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Today is one of those rare occasions when I feel it would help to reprise a previous commentary in its entirety. It’s short. I will append an update below. So, first, here is “Viola Regrets Portrayal of Black Women in The Help” from September 17, 2018. ********* The Help was a box-office hit. It also… Read more.
The Help was a box-office hit. It also won critical acclaim. This included Octavia Spencer winning an Academy Award (an Oscar) for Best Supporting Actress and the film winning a slew of other Academy Award nominations, namely Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Jessica Chastain, and Best Actress for Viola Davis (evidently everybody upstaged the… Read more.
Aside from appealing to Hollywood’s fondness for Black-Mammy characters, I honestly don’t get this… Sixty-seven years after Hattie McDaniel became the first Black to win an Oscar for playing a Mammy in Gone With the Wind, one would’ve thought Black actresses would be recognized for more dignified roles. (“And the Oscar Goes To,” The iPINIONS… Read more.
Am I the only one who finds it discouraging that the most celebrated relationships between black and white women in film are those which feature the former working as a domestic servant for the latter? Here we are, 72 years since Gone with the Wind first celebrated this hardly “ennobling” relationship; yet people (mostly misguided,… Read more.
