[Capchapohio] FW: Accessible Arts of Central Ohio will audio describe The Help on Saturday afternoon, September 17

[Angela]

Update on event. Angie 

 

From: Flotsam and Jetsam [mailto:flotsam-jetsam at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 7:14 AM
To: Irwin HOtt
Subject: Accessible Arts of Central Ohio will audio describe The Help on
Saturday afternoon, September 17

 

Accessible arts of Central Ohio will audio describe the both serious and
humorous movie, The Help,  based on Kathryn Stockett's best-selling book of
2009, on Saturday afternoon, September 17, 2011.

 

It will be held at the Marcus Cinema Crosswoods Theatre located at 200
Hutchinson Avenue, Columbus Ohio, 43085.

 

The cost of tickets for those in the Accessible Arts group will be $6 per
person.

 

The movie will begin at approximately 3:30 pm and is 2 hours and 36 minutes
in length including trailers. Audio description will be provided by Nancy
VanVoorhis, one of our local describers.

 

The Help from DreamWorks Pictures is rated PG-13 for thematic material.

 

Synopsis taken from a review by David Edelstein of the New York Magazine:

The Help is beloved for showing white people the world of domestic servitude
through the eyes of black women and reviled, in some quarters, as a white
author's misappropriation of black women's experience.

  The novel is set in Jackson Mississippi in the early 1960's, is
predictable, heavy-handed, and rich in cringe-worthy Southern Negra'
dialect. But its also rich in evocative detail, in close observation of
servants and employers, and the distinctive coping mechanisms of each class.

  From a dramatic standpoint, the most compelling vantage might well be that
of the young white woman, Skeeter Phelan, presumably Stockett's alter ego.
She's wracked with guilt over having essentially been raised by a black
woman too poor to stay home with her own children.

  If The Help exploits black experience, it does so partly out of a need for
penance.

  Emma Stone plays the 23-year-old Skeeter, an aspiring writer, who returns
from college to find her wealthy family's cherished maid gone under
mysterious circumstances, and her friends married with black maids of their
own.

  As racial tensions intensify, (Medgar Evers is murdered), other blacks are
lynched, and the snooty debutantes reveal their true segregationist selves.

  Skeeter prevails on her friend, Elizabeth's maid, Aibilene, played by
Viola Davis, to tell her story in a book to be called appropriately enough
The Help.

 

To reserve a receiver or to let us know if you will need assistance from a
volunteer, please call the Accessible Arts Information Line at 614 470-4777.
Press 0 to get information about the movie. Then, at any time, press the
Pound Sign to leave a message.

Give us your name and number, too, in case we need to reach you because of
last minute time changes or other unusual circumstances.

 

SEE YOU at the MOVIES!!!

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