‘Son of the South’ director: ‘To me, Montgomery is a character, too’
Updated Feb 05, 2021;
First things first: Barry Alexander Brown, the writer, director and editor of “Son of the South,” was wearing a Montgomery Biscuits cap during a recent phone interview with AL.com.
How do we know? Brown mentioned it, pointedly and proudly, while discussing the creative viewpoint for his new film. The cap wasn’t just window dressing Brown, 60, regards Montgomery as his hometown and although he no longer lives in Alabama, his roots here run deep.
“I love the South,” Brown said. “I’ve always wanted to do something about the South, where I grew up, and this was a very good story. This was a very inspiring story.”
âSon of the Southâ Review: Tale of an Alabama Activist
Sometimes absorbing, sometimes mortifyingly tone-deaf, the film dramatizes the memoir of the white civil rights figure Bob Zellner.
Lucas Till as Bob Zellner in âSon of the South.âCredit.Vertical Entertainment
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âSon of the Southâ gets off to an appalling start, with a man being dragged by two others, and then a freeze frame, accompanied by a voice-over: âThatâs me, Bob Zellner.â As the meme goes, weâre probably wondering how he ended up in this situation â being dragged toward a noose. That Bob is white and not Black is presumably supposed to make the use of this glib and much-parodied device permissible in this context. But given that lynchings have historically been directed by whites against African-Americans, the introduction is mortifyingl
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