I like some of the English language "breakdowns" strewn about the movie.
One time Ol'Ma York is telling one of the gals to "not be a fear'd" for Alvin. Interesting to listen to.
My mother grew up in the rural mountains in the NE corner of TN, literally within walking distance of both VA and NC. I can remember visiting there as a kid during the 1960's and 70's and almost needing an interpreter. They had a very different form of the English language. My mom, and the sisters who married and moved away grew out of the dialect. Moms only brother and one sister never moved away and spoke in a similar fashion all their lives. They are intelligent, educated people. But they don't sound like it to strangers.
Being filmed in the 1940's the dialect is probably fairly accurate for the era. You'd have a hard time capturing that today because almost no one alive still speaks that way. And movie audiences would not understand that it accurately reflected the dialect of the time.
