Wildcat (2024) (Movie)

format_quote Flannery O'Connor: If it is a symbol to hell with it. What people don't understand is how much religion costs. They think its easy. They think electric blanket and there it is the cross.

format_quote Flannery O'Connor: I try to turn the other cheek, but my tongue is always in it.

stars  The scene where Jesus, played by Mehmet, Can Aksoy, is holding a lamb, it was a real baby lamb that was two days old.

stars  Director and co-writer Ethan Hawke first became interested in the works of Flannery O'Connor in his early teens, when he and his mother lived in Atlanta, Georgia and his mother worked selling textbooks to local colleges. Hawke read so much of O'Connor's works that he assumed she was as well known outside of his household as Abraham Lincoln.

stars  The five stories adapted by Wildcat are: "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" "Parker's Back" "Revelation" "Everything that Rises Must Converge" "Good Country People"Additionally, O'Connor's family gush about Gone With the Wind, suggesting an origin for her story, "A Late Encounter with the Enemy." In real life it was inspired by an article in the Midgeville Union Recorder.