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March 18, 1997
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Monday • March U,1?i
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Sling Blade
Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Lu
cas Black and Dwight Yoakam
Directed by Billy Bob Thornton
Rated R
Playing at Hollywood 16
★★★★★ (out of five)
By Michael Schaub
The Battalion
F orget Hollywood’s self-con
gratulatory prattle about “the
year of the independents.”
The Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences at least acknowl
edged the presence of independent
films this year, but when it comes to
recognizing quality non-studio
filmmaking — well, the Academy
would rather sit contentedly
through harmless Hallmark fare like
Jerry Maguire.
Billy Bob Thornton’s brilliant
drama Sling Blade vriW never be a hit
the size of Jerry Maguire, although it
is the most stunning, beautifully ex
ecuted film of the year.
Sling Blade, which is playing fi
nally in College Station after weeks
of national release, tells the story of
Karl Childers (Thornton), who has
spent most of his life in a mental
hospital after killing his mother and
her lover with a scythe.
Childers is released 20 years af
ter his committal when psychia
trists determine he is sane. He re
turns to his hometown of Millsburg,
Ark., where he finds work as a me
chanic and befriends a young boy,
Frank Wheatley (newcomer Lucas
Black) and the boy’s mother Linda
(Natalie Canerday).
Frank and Linda live in fear of
Linda’s abusive boyfriend Doyle
Hargraves (Dwight Yoakam), a
domineering drunkard who hates
Frank and Linda’s homosexual
friend Vaughan (John Ritter).
The film follows Karl’s growing
relationship with Frank, whose fa
ther committed suicide years back.
Sling Blade is notable for a num
ber of reasons, the first and most
obvious is the brilliant perfor
mances. Thornton, who received a
Best Actor nomination, is spell
binding as Karl. Country musician
Dwight Yoakam is brilliant as the
evil Doyle, and John Ritter gives per
haps the most accomplished per
formance of his career as Vaughan.
The standout performance be
longs to Lucas Black, whose amaz
ing treatment of Frank Wheatley
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Thornton), a one-time mental patient who killed his mother and her love
brings to mind Leonardo DiCaprio’s
performance in This Boy’s Life.
There is not a bad performance
in the film. The actors speak with
convincing Arkansas accents, not
the burlesque corn-pone voices
heard in such sanitized Hollywood
crap as last year’s A Time to Kill.
Thornton proves himself a bril
liant screenwriter. The dialogue in
the film is powerful and understat
ed with a powerful Southern flavor
—Thornton thanks novelist Erskine
Caldwell in the credits, and her in
fluence is obvious.
The film was shot in Arkansas,
and Thornton makes powerful use of
the setting. The Southeastern land
scape and characters are similar to
John Sayles’ use of South Texas as the
setting for last year’s Lone Star (an
other brilliant film almost complete
ly ignored by the Academy).
Sling Blade is better than great. It
is flawless, and will likely be re
membered as one of the best
of the ’90s.
But even the most magnificti
films are occasionally missingsont
thing, and SlingBladeisnoexcepttt
The film is missing Academ
Award nominations for Yoakas
and Black. It is missing the Bes
Picture nomination apparentlyit
served for Tom Cruise’s feel-^
fiick Jerry Maguire and the ll
hour-long epic The English Pa
tient. A film (his brave shoukfe
recognized by more than jusU
couple of token nominations.
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simplicity or virtuosity. Sling Bladii
a masterpiece, one of the most bean
tiful American films in recent histn
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“Children are extremely important
in this endeavor,” Jackson said. “We’re
challenging kids to conform to nonvi
olent resolutions to disputes.”
There are also programs available
through churches such as Bryan’s First
Baptist Church, which sponsors free
activities for low-income youth in the
area, Jackson said.
“It’s really about teamwork,” he said.
“We need to strengthen kids’ resolves.”
Nevertheless, violence among
youth has not disappeared complete
ly in Bryan-College Station.
The presence of Texas A&M in the
community helps the area by bringing
culture and diversity to Bryan-College
Station, Stein said.
“In the inner cities, there’s more
high pressure, and that’s going to cre
ate more violence than in smaller
cities like this,” he said. “But any vio
lence at all is too much.”
Youth violence in the area may
have decreased, Jackson said, but that
does not mean citizens should not be
concerned about the future.
“We have a much youngeraj
of youth toying with the notiono
joining gangs,” Jackson s
“Youth gangs are starting in
mentary grades now. They’re
nearly as violent, but the ideoloj
is being laid.”
The Bryan City Council is invest
gating solutions to youth violence®
its governance agenda, Jackson said
“Youth violence has the potend
to flare its ugly head at any time,’’
son said. “The worst thing you candf
is to put your head in the sand andsat
‘It’s not happening here.”'
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