I'm angry with the maid
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VelvetVoice — 15 years ago(January 28, 2011 02:53 PM)
In the real world, it is typical for rich old men to think they will live forever. My husband's uncle didn't make a will until the very last minute, and then wanted it to remain in trust forever so no one could spend it. Many rich people want to take it with them.
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bradford-1 — 15 years ago(March 29, 2011 08:54 AM)
One of my favorite scenes is when Chance is walking around D.C. and accosts the heavy-set black woman, asking her to give him some lunch!
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jus7o — 14 years ago(April 17, 2011 11:56 AM)
i initially agreed with you regarding louise, but if you think about it she really didnt raise chance. the tv raised him, louise didnt care for him thus the reason for her just abandoning him when the old man died. at the very least she tells him its time to find himself a woman. lousie left it to chance.
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jones8557-1 — 12 years ago(March 24, 2014 01:37 AM)
I was angry too at first. However, what could Louise do? She discovered at last minute "The Old Man" made no provisions for Chance. She a poor old black woman who was now out of a job. In her mind (the point of the movie) Chance would be better off than she.
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Cherubim1 — 11 years ago(January 17, 2015 04:48 AM)
Her racist rant about "whites" being privileged is just a load of BS and says more about her own angst.
I have to agree that she was not Chance's keeper. Furthermore she describeed him as being a dumb jackal yet how intelligent is she ? What position is she in to judge someone purely on how they talk and behave ? I strongly believe that Chance is more wise than anyone could conceive because he has evolved beyond those around him. -
bradford-1 — 10 years ago(April 03, 2015 12:36 PM)
I assume Louise was quite p.o.'d when she found out that a fairly wealthy guy she'd worked for for many years had died and left her zilch. How would YOU have reacted to that news? I may have at least have stripped the house of as much stuff as I could carry. So why should she have worried about Chance's future? Like many domestics of her time, she probably never had Social Security tax taken out of her salary, so she was about to lose out on several thousand dollars in SS payments, depending on how long she lived. Maybe she had a substantial savings account, but I doubt it. And at her age, where could she find a decent job?
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eelb — 10 years ago(April 25, 2015 09:59 AM)
There's also the possibly that whatever intellectual potential Chance had, was thwarted by having this semi-literate maid as his only source of education as a child. Hence, whatever he knows, has come from watching TV. Also, I wouldn't doubt that the maid was once the gardener, and pawned that task off on Chance, which thereby explains his gardening expertise.
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mike-848 — 10 years ago(October 02, 2015 12:59 PM)
Yeah. I agree. She was just a big mouthed bigot who left Chance to fend for himself.
She is supposed to be so intelligent and caring yet she knew that the old man would die some day and Chance would need help, so perhaps she COULDA prepared years before for the eventuality by directin Chance to some agency at least.
No. She let's him walk out into the street in the middle of the ghetto. It's like lettin a puppy out of a car on a highway. Witch. -
bhoover247 — 10 years ago(October 05, 2015 05:58 AM)
Nobody could rightly say that the maid was intelligent. If she were intelligent she would not have stayed a maid for 30-40 years knowing that when the old man died she would be jobless. She was just a person who happened to know that Chance was an idiot and her small scene was put in for humor.
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csimpkins53 — 10 years ago(February 11, 2016 10:23 AM)
To danno02-1: I agree. To make matters even worse, after she says "You oughta find yourself a lady, Chance" She further and, very cruelly, adds:"but I guess it oughta be an old lady, 'cause you ain't gonna do a young one any good, not with that little thing of yours!" What a cruel, heartless thing to say! Suppose he had said to her "Your shriveled little wrinkly tits and stretched out canyon of a hole ain't gonna do no man any good either!" My point is that these are both very cruel things to say and such things should never be said to anyone!