I saw all (or at least a lot of) the pre-release announcements for "Free Birds", and I was favorably impressed that they corrected the year of The First Thanksgiving from 1620 to 1621. And they did surprise me with their Big Reveal about The Great Turkey at the end. I was really amused (although the movie can't claim responsibility for this) about the news report about the time that the movie came out that Staten Island, New York is being invaded by wild turkeys. The human inhabitants love them for about a half-hour, then want to get rid of them. They're large and nasty birds. In Southern California, we have Indian peacocks and peahens that are more beautiful, but also large and nasty.
I saw all (or at least a lot of) the pre-release announcements for "Free Birds", and I was favorably impressed that they corrected the year of The First Thanksgiving from 1620 to 1621. And they did surprise me with their Big Reveal about The Great Turkey at the end. I was really amused (although the movie can't claim responsibility for this) about the news report about the time that the movie came out that Staten Island, New York is being invaded by wild turkeys. The human inhabitants love them for about a half-hour, then want to get rid of them. They're large and nasty birds. In Southern California, we have Indian peacocks and peahens that are more beautiful, but also large and nasty.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/flock-wild-turkeys-staten-island-article-1.1...
Fred Patten