HBO's Temple grandin wins 5 Emmys

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Congrats to Claire daines and temple grandin!

Congratulations indeed!

4 emmy wins! I interviewed temple grandin in my documentary

Temple is a great friend of mine and I'm really happy her biopic won 4 emmys

I really hate to be cynical about this, but i'm forced to wonder if it had anything to do with the political correctness hollywood is known for.


I say this as a libertarian socialist btw who is much more to the "left" than most self-proclaimed liberals.


Sometimes it seems like autism is the new black IMO.

Movies where nondisabled actors play disabled people (aka "crip drag", "cripface") often make huge amounts of money and win all the awards. Especially if they are in any of the standard disability-stereotype categories ("triumph over adversity", supercrip and whatnot).

Movies where disabled actors play disabled people, OTOH, rarely even make it into the mainstream. Especially if they are realistic and portray us as just people, neither villains nor overcomers nor self-pitying whiners nor any of the other usual stereotypes. (So disabled actors, of whom there are many who are barely making ends meet if that, don't get many roles at all.)

And all of this is regardless of whether the movie is any good or not. It can be a great movie and if it's disabled people playing realistic disabled people it's rare that it will get much acclaim. It can be a terrible movie with a nondisabled person playing an unrealistic or stereotyped disabled person and it will be called "moving" and "inspirational" and all that other garbage, almost no matter what. There are exceptions to both, but they're extremely rare.

This isn't a criticism of Temple or of her movie, I make a lousy movie critic. (Although I'd have turned it down. Which isn't hypothetical as I've turned down several requests to make a movie of my life -- or of what the prospective filmmaker thought my life was, which is rarely what it was.) It's just how these things work.

This is very wonderful news!

She's a trending topic on Twitter right now.

I dunno, I think it's just kind of award bait. You know--the kind of thing where they film a "heartwarming" movie and expect everybody to love it because it has a disabled person in it.

I've seen the Temple Grandin movie on HBO and thought that it was good..for an HBO "disease of the week" movie. However, I've also heard Temple speak in person twice and have been reading her books for the past 15 years. I believe that Claire Danes' portrayal of Temple missed the mark, mainly because she played her too feminine. Temple appears quite masculine and in my opinion the movie would have been more realistic if Claire Danes had played her that way. Why is it that personal diversity is neither acknowledged nor respected when the mainstream media depicts people with disabilities?

Also, I could really do without that phony, gushing producer carping on and on about the "Autism Epidemic". That nonsense once again served to negate the fact that Temple is an adult in her 60's and that there might be many other adults like her out there. I wonder what would have happened if a producer had said the there was NO autism epidemic. Would that have been edited out?

There ARE many adults like her out there--just about as many as there are six year olds with autism!

Good for her, we need more people like her.

Congratulations, it was really spontaneous of her to hug one of the producers, definitely one of the highlights of the evening

Congratulations!

http://www.hbo.com/movies/temple-grandin/index.html

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"I hope this movie is going to educate a lot of people about autism because there's a lot of people who don't understand it"

- Temple Grandin

9 hours ago Los Angeles Times (5 occurrences)

(Google)

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http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/autism/autism.htm
http://www.associatedconditionsofcerebralpalsy.com/
http://www.encephalitis.info/
http://www.sportsconcussions.org/

and so on.