriend is sitting at the table, a member of the family.”
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