Film: The Help

Skeeter writing a book about white women from colored women’s perspective, Aibileen lying to a white woman to get Minny employed, Yule May stealing a ring to send her boys to college, and many others, although shown in the movie, were not emphasized as much as I thought they should have been. In chapter 19 Yule May stole a ring that was of no value to Miss Hilly, yet Hilly still sent her to jail for it because she is cruel, (Stockett, 296). In the movie, viewers have no idea how much time Yule May will spend in jail, they don’t know that the colored people in her town are helping to send her boys to college, they aren’t aware that the ring was of no value, and there isn’t an emphasis on the fact that because of Yule May, the other women agreed to help write Skeeter’s book, (Stockett, 297 and 307). In chapter 19 when that first maid says, “I’m on help you with the stories,” the story takes a turn (Stockett, 297). In the beginning of the book, all maids besides Aibileen and Minny were dead set against the idea of the book since they could lose more than just their job if they were caught. Since the movie didn’t show the maids unwillingness to help in the beginning, I believe the producers lost some of the portrayal of how important this risk they were taking actually was. The writing of Skeeter’s book also brings up a few more differences there are between the

“The Help” is a dramatic film filled with love, hope, and a will for change. Mississippi in the 1960’s was no walk in the park for African-Americans and this film shows the struggle of African-American women raising white family’s children and managing their homes. The film uses an unexpected team of black maids and an aspiring white writer trying to make her way to the big leagues. The women along with the help of others set out to show the world the discrimination and unfair ways of life in their town. The film will bring you to tears, wrench your stomach, and leave you biting your nails at the edge of your seat. With deep characters and a historic plot showing change, this film will give you a reason to do good and work for what you believe in.

The most important lesson I was able to take away was that you don’t always need to fit in with the crowd. Skeeter knew the way that the African Americans, and more specifically African American women were being treated wasn’t acceptable and showed zero support towards it, no matter whose opinion she received. The separate but equal law allowed them to be accepted in houses, but they were not treated like human beings. Another example of someone who didn’t believe in unfair treatment of maids were the Foote family. Celia Foote took in Minny as her housekeeper after the repulsive Hilly Holbrook released Minny after assuming she used her house toilet rather than her designated latrine outside.

It is an American period drama film which is based on a novel written by the American novelist Kathryn Stockett. The movie was directed by Tate Taylor. The movie was released in year 2011, and shown in theaters all over the world. The film is about a young white woman named Skeeter, and her relationship with Aibileen and Minny, who are two black maids during the Civil Rights era in 1963. Aibileen and Minny are the maids of Skeeter’s two friends Hilly and Leefolt. Skeeter seeks help from both maids to write a book called “The Help”, which exposes racism that black maids in Jackson Mississippi deal with from the white families they work for. The movie tries to give its audience a glimpse of the segregated life of Black women working as maids for rich White families in

The film “The Help” (2011), is a story based on the daily lives of prominent white women and the relationships with their African-American housemaids in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s Civil Rights movement in America. A well-to-do white woman and central character in this film, Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, aspires to be a journalist and decides to write and publish an exposé of the stories of the housemaids in Jackson to achieve this goal, however, only two maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson are willing to discuss their experiences with her. The other maid’s in Jackson resist telling Skeeter their stories, fearing the punishments they would endure if the authorities were to find out. In spite of this, after the malicious arrest of one of their befriended maids, all of the maids begin to share their experiences, which consist of racial hostility and being treated as intrinsically subservient to white people. The story Skeeter publishes entitled The Help, creates a disturbance among the white families in Jackson, by exposing the racism the maids are faced with, forcing the white families to reflect upon how they have treated their maids. The storyline represented in The Help exhibits examples of the primordial approach to race and ethnicity, as well as numerous sociological concepts including segregation, internalized oppression, and white privilege, which will be exemplified in this paper in order to uncover the race relations evident within this film.

It was Wednesday choir practice and I was sitting with the director’s wife on the front row waiting for rehearsal to begin. Her husband was on stage arranging his music and making small talk with us. I responded to one of his quips with a “cute”, and I though humorous, quip of my own. I found out immediately that she didn’t appreciate my comment and perceived it as a “territorial dispute” (him being the territory!) when she stomped on my foot with extreme force (I limped for a couple days) and growled in my face, “He’s

Hi. I’m Rose and I just recently finished watching the film entitled The Help directed by Tate Taylor, as well as reading the literary equivalent by Kathryn Stockett from which it was adapted. This movie is set during the civil rights movement of the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi. This movie stars Skeeter Phelan (Emma Stone), a white women fresh out of college who is an aspiring writer. She teams up with Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) and Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) to collect stories from the point of view of African-American maids, in an attempt to expose the hardships of being black and inflict change on their little town. Those who have read the book may judge the movie too quickly, but after analysing and comparing the two objectively I have come to the conclusion that Tate Taylor has done an impeccable job at creating an accurate adaptation of the original novel and tries his best to recreate the cast, plot, themes, and setting whilst condensing it into 2 hours of entertainment.

Society has changed and evolved throughout time. Perhaps one of the most significant changed in contemporary American society is the treatment towards African Americans. “The Help” a feature film directed by Tate Taylor is based on the non-fictional novel “The Help” written by author Kathryn Sockett. The feature film explores the life of African American maids of Jackson Mississippi, in the early 1960’s. The 1960’s displayed all African Americans to being left out of the “American dream” through neglect and racism. African Americans faced prejudice and discrimination in almost every aspect of their life, from jobs to housing and even their education. They were denied the right to sit at the same lunch counter or use the same public rest

The film, The Help was a great movie but it was definitely an eye opener for me because as we research different eras we find that circumstances for Black women were always at the hands of someone else. Black women were referred to as Negros in this era and sometimes were called more derogatory names, that we need not mention. Blacks were not allowed to drink cokes, and were punished if they were caught drinking it. Unfortunately, Black women were mothers to their own children and they had to be mothers to the white children that they cared for. Black women had to leave their children with someone else while they cared for the white children. The mothers of those children were so busy doing book clubs, town meeting etc. that they didn’t have time to take care of their own children.

The Help, a movie based on a book written by Kathryn Stockett, was released in 2011. The Help stars Emma Stone as Skeeter, Viola Davis as Aibileen and Octavia Spencer as Minnie-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. Inspired by her relationship with Constantine (her maid), Skeeter forms an idea of writing about the relationships between whites and their black help, especially since the children raised by black maids tend to take on the prejudiced attitudes of their parents when they become adults. The maids are reluctant to cooperate, afraid of retribution from their employers, from their incredible bond an amazing sisterhood emerges, infusing all of them with the courage to write the lines that define them. Along with these three women there are others who contribute to each of their journey that leads them to what they bring together in the end.

During the 1960’s , americans underwent an era of critical issues in the United States. Throughout this time, the United States was in a stage of racial issues where racism was still openly accepted of society. The struggle by African-Americans to achieve rights equal to those that white people received was also known as the Civil Rights Movement. That included having an opportunity in employment, voting rights, having access to public facilities, education and housing and the right to be free from racial discrimination. In the film “The Help”, it gives us a better view of race, class, and gender inequality in the South where these issues were extensive and deep seated.

The Help, is a movie about a would-be author named Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan who is caring, courageous, trustworthy, kind, outspoken, smart, a loner and quite different from most of the other women in Jackson, Mississippi. She is a 23-year-old college educated woman who had self-esteem issues growing up, never had a boyfriend or children and was raised primarily by a maid named Constantine Jefferson. While many of the young ladies of Jackson were having babies, Skeeter was going to college as she wanted to become a serious writer. She wanted to write a book and give the African American maids a voice to explain the daily struggles they encounter when taking care of white families during the 1960s civil rights movement.

The Help is a 2011 American period drama film written and directed by Tate Taylor, based on Kathryn Stockett 's 2009. “The film is about a young white woman, Eugenia Phelan, and her relationship with two black maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, during the Civil Rights era in 1963 Jackson, Mississippi. Eugenia is a journalist who decides to write a book from the point of view of the maids, exposing the racism they are faced with as they work for white families.” (The Help, 2015) The film stars Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O 'Reilly, Chris Lowell, Sissy Spacek. The Help was produced by DreamWorks Pictures and was released by Touchstone Pictures, the film opened to positive reviews and became a success with a worldwide box office gross of $216 million. The Help has received four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Actress for Viola Davis, and Best Supporting Actress for Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer, with the latter winning the award. The film also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Pictures.

The Help is a movie from a famous book published by Kathryn Stockett about a girl name Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan and her relationship with to African-American maids in the 1960’s during the Civil Rights era in Jackson, Mississippi. This film was written by Tate Tayor, who written and directed other movies such as; Pretty Ugly People (2008), and Winter Bones (2010). The fans general response to the movie The Help budget in the Box office according to imdb.com.com was at the estimate of 25 million dollars. This film was produced by DreamWorks Pictures.

Fast forwarding to another era in history that deals with the same type of actions of the Holocaust. The Civil Rights movement started in 1954 and ran through 1968. During this time period many African American men and women protested the treatment of African Americans by the white citizens as well as the government and create a society where all people were equal despite their race and ethnicity. Rallies and protests sprung up to combat not only the idea that blacks and whites must be segregated and separated but also the belief that those of a different color or ethnicity other than white were inferior and should “take a back seat”. The Help is one of the few films that explores this era and time period. Directed by Tate Taylor tells the the story of aspiring journalist