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Hillbilly Elegy

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by ATLGATORFAN, Jul 21, 2024.

  1. ATLGATORFAN

    ATLGATORFAN Premium Member

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    I know this movie isn’t new(2020) but with JD Vance being the VP pick for trump I watched it on Netflix last night. Thought it was decent but I’ve seen movies on addiction before. It is interesting to ponder how someone from such a dysfunctional and abusive home makes it through Yale Law. Also imagine Glen Close and Amy Adams and other supporting actors are super pissed they assisted a movie that makes people sympathetic to Vance’s story.
     
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  2. BigCypressGator1981

    BigCypressGator1981 GC Hall of Fame

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    Should have read the book. Great book.
     
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  3. gatorjo

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    We can be absolutely sure of it, now that Vance will continue to be lying for Trump, but now on a much larger stage. Nearly all artists hate Trump, and his selfish, hateful, criminal world view. Vance is sadly an extension of that.

    Sad that Vance would write this book, then lie for and try to become part of an administration that will do absolutely nothing to help these people.

    Maybe Vance can take the point on ending the Affordable Care Act and causing of millions to lose their health insurance.
     
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  4. BigCypressGator1981

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    After writing this book Vance made a great deal of money out in CA as a venture capitalist. Probably turned him into a greedy shithead hence his current status.
     
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  5. gatorchamps960608

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    Vance is Peter Thiel's beotch.
     
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  6. ursidman

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    Book was very good - the movie was so-so. Not sure what happened the guy between needing a hand (Yale practically gifted him an education) and what he has become
     
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    I really enjoyed the book; the description of the characters and cultural problems were interesting. I thought the latter parts about his views on the prescriptions were muddled and maybe even contradictory. Didn’t think the movie was compelling at all.
     
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    Maybe his plan is to 25th Trump, become president, and then reveal he was playing the long game and told Trump what he wanted to hear so that Vance could take power and restore America to what we were before Trump?
     
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  9. okeechobee

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    Everybody receives movies like this a little differently, which is part of the fun. I saw it not as a movie about addiction, but as a movie about a boy who had what most would consider to be insurmountable odds and made it through Yale Law. It’s one of those movies that reinforces the idea that the largest barriers we face in life are often self-imposed, because we doubt our own ability to overcome them.
     
  10. GatorPrincess8

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    Vance vs any VP candidate the dems trot out.
     
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  11. GCNumber7

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    Peter Thiel happened.
     
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    The book was very good. The movie I turned off after about 10 mins. I think he is a pretty smart guy.
     
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  13. Emmitto

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    Aaaaand you nailed it.

    Also, actual hillbilly here. Raised in Lee and Wise Counties, VA.

    JDV is a fraud.
     
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  14. flgator2

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    He has achieved a lot and should be very proud of what he has become
     
  15. gator_lawyer

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    IIRC, his grandparents raised him in suburban Ohio, and his grandfather was a steelworker and union member who made good money. He certainly had a dysfunctional family, but the whole rags to riches story is a bit questionable. He came from a middle class home in the suburbs.

    Obviously, he's a smart guy, but he sold his soul to Trump and Peter Thiel and is a fake populist, so no bueno. Sort of dude who rises by having no real principles.
     
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  16. ATLGATORFAN

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    debating this isn’t super interesting to me because I have no way to confirm if info in the movie ( didn’t read the book ) was correct. However, splitting meals on wheels with your grandma because your mom can’t get off the needle and your grandmother setting your grandfather on fire is pretty compelling story of overcoming adversity.