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I’m from Greenville, AL. The water tower scene with the courthouse in the background features a courthouse that is almost identical to the one in the real Greenville, AL. I grew up alongside Pigeon Creek. The over 1,000-acre park was used for concerts and other events following the Olympics. It continues to be open to the public for horseback riding, mountain biking, hiking, geocaching, and other activities.
I am glad I didn't listen to critics and watched this movie! It is a very good movie with charm, humor, sadness and most of all, genial acting! Reese Witherspoon and Josh Lucas are the two characters that you can relate to. I think what makes this movie good is that it is a story you can relate to, but made with humor.
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The story is trite and the characters are inherently uninteresting, but he could have at least livened things up a bit. Sweet Home Alabama is about a girl, Melanie, she is about to marry the mayor of New York city's son. But she has a bit of a bumpy past in the south where her family and old friends are, she's still married to Jake, her high school sweetheart. Without trying to bring up her embarrassing past to her fiancée, she has to get things done and settled with everyone, including her husband. But she slowly discovers how much she missed her true home and how much of a wonderful guy that Jake is. The beautiful glass sculptors you see in the movie sweet home Alabama are quite easy to create if you understand the science behind it.
Charlize Theron was originally cast as Melanie Carmichael. Due to the actor's strike, she jumped to a ready-to-go movie, 24 Stunden Angst . Reese Witherspoon was cast the same weekend that her previous film, Natürlich blond , opened. The glass featured as "Deep South Glass" is actually hand-blown glass made by Simon Pearce, a Vermont company named after Simon Pearce, who emigrated to the United States from Waterford, Ireland. I have just been teaching a class about lightening in an electricity unit.
Sweet Home Alabama (film)
Chaffin insisted that Cox visit Alabama before writing the screenplay. The coon dog cemetery in the film is a real place in Tuscumbia, Alabama. The northern Alabama town is the childhood home of Helen Keller, whose story was told in Licht im Dunkel .
And, of course, some of the New York City scenes take place at Lincoln Center, the Fashion District, and Tiffany’s. At the reception at the end of the movie, Mel's dress is clean and dry. On the beach just before, it was dirty and wet from the storm and sand. A young woman who has reinvented herself as a New York City socialite must return home to Alabama to obtain a divorce from her husband after seven years of separation.
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I enjoyed Sweet Home Alabama, too, and had always wondered if the part about the lightning-strike sand-glass was true or not -- but never got around to researching it. It was very interesting to read the facts behind the dramatization. The communities south of Atlanta have been full of film productions over the last few years.
There is not one sympathetic character in the movie and the predictable script and story line is akin to hitting yourself repeatedly over the head with a rubber mallet. Classic old school romantic comedies at least had the decency to make the other man a git, or at least plotting or not wanting to marry her themselves. I would comment on the blatant racist north America south America overtones but I don't really know enough about this to comment. Not bad acting performances from all the cast despite the script and plot.
Visit the Georgia locations that stand in for Alabama in this romantic comedy.
To be fair, though, the problems began before Tennant ever came on board, and it falls directly on writers Douglas J. Eboch and C. Jay Cox , who cranked out a story/screenplay that is decidedly uninspired and lacks any semblance of originality whatsoever. The DVD is fine but the picture is not "reference" quality. The sound is Dolby 5.1 but surround channels are not very dynamic.
To direct cast and crew to the site, yellow signs saying "SWA" with arrows pointing out the correct route were put up. Some Berry College students stole these signs as souvenirs. When I saw "Sweet Home Alabama" I wondered if the lightning and sand really could create something so ornate and beautiful. I love how some of these pieces are formed, one that looks like "Darwin" and one that looks like a "Hula Dancer"... There is something very special about wind chimes created by pieces of "fossilized lightning." Something purely natural and at the same time mysterious. Because of this act, which was considered to be impetuous, the God of the Sea, Neptune, "sentenced" her to a life way out in the ocean, never to come near the Schooner or her beloved Captain again.
But before we discuss them in detail, here is a fun fact about ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ for you – it was the first film that was given permission to shoot in NYC following the unfortunate September 11 attacks of 2001. I found Sweet Home Alabama to be a very sweet romantic comedy, Reese Witherspoon was just so adorable in this film. I wanted to see Sweet Home Alabama because I love Reese and remember hearing so much about it when it was released. So, of course, I figured now would be a good time to rent it and find out what this movie was about. Over all, I'd say it was a bit over rated, but still a watchable romantic comedy. In the last scenes, we see a more sentimental Jake, who still loves Melanie and is hurt that she's going to get married (dude, it's been 7 years without you guys talking to each other).
The stunning grounds were one of the three display gardens in the state. The Judge—a 2014 film with a similar plot of a protagonist with a successful big city career drawn back to an old hometown. Although centered in a fictional version of the town of Pigeon Creek, near a fictional version of Greenville, Alabama, the film was mostly shot in Georgia. The Carmichael Plantation, which Melanie tells the reporter is her childhood home, is the Oak Hill Berry Museum, a historic landmark in Georgia which is near the campus of Berry College in Rome, Georgia.
The writing is smart and funny, the directing fits the comedic mood of the story, and the acting is just right. Although it is a quite different film from "Legally Blonde" and "Election", I enjoyed it just as much, and will enjoy it upon repeat viewings. The streets and storefronts of Crawfordville, Georgia, were used as the backdrop for the Catfish Festival and other downtown scenes.
Josh Lucas makes a fabulous performance as Jake, her estranged high school Hubby who's never got her out of his mind. If you are in the mood for a good old fashioned romance with some great country thrown in then this is the one for you, i've lost count how many times i have seen this now and i'll never tire of it. Even if this isn't your kind of film i challenge you to watch it and not feel good, practically impossible. Delightful characters throughout and constantly entertaining!
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Jake -her husband- doesn't want a divorce and they spend at least 20 minutes of the film fighting and hating each other for that, which would make you assume what caused their marriage to fail... After that, Melanie reunites with some of her old friends and one night while she is drunk, she insults them by telling them, in other words, they're some big losers with stagnant lives. Fantastic, had me hooked from the start, they were on to a winner as soon as they cast Dakota Fanning as 'young' Melanie. Now i'm a sucker for good 'chick Flicks' and this one tops my list, Reese shines as Melanie, the girl who realises that what she's been looking for was right there at home waiting for her.
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