Posted on 03/30/2016 9:27:28 AM PDT by Borges
Except for that stupid postscript of her being spanked.
Can you see the real me?
“You don’t mean to suggest that the movie made out Keller as the heroine, did you?”
No, I am saying that history let Helen Keller receive all of the accolades after she became an adult and Annie Sullivan was put into the ash heap of history.....and that is only from my perspective/viewpoint.
Yes, Anne Sullivan was mentioned in a later post. That was due to my neglect. Thank you for pointing it out. ;-)
I watched “The Bad Seed” not long ago in TCM. Interestingly I learned that the ending of the movie was changed from the novel and later stage play on which it was based, with her mother surviving and Rhoda being struck and killed by a bolt of lightning at the very end to appease the Motion Picture Production Codes at the time because they thought it would be wrong to portray such an “evil” child getting away with murder(s).
Also at the end of the movie it showed the cast in a theatrical-style curtain call and the actress Nancy Kelly who played the mother gives Patty McCormack a fake spanking and then they laugh and hug. It was as if to remind the audience that this was just a “story”. But the movie’s subject matter was still shocking for its time (1956) and to appease the censors, Warner Bros. added an "adults only" tag to the film's advertising.
I didn’t mean it as calling attention to your “neglect”...or as a criticism.
I didn’t mean it as calling attention to your “neglect”...or as a criticism.
“I didn’t mean it as calling attention to your “neglect”...or as a criticism.”
No prob. I understood that. The thought that I was trying to share is that I was too lazy to look for the name Anne Sullivan. ;-)
Woww AMAZING! By the way, did you know there is a movie of that guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqaSOw1WhjI
Thanks, a great film clip.
Is that amazing or what? That is the author of Huckleberry Finn which I consider the greatest novel ever written, I’m 53, I must have read that book at least 150 times since I was a kid. I know one year I read it 24 times, I could not get enough of it. It would take me two weeks to read the whole thing then I would start again. What was great about that book is it gave you not only Clemens childhood, but also the childhood of practically everyone else who grew up in that era as well. You can see Abe Lincoln making pretend he is a pirate. World population was only about a billion people back then. Today it is 7.3 billion. We are living in an overpopulated hell and we refuse to see it. That is why cultures are crashing into one another.
I am also two degrees with Ed Sullivan, Rolling Stones (3 degrees to the Beatles) etc via Bo Diddley
Hooker and Diddley both played a local watering hole back in the mid 80'
I'm also 2 degrees to several of the Apollo astronauts. My grade school music teacher was a huge fan and in the early 70's he wrangled a private visit to Nasa, even trying on Gene Cernans red striped helmet
Im also recalling Pop met Sam Walton of Sams club/Walmart fame.
” Motion Picture Production Codes at the time because they thought it would be wrong to portray such an “evil” child getting away with murder(s). “
Oh, yeah, it was a long time before the Hollywood morality police allowed the “Damiens” etc.
“Except for that stupid postscript of her being spanked.”
See, I thought that was hilarious.
Also movie-patrons were not very sophisticated back then and without the spanking and the curtain-call at the end, people would not realize that it was acting. Poor girl would have had people throwing things at her on the street. Yes then and now there really were/are still people that are that stupid.
In the mid 1950s? Who would think that way? She had been a regular on a TV show before that.
My nephews' knowledge of the Kennedy assassination and of Watergate consists entirely of watching "JFK" and "All the President's Men". They completely believe those versions of the events.
Maybe Hollywood should have been forced to add a scene at the end with real historians spanking the film-makers.
Dramas aren’t histories - never have been. ATPM was based on Woodward and Bernstein’s book. Was that known to be inaccurate?
The Production Code did not allow the depiction of anyone getting away with any crime. Frank Capra got away with it in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ where no one seemed to notice that Mr Potter gets away with theft and fraud at the end.
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