Arts & Entertainment

Video Includes A Quick Look At Oakhurst In 'Jayne Mansfield's Car'

Billy Bob Thornton and John Hurt discuss the making of the film.

"Jayne Mansfield's Car," the Billy Bob Thornton movie partially filmed in Decatur, hasn't come out yet in the United States,

A promotional video of Thornton and actor John Hurt being interviewed includes some movie scenes, including one shot at the old Big H store in Oakhurst. The actors speak in English, but the subtitles are in German.

If you move down to the 5:26 mark you'll see the store in the background as Robert Duvall and John Hurt talk in the parking lot.

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When the movie crew visited in July, they turned the building, which now houses the Oakhurst Church, into a grocery store. Of course, the building actually was a grocery store decades ago.

Thornton and Hurt talk about how the movie was made and the main themes. The film is set in the South in the late 1960s; Thornton says the tension of the Vietnam War permeates the atmosphere, as shown in a very tense dinner table scene.

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Editor's note: An earlier version of this story featured a different, shorter video from YouTube.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Al0U2MwJI


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