What's the Difference between The Help the Book and The Help the Movie?
| In the Book |
In the Movie |
Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan
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Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan
Portrayed by: Emma Stone
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Hilly Holbrook
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Hilly Holbrook
Portrayed by: Bryce Howard
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Aibileen Clark
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Aibileen Clark
Portrayed by: Viola Davis
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Minny Jackson
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Minny Jackson
Portrayed by: Octavia Spencer
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Cecilia Foote
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Cecilia Foote
Portrayed by: Jessica Chastain
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Elizabeth Leefolt
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Elizabeth Leefolt
Portrayed by: Ahna O'Reilly
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| In the Book |
In the Movie |
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Skeeter gets a job writing the Miss Myrna column for the paper. She just applies for the job and gets it. |
She gets the job by showing a rejection letter she received from Miss Stein in New York. It says she needs more experience. |
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After Skeeter is offered the job, she is in shock and after the Editor offers her 8 dollars a week, he mistakes her shock for holding out for more money. He then offers 10 dollars a week. |
He only offers 8 dollars and she takes it gladly.
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Skeeter confronts her Mother about Constantine's leaving when they are alone together. She asks her Dad the next day, and he claims to know nothing. |
Skeeter asks while at a family dinner. Everyone says that Constantine left. |
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Skeeter is big and tall. |
Emma Stone, who plays Skeeter in the movie is 5'4" and slim.
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Skeeter confesses to Aibileen that she has sent her resume, and has made phone calls to Miss Stein at Harper and Row. Aibileen then tells Skeeter that her son had wanted to be a writer and had an idea for a book about what it was like for a black man to work for a white man. He had the idea after reading a story called The Invisible Man. |
Skeeter comes up with the idea for a book about what it is like for the Black maids to work for white families. |