Early on, the character of Patsy is shown making corn husk dolls. I don't quite get that. Are they trying to show her as simple minded? Or was she being shown as very young, just barely in her teens and still playing with dolls?
Does anyone know? Was it explained in the book?
It was a foreshadowing of her having immense dexterity. A trait that was highly necessary for picking the huge amounts of cotton she would later be shown to pick every single day.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
It was Lupita's idea, she said. Lupita told reporters corn husk doll making was "historically accurate" that a woman would do something like that. Steve McQueen liked it, and used it.
I think it would briefly keep Patsy's mind off the horrible things she would face. Like playing checkers in prison when you have a life sentence.
Thanks for the info...
...I stand corrected. Factual info trumps "gut feeling" again.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
No, did you realize that despite what I wrote, your observation can still be true?
That the director Steve McQueen could have fused the idea you expressed into it?
Then it would be brilliant directing where something that would normally be innocent foreshadows something dark and sinister in a background of slavery.
We do not see Patsy as twisted Epps and his world of slavery sees Patsy.
I prefer cold, hard truth when it comes to the subject of chattel slavery. Because it takes away the ability of present day twisted individuals to continue rationalizing and minimizing the hideous atrocity of it all.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
I agree. I do not like to see either slavery or genocide such as the Holocaust watered down. Watering it down would be lying and implying it wasn't that bad.
Gone with the Wind presents a fantasy slavery where Wizard of Oz is far more realistic.
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it did happen
shareBlack women were raped by whites and Patsy was raped often by Epps in real life so if a white attempting to rape a black woman is included, it is something that happened all the time, so it can be called accurate. It would be false or inaccurate to include if such things never happened. But they did happen and Steve McQueen could have simply borrowed the incident from one of the many other recorded slave narratives.
"Maybe slaves did makes these dolls" Lupita said the making of corn husks dolls was "historically accurate" as she did research and discovered this fact and that Epps was much worse in real life than what the movie shows. The movie actually toned down what he and his wife did.
You may question those two particular scenes, but Solomon Northrup's book was greatly checked for accuracy for quite some time and the rest of the movie sticks to the book. (I read the 1800's newspaper account on Northup)
She might have been making them for any children living on the plantation
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