Did anybody see this abomination tonight? It featured everybody’s fsvorite - The Pepsi Girl as Helen Keller. She wondered the sets like she was waiting for a bus. If Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft were dead, they’d be spinning in their graves.
Don’t look in the Pepsi Girl’s eyes! Do not look directly at her! She is possessed!!
I hate that sniveling little bitch.
Don’t even get me started on the Welch’s Grape Juice girl . If she isn’t the devil, I don’t know who is.
Don’t be silly, the Olsen twins are the devil. The Pepsi girl and the Welch’s girl are just demonic assistants.
Oh Nooooooo! The Pepsi girl, bah bah bah bah bah! Change the channel before it is too late!
I twitched in pain just watching previews. What happened, Mr. Blue Sky? Lose the TV remote? Eyelids get accidentally glued open again? I can’t imagine what horrendous chain of unlikely tragedies would have to occur to have me actually watch this remake.
The thing about the original is, just when it gets good and interesting, the damn thing is over! Okay, Helen, so you figgered out there is a way to express water via language, TELL US THE REST OF THE STORY, damnit!
You mean it’s over? It’s really over? I don’t have to fear accidentally seeing part of it while changing channels? I’ll no longer have to endure two seconds of the ad before desperately turning the TV off to get away from it?
Thank you for letting me know!
I don’t like the Pepsi girl much either, but I love the story, so I watched it. I wanted to see how “PC” they made it, too. It pretty much stuck to the original. The only scene they “PC’d” was when Helen hit Annie, and Annie didn’t slap her back. I thought the actress who played Annie did a good job, but I was definitely not impressed with Little Miss Pepsi. But still, in the final scene at the pump where she finally got it, the little girl did a good job of looking as if she’d had a revelation. And of course I was sobbing when she brought the key to the teacher. I’m such a wuss.
Question after seeing the Pepsi commercials and
part of the movie: Can this kid speak…at all?
I only watched a few minutes of it so far but that deaf & dumb comment was not PC. It might have been for the time period this flick represents.
That girl was major STIFF.
She could have talked, there is no real reason she can’t, she has a voice box just like the rest of us & would just need to be taught to use it, even if you couldn’t understand what she said.
She did learn to talk. The movie ended at the point that she learned that things have names. See this thread.
Just channel surfing and stopped on it. Kinda like trying NOT to look at a traffic accident. The original was much better since Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft had done the Broadway play about a zillion times before making the movie. You can read about this is Patty’s autobiography. In it she gives some amusing stories about the stage performances.
Often the handicapped people get pissy because they didn’t use a handicapped actress for this flick. We actually shut down Voices in the 70’s because they used Amy Irving to portray a deaf woman.
handy,
what say I meet you half way. I’ll blind and deafen the mini-mephisto, and then we can talk things over.
jb
I missed it…is that a good or bad thing?
That little Pepsi Girl frightens me.
Remember that good thing you saw last week? Well, it didn’t look anything like this!
Whoops, my question was can acress who played the Pepsi kid/Helen speak? Sometimes my sarcasm misses the point. Has she ever had a speaking role?
I didn’t want to disparge Helen Keller at all. I have great
admiration for the woman, doing what she did in a time when
handicapped people were assumed to have no mentality and often stashed away in asylums (and why did they cut Annie’s
line about playing with the rats?)
Sigh. Why don’t they try something like remaking a movie with a good idea behind it that didn’t pan out? Why throw away effort remaking a very good movie that everone is going to point out is bettter than your remake, no matter how good it is? (And in this case, good is unlikly)
Ah well. It’s their money, I guess.
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“How can you have a guest star in a movie?”
[Annie Sullivan pours Coke over Helen’s hands.]
Annie: “C-O-K-E! SAY IT, HELEN, SAY IT!”
Helen: “HLENSOFGGAK!”
Annie: “No, Helen, C-O-K-E!”
Helen: “DHWOPRTBNSKF!”
[George Michael enters]
George: “Here, try this, Teacher!”
[Hands Annie a Pepsi]
Helen [grabbing Pepsi]: “P-E-P-S-I! Taste the difference!”
[Music up, as Mr. and Mrs. Keller dance into the room surrounded by Albert Einstein and the Rockettes]
I didn’t watch this, luckily. But I did read Entertainment Weekly’s review, in which they referred to the girl as “Frankenkeller” since her acting consisted mainly of wandering around with her arms stuck straight out in front of her.
Hahahahaha…
The character foil, if you could call it that, makes hearing people appear so stupid. The people keep talking to this girl when they know she can’t hear them. All throughout this film they would talk to her. Why? Shrug. I guess it’s so hearing people watching would know what was happening cause they couldn’t act it.
ReservoirDog, that is really funny. Im going to check her neck.