The Blind
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| Originally published | September 26, 2017 |
| Authors | A. F. Brady |
| Genres | Thriller |
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| Psychological Thriller | |
| Psychological Fiction | |
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| ID | 2323080 |
About The Blind
‘Taut and intelligent' Prima ‘Utterly addictive' Lisa Hall Every morning, psychiatrist Sam James gets up at six forty-five. She has a shower, drinks a cup of coffee, then puts on her make-up. She ignores the empty bottles piling up by her door. . . .
Blind Side family feud reignites a cultural debate
... The Blind Side tells the tale of a struggling black teenager living in foster care who goes to college and becomes a star athlete with a white family s help...
Michael Oher, subject of The Blind Side, alleges 'adoptive parents' tricked him
... In 2009 movie The Blind Side, Michael Oher, a foster child in Tennessee, is adopted by a wealthy white couple and blooms into a star college athlete...
Bryan Randall: Sandra Bullock's long-term partner dies aged 57
... " Sandra Bullock is best-known for films such as Speed, Gravity and Miss Congeniality, and won an Oscar in 2010 for her performance in The Blind Side...
Manipur: Murders and mayhem tearing apart an Indian state
... Manghaulian, an 18-year-old Kuki teenager, was forced to escape from a school for The Blind in Imphal as violence erupted in the valley...
Love Island: Do ITV show's new audio descriptions go far enough?
... " Although I d say it s quite a big group, people do forget about The Blind and visually impaired, because people just live day to day and watch it normally...
Coronation order of service in full
... And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to The Blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord...
Rishi Sunak to set out grooming gangs taskforce plan
... Ms Braverman said while the fault lay with the perpetrators for " carrying out heinous and vile acts of depravity" there was also " a wilful turning of The Blind eye" among authorities...
Oscars 2023: Two decades on the Vanity Fair party red carpet
... The following night she won best actress for The Blind Side...
Blind Side family feud reignites a cultural debate
By Brandon DrenonBBC News, Washington
A legal battle between a retired American Football player and The Family who helped raise him has reignited debate about the 2009 Hollywood film that dramatised their story.
It has also pulled The Film 's lead actress, Sandra Bullock , into the controversy.
The Blind Side tells The Tale of a struggling black teenager living in foster care who goes to college and becomes a star athlete with a white family's help.
But now a court filing alleges that the rags-to-riches story is built on lies.
This Week , former NFL player Michael Oher , whom The Blind Side is based on, filed a petition seeking to end his relationship with the Tuohys, The Family who took him in.
Mr Oher, now 37, alleges he was never compensated for The Film and " received nothing" for A Story " that would not have existed without him". The Film -makers have So Far not commented.
He also accused the Tuohy family of lying about adopting him and tricking him into signing a conservatorship When he was 18 - a process that did not legally make him a member of The Family , but did give the Tuohys legal control over his finances.
The Family called those allegations " hurtful and absurd". They have dismissed the idea that they reaped huge profits from The Film and branded the legal action a " shakedown".
The Blind Side took More Than $300m (£237m) at the global Box Office and millions more in home video sales.
Mr Oher's claims have revived longstanding criticism that The Movie feeds into a negative " white saviour" Narrative - When a central white character saves a non-white character from unfortunate circumstances.
Bullock won an Academy Award for her role playing mother Leigh Anne Tuohy in the blockbuster. Some critics have called for her to return her Oscar, arguing her role played into an objectionable Narrative .
" You might let Sandra Bullock off The Hook about The Blind Side , but not me, " Ola Ojewumi, a public speaker and author, wrote on the Social Media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Bullock herself has not commented, but others have come to her defence, including her co-star Quinton Aaron , who played Mr Oher in The Film .
" Saying stuff like she needs to relinquish her title doesn't make any sense, " Mr Aaron told Tmz Sports This Week .
" She gave a brilliant performance and that shouldn't be tarnished for something that had nothing to do with her. "
TV and film critic Richard Roeper said: " It is totally misguided and unfair to assign blame to her for the new and deeply disturbing allegations about the real-life story. "
The Bbc has reached out to Bullock's team for comment.
The Blind Side is far from The First film to be criticised for pushing a " white saviour" Narrative .
Samantha Sheppard, a film professor at Cornell University , told The Bbc the trope dates back to 1915 with The Film Birth of a Nation, " A Story about the necessity of White People to save the country".
The " white saviour" Narrative has also been seen in sports genre films like Glory Road in 2006, the 2013 movie about baseball player Jackie Robinson , 42, and the 2016 Jesse Owens movie Race, She Said .
" What we see with these kinds of films is that even stories about black lives are not really about Black People , " She Said , " they are about the benevolence and the righteousness of white paternalistic forces. "
In 2010, actress Vanessa Williams spoke to journalist Barbara Walters about The Blind Side , saying: " It brings up a theme for black folks, that, OK, here's another white family that saves The Day … another black story that needs a white person to come in and lift them up. "
" Can you name A Movie where Black People saved White People ? " Williams asked.
Prof Sheppard notes that portrayals of race in film have made strides in recent years, led by more filmmakers of colour.
Directors like Tyler Perry and Jordan Peele are " telling much more dimensional stories about black lives, where they don't centralise White People ".
The renewed cultural debate over The Blind Side underscores how A Movie once acclaimed as a feel-good classic is now viewed as so dated.
But for film fans, the Oher-Tuohy legal feud truly is The End of the happily Ever After .
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
