Hosted by Ezra Stead with special guests: Jason A. Hill, Alan Tracy and Pete K. Wong.
The MIDG Oscars Podcast, 2017 edition.
Oscar discussion and predictions for the show Sunday night, February 26th, on ABC.
Duration: 2 hours and 9 minutes.
Intro Music: LA LA Land “Another Day Of Sun”
Outro Music: The Neon Demon “Runaway”
By Ezra Stead
The Help, USA / India / United Arab Emirates, 2011
Written and Directed by Tate Taylor
Based on the Book The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Tate Taylor’s film version of The Help is basically 2011’s answer to The Blind Side (2009); however you felt about that movie – whether indifferent, aggressively hateful, grudgingly appreciative or tearful and inspired – is undoubtedly how you will feel about this one. Both are well-made, well-acted films that are also, at their heart, about noble white people who take a stand against the appalling racism of their friends in order to help strong, stoic, oppressed black people. In other words, like The Blind Side, The Last Samurai (2003) or Dances with Wolves (1990), it is a film about non-white people told almost exclusively from the point-of-view of white people. Read More
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