Posted on 02/22/2012 9:11:39 PM PST by ReligiousLibertyTV
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The movie explicitly establishes Skeeter as the protagonist, the person who we are supposed to be rooting for. However, she does things that I find to be unconscionable. First she gets a maid (Abilene) to write her column for her. First, she just asks for assistance, but we see later in the film that while Skeeter is working on the book, Abilene is writing her column. Am I supposed to be ok with that? Secondly, Skeeter is the only person who gets anything good out of her relationship with these maids. Skeeter gets what she wanted at the beginning of the film a job with a New York publishing firm. Abilene ends up fired with no prospects on how she would support herself. But she feels good about herself so I guess its alright. This is dovetailed with the very odd resolution of Minnies story, where she finds the strength to leave her abusive husband because her white employer cooked a meal for her. Im sorry but that doesnt make sense to me.
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That's because Skeeter isn't really the protagonist. It's "the help" who are the protagonists.
At least that's my guess based on how Hollywood writes these sorts of things.
So she is publishing content written by others as her own? She is a blogger?
Get a freakin life,it was a great book,great movie,and shows how life was back then.Weve come a long way since then and thats another thing it showed.What happened to make you write this drivel?Did you eat some of Minnies pie too?
I appreciated the point of the article, which was, IMHO, broader than this particular film. Rather, the idea that Hollywood is reconstructing our history, and implanting that altered story in the minds of far too many people who won’t see it from any other perspective. That is a valid concern in general.
I did appreciate the movie, as well. But I recognize that it was a sanitized and fictionalized account - not a history of the civil rights era. Many others who saw the film may not.
PC folks including many here lap it up like biscuits and molasses
and i know the real characters from the book...i grew up in the thick of it..folks here are tied of hearing that
yet another over educated brat Southern girl goes north and make hay over the awfulness of where she came from and is proclaimed a genius
hell with her and stupid naive people who believe anything they read or see in movies
nobody I know in Mississippi would piss on her if she were on fire and that includes her family
she had mommy issues...big time and daddy was gone a lot ..trying to build more family wealth
i swear...this forum..so many uninformed and whites and blacks and the relationship between..i’ve got 20 years left tops...simply not enough time
wanna feel all warm about the South...watch Gone with the Wind and then Driving Miss Daisy...both more accurate
It is an enjoyable fiction. I know multiple Jackson Prep graduates who enjoyed the book and movie. They live in MS and were the ones who made me want to read the book. I admit that my enjoyment of the book probably stemmed from my homesickness due to living in the desert. I miss the trees in Jackson and friendly people, black and white. I do not miss the hoity-toity types who are depicted so accurately in The Help.
“...shows how life was back then.”
Erm....as one who was born, raised, and living in Mississippi at the time this novel was supposed to take place, not exactly.
“wanna feel all warm about the South...watch Gone with the Wind and then Driving Miss Daisy...both more accurate”
Well, my stars and bars...bump that to the tippy top!
Both are more accurate than “The Help”, and weren’t written with an agenda.
The movie did not hold true to the book. In the book, Skeeter offered to pay Abilene and Abilene refused, later in the book, Skeeter paid her anyway.
Skeeter is the only person who gets anything good out of her relationship with these maids.
In the book and in the movie, Skeeter shares the proceeds among all the maids that contributed.
This is dovetailed with the very odd resolution of Minnies story, where she finds the strength to leave her abusive husband because her white employer cooked a meal
Did we watch the same movie? Minnie got out of her abusive marriage because Abilene encouraged her to see it for what it was, that Leroy was an abusive bum and always would be.
I didn't bother to click on your blog link, as far as I'm concerned you can go pimp it and its inaccuracies somewhere else.
I feel bad because we just went to see “This Means War” and I really liked it, but I think I should have been offended. But it was so funny, and had great action scenes, and I really like Reese Witherspoon’s acting, for some unexplainable reason.
And I like happy movies.
Driving Miss Daisy is my favorite movie . . .
These types of movie were a dime a dozen over the decades; this one is pitched to a new generation to "bring awareness".
Glaringly cheap piece of "art" with skin-deep stereotypes all over the place.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
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