Arkansas native John-Michael Powell had something to prove by foregrounding the Ozark mountains in his new crime thriller “Violent Ends,” in theaters now via Independent Film Company.
“There’s some great Southern cinema, don’t get me wrong,” Powell says. “But I think oftentimes Southerners, and Arkansans especially, are relegated to redneck yokel stereotypes: The lovable fools, the nitwits and the uneducated. That was true of my experiences growing up. We had family in California, so we’d always visit, and I don’t have an accent, but my mother and my family sound like Southern belles. To see the way people reacted to the accent … their first inclination was, ‘Oh, that’s
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