Cost: free from library.
Where watched: at home.
poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2011/help.html
*In nearly every other book-to-movie transitions the fleshed-out female character is shunted aside for the men to take center stage. I'm looking at you, Gone Baby, Gone. Here, the men, much more present in the book, were almost completely eliminated.
**And yes, the black women were stuck being the maids AGAIN. So frustrating! I'm holding out for a future where we not only have many movies with fully-developed female characters as a matter of course, but also movies where the people of color don't have to disappear into the standard tropes of servant/cannon fodder/magical guides for the white people.
***Bryce Dallas Howard was something of a marvel. "Who is that woman playing Hilly?" I kept wondering. And then was aghast it was she, who I had always kind of written off.
I remember thinking that as well. The men were so off in the periphery that they were not even noticeable. The acting was truly supreme!
ReplyDeleteI loved this book so much that I've been hesitant to watch the movie. Would you say that it is a tolerable adaptation?
ReplyDeleteExcellent question. I too, loved the book and held off on the movie. I also heard that they tried to jam too much into the movie and it would be confusing to those who have not read the book. However, with a good remove of two or so years from the love of the book, I found this to be a very fabulous adaptation. They didn't get everything in, but I felt like the got the heart of the story.
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