Watch the International Trailer for The Help: Heart of Stone
You'll note that the new trailer for The Help calls Kathryn Stockett's source material a "sensational bestseller." That may be, but not much else is screaming "sensation" here: Viola Davis's one-note dignity, Bryce Dallas Howard's adversarial prissiness, and Emma Stone's smiley do-gooder shtick aren't providing much in the way of originiality. But maybe I'm just cynical; check out the new international trailer and let's hash this out.
I continue to have high hopes for Octavia Spencer, since her role was apparently written for her, but I just can't see this being anything but predictable -- though I suspect Bryce Dallas Howard is a pretty cool person in what us bloggers call "real life." That's just one of my suspicions. It would be weird if she were stuck up, right? I bet Ron ran a tight ship at Howard Manor. Anyway. Tell me: Are you more excited for this than I am?
The Help opens August 12.
[via Empire]
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Gag me. I *loved* the novel. One of the many things that I appreciated about it was that it wasn't self-congratulatory. This trailer reeks of it. And the trailer that preceded this one from a few months ago. Yuck.
I really want to like this movie. But seriously, "courage sometimes skips a generation - thank you for bringing it back to our family"? Who the fuck talks like that?