Introduction:
Have you (point at someone in the audience) tried Minnie Jackson's chocolate pie? It’s very appealing to the eye yet for some reason or another it’s texture is rather inconsistent.
Hello and welcome to ‘The Truth’! A show that discusses the films you want to hear about (audience applause). We’re your hosts Menita and Bethany and tonight’s episode is all about ‘The Help’.
When first released, it was a hit at the box office raising over $26 million! It then went on to win the BET Award for Best Film in 2012 and NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture, but after our analysis of this film, we didn’t seem to appreciate it as such.
The Help is a RomCom film starring many talented actresses such as Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis and many others. Written and directed by Tate Taylor it represents the enormity of inequality between white people and their black maids during the 1960’s. Amongst the craze of following her dream to become a writer, Skeeter, a well-off white lady - the main character - notices this issue and sets out to do something about it. …show more content…
See, by the end of the film Taylor decides to quickly conclude with the appreciation of black people in a society. Quite unrealistic, if you ask me. I mean, not after a few months anyway.
The underlying question that we will try to answer today is whether ‘The Help’ shows a more nuanced portrayal of the racial issues in 1963 and if it is based more so around a white lady trying to be unconventional and succeed through the telling of the suffering of black
Have you (point at someone in the audience) tried Minnie Jackson's chocolate pie? It’s very appealing to the eye yet for some reason or another it’s texture is rather inconsistent.
Hello and welcome to ‘The Truth’! A show that discusses the films you want to hear about (audience applause). We’re your hosts Menita and Bethany and tonight’s episode is all about ‘The Help’.
When first released, it was a hit at the box office raising over $26 million! It then went on to win the BET Award for Best Film in 2012 and NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture, but after our analysis of this film, we didn’t seem to appreciate it as such.
The Help is a RomCom film starring many talented actresses such as Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis and many others. Written and directed by Tate Taylor it represents the enormity of inequality between white people and their black maids during the 1960’s. Amongst the craze of following her dream to become a writer, Skeeter, a well-off white lady - the main character - notices this issue and sets out to do something about it. …show more content…
See, by the end of the film Taylor decides to quickly conclude with the appreciation of black people in a society. Quite unrealistic, if you ask me. I mean, not after a few months anyway.
The underlying question that we will try to answer today is whether ‘The Help’ shows a more nuanced portrayal of the racial issues in 1963 and if it is based more so around a white lady trying to be unconventional and succeed through the telling of the suffering of black