 But yeah, you guys do I'm Corbin, I'm Alexis, I'm Ashley, I'm Rick, and today Goodfellas, I'm Tweet-O! So juicy, no it's not We review Polly who we love, yes Because like Corbin, you know what this is Visual master, yes, and also written partly as well Or fully, was it fully, it was fully written by Sondley Okay, fully written by him And then it has obviously Amitabh Bachchan Amitabh Bachchan And... Ronnie Ronnie McCurgy Ronnie McCurgy Yeah Which I believe is the first time we've seen her Right? Yes, unless I'm wrong We've seen her in trailers, but we've not seen a film of hers Okay, yes And I mean Yeah, I mean it's the first time we're seeing her in a film She's opposite Big V But yes, somebody want to read this on outside real quick One of you ladies How would you should actually Because you played Helen Okay More on that in a minute Okay, the cathartic tale of a young woman who can't see, hear, or talk And a teacher who brings a ray of light into her dark world Yes, so this is obviously very in its set in the beginning Variants bought by Helen Keller Yes Look at all the seagulls and seagulls involved Put that out Oh The editor was a seer I like it You were Indians in best life Vari adapted especially in the first half to the miracle worker It was the miracle worker Which you guys were very familiar with You directed it, correct Rick? Yes, shall I go off on that trail? Yes, go off on that trail So many, many years ago Back at the place where all of us met this whole clan Well, no, we met him Well, yeah Prior to that time We did, we've known each other quite a while Yes, quite a while And at the school where all three of them attended and I taught We had a conservatory of fine art that I was the director of And I also taught theatre And when we started to do plays I wanted to put things on stage That we wanted to put into a time capsule The first thing that we ever did was Hamlet And then the second thing we did was the miracle worker And I have a deep love for Helen Very, very deep love for Helen And the audition process was really awesome Because Ashley made it known at the ripe old age of What were you, six? Seven Or seven I was six when you announced it Yeah, seven when you did it Which Patty Did you have a... What? What was that? Go on I just made a joke I was coughing Oh, it was supposed to be fine Just go Just go I was coughing and then I made a joke and go So when Patty... In the original film The Miracle Worker With Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke With Patty Duke playing Helen And Anne Bancroft playing Annie Patty Duke was 12 Helen was actually about six years old When Annie came to her And you can't get a six-year-old to play Helen Well, actually you can Ashley Siegel could do it Because you need the depth of emotion The capacity to play a deaf and a blind girl And Patty did a great job in the film Ashley wanted to play Helen And I wasn't going to be Guilty of nepotism or anything like that So I had a group of people do the casting process And it was a no-brainer She was great We actually... I should probably post some footage of that Because I've got some footage of Ashley as Helen And we actually took the cast Up to the Helen Keller School For the Deaf and the Blind In Austin And saw a full-blown production That they did of Into the Woods It was Into the Woods? It was Into the Woods Everyone in the cast Everyone in the cast was either deaf and blind Or just blind or deaf So y'all were very familiar, obviously Intimately I know every frame or film on that And I know everything about Helen's life I've read every book that Helen wrote I know everything about her life So you're what they call an expert And I have never seen it I know very little about her I was more raw about this film No, I never saw that one No, he's not too young But my she-she-who-shall-not-be-named Was in this production as well And so she was deaf Don't talk about her But she was telling me Especially the first half was A lot of shots were almost identical To the first shots The first hour of this film Is the miracle worker So I was wondering how y'all would enjoy this Being very familiar with the whole Work of one Helen And also the miracle worker Spoiler alert We're going to talk about the film Lots But yeah, so please go off I thought that it was good When they first started I wasn't sure if it was just going to be the exact Same thing as the miracle worker Just in India Like I wasn't sure when it started Because everything you were literally saying Frame by frame, same scenes Just different settings It was the exact same But then I really liked the twist that they took And that it wasn't just about Oh, this teacher was so great And taught her everything But then at the end of it It switched and she was able to re-teach him I thought that was so beautiful And it was just like the full circle Of how life is And I think that it played on Deafness, blindness, and It gave light to what Alzheimer's is Because that's a huge thing that most people If you haven't experienced it firsthand Don't actually understand what it means It's just like, oh, someone forgot But no, it literally can make someone non-verbal And completely unaware and just gone The essence of who they are is gone And put them into the world Helen described herself before In her words, teacher came That her world was nothing but darkness Which is why Mr. Bansali calling this black Is incredibly fitting because at the one hand Helen in her own writing said I was nothing but a little mass of nothing Until teacher came No one could reach me And I couldn't reach anyone else Until teacher came And she was able to give me expression And reach me And it happened for Helen They used a fountain in this But in The Miracle Worker And the real story of Helen It happened in a water pump And it was at the water pump Where Helen first began to understand That teacher was trying to reach her And did, and everything exploded from that point on And they could actually begin to communicate And so for him, and here's the difference Is that The Miracle Worker's story Ends, the climax is the water pump Everything builds to the water pump And that is the penultimate moment of the film When you realize she's finally reached her And now for the rest of her life She'll be able to, and it stops there Well, that's just the beginning of the story Because they knew each other for all of Helen's adult life I mean it goes into when Helen was in her 30s Before Annie passed away And the relationship that they had The closeness that they had She did go to college, Helen went to college Wrote books, she did speaking She tried to talk, she learned to play the piano All because of Annie, and I loved Though this didn't happen the way it's depicted It does convey the depth of the closeness That Helen had with Annie The love she had for her And that is, no, no, no Annie is the teacher Yes, Big B's character is actually a woman in real life But I loved that aspect of it The connection point, and him also being male I thought it was beautiful because In The Miracle Worker, and unless you read her books You don't get to understand how Helen felt In her adult life about I will probably never get to know the love I've learned about in Shakespeare And all these other things So it was really beautiful I've never seen a film trying to depict Helen's Battles with being a woman And I want to know what it's like to have a man And his challenge to express that I thought that was great Back to what you guys were thinking So the... I want to talk about, I'm going to talk about Right now That man is so freakin' good I mean, obviously we know this We know this, this is not news But this is such a different role It was similar in terms of the Corkiness almost of the peekoo Right, right But there's a Corkiness but totally different Very different And also, it was my first experience With this whole storyline as well Of somebody who was deaf, blind She was deaf, blind, she wasn't needed No, no, no But she just wasn't able to really communicate I mean, she was, but she wasn't She eventually got to the point From touching, she would do both this Can I touch your face? She would do both this So she could capture the wind coming from the nose And through the mouth and also feel What was coming through Feel the vibrations And feel the vibrations And she would also, while she did that She would put another hand on the throat So she could feel the sound And then she herself Would try to Began to do that And the best she could kind of get She could come close, was kind of Like if she was going to say, I love you It would be That was the best she could get But she tried I would have loved to talk to her Yeah But yeah, the Amatak Bhaktan's character I thought was so interesting And the relationship between him And the parents, especially the dad Yeah And so I don't know how much of that was In The Miracle Worker That was accurate He was actually, the dad was far crueler In real life And as The Miracle Worker depicts His cruelty in terms of She's an animal Yeah Put the center away It was the mom who kept her around And actually called for the teacher Because for the dad He was just an embarrassment to the family That's terrible Yeah It was so sad Yeah But yeah, Big B is everything People say is Yeah, he is so genius Because we saw this A little while back And then we had seen That 102 Not Out trailer But last week And the fact that he's doing All these different roles that Because we were introduced to him With pink and bad luck Who he was just this old Very distinguished Guy And that's who I thought he was As an actor I'm like, oh, he has a lot of gravitas But he's like He's like an actor What I would love You know what I would love to do Are you familiar with Waiting for Godel To play? Yeah I would love to see Waiting for Godel With Big B And I want to see that man on stage I want to experience him Did he ever do stage? Do we know that? There's no way That man is that good And didn't do stage Yeah No way Yeah, he is such I would be flabbergasted And also What's her face? Rami So you can talk about her more As a performance I thought she did very, very well I believed her fully You can talk a little more about her What is it, ASL? ASL Oh, yeah, by the way, guys This is important to know And they'll be able to give a vantage point This is going to be a long review They both studied And can speak sign language ASL version So you can tell us How they all did with all of that Yeah What do you think of her performance? Let's get into that As well as the girl who played her younger Because we all had takes on that I think are probably similar But you girls talk about The girls that played her I think Rami Her name I think that she did great Just overall That she did really, really good I can be super nitpicky And talk about like specific Little tiny moments Where there were like One thing or another But as far as the sign language I thought it was really interesting And I'd like to know Is the sign language in India ASL or SEE Because I know that In a lot of other places So in England It's very different sign language Than it is in America Instead of Mexico There's a lot of different It's like languages Each country has their own language So it's interesting that they did it In American sign language More as she got older When she was little They did it much more Signing exact English Interesting To teach her that way So I wonder In India Is there an Like a Hindi version Of sign language Or something like that Or do they just use American sign language I don't know So that was my question It was me Because I asked you during While we were watching it I asked you And you were picking up Because she's going to have Full on conversations With people in sign language And little nuances That you could pick up on Now also we think I think we all had the same Situation I want to bring up The young actress Who played her as a girl For the most part Here's what I loved About her even more Than Patty Duke She captured what Helen Has described of herself As pure animal Yeah For sure Patty didn't capture that She captured wild Yeah and she had moments Of frustration But this girl was just Animal She did very very well She did very well And I never saw her break The sensory deprivation For being a kid Yes She did She was younger Than Patty Duke was This was a young girl Yeah But I want to know the choice Because we all had a Life as choice The same, yeah Her eyes Flying all over the place Moving back and forth Like that One, if her eyes Really did do that Why did it change When she was an adult Why did they stop moving? But Sally may have made An artistic decision To convey I want her physicality To be animalistic At every level So her eyes need To be uncontrollable And as she gets older She will gain A measure of composure And physicality That conveys That she now has More control over herself It holds me It does, yeah Because I get it I get it artistically But if you are familiar with The blind culture And blind people That's not You don't have control If you have no control Over your eyes You don't gain control Because you don't know You don't know How to use those muscles Because they don't work Right And some do Some That's why some wear glasses Is because they don't want People to be off put By the fact that They're talking to them Their eyes are doing this Because they know that They fly all over They've been told And then there's others Who doesn't They don't really Yeah Their eyes are just straight So for her to be both Was It was very confusing Because Interesting You wouldn't grow up And gain control of that I mean unless I've never heard of that That would be very awkward Would you say that was nitpickier That really bothered you Because for me It bothered me It really bothered me It bothered me That I noticed it so very I noticed it so much I was like Why is there such A distinct difference Because it wasn't just Oh her eyes still wonder a little bit Her eyes Didn't wonder at all When she was an adult They just were like No they did a little bit Not like Not like Not as much When she was a little bit Yeah they would move a tiny bit But the fact that there was nothing It was going from one extreme To the next extreme And that was a lot for me Got it Just because I know that And that would just be odd So as a whole I wasn't I wasn't familiar with That aspect So I'm sure Didn't get registered Yeah I was like I guess that's normal And so I didn't I'd love to know In a minute I want to hear more about Your just overall Feelings about the film And things you liked Or didn't like And other actors I would really love To talk to Sanjay About the research he did Because the second half Which is more of the Adult life of Helen Which is not to pick A miracle worker While it's a mixture Of fact and fiction It is He knows Helen He knows her And he dedicated it to Helen So I bet I could sit down With a cup of chai Or coffee with that man And talk for hours on end About Helen Because I sensed From the film His respect If you guys haven't Read Helen And her books Please do The woman Was extraordinary Not just because She was able to overcome Blindness and deafness That's not even meritorious When it comes to her capacity To express Views about existence And life And right and wrong And she's a brilliant human being She was Overall Pros and cons You felt about the movie Served with Lexis Her chafe was unique She's always so quiet My only con was the icing That was really the only thing And the review actors That I didn't really like Some of the supporting roles Yeah Yeah Same with us That's the most Most things that In the beginning part of the film I thought looked a lot like a play Like just the way that it was shot Felt more like a play than a movie to me I'm sure he did that at the time We haven't talked about him yet But Sanjay Lee Vasali Just once again This is another one of those films Outside Which one did we see last of his It was Anyway Sorry Yeah, this was a visual Masterpiece Delight It was the same exact thing I'm going to The Paramavat and Bistrami Masanani In terms of Just not as He didn't have any money Obviously Obviously There was a lot more money Place in those films Yeah, but I think he also But he could do it so easily With a film like this Just the shots But even at the beginning It was just I think it was her Walking up for him I can't remember who it was In the beginning It was just the house With the stuff In the background Shots like that It wouldn't surprise me If his choices for that The first telling Of Helen's story ever In artistry Was through theatre Yeah There was a play first The Miracle Worker And he Honored it By making it feel like a play Especially in the first half I could totally see this As a play That's what it was With people Oh yeah Gersnatch Gersnatch So overall Did you like Because you know Helen's story So well you know Miracle Worker Did you like the second half Yeah You liked that Conveying of her adult life And the transition of He helped her And now she helps him Yeah Yeah Cool Good What about you? I love that I think it was so beautiful How they switched it And made it That he's forgotten And I love how dedicated She was She had the same Dedication to him Oh yeah Oh yeah At the penultimate moment Of I've used that word Twice today Two points from me The moment At the end When she's When she's with him And He She reaches him And then he does the little dance That just like Killed me Oh my goodness And then they open the window Yeah To the rain That was just so gorgeous And she didn't let anybody See her in her cap and gown Before he did She didn't even wear it To graduation It was so gorgeous Yeah It was such a beautiful film The I didn't Wait Shocker Shocker No, sorry What a yawn I know But I loved Even though I didn't know This wasn't I was told it wasn't the original story But I didn't know This story from Anything And so The switch was Just new to me And I thought it was just Part of the Part of the thing that was In the miracle worker Yeah right I did love the switch Because it showed One A ton of versatility In the acting Oh for sure Big B 100 play Yeah And then he had to Completely just go Mmmhmm Gone Especially those moments Where he has to Transition to that Like when he's sitting at the desk And you see something Register on his face And then he just And then he just says Right How do I go out Yeah that was sad Yeah that was very sad It was as good The best picture The best portrayal of That Struggle Of dimension all timers That I've ever seen Is in the film You know what I'm going to say Yes With Julia Oh my Alice What is it? Alice Yes Oh that was great Still Alice Still Alice Have you seen Still Alice? No Oh it's so good Her portrayal in that And it's early onset She's only like Where she's like Learning And you watch her Go from Discovering she's got it To watching her slowly Did And just Go away But still being there Yeah It's a beautiful story In the same way this is Of that Those who know them closest That even when everyone else May think man They're just gone Right off they're gone They know that they know There's something You're still You're still They're not gone until That heart stops beating They're still there They're just Just transitioning Of the character It was my favorite Performance of his That I've seen It was so good And that's hard Because obviously We've seen a ton Of great performances From him I would probably agree With him Another performance of his Because It was difficult Piku is really great Because it was so different From his other roles And I love his gravitas And the bickiness that he has In like pink and bad look This one for me was his most To coin a phrase Thespianatic He really showed his acting Muscles He just kind of opened his heart And you got to see Every little bit Into this Because you got to see Yeah I can't wait to see It changed so much Throughout So all the stuff we've seen Is stuff we can recognize From him He's still older We haven't seen him In his younger work Shole I know And whatever it's called I can't wait I can't wait to see more Yeah I love this film I did too I give it an A plus I almost had no issues With this film Outside of some of the Smaller actors Very small Smaller actors Little moments And the music There was the theme That kept bringing back Over and over That was so beautiful And it really For me from here on out Like when I talk about Helen And people who I've always told people You've got to watch Helen's books I say that all the time I'm going to add this To my recommendations And say Because that second half Is the first time I've ever seen captured on film Even though it's A male teacher With a female It captures the reality Of the closeness Of Helen And Annie And Helen would want that Yeah She would want everyone To know how beautiful And wonderful And sacrificial Annie gave her life Up For Helen And that's exactly what he did And that's what he did She gave her entire life Up For Helen And Helen Yes And Helen was forever Grateful For teacher And this was captured It was beautiful Yeah It was beautiful Beautiful film Thank you And A plus A plus Beautiful I don't think The directing The main acting Was all great The directing The cinematography Obviously And then the Score as well Which we didn't talk about A lot But I thought the score The very That Just that difference of how She came out of the black And into it And then he came From it To it It just was beautiful And she wanted to just be With him in that process So she From him Dedicating his life to her She dedicated her life to him Yeah And giving him back Everything That He'd given her Yeah So let us know What we should watch And from you next Also let us know What you thought of this film