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The Almost Unbelievable True Story Behind the Wackiest Texas Movie Ever Made
Virgil, Texas, isn’t real. The small town at the center of the quirky 1986 comedy True Stories is a “city of dreams,” as its director, Talking Heads front man David Byrne, sings over the closing credits. It’s a backwoods Brigadoon on the edge of exurban creep, suspended between the shopping malls and semiconductor factories of our modern civilization and the last vestiges of the open plains. Virgil is a myth, and like all American myths, it’s steeped in the tension between our desire for freedom and the capitalist conformity obstructing our horizon like the drab, prefabricated metal buildings of which, as True Stories says, Texas is the leading producer.True Stories finds strange beauty in those boxes, much as it does in Virgil’s eccentric townsfolk. Byrne…The post The Almost Unbelievable True Story Behind the Wackiest Texas Movie Ever Made appeared first on Texas Monthly.