The film "Help" is adapted from Catherine Stockcott's novel of the same name published in 2009. Once the novel was published, it received great praise and rave reviews. Today, when the president of the United States is already black, creating another novel about racism that took place in the 1960s does require a certain amount of courage to "risk the world". Catherine is not young. Born in 1969, she has been working in the publishing industry. When she was 40 years old, "Help" was her debut.
The director of the film, Tate Taylor and Catherine, have been friends for many years. After reading his friend's best-selling book, he tried his best to persuade Catherine to agree to put the novel on the screen, because in Taylor's view, this novel is extremely dramatic and cinematic, and is extremely suitable for the screen. As the producer of the film, Chris Columbus, who is also a friend of Catherine, also thinks so, and he even thinks that Taylor is the most suitable person to direct the film because he is very familiar with the life of a maid.
After choosing the shooting angle, the next step is to turn the text in the novel into an image. The novel has 544 pages. It is obviously impossible to have a screen on the floor if everything is fine. In the first 200 pages of the novel, several maids are telling about their work, life and current situation. In the movie, we can see this, we can get the same or similar information from the image, because in the movie, there is no need for the character to retell what has already appeared on the screen as it is. After the revision, the 200-page novel content was successfully compressed into a 30-page script.
