The Help (2011)

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Mikey

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The Help stars Emma Stone as Skeeter, Viola Davis as Aibileen and Octavia Spencer as Minny-three very different, extraordinary women in Mississippi during the 1960s, who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project that breaks societal rules and puts them all at risk. From their improbable alliance a remarkable sisterhood emerges, instilling all of them with the courage to transcend the lines that define them, and the realization that sometimes those lines are made to be crossed-even if it means bringing everyone in town face-to-face with the changing times. -- (C) DreamWorks
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Has anyone seen this movie yet? What do you think?

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_help/
 
love the soundtrack...haven't seen the movie yet...i don't watch movies in the summer...too much going on outside...this will be a good rental for a snow day:cool:
 
Sounds like good news. I don't have the $ to go out w/ friends and watch it in a theater (I'm broke), so I'll download it on bit torrent and watch it tomorrow and write something up about it.
 
Soulthinker said:
You can't afford the matinee on the weekends? Mikey, just get your ticket,pass concessions,and see the flick.
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Ok, I'll plan on doing it.

I liked the review written by Leonard Maltin about the movie.

If you lived through that time, it is incredible to contemplate how much has changed (and how much hasn’t) over the years, not only in race relations but in attitudes toward women. That’s part of the fascination of watching The Help, which captures so many telling details of everyday life back then.
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Seeing black people play servants in a film called The Help isn't high on my list of priorities in the year 2011. I don't need to see it to know how they felt. They didn't like it. The End. What's there to see?
 
MYXER said:
Seeing black people play servants in a film called The Help isn't high on my list of priorities in the year 2011. I don't need to see it to know how they felt. They didn't like it. The End. What's there to see?
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Plus, it's a "White lady rescues the black people, see how enlightened they are?" sort of film, from what I hear. I posted an article on it last week in another thread..think I gave it it's own thread, but it might have been in the Movies thread.
 
I'm sick of seeing black folks in old Slave/Mammy movies.


Every now-and-then I'll watch it on DVD or HBO but fuck going to the theater and paying to see it.

I heard it was a good film, though.
 
Soulthinker said:
I don't think Skeeter "saved" the maids,they saved themselves. See the movie or read the book and then give a opinion.
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I haven't even seen a preview so I wouldn't know any more than what you have said. You are the first to say they have even seen it. What was it you liked so much about it?
 
MYXER said:
Seeing black people play servants in a film called The Help isn't high on my list of priorities in the year 2011. I don't need to see it to know how they felt. They didn't like it. The End. What's there to see?
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summed it up quite nicely.
 
It was a great book. I doubt the movie was able to capture everything the book did, but that's how book to movie translations are.

Anyway. I still plan to see it, and I highly recommend the book. See it or read it before making sweeping generalizations.
 
I put this in a similar category as I did the Blindside at least for my purposes meaning that I won't see it but it'll probably be nominated for a few Oscars!:smt092

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Yeah, because black people always have 'great' performances when they're seen as the 'help' or being rescued by 'good' people or they are corrupt cops.

Fuck that. No thanks.

And like I said earlier, yeah, the movie is probably good but I'm tired of seeing African Americans portrayed in that light, especially considering all the things the culture has been through in the United States.
nobledruali said:
I put this in a similar category as I did the Blindside at least for my purposes meaning that I won't see it but it'll probably be nominated for a few Oscars!

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"Viola Davis on How She Questioned, and then Embraced, The Help"

There’s so much affecting material in The Help, but you’ve said that you had hesitations about taking the role at first. What was it that finally drew you in?
I just thought that the characters were so fleshed out. I did not see stereotypes. I saw maids, but I didn’t see stereotypes. Stereotypes to me are people where the humanity is not explored, that they become just cardboard cutouts. I didn’t see that. It was a chance for me to really go on a journey with a character… I’ve done August Wilson plays on Broadway — he really put me on the map, August Wilson — and August Wilson is a playwright who decided to chronicle ten decades of African-American life, but he chose to do it by writing about ordinary people. He didn’t write about Ida B. Wells and Martin Luther King, or Malcolm X — he wrote about old, married people, illiterate, garbagemen, ex-slaves. And this is what was fascinating to me about The Help; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. That Aibileen starts the movie as someone who basically is dead, has kind of died to herself, and is living, just getting by, and then finds purpose and becomes something quite extraordinary in a very ordinary way in the end. That intrigues me. That always intrigues me.
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Read the rest of the article here: http://www.movieline.com/2011/08/vi...w-she-questioned---and-then-embraced---th.php
 
MYXER said:
Seeing black people play servants in a film called The Help isn't high on my list of priorities in the year 2011. I don't need to see it to know how they felt. They didn't like it. The End. What's there to see?
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LA said:
I'm sick of seeing black folks in old Slave/Mammy movies.


Every now-and-then I'll watch it on DVD or HBO but fuck going to the theater and paying to see it.

I heard it was a good film, though.
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cosign

Dreaming_Blue said:
"Viola Davis on How She Questioned, and then Embraced, The Help"



Read the rest of the article here: http://www.movieline.com/2011/08/vi...w-she-questioned---and-then-embraced---th.php
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she saw the potential of getting an oscar and a bigger paycheck. that is all to it.
TreePixie said:
Plus, it's a "White lady rescues the black people, see how enlightened they are?" sort of film, from what I hear. I posted an article on it last week in another thread..think I gave it it's own thread, but it might have been in the Movies thread.
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LA said:
Yeah, because black people always have 'great' performances when they're seen as the 'help' or being rescued by 'good' people or they are corrupt cops.

Fuck that. No thanks.

And like I said earlier, yeah, the movie is probably good but I'm tired of seeing African Americans portrayed in that light, especially considering all the things the culture has been through in the United States.
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cosign
 
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