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Atheists, if all Southern Americans are backwards?
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RE: Atheists, if all Southern Americans are backwards?
January 11, 2023 at 11:18 am
(January 11, 2023 at 9:24 am)Belacqua Wrote:
(January 11, 2023 at 8:51 am)BillieBobbie Wrote: Then explain why Clarice Starling sounded so nice with her West Virginian dialect. She didnt seem backwards at all in the "Silence of the Lambs" movie from 1990

I haven't seen it since it first came out, but...

As I recall, part of the dynamic of that movie was that Clarice was supposed to be a rural American, not at all sophisticated. She's resourceful and clever, not stupid, but culturally not sophisticated. While Hannibal has high-class cultural tastes. 

In fact the only character in popular culture who would read Dante or T.S. Eliot is a serial killer cannibal.

Wrong on all counts, but I'll focus on the last one:

-Josiah Bartlet

-Charles Xavier

-Sheldon Cooper

-Gregory House

-Sherlock Holmes

-Lilith Sternin-Crane

-Bruce Wayne

All of whom have quoted Dante, Eliot, or both.

Your characterization of Starling is also way, WAY off base.

Boru
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RE: Atheists, if all Southern Americans are backwards? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 11, 2023 at 11:18 am

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