Helen Keller vs. The Evil Dead...

[Brother Ragnarok]

So Jamey AKA ASHTHECAT and I went to visit a very good friend of mine in Wisconsin, and she was playing Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker (she ruled the stage and she gave me a CD she recorded and has a beautiful voice and I'll stop being mushy now).  In a few scenes, Annie has to confront demons from the past in the form of silhouettes against a red backdrop at the rear of the stage and they speak with voice filters.  These filters made them sound JUST LIKE THE DEMONS FROM EVIL DEAD.  Which ruled.  I leaned over and whispered "Join us!" To ASH and it was all we could do to not laugh out loud.
So, Keller and Sullivan vs. the Evil Dead.  Thoughts?  

Brother R

P.S.  For those not in the know, Miracle Worker is the story of a teacher named Annie Sullivan showing Helen Keller how to speak in sign language.



Post Edited (05-19-03 02:09)

[Ash]

Just to clarify...it was a play...a stage production.  (Brother R. just happened to know the girl who played Annie Sullivan...who also had the most dialogue-heavy role in the entire play...and she hung out with us after it was over)

It was hilarious!

If you've seen any of the Evil Dead films then you know how those demonic voices sound.

Actually, I think I leaned over to Brother R. (who was seated to my right) and whispered, "Dude, that sounds just like "The Evil Dead!"

He whispered back, "JOIN US"!

The entire audience was silent so we both had to stifle laughs to prevent the 200 or so other people in the small theater from turning their heads in anger at us.

I guess you had to be there to truly appreciate the humor of that moment.

I mean think of it.....it'd be THE ULTIMATE B-MOVIE!

HELEN KELLER vs. THE EVIL DEAD!

If you were the screenwriter or director in this imaginary film, how would certain key scenes play out in your mind?

Would The Evil Dead have their way with this deaf, blind & mute woman?

Or would she figure out a way to destroy them?

After all...they say that Helen Keller was truly gifted....could it be that her true gift was to do battle with horrible body possesing demons???

I mean, what demon would want to posess her flawed body?

None that I can think of!

Therefore making her the perfect weapon to fight the Evil Dead!

Please!  By all means share your thoughts on how certain scenes would be played out!

Give details!!



Post Edited (05-19-03 03:12)

[raj]

Well, from Chopper Chicks in Zombietown I learned that blind kids can use an uzi to pick off zombies, so Helen Keller's got a fighting chance.

[Feathertop]

Actually, given how much Raimi and company are into cutesy "in" jokes I was always surprised  that they never did an episode of Hercules called HERCULES VS THE EVIL DEAD since they could certainly justify the book being old enough to be around in Herc's day. And with Bruce Campbell on hand as that Robin Hood-style character he played the episode could have been chock-full of self-referential humor.  
(Note to hardcore Hercules: The Legendary Journeys fans: I didn't watch the show beyond the first few years so if they eventually did an episode like this just ignore this post.)

[Johnny Blister]

Check this out:

http://www.grudge-match.com/History/culkin-zombies.shtml

Also,I´m gonna do an Orcs(from the"Lord Of The Rings"books/movies) VS Zombies match in my site in the future.

[yaddo42]

Being an Alabama resident, who lives close to Tuscumbia, where Helen Keller's childhood home, Ivy Green, is located; I love this idea! It would give the locals s**tfits!

I see Helen as a student of the blind masseur Ichi of ZATOICHI fame. She would carry a sword cane (just like the on Ichi carried) and "sense" her opponents with sonar from her voice. Feeling, rather than hearing, the sound waves coming back to her. Operating like a bat, detecting her surroundings by echo location, she fights the armies of the undead, fights to protect the innocent, and find the Book Of The Dead. She seeks to become it's ideal guardian, since she could never be tempted to use the evil contained within.....it isn't in Braille. Think ZATOICHI, meets SIX-STRING SAMURAI meets the EVIL DEAD series with a touch of Lifetime movie-style inspiration and female empowerment thrown in.

[Brother Ragnarok]

That...that is...f**king...brilliant.  I bow to you, good sir.

Brother R