The Miracle Worker Page #2

Synopsis: Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a "half-blind Yankee schoolgirl" named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love, and sheer stubbornness, Annie breaks through Helen's walls of silence and darkness and teaches her to communicate.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director(s): Arthur Penn
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  Won 2 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
NOT RATED
Year:
1962
106 min
1,087 Views


- Are you Helen's? | - I'm only half her brother.

- You're to be her governess? | - Well, try.

You look like half a governess.

- You have a trunk, Miss Sullivan? | - Yes.

Mrs Keller.

We've met every train for two days.

You didn't bring Helen. | I was hoping you would.

No, she's home.

- You live far from town, Mrs Keller? | - Only a mile.

Well, I suppose I could wait | one more mile.

But don't be surprised | if I get out and push the horse.

- Welcome to Ivy Green, Miss Sullivan. | - My husband, Miss Annie. Cap'n Keller.

- Captain, how do you do? | - Pleasure to see you.

- I trust you had an agreeable journey. | - Oh, I had several.

- Where do you want the trunk? | - Where Miss Sullivan can get at it.

- Yes. Where's Helen? | - And the suitcase.

I'll take that. I've got something | for Helen. When do I see her?

There. There's Helen.

- Katie... | - Sh.

- She's very rough, Katie. | - I like her, Cap'n.

How old is she?

Well, she's not in her teens, you know.

Why does she wear those glasses? I like | to see a person's eyes when I talk to 'em.

- For the sun. She was blind. | - Blind?

She had nine operations on her eyes. | One just before she left.

Blind? Good heavens! They expect | one blind child to teach another?

How long did she teach there?

She was a pupil.

This is her first position?

She was valedictorian.

A houseful of grown-ups | can't cope with Helen.

How can a half-blind Yankee | schoolgirl manage?

Great improvement. | Now we have two of them.

- You be quiet. | - I was agreeing with you.

You talk too much.

- Nothing I say is right. | - Why say anything?

All the trouble I went to | and that's how I look?

Oh, no, not the drawers.

All right, Miss O'Sullivan, let's begin.

With doll.

D...

O...

L...

L.

Doll.

You spell pretty well.

Finding out if she's ticklish? She is.

- What is it, a game? | - An alphabet.

Alphabet?

For the deaf.

- How bright she is. | - You think she knows what she's doing?

She's a monkey. She imitates everything.

Yes, she's a bright little monkey, all right.

She wants her doll back.

- When she spells it. | - She doesn't know the thing has a name.

Of course not. Who expects her to now? | All I want is her fingers to learn the letters.

Won't mean anything to her.

She doesn't like that alphabet. | You invent it yourself?

Spanish monks under a vow of silence - | which I wish you'd take.

Yes... Yes!

C...

A...

K...

E.

Yes.

You do as my fingers do. | Never mind what it means.

Now...

D...

O...

L...

L.

Think it over.

L.

Imitate now. Understand later. | End of the first lesson.

Ow!

Oh, you little wretch. | Nobody's taught you any manners.

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William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson notably coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982) and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature. After expanding on Neuromancer with two more novels to complete the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson collaborated with Bruce Sterling on the alternate history novel The Difference Engine (1990), which became an important work of the science fiction subgenre steampunk. In the 1990s, Gibson composed the Bridge trilogy of novels, which explored the sociological developments of near-future urban environments, postindustrial society, and late capitalism. Following the turn of the century and the events of 9/11, Gibson emerged with a string of increasingly realist novels—Pattern Recognition (2003), Spook Country (2007), and Zero History (2010)—set in a roughly contemporary world. These works saw his name reach mainstream bestseller lists for the first time. His more recent novel, The Peripheral (2014), returned to a more overt engagement with technology and recognizable science fiction concerns. In 1999, The Guardian described Gibson as "probably the most important novelist of the past two decades," while the Sydney Morning Herald called him the "noir prophet" of cyberpunk. Throughout his career, Gibson has written more than 20 short stories and 10 critically acclaimed novels (one in collaboration), contributed articles to several major publications, and collaborated extensively with performance artists, filmmakers, and musicians. His work has been cited as an influence across a variety of disciplines spanning academia, design, film, literature, music, cyberculture, and technology. more…

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