Okay, I’m talking to all you clueless ones leaving comments on message boards when grown folks are trying to talk.
You know who you are, the utterly frustrated lovers of either the movie or the book, who can only come up with an overused, corny phrase.
That includes the trolls who like to leave messages that make no sense regarding Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben being “beloved” icons, and trying to school me on black history.
Lafayette from True Blood's FUB expression
Mothafuck you BITCH
That’s right, I said mothafuck you.
No I don’t know everything, but I know one thing. I do know a hell of a lot more than you on the subject.
So if you’ve left a comment on a message board, only to have someone come behind yours with “OMG! it’s only a movie!”
or “OMG it’s just a book!” Feel free to use this link. When they click it (and they will, because they’re just that conceited) they’ll get the message.
Ahhh, that felt good. Now, back to our normal programming.
Liza Cowan
August 13, 2011
A FB “friend” wrote a glowing account of her trip to see The Help, so I posted a link to this blog. Her response was, “I read this –she didn’t see the movie and I don’t think you have either. I say hurrah when a theater full of white women in southern california clap wildly for two black women who show everyone in the theater what courage, fortitude and gumption look like. Sometimes ya gotta take the good and stop with the sour grapes.”
I un friended her. Who needs it? Feh.
acriticalreviewofthehelp
August 14, 2011
Hi Liza,
You win some, you lose some.
I call it the “I’d rather watch the movie and be entertained” instead of being truly informed.
Sometimes people like that change their minds after enough others speak their mind.
That’s what happened over Show Boat. So many people wanted to hide behind the play being an American “classic” and how wonderful the music was that they lost sight of how the play demeaned African Americans, no matter how moving “Old Man River” was.
The book it was based on remains unchanged while the play was tinkered with several times in an attempt to change the offensive dialogue and song lyrics, much like The Help (movie) has in order to silence critics. What we’ve now got is a film Hollywood believes we all should be able to live with.
I think not.
Look to see The Help on Broadway sometime soon, because it’s not about African Americans. It about profits and being “entertained”
Shirley Grigsby
August 15, 2011
Thank God for this site! I was about to lose my mind with all the fawning this disturbing piece of literature and film is receiving, not from the expected white people, but BLACK people. Can you believe that mess?!
acriticalreviewofthehelp
September 25, 2011
Hi Shirley,
Yes, I can believe it. We’re in a nightmare not of our choosing. Just wait until awards time and clips are shown in order to “justify” some of the main actresses getting nominated.
I shudder at the thought.