Viola Davis

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Viola Davis on the film 'The Help'

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    1. Bree  12/29/2011 03:21 AM Report

      I am amazed, I am honored, I am proud, I am in awe, and I am supportive for the Talent and intellect of such an incredible actor who is a person who has at this moment lifted my personal thoughts of life based upon this interview. Viola is both beautiful externally and internally, she is an actor’s actor, and I am as a person of color so extremely proud of her, and I am proud of the beauty of her craft and her personal beauty as well. I wish you well and thank you for being you and allowing your dreams to never die. You are one of my hero’s.

    2. SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/16/2011 02:30 AM Report

      Her Mother and Grandmother were both maids.

      Her Mother had just an 8th grade education.

      She said there is an entire generation of black women whose dream was their children.

      Sounds like she could have just written the script from her experience instead of buying an option.

      $200 million from $25 million--the market has spoken big time.

    3. SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/16/2011 02:17 AM Report

      She said her mother did not see the movie because she was getting hip replacement surgery.

      Perhaps a show on hip replacement surgery--about $500 on Medicare (no more "Six Million Dollar Man") which makes it pretty cheap for the elderly to get replacements. Is there a better way?

    4. SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/16/2011 02:12 AM Report

      Yes Charlie she is correct. You have to have the permission to have the dream. "Be all that you can be" only means something if you haven't heard, "you ain't gonna 'mount to nutin', no ways" all your life.

    5. SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/16/2011 02:07 AM Report

      Based upon the lipstick and the haircut I was thinking rapper but then when we saw her work I saw talent.

    6. finalfantasytown  12/15/2011 11:44 PM Report

      I am moved in the last two minutes in this interview.

      'Even people who wanna go to heaven don’t wanna die to get there' The Godfather Steve Jobs said when giving his speech from his heart to the students in 2005. Lots of people said this repeatedly 'I want to go to heaven', resonating with Godfather in heart and then being chosen by God. The heaven, the holy place. Is that spiritual place or spiritual and physical? The holy means perfect? If so, the heaven is a trap. Through history, people with spirits have been trying to do things perfectly. I think that is why human invented things from art to computer, to animation, to holographs, which are virtual and spiritual. But how to stably inherit it into physical body in nature?

      It is so desperate for the people who are perfect but cannot go to heaven. Positively, living virtually or imagerily in the mirror and incarnated into physical body.

      I am curious why the film series 'Ice age' are never ended.

    7. cosmic_utensil  12/15/2011 03:23 PM Report

      Obviously a great actress with a deep understanding of the craft (although her intellectualizing may put blinders on certain viewpoints).

      Its unfortunate that the story of the film "The Help" is being taken seriously. Following the white-people-to-the-rescue vein of movies like Dangerous Minds, Freedom Writers, Finding Forrester, The Blind Side, etc., this story patronizes white audiences while portraying black members of society as troubled, uneducated, poor, or otherwise "beneath" whites.

      Also, the desire of Skeeter to "make her mark on New York", by telling the story of her childhood maid seems a bit suspect.

      Its 2011, why do we have feel-good movies that reinforce the stereotypical "adjectives" that Ms. Davis mentioned?

      Yes, I understand Ms. Davis has a great, compelling story -- she came from poverty, overcame great odds, made it to Juliard... and came from poverty - - but her vernacular seems to reinforce those same "adjectives" that she has personally proved insufficient (if not inaccurate) and appears that she has the desire to typecast herself in these "mammy" roles. These adjectives help maintain the line between white and black in this country, however innocuous they may seem.

      Ms. Davis is clearly talented and intelligent, and I really hope her next project portrays Black Americans as *equals*.