Ode to Billy Joe

1976
PG
1h 46min

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueIn 1950s Mississippi, teenager Bobbie Lee Hartley navigates her blossoming hormones as she is courted by Billy Joe McAllister, who is headed for tragedy.In 1950s Mississippi, teenager Bobbie Lee Hartley navigates her blossoming hormones as she is courted by Billy Joe McAllister, who is headed for tragedy.In 1950s Mississippi, teenager Bobbie Lee Hartley navigates her blossoming hormones as she is courted by Billy Joe McAllister, who is headed for tragedy.

Réalisation
- Max Baer Jr.
Scénario
- Bobbie Gentry
- Herman Raucher
Casting principal

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NOTE IMDb

6,6/10

2,3 k

MA NOTE

Réalisation
- Max Baer Jr.
Scénario
- Bobbie Gentry
- Herman Raucher
Casting principal

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

Récompenses
- 1 nomination au total

Anecdotes
The release weekend for this movie coincided with the date from the first line of the song that inspired it: "It was the 3rd of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day"

Gaffes
As Papa Hartley and the three boys are battling it out in their trucks on the bridge the camera moves from inside the Hartley truck looking out to outside looking in. As they do this you see from the inside that the windshield in front of the driver is badly cracked but as they move to the outside angle it is not cracked at all.

Citations
Bobbie Lee Hartley: It's gonna be all right. We've just been waiting so long and trying so hard. Oh, it's all right Billy Joe.
Billy Joe McAllister: It ain't all right! I ain't all right!
[long pause as Billy Joe walks a few steps away from Bobbie Lee]
Billy Joe McAllister: Bobbie... I have been with a man! Did you hear me? Which is a sin against nature! A sin against God! I don't know how I could have done it, I swear! I don't know how I could be wanting you and do that.
Bobbie Lee Hartley: But you were drunk. Maybe you just imagined it.
Billy Joe McAllister: I didn't imagine nothing!
Bobbie Lee Hartley: But you were drunk. Everyone saw how drunk you were.
Billy Joe McAllister: I... I knew. I knew what was happening.
Bobbie Lee Hartley: Who was it?
Billy Joe McAllister: I ain't gonna say.
Bobbie Lee Hartley: Why? I wish I could understand.
Billy Joe McAllister: I wish I could.

Versions alternatives
The opening Saul Bass variant of the Warner Bros. Pictures logo is replaced by the 1990 variant in the VHS and 1992 variant in the WAC DVD.

Connexions
Referenced in The Carol Burnett Show: Dinah Shore - Went with the Wind (1976)

Bandes originales
Ode to Billie Joe
Written and Performed by Bobbie Gentry

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Confused version

If this is truly supposed to be an adaptation of the Bobbie Gentry song, it makes utterly NO sense. I'm gay, so I'm usually sensitized toward picking gay references out of pop culture, but to make Billy Joe in the film struggle with his sexuality is fairly ridiculous.

If you read the lyrics to Bobbie Gentry's song, it seems pretty darn obvious that what the narrator and Billie Joe are throwing off the Tallahatchee Bridge is their out-of-wedlock baby.

Just Google search the lyrics, listen to the song, and see if that interpretation doesn't make much more sense than how the movie presents the story.