I’ll concede your point about TSN.
But I can’t about The Help. Because if it IS true, that it has ‘candy coated racism’, then it is insulting and it shouldn’t have been made.
In the end this is for several reasons. For one, The Help isn’t set that long ago. The REAL maids of the time? They’re still around, some of them. And it HAS in fact been promoted as historically accurate. So yes, that is bad. Also, considering the fact that it’s supposed to be about racism, and many historically educated people of that oppressed group as well as former women of the time who would have been called The Help’ spoke out against the book and all it’s therefore pretty insulting it seems.
I mean I do hear there was a certain scene surrounding a pie, and that for many people it was hard to laugh at considering the fact such women have been beaten for far far less in those days.
Here is also a letter by a black historian:
abwh.org/index.php?option=co … p%E2%80%A6
Another interesting review I found was this (though the reviewer is white):
www2.macleans.ca/2011/08/11/the- … gregation/
Here is a review of the book by a black novelist who brings some interesting points:
ew.com/ew/article/0,20516492,00.htm
And a review on American tv about the movie:
youtube.com/watch?v=gnA1WUjGSXk
In the end, The Help sounds like a (non-boring/better acted) version of Song of the South in the sense that it doesn’t deliberately hate, it isn’t outright malicious towards the victims of racism, but it’s insulting due to the fact it (apparently) skims over the true effects of segregation and the times as they were it seems.
Also making the ‘saviour’/main offer of help from a white woman is not the best plan.
And if a film about racism insults the very targets of said racism, then yes, it is bad.
Therefore I feel I must see something this insulting because I want to be informed on it too. I’m sorry if you liked the film, heck apparently it had entertainment value for many, but yes it was insulting to various people, and yes many of these people have in fact watched the movie or read the book. Because they are keeping informed on the issue themselves. They are more knowledgeable on history, or at least the specific history attributed to this film.
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Getting back on topic: Are the makers of Rango making anything in the future? I’m kind of hoping they don’t cash in on a sequel.