*FRIED GREEN TOMATOES* had me in TEARS | first time watching | movie reaction 

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She really did it ?????

There's a way to get near bees. I have accidentally been in the same situation when I sat on a bee's hive...and I was eating a peanut butter and honey sandwich. I was 7. I was covered in bees. I vividly remember the experience. My friend ran off, screaming, and flailing but I had been swarmed immediately. I got scared for all of 20-30 seconds and then just accepted that this could be how I died. Then I got calm. And it was easier to think, the bees reacted almost 1-3 minutes later. I slowly stood up. Then I just stood there and breathed, focusing on how to move carefully over the dry rivets of dirt in the field. It took me about 45 minutes to get to her house where I was staying. She had not insisted I get help, she'd been having the 4 bee stings removed. I didn't get bee stung. I had hundreds of bees on me. I told me parents about it...but asked why I didn't get stung. It can have to do with pheromones and movement. I was thinking about 'cool green grass through my feet' which had been this phrase for calm mental focus. Also some thoughts were rapid and some were slow, sluggish.

True, the actress did the scene

I heard she actually got stung quite badly.

Yes, and from what I hear she actually took up beekeeping after doing the role.

That tender kiss at the lake, the “date” with honey, Ruth’s admission she loves Idgie in the courtroom. And that playful fight at the restaurant. I mean, how many more hints do you need! They loved each other. It’s just pure, true love.

Actual fried green tomatoes are very tasty. There are a FEW places up north that make them from time to time. They're a seasonal dish in certain restaurants. I wonder where someone could find green tomatoes to fry.

@@tenderpawsm473you can find green tomatoes at farmers markets and orchards here in central Indiana

I think there's a moment when Idgie mentionned nearly she likes Ruth

I intend to read the book. The movie was a little intense for me. The novel might not have as much of an impact, but I'm still looking forward to it.

@tenderpawsm473 I read the book many, many years after I had seen the movie. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and its 2020 sequel, also written by Fannie Flagg.

@@BostonMarcus What is the name of the sequel? And which did you prefer between the original novel and the film?

I always wondered about the bee scene! It looked real! Shes so bad ass for that

and the soundtrack and cinematography in Last of the Mohicans is STUNNING

Memoirs of a Geisha does this as well! Well said, gorgeous movies.

I read the book too and yes, the movie is far better....same thing with Forrest Gump

Fannie Flagg was a regular celebrity member of several game shows during the 70s. Match Game comes to mind. Her Southern humor always got hige laughs.

How it’s incorrectly made?

I put this up there with the Shawshank Redemption. Not on top but close. It was not a chick flick but real drama.

Loved your reaction to it!

Some of my pet sitting clients have gardens I water and I'm always on the lookout for the perfect green tomato for frying. Yuuum.

He also helped her save Ruth. And at the end of the book it was shown they had moved to Florida and started a roadside shop together.

Same here

I have not. I’ll add it to the list!

It's another example of queer erasure in film (the novel is another lesbian romance) However, these are 2 of my favourite films despite that. Two feminist films

@@mariannehavisham8323it doesn’t matter how many LGBT characters there are in the movie, the movie is still good.

@ThePersephoneDiggen it matters to me as a queer person (and to others because representation is EXTREMELY important) a great quote I know is 'if you think representation doesn't matter you are being well represented) queer erasure stems from homophobia/biphobia/transphobia -OF COURSE that is is a problem! Both these films are wonderful. There are no out lgbt characters in either -THAT is the problem because there are in the books -they are overtly queer love stories and so the queer erasure in both is DEEPLY problematic. It's not either or, it's both and. They are beautiful films -two of my favourites -also the queer erasure IS problematic They are both lesbian love stories written by lesbian writers. None of that is there in the films -you think that's fine?!

The Colour Purple by Alice Walker is written by a out black lesbian partly about romantic/sexual love between black women. It was part of the backlash the writer faced. Her book is partly informed by her experience as a black lesbian

Directed by Richard Linklater… and based on a true story!

Just finished. This was one of the best reviews ever. I laughed and cried with you. Well, I’m a gay guy, that’s expected. It’s such a beautiful movie. Thank you for this.

Where would I find green tomatoes? Or do you grow them?

@@tenderpawsm473 you can sometimes find them in grocery stores or produce markets. They may be harder to find outside the southern U.S. since it's a southern dish.

Adding them to the list thank you!! ❤️

This was implied in the film. My understanding is that they're two distinct characters in the book.

She's not though. It's made clear in the book but not so well in the movie, even though we are given her name in the movie _and_ she said she had a crush on Buddy. They seem to imply she is Idgie but she's actually her sister-in-law.

@@that.ll_do_pig I don't know.....'Ninny' seems to know a lot of intimate stuff

@@barryscott8041 well, when she presents herself to Evelyn, she says she married one of Idgie's brothers

They are sisters-in-law.

She is married to Cleo, had a crush on Idgie's brother Buddy, definitely not Idgie.

Yes! I have it scheduled for October (:

I was wondering about that! I looked it up afterwards and the internet said in the book it’s not the same person but I did feel like the movie strongly hinted at that.

It was a WEIRD thing for the movie to do, since Ms Threadgoode married into the family and had a child.

She isn't, the old lady is Ninny Threadgoode who married Idgie's brother Cleo

@@laurashawnlee I don't think the movie implies they are the same person, I think we just forget the detaild from the beginning of the movie where she states that she had a crush on Buddy...something a little sister would (hopefully) not say about her brother. Lol

@@that.ll_do_pig She clearly say "I married her brother, Cleo" at the beginning, so either people are stupid or idk 😂. She's Idgie's sister in law.