Do Not Touch My “Steel Magnolias!”
The travesty! The injustice! The unmitigated gall! How dare Lifetime try to remake the film “Steel Magnolias?” Yet, that is exactly what it’s going to do. This week, Lifetime announced it would remake the film with an all black cast. I don’t care if the cast is black, Hispanic, Asian or martian… no one should remake that movie!!!
Maybe I am partial because I am a Southerner and the film rings true to my Louisiana roots, but I just don’t see how you are going to find actresses to fill such big shoes. Would you remake “The Wizard of Oz?” Or “Gone With the Wind?” Has Hollywood lost all creativity that no one can come up with a good idea and Lifetime is left with no choice but to steal from “Steel?”
Those classic lines run through my head… “Drink your juice, Shelby! Drink your juice.” Or “Mama, my colors are blush and bashful.” Or “The only reason people are nice to me is because I have more money that God.”
And a personal favorite: “All gay men have track lightin’ and all gay men are named Mark, Rick or Steve.”
Please, oh please, leave M’Lynn, Ouiser, Clairee, Truvy, Annelle and Shelby alone. My poor Southern heart can’t take it.
I have to go. I need to change the bulbs in my track lighting.
–franklySTEVE
Posted on October 16, 2011, in Celebrity, Film, Television and tagged Daryl Hannah, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts, Lifetime, Olympia Dukakis, remake, Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Steel Magnolias. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
OMG! That film is pure gold and to remake it, would be a shame. Those actresses MADE that movie for me. I have quoted it for years….”Looks like two pigs fighting under a blanket.”, “Boys, don’t cover your sister car with condoms…it’s tacky” and even the heartfelt “I’d rather have 30 seconds of wonderful, then a lifetime of nothing special”. Having always been a Tom Skerritt fan….Drum Eatenton was one of my favortie charaters of the 80′s….”I heard you were so screwed up you cut your dog out of your will and had an ungrateful nephew put to sleep” Ha!!! PLEASE Lifetime…..no matter what the color of the cast, leave this one be. Don’t fix what ain’t broke!! I am a flower of the south…and proud of it!!
I am not a southerner and I LOVE this movie. HOWEVER, I would love to see an all Black cast remake the movie. Sorry as good as this movie is…it is not on the same level as Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz. If they actually go ahead with the remake…I will watch!
NO way! They should not remake it, I love that movie I watch it over and over, haven’t they learned yet? everytime a movie is remade its rarely better than the 1st. This upsets me.