The Help
Here ’s how a scene fromThe Helpfeaturing a chocolate pie with an off - formula ingredient gave cinema its classiest crude out gag . Directed by Tate Taylor , full point dramaThe Helpwas accommodate from Kathryn Stockett ’s debut novel of the same name and released in 2011 . Set in civil right era Jackson , Mississippi , the film starsEmma Stoneas Eugenia ‘ Skeeter ’ Phelan – a late university graduate and aspire author who decides to write a book about the hardships of being a fatal maid in 1960s Mississippi .
Viola Davisand Octavia Spencer play two maid named Aibileen and Minny who avail Skeeter write her book by volunteer their experiences working as ‘ the assist ’ for white family . Being the Deep South in the sixties , many of Aibileen and Minny ’s experiences and those of their fellow maids are awful . At one point inThe Help , Aibileen recount how her son tragically die after his bloodless boss mercilessly plunge him outside a bleak - only hospital following a workplace accident . Another scene shows how Constantine ( Cecily Tyson ) – the maiden that raise Skeeter – was fire by her mother Charlotte ( Allison Janney , Mom ) after years of service so she could save case in front of her snobby , racist friends .
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Another injustice comes when Octavia Spencer ’s type Minny is fired by her dreadful racist boss Hilly Holbrook ( Bryce Dallas Howard , Jurassic World : Fallen Kingdom ) after using the class bathroom rather than the maid ’s outhouse during a wild electric storm . add affront to injury , Hilly proceeds to go around town accusing Minny of stealing from her , ca-ca her most unemployable . However , Hilly ’s horrible actions do inspire Minny to get revenge in what is certainly the classiest gross out gag panorama in film history .
The scene in interrogative sentence sees Minny shoot the breeze her former employer with one of her famous , yummy chocolate pie under the guise of apologizing for her so - called transgression . Hilly ca n’t baulk and help herself to two fade , wolfing it down until Minny inform her she baked an extra factor into the Proto-Indo European – her own poop . Is it foul ? Yes . Is a befitting penalty for a villain like Hilly ? Most definitely .
The Helppie tantrum certainly had a lasting effect on Octavia Spencer , who go bad on to win an Oscar forBest support Actressfor her performance . In an interview withPeoplein 2016 , Spencer state she ’d had a hard time looking at chocolate Proto-Indo European in the same manner since filmingThe Helpbut had this to say of the notorious shot and Minny ’s retaliation against Hilly : “ To somebody that dire , that imply , that mean , it is the best retaliation and the most fun I ’ve ever had in any given moment on a set ” .
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