Good Country People (1960's, short)

[anisgt]

I had to read it last week but It was kind of puzzling at first, but at the end it was ok

[Tinwe666]

I don't like it very much, it is much too simplified in comparison to the story..Hulgu looks too pretty and too fragile..

[Tinwe666]

I don't like it very much, it is much too simplified in comparison to the story..Hulgu looks too pretty and too fragile..

[oximlamexo]

@lonetreevideo

I don't understand the plot twist at the end you are talking about, this is exactly how it ended. Hahahaha Pointer's sexy...besides that weird stealthy walk/run he does lmao. But I also agree with minnymich, they did combine the two characters of Mrs. Hopewell and Hulga/Joy, but I'm assuming it was just to save time in the film.

[oximlamexo]

@lonetreevideo

I don't understand the plot twist at the end you are talking about, this is exactly how it ended. Hahahaha Pointer's sexy...besides that weird stealthy walk/run he does lmao. But I also agree with minnymich, they did combine the two characters of Mrs. Hopewell and Hulga/Joy, but I'm assuming it was just to save time in the film.

[Cunocephali]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

[sweetwillie]

they look about as country as i look asian

[K3chocolate]

1. Hulga was not supposed to be pretty & she had glasses in the book

2. Hulha and her mom's lines and characters were combined into one!

3. They were supposed to be in a barn

4. She was supposed to be 32 and she had told him she was 17 (bc he was 19)

5. Hulga was supposed to be portrayed as very educated and smug

It's not like this was a looonnngggg novel that couldn't be translated properly onto film

But thanks for posting!! It was cool to watch!!

[ihavenormalnails]

Hulga kinda reminds me of Angela from the Office in this rendition. Except she's an athiest instead of an uber Christian...

[welcum2moes]

in the story...Mrs. Hopewell is nice, a people pleaser. not mean.

[SOLIE6226]

Great odd Country Folks if Ya Luv'em Look up the Writings of The Imposing Harry Crews another great Ga. Writer , With Such great titles as Scar Lover,The Gospel Singer,All We Need of Hell , A Feast of Snakes just to name acouple also jim whites Movie Searching for the One Eyed Jesus A great Back roads Thru the off the Hwy Lost South Crews is in that Plus lots of Other non Hollywood Real Southerners !

[SOLIE6226]

Great odd Country Folks if Ya Luv'em Look up the Writings of The Imposing Harry Crews another great Ga. Writer , With Such great titles as Scar Lover,The Gospel Singer,All We Need of Hell , A Feast of Snakes just to name acouple also jim whites Movie Searching for the One Eyed Jesus A great Back roads Thru the off the Hwy Lost South Crews is in that Plus lots of Other non Hollywood Real Southerners !

[remingtonstreetdude]

wtf.they combined 2 characters into 1.

[JCinterper]

this was freaking attrocious, I understand them simplifying the story but the guy who played Manley was horrible. They rushed through things too fast

[doodahead1]

shes suppose to have glasses and they shoulda been in a barn at the end

[iidontcareeee]

Nice performances, but this Hulga/Joy is WAY too attractive. Godluvya, Flannery.

[syrupneko]

This was brilliant. :(

[dinnerandashow]

country people are scary.

[minnymich]

umm all i can say is that, they combined mrs. hopewell and joy-hulga into one character. they are two different characters. in fact mrs. hopewell was hulga's mother lmao. he came into the house and met hulga.... ahahahahahhah what did he do to the story?....

[guzm7]

haha i had to read this story for english 3 ap but manly pointer does look too old

[AlanI19941]

amazing video, doing this in english :D

[superduper2780]

mr kelly a legend you areee

[AlanI19941]

duddy ure a legend matee

[superduper2780]

Brilliant!:D

Mr Kellys a legend for getting this

[superduper2780]

absolutely brilliant.

Mr Kelly, your a legend for getting this

[AlanI19941]

good story, very unusual though:P

[maleman247]

i thought helga had glasses...

[jacero10]

This film completely butchers the story. Read it. It's so much better.

[spintriae]

cool story bro

[idleteddygram666]

oh god

[hrmoore]

Thanks so much for posting this.

I think both actors do a great job. Manley Pointer is just as I imagined him, particularly in the last scene.

The whole thing is greatly diminished because we don't meet Hulga's overbearing, awful mother or the prying sharecropper's wife, with her discussions of her sickly sweet daughters, Carramae and Glynnese.

[DJDanzzEdit]

this was totally off from the actual short story. Where are all the other characters? Wheres the barn yard they climb up into? this was so two dimensional.

[tuglife6073]

Listen! Did you ever eat a chicken that was two days old?

[fyrefusion]

GAH! There was a remake of this film. I'm trying to find it but can't! The remake is great.

[Kimaya]

Hey he wasn't trying to sell the bible to Hulga he was trying to sell them to her mother

[satyadao]

"Pointer" looks too old; he doesn't look 19.

[4elovechishe]

poor movie...too much artificial emotions..I know that it's 60'..I don't like unhappy endings...(((

I agree that she is pretty here.she supposed to be ugly as in a book she was.

[centervilletn]

southern grotesque...i really love oconner. thanks for the post.

[DanielTokyo]

I don't recall Hulga having to be ugly though... It was nice to watch this, but he left out my favorite line: At the end when the ladies remark:

Why that looks like that nice dull young man who tried to sell me a Bible yesterday... He was so simple. But I guess the world would be better off if we were all that simple...Some can't be that simple...I know I never could.

[partyweetow]

Are we supposed to learn anything from this? I mean, besides, "Don't take your prosthetic leg off in front of someone you just met"?

[snowstick3]

yeah, she was supposed to be "hulking"

[calven727]

thats d-bag stole her leg. thats why even chistan people should carry guns

[darkmoose84]

It was a fairly nice adaptation for it's time a budget, although it didn't have all the characters in it. I shall still fave this.

[worshipy2krolle]

send it to class 1101

[elbabalao]

that initial exchange between hulga and manley pointer in this video actually took place between manley and hulga's mother. this video takes too many liberties with a great story...can't do it justice....flannery rocks!0

[katrinaVOZ]

yeah, she was supposed to be ugly...

[sowhat730]

that girl is a lot older than 21...

[natewrites]

Well, I don't know about the directorial take here. Hulga here comes off too fragile. Her fall from being emotionally strong to vulnerable at the end isn't shown here, which makes it lose it's punch. And where's the humor? Hulga is sarcastic, witty. But here she's only a delicate flower, beginning to end. No character development.

But, I suppose it's nice someone payed tribute to direct/act in this.

[holyJUMPINjehova]

seriously...

[holatwo]

Poor Hulga... Don't believe in nothing...

[seljuq45]

hahaha this is a perfect comedy

[discodino]

wasn't hulga suppose to be ugly? that girl was actually pretty.

[ericnew42]

and like seven foot tall with glasses, and manley i think was suppose to be a midget..

[sarahjane127]

yeah she was supposed to have glasses too... and they didn't show the hollowed in bible.. totally could have been better!

[iamtheonewhois]

She was supposed to be pretty, her name was joy, because she was a smart emo bitch she changed it to the ugliest name she could think of.

[EnerV90]

no, hulga is suppose to be pretty. she (hulga) changed her name because she thought she was ugly b.c of her lost leg. her original name was joy, for gods sake