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Originally Posted by ggforever
JUST returned from seeing The Help. GREAT movie. Like all book/movie adaptions, it is hard to compare, but I think they did a wonderful job in capturing the essence of the book.
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I honestly thought it was by far the best book-to-screenplay adaptation I'd ever seen.
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Originally Posted by violetpretty
Saw it on Monday at an advance screening with my alumnae chapter. A few thoughts:
*In the book, all 3 main characters narrate, but in the movie, I feel like Minny's "voice" was reduced a little, and she became comic relief in many of her scenes, especially with Celia.
*Also, if Hilly is 22, which we can assume since she grew up being friends with Skeeter, and Skeeter finished college (4 years, what an eternity)...how the HELL does Hilly have a mother who is old/frail enough to be put in a nursing home, especially since women back then/in that part of the country have kids in their late teens/early to mid 20s??? Hilly's mom would have had to be like 50 years old when Hilly was born.
*None of these things interfered with my enjoyment. I liked seeing the characters come to life and thought it was well cast.
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#1 is true - I read a review beforehand that Aibileen's voice is the only one doing a voice over (and it wasn't that often) but I don't think that means we missed the voices of the others.
#2 I didn't really see Sissy Spacek's character as frail...more as selectively demented...
#3 Agreed - the casting really was well done. Everyone and everything looked as I'd pictured it in my mind.