*REACTION!!* First Time Seeing DRIVING MISS DAISY (1989) *Well, I'll be damned!! 😲😲😲*

I watched the 1989 film, Driving Miss Daisy, starring Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd, Esther Rolle, Patti LuPone, and many others. I have heard the phrase; "You drive like Miss Daisy!" many times before, so I simply had to obay the request of a dear Patreon member and react to this film, to finally get some context! I love all films that give me a glimpse into history, I'm such a history junkie, and this one did not disappoint!
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[@subitman12]

As a Chinese person (long story, I live in USA now), I like to recommend a movie about Chinese women trying to live in the modern world retelling stories about their past while playing mah-jong. It's called Joy Luck Club. It's also about their modern children trying to understand their parents while they live in San Francisco.

[@katreacts6843]

I will most certainly put that one on the list :)

[@christopherkolasa]

Yes I adore that film

[@thegladve]

@@katreacts6843 another movie worth watching is Stand and Deliver (1987)

[@kimberlyhicks3644]

I recommend The Joy Luck Club to women and girls in abusive relationships because it stresses knowing your own worth. If you know that, you can drop that piece of dung you're with and move onto better things.

[@maryrichardson1318]

I absolutely love that movie. I read the book as well. The culture may be Chinese, but their experiences cross all cultures.

[@Drawkcabi]

This movie won best picture at the Academy Awards in 1990. Jessica Tandy won best actress, the oldest actress to ever receive the award. Morgan Freeman was nominated for best actor and Dan Aykroyd was nominated for best supporting actor. I highly recommend the movie Cocoon starring Jessica Tandy alongside her real life husband Hume Cronyn along with a fantastic cast. It's a science fiction film directed by Ron Howard and is very very good. I think you would love it a lot. Nothing scary, just friendly aliens making friends with senior citizens. As a history buff myself I highly recommend the movie Glory starring Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Mathew Broderick and others. It is an intense movie though, it takes place during the U.S. Civil War and does not hold back showing anything. One of my favorite Morgan Freeman movies though is Lean On Me, which tells the true story of principal Joe Clark who turned a very rough high school around and the lives of the students who went there. Very inspiring and heart warming film, a must see! Best Regards!

[@believer773]

Wow, haven't seen this in 30 yrs, watched it in high school and completely forgot how profound and touching it is, glad you got to experience it friend.

[@bobbentz5993]

Jessica Tandy was mostly a stage actress. She originated the role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway in the '50s, played the mother in Hitchcock's The Birds, then expanded her film career in her senior years. I saw her and her husband Hume Cronyn on Broadway in The Gin Game about an elderly couple coming to terms with aging over a game of gin rummy. So good.

[@robertkramer2271]

You're right about dementia. My favorite aunt was doing fine like always and suddenly within 6 months she was in a facility with dementia, didn't even recognize her husband or daughter. Broke my heart to see it happen.

[@katreacts6843]

It's crazy how quick it happens :(

[@bigs1546]

Money was a touchy subject for Miss Daisy being Jewish, especially in the Deep South. I just loved the growth of the friendship - even though it was taboo in the South for them to be friends. I had a family friend who was English, but lived in South Africa during apartheid due to her husband's work. She had a black maid supplied by his company and the first day she sat down and poured them both morning tea - her maid refused. Turned out it was illegal for them to sit together and someone may turn them in. Sheila closed all the curtains the next day and from then on they had morning tea together in a room shut off from anyone else.....................some things have improved, and some people still feel entitled to discriminate .....sigh. Love your reactions Kat.

[@martinbraun1211]

Please watch COCOON from 1985. It's also with Jessica Tandy.

[@maryrichardson1318]

Yes, and her husband, actor Hume Cronin is also in it.

[@beatmet2355]

I’m glad you reacted to this…it’s a favorite of mine and it hasn’t really been covered on KZbin.

[@traukopalestino1]

Miss Daisy hates everyone, no an etnicithy in particular. I realy like her.

[@Cindrbell]

Aykroyd is legend... And he willfully carries John. I always think of John when I c Dan. The 2 r legend. Dan was nominated for best supporting actor. Jessica Tandy n Hugh Cronin. Together til the end. Miss u both, but enjoy ur work.

[@michellepeters7066]

Please watch "*batteries not included" (1987)! Also with Jessica Tandy.

[@VerneditheSnail]

OH! That movie is so beautiful! :D

[@khalidbinwaleed5072]

Thank you for doing this. It’s one mine and my grandmother’s favourite movies we used to watch it every Saturday night

[@katreacts6843]

Aww, that sounds wonderful :D

[@DaleKingProfile]

For a more recent movie with a similar subject matter, I would highly recommend the 2019 film, Green Book. It is actually based on a true story and won Oscars for best picture, best actor and best screenplay.

[@donpace6405]

This is a movie that always makes me cry so many tearful moments in this movie.

[@laudanum669]

I was working at a house (mansion) refinishing two huge wooden doors that were the main entrance. It was a very hot day about 100 degrees. By lunch time I had run out of water so I asked the house keeper for a glass of water. She got me the water then said "make sure you bring that glass back before you leave, the owners count everything at the end of the day". I started laughing and I could tell she wasn't joking. I said "Really"? She replied "Yes, really". I couldn't imagine working for someone like that everyday. It also was a pain in the ass for them to finally pay me.

[@scottjo63]

Esther Rolle, who played Miss Daisy's housekeeper Idella was pretty popular on a show called Good Times from 1974-1979 about a family who lived in the projects in a big city which was constantly called the ghetto. Good Times was an off shoot from shows called Maude and All In The Family. Rolle portrayed Florida Evens and she was a housekeeper in Maude and were neighbors to Archie Bunker in All In The Family. Then the Even's family moved away hence the show, Good Times created by Norman Lear. An excellent show about a black family's struggles in the projects which was a half hour comedy with very serious undertones of poverty, bigotry, drugs, gangs, etc. Had a great cast including John Amos who played the father who was in the movie Coming To America with Eddie Murphy. Amos played the McDonalds manager. And JJ Walker who did a cameo in Airplane. Walker was the one who was cleaning the Airplane's windows and checking the oil. Good Times is an excellent show you should try to find. It was filmed in front of a studio audience. It was a comedy but really had very serious drama also. Esther Rolle was superb in her role in Good Times as well as the other cast members and excellent stories. I think Facebook has some shows to watch. It does have a few groups about it. It's definitely worth checking out.

[@katreacts6843]

Wow, Esther Rolle was a bigger name than I thought :O I need to check out more of her work!

[@mannys4036]

Your reaction to Driving Miss Daisy just came up in my feed and since I loved the movie I decided to see you reaction to it. You were amazing. I cannot remember enjoying a better reaction to it. Please, please, please react to the classic 1967 "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" with Sidney Poitier; Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. I think you reaction to that movie who be amazing!

[@Cindrbell]

Dan was nominated for best supporting actor for this role.

[@danalynch8889]

I have watched this movie lots of times and is absolutely my favorite movie.

[@frankmarsh1159]

23:28 Atlanta is not a small town. It's a big city. In fact it's one of the biggest cities in America and the capital of the south. The Temple bombing took place in 1958 during the civil rights era. Martin Luther King was from Atlanta and was active in the fifties and sixties.

[@DelEast740]

Umm. 75 a week. He is rolling in bank for the late 1950's. More than Akron union rubber workers. No cable bill, no internet, no cell phone or credit cards. Things were built to last and people were beautiful

[@jwes869]

Thank you Kat! I agree and loved your outro message.

[@ericjanssen394]

I still remember the SNL parody: "Slow down, Hoke, you're going too fast!" "But Miss Daisy, we's only going five miles an hour!" "That's still too fast...I LIKE going backwards."

[@williamj6974]

This film started in the early fifties until the 70s

[@khalidbinwaleed5072]

Being accused of stealing just because your black was very common back then the owner of the house my great grandmother used to cook and clean for. Used leave coins lying around and if they were not collected and given back to her at the end of the day she would be accused of stealing. Luckily she always picked them up and gave them back to her

[@frankmarsh1159]

13:44 Her son is a secular Jew and he celebrates Christmas. Lots of Southern Jewish people have Christmas trees. They celebrate it as a secular holiday.

[@BigGator5]

You know, you can be ethnically Jewish and still be Christian. Judaism is the religion, but it's mainly practice by only ethnic Jews. Fun Fact: Three black men are seen crossing railroad tracks in Atlanta. All three of these men are descendants of the real person (Will Coleman) that the "Hoke" character was based upon. Bonus Fact: Jessica Tandy won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Daisy Werthan. At age 81, she is the oldest winner of a Best Actress Oscar.

[@katreacts6843]

Tbh, I didn't even know that Jewish was classed as ethnicity :O I thought it was just one of the world's bigger religions :O I'm agnostic myself, I've never been religious so I'm very naive when it comes to the topic of religion. Iceland's official religion is Christianity but most Icelanders classify themselves as either atheist or Pagan, which used to be our religion back in the Viking age before Christianity was forced upon us.

[@andyleclerc3600]

Saying that Idrla was lucky meant that dhe was luckh yo go peacefully and quietly, as opposed to being wracked with pain for a long period of time.

[@gaittr]

In my top three movies of all time. Rocky, The Ten Commandments and Driving Miss Daisy

[@PedroCastillo_1980]

Driving Miss Daisy won an Oscar for best picture and best actress by Jessica Tandy. Great film very classic thanks Kat😊😊

[@katreacts6843]

I am not surprised, it's a great film and Jessica Tandy is just great in it :D

[@PedroCastillo_1980]

@@katreacts6843 That's right😊

[@chapstick2667]

I recommend you watch ‘Chaplin’. I assume that you know who Charlie Chaplin is, but if not you should still give this film a go. The movie is based on his life, career, love, and scandals. Robert Downey Jr. stars as Chaplin. I hope you consider this one!

[@Cindrbell]

Such a beautiful movie n relationship.

[@kristagerry8505]

Another similar style movie is "Guarding Tess" a former First Lady needs protecting by the secret service years after her husband a former President passed away!

[@shaunmckenzie5509]

I like your channel cause you react to older less known films that other channels won't touch, nor do you exaggerate

[@peterbooth793]

That's why I Idella was lucky, she went just like that. Didn't suffer, didn't get dementia just here one second and gone the next.

[@rsccostarica]

they won the Óscar. best actress AND best actor

[@vicegamer6944]

Kat I just love your reactions to the movies you see! I’d love to suggest my favorite 1980s Disney film to you. It’s called “The journey of natty gann” I think you’d really like that! 😎

[@marybethgoeggel4658]

I love this movie. Miss Daisy’s character was so much like my own grandmother. Stubborn, independent, and prideful to a fault. They looked alike too. When my emotions get me, this is not a good movie to watch.

[@katreacts6843]

I agree, my grandmother on my dad's side is like that, luckily she's still alive bless her. And she used to be a teacher (and later a principal), just like Miss Daisy. She always helped me with my homework. My grandmother on my mother's side (she passed in 2013), was more of a rough, foul-mouthed character, although stubborn to an unhealthy amount.

[@thepeopleschamp9076]

@ 16:25 - Yes, that's par for the course here in America, even in modern day.

[@JD.78]

I first watched Driving Miss Daisy way back when it was first released in 1989, i just recently watched it again for only the second time and i must say i really enjoyed the film. Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman work brilliantly together, at first she is rather pompous and holds herself in high regards, but over time their relationship becomes more of a friendship and she realises he does so much more than just drive for her. This is a great film, a reflection of the times for when it was set, but it's still a great film.

[@mikesterling688]

Jessica Tandy was a brilliant actress. If you have never seen "Batteries Not Included", you should check it out. It is a great family movie & Tandy shines in it.

[@Teawithladii]

Glad I’m first,.. Best Movie To react Too !

[@bookwoman53]

The playwright/ screenwriter said that the two main characters were based on his maternal grandmother and her chauffeur. Alfred Uhry lived with his grandmother when he was a boy.

[@MarcG7424]

I would also suggest Fried Green Tomatoes another great movie with Jessica Tandy

[@peterbooth793]

I used to watch Morgan Freeman on the Electric Company in the late 70s early 80s. Kinda like Sesame Street. 👍

[@lordwalker71]

Such a good movie, surprised I haven’t seen anyone else react to it. The sad thing that there are parts of the U.S that haven’t changed much when it comes to racism. Jewish people tended to downplay being Jewish in those days because a lot of people wouldn’t do business with Jewish people.

[@katreacts6843]

That's so sad :(

[@kylereese4822]

@@katreacts6843 I got a cute dog movie for you from 1982 called " The Thing " such an awesome movie and awesome animal actor too... enjoy :):)

[@asdfasdf7199]

this country has changed drastically. i live in rural alabama, i assure you things are not the same.

[@GaryLBlakeley]

Love this movie.

[@thepeopleschamp9076]

I've never considered her racist, but she does demonstrate that she is prejudiced and a bigot. Her attitude towards her son's religion was just one example.

[@BadAssSykO]

James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman, best 2 voices. Also Christopher Walken...

[@katreacts6843]

So true! I could listen to Mr. Jones and Mr. Freeman talk for hours! Mr. Walken is good too, although not my favorite.

[@terrigaines1812]

Miss Daisy's son is Jewish too but his wife is Christian.

[@j5429280]

hey another great movie is Brians song the newer version it was in 87 the original was 76

[@DeeM30]

One of my favorite movies, and the music score is beautiful.

[@jeffking887]

Very much appreciate your comments on this film. ☮️❤️

[@katreacts6843]

Thank you, and thank you for watching :D

[@peterbooth793]

I have a dream about a day when you are judged, not by the color of your skin but rather the content of your character ✨.

[@equusquaggaquagga536]

Go watch Jessica Tandy's other movie "Batteries Not Included"

[@top_gallant]

I worked with elderly Americans who needed assistance with health care and unfortunately it was not unheard of that some could not read or write because or racism or needing to work from a incredibly young age.

[@katreacts6843]

That is just too sad :(

[@henrikharbin5521]

Hi Kat :) My friend Dave lives in a small city in northeastern Canada called Moose Jaw. The population is 31,000 people. Dave says that people who have lived there all their lives (really deep snow and some blizzards in winter) still don't know how to drive in snow. They will try to peel out at full speed and they will just spin their tires and not move an inch.

[@katreacts6843]

It's amazing to me how people can live at a place with ice and snow and NOT know how to drive in it :O

[@Mark7limited]

You are missing the point of the whole story.

[@PSPguy2]

If you liked this movie you'd love The Help.

[@Cindrbell]

Florida from Good Times. If I have her name wrong, please correct me. 💞

[@augustoalejandropinaya8508]

HI! I LOVED YOUR VÍDEO REACTION NICE!!! REGARDS

[@ShreveportJoe]

Love the film and very much enjoyed your comments. It was based on a Pulitzer Prize winning play, and Morgan Freeman was in the original Off-Broadway cast. Have you reviewed “The Girl In The Café” (2005) yet? An English film, but set mostly in Reykjavík. A little known favorite of mine.

[@levans71]

You should, if you haven't already, with the movie, The Help.

[@ticsies4228]

NICE VIDEO REACTION!!!! Try the bear 1988

[@j5429280]

jessica tandy and ester rolle are in a movie called to dance with a white dog check it out kat.

[@katreacts6843]

I will most certainly put that one on the list, those two women are superb actresses! :D

[@j5429280]

@@katreacts6843 yes they are. and jessica tandys real life husband is also in it. hume something. he was in cocoon

[@freddieNyack]

you can always look back and say this is what I would do can't you? hahahaha

[@anthonyvasquezactor]

3:17 Sometimes I feel I was born on the wrong side of the world. I live for the kind of natural landscapes you have in Iceland.

[@katreacts6843]

The nature in Iceland is definitely unique :)

[@maryrichardson1318]

@@katreacts6843 That movie takes place in the deep south. It is one place you do not want to be in July, August and September. HOT and HUMID, and overrun with mosquitoes!!

[@peterbooth793]

It's also a loss of independence 😢. For such a woman as Miss Daisy that's hard to take.

[@Jondjond]

If you are so into history it might help to be a little less judgmental, because you are going to find many things in EVERY era of history (including the current one!) that you're not going to agree with. And since we can't change history, being so opinionated about it will just get in the way. As far as watching movies, the ones where not every character is 100% good or bad tend to be the most interesting, despite the fact that you'd clearly prefer to put each character in a neat little box as soon as their first line comes out of their mouth.

[@rebo2610]

Yay! No one reacts to this movie!

[@tarahoughton1370]

One shouldn't flaunt their wealth.

[@greenlllllllllllllll]

You should watch "As Good As It Gets"

[@hotflesh66]

There was a bit of controversy over this film since it won Best Picture over Spike Lee’s much better Do the Right Thing which was not nominated but he was a new NYU filmmaker grad versus a big Hollywood film at the time. Spike Lee was not even nominated for Best Director. I’d try that film sometime. Shockingly good.

[@ericjanssen394]

Also, every Oscar pundit immediately assumed ahead of time that Oliver Stone would walk away with another Vietnam-drama Best Picture for "Born on the 4th of July", and, um...never count your movies till they hatch. As a result, there was a last minute scramble for which movie actually WAS the Best Picture of 1989, and Miss Daisy had a more sentimental vote before Field of Dreams could break out of its sleeper status.

[@amynielsen3466]

You might want to try Primal Fear🤞

[@rsccostarica]

coyld you try yo react a movie called:. The Fischer King?

[@PSB1983]

Give over with your virtue signalling crap! If you were in her place at the same time, you'd have had black employees too!

[@Callimachus33]

You seem ignorant about the history of Jews and antisemitism in America specifcally and in the Christian world in general. Some of the things you say are extremely judgmental without any basis, and more than a little over privileged.

[@larrycrawley-woods4515]

I am 75 years old, a white male.....and I agree completely with your summary, ".....we have come so far, but we haven't come far enough!...." (In terms of social, gender and racial equality and justice)

[@unclebounce1495]

That's not history or how it was. She's being mean because she's trying to drive him away. She's very kind to all the other help ("kind" for her, lol), except when he's around them (and then she's snapping at him to isolate him from the others). The reaction of the son shows how unnatural and absurd her behavior was "for the times." Her behavior is not an indictment of the times, of whyte people, or of anything other than herself. Be careful. blaming a race for the actions of an individual is one of the applied definitions of racism, btw. You should not be so quick to think you know the history of the USA, especially when you so obviously endorse the Hollywood myths and popular-culture anecdotes. Whyts were discriminated as badly as blayks in many of those situations, sometimes worse; whyt families were lynched more, burned more, had their businesses and homes destroyed more. All the "rayshal" myths of revisionist history are to hide the fact that it was all politically contrived by a single political party, and they had reasons for attacking everyone who was not on their side, especially their own kind. Having a law that says "some group can't enter your store," sounds like oppression of only on group, until the store tries to ignore the law and suddenly their business is closed and all properties seized, if not burned out from under them (quite similar to modern leftyst covi/mask/blm tactics and their "compliance" laws), their families are threatened or attacked, so on. Those who resisted were arrested, beat, and killed. Such is the way of political tyrants; the strategy book is always the same. sadly, the movie's trip "southward" took them into those areas dominated with political terrorizing, a genuine flaw of the times mostly restricted to very specific regions/locales, and showed a case of the government thugs at work (they no doubt targeted the car, not because of rays at first but because of plates, which would reveal they were from a "northern" state. Then the rays and ethnicity of both characters gave them further justification to harass them. They terrorized all that was not their political party: any rays including whyts that weren't vocal allies of their political regime, especially "yanks" from "the north." A sad state of corruption in those areas during those times. otherwise, good reaction again. great movie. great acting/storytelling. btw, you're right about dementia/alzheimer's being a terrifying. I had been the in home caretaker of my grandmother for about five years; died of dementia 2021. terrible illness.

[@katreacts6843]

I think the reason why I tend to blame this on racism is because of one sentence that she said in the film. "They steal" - She wasn't talking about the help, she was talking about them, the black people. And this behavior was not just her, her daughter-in-law was also pretty nasty to her black help. In one scene, that I did not include, she was scolding a poor young black girl for not remembering to write down that she needed to buy coconuts. And her husband, Miss Daisy's son, had to intervene and comfort the girl. There was a reason Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were fighting during those times. As for her son, he wasn't disagreeing with her because her views were abnormal for the time, he was disagreeing with her because he didn't like how she spoke and was trying to get her to stop.

[@unclebounce1495]

@@katreacts6843 Thanks for replying. Good points, but a lot of assumption in them, I believe. One of my grandparents was just like Miss Daisy, and we argued over this issue a lot. She treated all help... not mean, but she was "paranoid." She assumed they were always stealing from her, and she assumed it of everyone, anyone she hired. I agree about the son's wife being harsh, but again it's an assumption to claim it was because of rays. A lot of people just treat "low end workers" like crap. Look at modern times and how some people treat fast food workers or pizza delivery guys. Some people won't think twice about berating one for the slightest error, maybe not even their own, and rays has nothing to do with it in almost all of those cases. either way, not worth an argument and not intending to scold or anything. I enjoy your intelligent reviews and should like to continue to reply to them. You have strong opinions. So do I. Hopefully my compliments and support outweigh my occasional objections. Keep on watching great movies. (Suggestion for a good but under-appreciated "coming of age" and non-hokey morality movie is: The Emperor's Club).

[@katreacts6843]

@@unclebounce1495 I think we have to agree to disagree on this one and that's okay :) I guess I leaned towards the race theory due to Miss Daisy's wording of things, as well as the heavy emphasis on the difference between the races in those days. Which I thought was why Miss Daisy and her son had the conversation about her starting to favor Martin Luther King. They could have made that scene be about John F. Kennedy.

[@shaunmckenzie5509]

Omg, never read so much crap in my life. Love how you're trying to downplay the racism that existed in those times cause "but muh whytes!". Some whites may have been discriminated against, but it wasn't because of their skin colour. Talk about denialism or whataboutism. The truth is obviously hard for you to see and accept.

[@jessewright2319]

@@katreacts6843 Please don't listen to this racist troll. His statement that "whites were lynched more and burned more" is beyond disgusting and completely inaccurate. I can't give a history lesson right now, but American history is full of shameful racism, including a war started by Southerners who couldn't stand the thought of no additional slave states being added to the country. I'm not sure how much you know about American politics, but, it's no secret that during the mid 1800s to the 1930s the Democratic Party (especially "Southern Democrats") was the Party of racists. That began changing during the 1930s-40s until Democrat Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Richard Nixon began his "Southern Strategy" to bring racists former Southern Democrats (Dixiecrats) into the Republican Party. Sorry for the long reply, but I hate historical revisionism, especially from racists like the original commentator.

[@freddieNyack]

which is why we must learn from history .