{"id":2392,"date":"2006-02-03T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/02\/tommy-lee-jones-on-flannery-oconnor\/"},"modified":"2006-02-03T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T11:29:00","slug":"tommy-lee-jones-on-flannery-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/02\/tommy-lee-jones-on-flannery-oconnor.html","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Lee Jones on Flannery O’Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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In December<\/a>, Barry Pepper talked about the influence of the Bible and the works of Flannery O\u2019Connor on The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada<\/i>, written and directed by Tommy Lee Jones. Now Jones himself discusses the subject in the Boston Globe<\/a><\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Flannery O\u2019Connor matters to this movie first because Jones wrote his cum laude thesis at Harvard on her. Second, family members of the film\u2019s coproducer, Michael Fitzgerald, are executors of O\u2019Connor\u2019s literary estate. \u201dSo we both knew our O\u2019Connor rather well, and it was just a natural approach for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dO\u2019Connor is important to the way this movie is constructed,\u201d he continues. \u201dWhat you do is you consider some so-called religious thinking without the didacticism of the classical approach. You look for the allegorical intentions of what we\u2019re taught in the Bible, and then find some way to have it revealed or expressed by common experience. You\u2019ll find this happening over and over again in O\u2019Connor, who was a rather classical Catholic thinker who wrote about nothing but backwoods north Georgia rednecks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dEcclesiastes is essential to the movie as well,\u201d he says. \u201dIt has to do with the passage of time. You want to start thinking as an actor that the past, the present, and the future are occurring simultaneously, and God requires an accounting of all three.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks to Amy Welborn<\/a> for the link. Also thanks to Christian<\/a> for linking to this NPR interview<\/a> where Jones says:<\/p>\n

People ask me to describe Huey Calloway, the character you just heard, and I\u2019ve found it convenient to describe him as a Buddhist<\/a> soul in a Calvinist world, and I haven\u2019t yet thought up a catch phrase for Three Burials<\/i>, but it has something to do with the consideration of the mechanics of faith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And from there he starts talking about Flannery O\u2019Connor again.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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