Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.#White #Family #Documentary Apple Inc. Copyright 2023 West Virginia MetroNews Network. November 12, 2013 @ ? Joined: Dec 2013. Any who have not seen it strap in for a ride and welcome to Appalachia. I heard that some of the people who produced the Wild & Wonderful Whites were trying to get a new show starring Mamie off the ground. "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia" is a Netflix documentary that follows the family of Jesco White, an infamous line dancer that appeared in various country music videos in the '90s. What is YOUR opinion? We see a baby taken out of the arms of her mother, perhaps never to return, as she turns around snorts a line of something or other still in the hospital bed. The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2009) on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more. If I were from WV I would be embarassed and mad as hell that my tax dollars support such a worthless group of people. Hank has been showing people the way for years and doing it his way. Nlindsay Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. 8:13 pm, i watched the movie last night for the fist time an it kinda didnt set well. Glenn Dubya You know what my daddy used to say? Posts: 8,737. 49ers vs. Seahawks odds, prediction, betting tips for NFL wild-card playoff game Riding a 10-game win streak, the second-seeded 49ers look to secure a spot in the Divisional Round when they host the seventh-seeded Seahawks to kick off super wild-card weekend (4:30 p.m. i mean yeah the whites are a little wilder, and stuff but i think they should have showed differnt sides of the faimly, Jim They tried to charge me with accessory and I told him, I said, 'just go ahead and send my ass to jail 'cause I'm not a snitch.' It features 24 traditional dancers videotaped on location in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina. Race relations in the United States were not a simple matter of black versus white. I used to be wilder than a buck. CPS took it. I just went on a rampage pretty much. 6:28 pm. One of the sadest depictions if not glorification of addiction, mental illness and overall disfunction ive ever seen. Wild, Wonderful, White Criminality: Images of ''White Trash'' Appalachia . West Virginia is one of the whitest places in America. 60%. I've always been the sexiest one in the family. 11:04 pm. I seen it and did not really care for it. This is a sharp rise of 46 percent from 2021 . I love marijuana; i'm a pothead. Is the lawyer in the movie Francis Curnutte related to the singer-songwriter Steve Curnutte who lives in Nashville? Its bullshit! A lovely note from the staff at Andy's Dandys. That woman at the end, when she said she knew she was going to hell, she smiled about that and laughed These people have some serious issues. Why should we want to support that? WEST MONROE, La. Its White population is down to 87.5 percent. The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia is a 2009 documentary film chronicling the White family of Boone County, . The film makers depict the White family as a group of ignorant and lazy disability-drawing, drug dealing anarchists wreaking havoc on the poor unsuspecting residents of Boone county well the fact of the matter is there are thousands of families in the hollows of West Virginia that live just like the Whites and Do So Out of Necessity! Nlindsay The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. Yes I know most of the chosen habits lead to health issues also. They could get everyone off disability (even crazy people can grow weed), get back a ton of space in the over crowded jails, and finally give the pharmaceutical industries a run for their money. Then again, you might. It primarily consists of first person interviews detailing the poverty, crime, addiction and the ramifications of the coal-mining industry on Appalachian society.[20][21]. I am from WV and used to work in Boone County. Well, I've got brain damage on the side of my brain, and I don't know which side, left or right, where I huffed gasoline for ten long years. November 11, 2013 @ 8:22 pm. People would come from all over the country to smoke it legally so the tourist trade would boom. What's PCP? Mamie told the Coal Valley News, Im not happy with the scenes of drug use and neither is JescoWe havent gotten enough from Johnny Knoxville to amount to anything.. A year in the life of the White family, well known for Jesco White, the star of the "Dancing Outlaw" documentary. TV-MA 1h 26m 2009. . My family is from West Virginia and what the movie makers failed to demonstrate adequately is the overwhelming problems this state is experiencing as a result of the prescription drug trade and the complete lack of legitimate opportunities for residents to safely/legally bring home an honest income. Aside from the shootings and the stabbings, the Whites are definately one family I think we can all hang with. john gentry We also raised hogs to get our meat. From the first time I watched this documentary, and every time I watched it thereafter( which is about two times a day average), I have had nothing but strong admiration and respect for the White family. 4:56 am. 12:51 pm, I have not watched the movie yet fully intend on it soon. You need a bunch of crazy stuff to get the herds attention, but it has alienated the core crowd that this movie appeals to. The film clearly concentrated on the White Family of the present, not on the talent of the past. This is a shame. They drownded. September 7, 2013 @ Your email address will not be published. I payed thinking i would see alot more of Jesco and his art. By the way, the movie about Jesco (not same as documentary) was the brain-child of someone more demonic than Jesco could ever be. In addition to getting in trouble with the law, the Whites, who live deep within Appalachia, uphold a time-honored dancing style, even as they contend with poverty, drugs and . He's this [shoots birds]. White was married to Norma Jean White (19742009)[2][3] and married Alida White in 2011. 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Apple TV & Privacy [Shakes bottle of prescription medication] Come and get it baby. Him and the animals. The 2009 documentary The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia follows the infamous outlaw Appalachian family the Whites of Boone County, West Virginia, including Jesco White (who inherited his father's talents for blending tap dancing with traditional mountain clog dancing). Bandytown, W.Va -- Fans mourn iconic West Virginia wild-man Jesco White, who died at his Boone County home after inhaling twin doses of lighter fluid and gas fumes Saturday. Part of HuffPost Entertainment. debra Hayes Your email address will not be published. They're . I know you ain't snortin' no pills. I recently saw the movie. Like all things Palin, it's an evolving and contradictory process, the latest of which is in Christmas-cracker joke form: "you're a redneck if you've ever had dinner on a ping pong table," she told a crowd of NRA-ers. What he used to say, 'get too old to cut the mustard, lick the jar.' We watched Dancing Outlaw just before the split, and when I first heard Hank IIIs song D. Ray White a couple months later all the hair on the back of my neck stood up as I realized what the song was about. You know, I can't control it then. It wasnt because of their rap sheet but because of D. Rays dancing. What pieces of crap! Since the release of the film, Mamie and other White Family members have distanced from the depictions, and claimed they were taken advantage of by the film. It has been over 20 years since the original doc Talking Feet was released alot can happen in that amount of time and has for this family. What is great about that? For example, Morgantown is somewhat different because of the University. Language. WOW! More businesses are discovering the Mountain State is a favorable location. His name's Charles; he's a bastard and a cheater. 10:15 pm. Any of you think you could survive the wild WV mountains with no education or job? Way too voyeuristic. Great Family. [1] Following in the footsteps of his father, Jesco's dance style is a subtle mix of tap and clog dancing that is native to Appalachia. That's not snortin' no pills, Maw. Then you have the older teens on camera not only saying every prescription he has done but go sell pills to make some money. They'll tell you that shows like "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia" are part of some evil plot to make WV look bad. 59 Comments. info. November 12, 2013 @ And its about damn time someone used Hasil Adkins music for drug sequences in a film. It seems like our lives have just been a party and we just live like it's a story. He was subsequently convicted of manslaughter, served 18 months in an Australian prison, and was deported to the US. March 25, 2014 @ A second major theme that emerges from these stories concerns how whites interacted with these early black artists. Who's gonna fuckin' pack Mamie in? They turn around and use it on alcohol and drugs. They make a strong disincentive to use drugs, to not work, to get naked in front of the women folk in the family, etc. The voter is generally in the case of a man who wants to go shooting, and is confronted with the choice of taking the family Bible and some cartridges, or a . 8:51 pm. The film earned a favorable review from me once I had a chance to see it, and in my opinion, it was not as exploitative as possibly the promo video might imply. At first the world of the Whites seems something far away, foreign, so much so that much of the dialogue comes with subtitles. Everything always does. July 28, 2010 @ Yeah, the movie is funny and makes you think, and then you think, Hey, I work hard for a living and am a shmoo, yet these folks who proudly proclaim that they all get crazy checks from the government, are just leaches and criminals playing the system. Really this is the movies greatest sin. The film was premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. I like to fight and I'm a hell of a fighter. I pretty much spend my entire life defending all those decisions. He got rich by doing stupid shit but more power to him. But, by now the tone has shifted to something more serious. We also dont know what the producers told III about how they wanted to portray the family. I wouldn't snitch nobody out. ChrisLewisLouie 9:55 pm. i saw the movie and i agree with hankIII. Couldnt agree more. Its just sad for that boy. There's no nice way of saying this; the Whites are . 2 ] [ 3 ] and married Alida White in 2011 note from the staff at Andy #. 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