Speaker 1: Hey Sabrina, Hey will I'm excited for today. And I
Speaker 1: know that sounds strange, but when we do these type
Speaker 1: of movies, they're usually really.
Speaker 2: Good, I know, and this is not an exception to that. Yes,
Speaker 2: was this one actually, though, I will say it was
Speaker 2: hard for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was hard for me too.
Speaker 2: This one was I think this one, out of the
Speaker 2: ones we've done based on a lot of the same
Speaker 2: kind of topics, this one was the toughest one for me.
Speaker 2: I pretty much cried, I would say through seventy of this. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean when we get myself out of it, because.
Speaker 3: It was visceral hate in this movie.
Speaker 1: Like you know, there's there's an undercurrent of hate in
Speaker 1: the other movies where the children are trying to trying
Speaker 1: to find the hate, trying to find where it comes from,
Speaker 1: why it's there, where this is just this spewed.
Speaker 3: At a little.
Speaker 1: Yeah, spewed out a little girl for almost ninety minutes,
Speaker 1: and it's just it was. This was a tough watch,
Speaker 1: but an important watch.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, that's a great way. A tough watch, but
Speaker 2: an important watch. It was done very well, but it
Speaker 2: was It was probably one of the time if I
Speaker 2: think it's easy, easier for me to say than not
Speaker 2: the toughest one we've watched so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't, I don't necessarily disagree, and also could
Speaker 1: arguably before again when we when the words show season
Speaker 1: comes around for us. I mean, the ensemble cast in
Speaker 1: this film is just wow, off off the charts.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, this was This was a tough one, but
Speaker 1: a good one, and we will get into it. But
Speaker 1: before then, welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that
Speaker 1: makes you want to grab your friends, your PJS, and
Speaker 1: your popcorn and go back to a time and all
Speaker 1: the houses are smart, the wave tsunamis in the High
Speaker 1: Schools Musical.
Speaker 3: I'm Wilford Dell and.
Speaker 2: I'm Sabrina Brian.
Speaker 1: Guys, It's true, most of the dcoms we review here
Speaker 1: on Magical Rewine involved talent agent aliens or roller Blades
Speaker 1: or talent agent aliens on roller Blades. But every once
Speaker 1: in a while we get a well deserved break to
Speaker 1: watch something of actual cultural significance. And that's where we
Speaker 1: are today with nineteen ninety eight true events drama Ruby Bridges.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've talked about this, We've had the other
Speaker 1: ones we've really watched kind of in this vein our
Speaker 1: Color of Friendship, some of Lord Selma, even Tiger Cruz,
Speaker 1: which are you know, based on true events, but then
Speaker 1: through the lens of a child.
Speaker 3: But this one was a little different. This was through
Speaker 3: the lens of a child kind of. It was more.
Speaker 3: It was more through the eyes of the adults watching
Speaker 3: the child ghost, which made it a little more difficult
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 1: To watch because it was just like we were talking about,
Speaker 1: I mean again, somea Lord Selma, you're watching everything happen
Speaker 1: through her eyes, whereas this is you're kind of watching
Speaker 1: these things happen to this little girl. And it was,
Speaker 1: as Sabrina said, it was difficult. But the movie originally
Speaker 1: aired on January eighteenth, nineteen ninety eight, as part of
Speaker 1: their Wonderful World, a Disney series, and here's something we
Speaker 1: haven't seen often.
Speaker 3: It premiered in the.
Speaker 1: UK much later in two thousand and five as part
Speaker 1: of the Black Women Film Festival. It is a rare
Speaker 1: occurrence when a dcom can also be included in a
Speaker 1: film festival, so that is very very.
Speaker 3: Cool, also rare.
Speaker 1: The movie was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, which doubles
Speaker 1: as New Orleans here, and it was very well received,
Speaker 1: obviously nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and it won
Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety eight Humanities Prize for the Screenplay. Now,
Speaker 1: this movie was in the news back in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three when a Florida parent filed a complaint with their
Speaker 1: school district, saying the film was not appropriate for second
Speaker 1: graders to watch because it might teach them that quote
Speaker 1: white people hate black people unquote and properly. The suggestion
Speaker 1: to ban the film was not approved by a committee
Speaker 1: of teachers, parents, community members, and a library and media
Speaker 1: technology specialist, which I don't know anything about that job,
Speaker 1: but it sounds like a job I'd like after watching
Speaker 1: the movie with the parents' objection in mind. So thankfully
Speaker 1: some people understand that history should be taught so it
Speaker 1: doesn't repeat itself. But it is true that the film
Speaker 1: includes racially sensitive language and themes, so I could definitely
Speaker 1: see some discretion being advised. But movies like these are
Speaker 1: important and factually correct. Beyond just the movie, Ruby Bridges
Speaker 1: is forever immortalized in the Norman Rockwell painting the problem
Speaker 1: we all live in an iconic and startling image of
Speaker 1: the civil rights movement that at one time was displayed
Speaker 1: in the White House. She's also the subject of the
Speaker 1: Laurie McKennis song Ruby's Shoes. Bridges is seventy one years
Speaker 1: old and still lives in New Orleans with her husband
Speaker 1: and four sons. And it's a Woman's Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: inductee with two schools named after her, one in Alameda,
Speaker 1: California and the other in Woodinville, Washington. Okay, always ask
Speaker 1: before we were assigned it for the podcast, had you
Speaker 1: ever heard of this movie?
Speaker 2: I had not. I had not, And we knew that
Speaker 2: it was based on these events and this true story
Speaker 2: of this woman and now and but that's it.
Speaker 5: That was kind of just.
Speaker 2: What we were given a little bit before watching.
Speaker 5: So you know, I knew.
Speaker 2: I already felt like this was going to be a
Speaker 2: great movie, just because we've seen how the Channel has
Speaker 2: handled these things.
Speaker 3: So they do it well.
Speaker 5: I was looking forward. They do it so well.
Speaker 2: But I hadn't heard. I didn't know about the story.
Speaker 2: I didn't know about anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah about No, I same same exact thing I do.
Speaker 1: I knew about the story, I knew about the I
Speaker 1: knew about multiple integration stories because There are several stories
Speaker 1: like this from across usually the South at the time,
Speaker 1: but this one specifically, no, I think I'd heard the name.
Speaker 3: I'd heard the name Ruby Bridges, but didn't know the
Speaker 3: story behind it.
Speaker 1: But it also, movies like this show me the power
Speaker 1: of the Disney Channel because it shows the perfect balance
Speaker 1: for kids, where again, you can watch a movie like
Speaker 1: this and then go watch a movie like Brink you know,
Speaker 1: or you know, you're talking nineteen ninety eight, so Johnny Tsunami,
Speaker 1: where kids really can run the gamut of.
Speaker 3: Emotionality and storytelling.
Speaker 1: Through the eyes of kids, they can see every aspect
Speaker 1: of what it can be like. And hey, not every
Speaker 1: kid is racing down the mountain on a snowboard. Some kid,
Speaker 1: you know, some kids need to be surrounded by security
Speaker 1: to go to school, and that's what Disney Channel does
Speaker 1: so well.
Speaker 3: So this was it.
Speaker 2: And I imagine too, like you said, this vast you know,
Speaker 2: range of the kinds of movies and topics that Disney covers.
Speaker 2: It shows you too that because they did that, kids
Speaker 2: have the ability to have like empathy as well, like that,
Speaker 2: that this movie would also inspire them to look beyond color,
Speaker 2: like be able to do that. I feel like it's
Speaker 2: such a good thing of knowing kids are able to
Speaker 2: do this. That's why the channel wanted to do it
Speaker 2: was it also spoke to kids in such a positive way.
Speaker 3: It did absolutely.
Speaker 1: You can watch Ruby Bridges now on Disney Plus, available
Speaker 1: day and night and during the Lost hours of the Summer, which,
Speaker 1: as everyone knows, is between one in three am on
Speaker 1: July eighteenth, when all clocks break down and the entire
Speaker 1: world sleeps while small whimsical sprites appear and steel pollen.
Speaker 3: Like I said, everybody knows that.
Speaker 1: Well, let's find out a little more about this historical
Speaker 1: retelling with its synopsis. When six year old Ruby has
Speaker 1: chosen to be the first African American to integrate her
Speaker 1: local elementary school, she subjected to true ugliness and racism
Speaker 1: for the first time. Sabrina, what are your initial thoughts
Speaker 1: in the dramatic and emotional movie Ruby Brice.
Speaker 5: This was, like I said, hard for me.
Speaker 2: I have a daughter who is just about to be
Speaker 2: six towards the end of the summer. I could not
Speaker 2: take myself out of this mother's position and hearing her thoughts,
Speaker 2: seeing what that kind of dynamic would be to watch
Speaker 2: my husband go through the things that he's going that
Speaker 2: the dad and this film go through all of that
Speaker 2: was just.
Speaker 5: So you know, I couldn't.
Speaker 2: I just I cried so much because this mother showed
Speaker 2: so much strength for both her husband and her daughter,
Speaker 2: for her family, for her life and her family's life.
Speaker 2: I just I, oh, this was This is such an
Speaker 2: emotional and inspiring story for me as a mom of
Speaker 2: a young girl. And you know, it was like it
Speaker 2: was hard to think about being put in this position
Speaker 2: and want and I just I really thought this woman
Speaker 2: Ruby's mom was incredible, like to really you know, help
Speaker 2: support the I just there were so many aspects of
Speaker 2: this movie that I.
Speaker 5: Just absolutely loved. I loved it. Yeah, what about you now?
Speaker 3: It felt the same way again. It's tough.
Speaker 1: I'm also one of those people where I movies like
Speaker 1: this are hard for me for a number of reasons.
Speaker 1: But one of the reasons is I genuinely don't understand
Speaker 1: the hate, right. I don't understand people that hate that
Speaker 1: much or have hate that much hate direct towards them.
Speaker 1: I've been lucky in both aspects and that I don't
Speaker 1: hate that much and I've never had that kind of
Speaker 1: hate directed towards me, and I'm just I'm woefully ignorant
Speaker 1: when it comes to this type of hate, this level
Speaker 1: of where where does this come from?
Speaker 3: This pure visceral hatred of a child? A child, I
Speaker 3: don't child, I just don't understand it.
Speaker 2: And so of anyone of anyone in that respect, but
Speaker 2: also like a child, Like I'm looking, I think that
Speaker 2: was what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Like it was hard.
Speaker 2: Like I have an almost six year old who, you know,
Speaker 2: in so many aspects, like is just starting her life,
Speaker 2: you know, and like has not been unkind to to anyone,
Speaker 2: you know, like just doesn't have the deserving of someone
Speaker 2: to be that hateful regardless of the color of her skin.
Speaker 2: She comes from the amount of money, the not much
Speaker 2: like any of that, like trying to put that, I
Speaker 2: just I have no understanding.
Speaker 3: No, I don't either, I just don't get it, you know.
Speaker 1: So there it was a tough It was a tough watch,
Speaker 1: necessary one, but definitely tough.
Speaker 2: Some of the I mean it was you know, background
Speaker 2: actors that that got these roles.
Speaker 5: I couldn't. I couldn't.
Speaker 2: I couldn't even think of doing the roles that were done,
Speaker 2: of saying the things it would be too hard.
Speaker 5: It'd be too hard.
Speaker 1: Ruby Bridges was directed by and I'm hoping I get
Speaker 1: the name right, Uzan Palsy, a new name to the podcast.
Speaker 1: The female director, originally from Martinique, dealt in a much
Speaker 1: deeper universe than your normal dcom. She often explored the
Speaker 1: ideas of race, gender, and politics in your films, most
Speaker 1: notably in Sugarcane Alley, when she became the first black
Speaker 1: director to win the Caesar Award and the Venice Film
Speaker 1: Festival Silver Lion. Then she directed A Dry White Season
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety nine, which was the first film produced
Speaker 1: by major Hollywood studios directed by a black female director.
Speaker 3: Pretty amazing stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, she was given the Academy Honor
Speaker 1: Award at the Oscars for her contributions to cinema. And
Speaker 1: with something like this, with such an acclaimed director, they've
Speaker 1: got a very impressive cast, as we were talking about,
Speaker 1: especially for a Wonderful World of Disney or d com.
Speaker 1: We have Penelope Ann Miller plays Barbara. Henry Miller is
Speaker 1: a movie star, total movie star, especially back of the
Speaker 1: day in films like Carlito's Way, which you got a
Speaker 1: Golden Globe nomination for Kindergarten cop the Artist, and a
Speaker 1: movie we recently talked about a lot, the Original Adventures
Speaker 1: in Babysitting. Also loved her in Bloxi Blues, one of
Speaker 1: my favorites ever with What's his Name?
Speaker 3: I Just Said?
Speaker 1: With Matthew Brodrick and Kevin Pollack plays doctor Robert Coles.
Speaker 1: Pollock was originally a stand up comedian who transitioned into
Speaker 1: acting and podcasting. Most famously he was in the Usual Suspects,
Speaker 1: but also a few Good Men, End of Days and
Speaker 1: Wayne's World two. But really he's been in so many
Speaker 1: TV shows, from Tulsa king through The Marvelous Missus Masel
Speaker 1: to Mom. Very recognizable face and a good audition to
Speaker 1: the Disney casting pool for this again, there's a number
Speaker 1: of actors we could put into Dahne Reynolds chair, but
Speaker 1: there'd be too many in this one. Then the amazingly
Speaker 1: talented Michael Beach plays Abon Bridges. This dude has been
Speaker 1: in everything. He's been working NonStop since the late eighties.
Speaker 1: You've seen him in Waiting to Exhale, Soul Food, Aquaman,
Speaker 1: Mayor of Kingstown, Sons of Anarchy, and over one hundred
Speaker 1: episodes a third Watch, and that's just to name a few.
Speaker 3: This is the kind of Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Career people dream about because he's literally never stopped working,
Speaker 1: been part of some of the most incredible projects, but
Speaker 1: can still kind of go out in public without being hounded.
Speaker 1: It's like, the most incredible kind of career is this
Speaker 1: man's career. And it was also just announced as he's
Speaker 1: joining the cast of The Interrogator. Then chas Monet is
Speaker 1: Ruby Bridges. This was her first ever movie. She'd go
Speaker 1: on to appear in TV shows like Caroline in the City, Er,
Speaker 1: Cold Case, Nino two to Zero, and the TV movie
Speaker 1: Introducing Dorothy Dandridge starring a young Halle Berry. Her last
Speaker 1: real acting credit was in twenty eleven. Then Jean Louise
Speaker 1: Kelly plays Jane Coles. Kelly is a veteran actress, first
Speaker 1: seen in the movie Uncle Buck, and she'd later star
Speaker 1: on the CBS sitcom Yes Dear. She was also recently
Speaker 1: seen in the new Top Gun Maverick movie. And finally,
Speaker 1: Leela Roschan is Lucy Bridges. You know her from Waiting
Speaker 1: to Exhale, Any Given Sunday and Boomerang. She's still acting,
Speaker 1: has been married to the acclaimed director Anton Fuqua since
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine. And yes, this movie is historically accurate
Speaker 1: and important, but this is still magical.
Speaker 3: Rewind is it ninety minutes? Did it hit the target?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: Close enough? It's ninety six.
Speaker 1: Man, you hate to see it, even for a movie
Speaker 1: like this, six over the target.
Speaker 3: It's a real shame. But you know what, We're gonna
Speaker 3: let it pass.
Speaker 1: We're gonna let it pass this time because it's such
Speaker 1: an important and great film. Writing wise, Torrianne Johnson gets
Speaker 1: a screenwriting credit. She had a history in theater and
Speaker 1: go on to write Lifetimes the Courage of Love, a
Speaker 1: film loosely based on another African American pioneer named Henriette Deliel,
Speaker 1: And then she made a real pivot to co write
Speaker 1: a movie I Love Yes People.
Speaker 3: She co wrote Step Up to the Streets, the one
Speaker 3: that introduced Moose. The best film that's ever been made
Speaker 3: in the history of the world. It's perfect.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear anything about it, but that
Speaker 1: is quite a range. Johnson also wrote a novel in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen called Remedy for a Broken Angel. And now
Speaker 1: let's learn about the incredible Ruby bridges By recapping her
Speaker 1: dcom The movie opens with kids pouring out of a
Speaker 1: school at the final bell, where in New Orleans it's
Speaker 1: November nineteen sixty. All the children we see are black,
Speaker 1: with a focus on two real cute kids, Ruby and Allison.
Speaker 1: We're transported to a neighborhood nearby. The streets are full
Speaker 1: of people on their porches with kids playing softball or
Speaker 1: riding their bikes in the streets. There's a baseball game
Speaker 1: in progress and one little girl, Ruby is taking it
Speaker 1: very very seriously inside the house, and then in a suit,
Speaker 1: is telling Ruby's mom that her daughter scored very well
Speaker 1: on the school board exam. She actually outperformed most of
Speaker 1: the first graders throughout the entire district. Back outside, Ruby's
Speaker 1: dad Abon arrives and cheers on his daughter as she
Speaker 1: slides in a home, but it is a close call.
Speaker 1: They look to missus Johnson, an elder in the neighborhood,
Speaker 1: and she says that Ruby is safe. AVM picks her
Speaker 1: up in excitement, and the two siblings also join in
Speaker 1: for the big family hug. Nearby, Ruby and her dad
Speaker 1: turned to mister Taylor and the other neighbors they know
Speaker 1: including a German lady, miss Stein, who owns the local
Speaker 1: grocery store. We're now in the store and missus Stein
Speaker 1: chuckles and tells Ruby he's standing on her tippy toes
Speaker 1: that she's grown because last week she couldn't even see
Speaker 1: over the counter.
Speaker 3: We're now back on Ruby's porch.
Speaker 1: Ruby's mom, Lucille, and a man in a suit, doctor
Speaker 1: ac Broyard of the NAACP, are finishing up their meeting.
Speaker 1: Lucille thanks him for the good news and introduces him
Speaker 1: to Ruby and Abon, who just got back home. Doctor
Speaker 1: Broyard congratulates Ruby. She's been picked with five other girls
Speaker 1: to do something no other black children have done in
Speaker 1: New Orleans. They have a lot to be proud of.
Speaker 1: Inside Ruby's house, Ruby and her siblings are now jumping
Speaker 1: on the bed acting like kids. When Missus Bridges walks in,
Speaker 1: they need to stop playing and start their nighttime prayers.
Speaker 1: Mister Bridges is sitting on the couch watching a news
Speaker 1: report about the proposed racial mixing in the New Orleans
Speaker 1: public schools, which is set to begin on Monday. The
Speaker 1: Attorney General has warned the Governor, James Davis not to
Speaker 1: interfere with the federal court's order to desegregate the schools. Davis, however,
Speaker 1: is vowing to preserve segregation. Despite the warning, mister Bridges
Speaker 1: shuts off the TV and tells his wife that he
Speaker 1: isn't sure about all this.
Speaker 3: She's not gonna let it scare though. The federal government
Speaker 3: means more than the state and stuff like this. But
Speaker 3: mister Bridges questions why they'd send Ruby somewhere she isn't
Speaker 3: even wanted. If she did so good in that test,
Speaker 3: that means she's doing just fine where she is. Missus
Speaker 3: Bridges argues that black schools just aren't as good as
Speaker 3: the white ones. Doctor Broyard said, Ruby has what it
Speaker 3: takes to go far, and this could make things better
Speaker 3: for all children of color. Now, in a crowded church,
Speaker 3: everyone is singing and celebrating. Then the preacher starts a
Speaker 3: sermon and the one little boy who is singing in
Speaker 3: this choir is crushing it.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, so so good.
Speaker 1: It was so good, just amazing hearing this little kid sing.
Speaker 1: It was like, man, it was really remarkable. The preacher
Speaker 1: talks about how every day there is something new to
Speaker 1: keep them oppressed, but they will rise up and Persevere
Speaker 1: church then lets out, and now Ruby and Allison are
Speaker 1: walking home, talking about how she's going to a new
Speaker 1: school tomorrow and even gets to ride in a car.
Speaker 1: Alison is going to a Catholic school soon and she
Speaker 1: isn't even Catholic. Ruby promises she'll still see Alison and
Speaker 1: jokes she'll still whoop her butt in baseball. The next morning,
Speaker 1: at Ruby's house, Abon is eating breakfast and Ruby is
Speaker 1: just adorably staring at him. He asked if she's nervous,
Speaker 1: since she just shrugs her shoulders. He wishes he could
Speaker 1: go with her, but she can tell him all about
Speaker 1: it later. He calls her his brave little girl and
Speaker 1: she smiles. Abon walks outside to go to work and
Speaker 1: sees police blocking off the road. He walks over to
Speaker 1: ask what's going on, and the officer says they're only
Speaker 1: letting residents come and go. Mister Bridges may need id
Speaker 1: to come home later in case he runs into the
Speaker 1: next shift. Startled, mister Bridges shakes his head and continues
Speaker 1: his walk to work. We're now back inside the house
Speaker 1: thanks to their neighbor, missus Taylor. Ruby's dressed in a
Speaker 1: pink dress with a pink bow in her hair, ready
Speaker 1: for her first day at her new school.
Speaker 3: Missus Bridges reminds.
Speaker 1: Ruby to answer her teacher with yes, ma'am, we're outside now.
Speaker 1: An official looking car arrives with Deputy US Marshall Al
Speaker 1: Butler and his team ready to escort Ruby's school.
Speaker 3: Missus Bridges is confused.
Speaker 1: She thought it would be doctor Broyard from the NAACP,
Speaker 1: but Ruby and her mom get in the car anyway,
Speaker 1: with the entire neighborhood watching on. Ruby and her friend
Speaker 1: Allison wave to each other as the procession of cars
Speaker 1: drives off. They arrive at school and are given precise
Speaker 1: instructions on how to walk. He tells Ruby to stay
Speaker 1: between the four officers and not look back at the
Speaker 1: crowd no matter what happens.
Speaker 3: And this is where I was like, oh.
Speaker 1: God, this is gonna be bad, Like yes, same, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're just already the adjutive starting of watching the film
Speaker 1: like it, man, it's gonna this is gonna it's gonna
Speaker 1: be hard, and even I didn't realize how bad. A
Speaker 1: man nearby has gotten out of his car. He's upset
Speaker 1: with the stops traffic and has a medical conference. He
Speaker 1: needs to attend at the same time the US Marshal.
Speaker 1: Ruby and her mother get out of the car, and
Speaker 1: we're swarm by a crowd of upset parents and students,
Speaker 1: yelling and chanting two four six eight we don't want
Speaker 1: to integrate, and holding signs that say things like whites
Speaker 1: only and no colors here. As members of the press
Speaker 1: take pictures, Ruby and Lucille finally make it to the
Speaker 1: school steps, where sheriffs are waiting for them. One officer
Speaker 1: informs them that the governor says they can't enter. The
Speaker 1: Deputy Marshall explains that the President of the United States
Speaker 1: says they can. With that, the local sheriff step aside,
Speaker 1: allowing the group to walk in. As protesters angrily chant
Speaker 1: against integration. The man outside of the car, who is
Speaker 1: mad at being stopped, can't believe what he's saying.
Speaker 3: We're now inside the school.
Speaker 1: Teachers are shock that Ruby was allowed inside and tructing
Speaker 1: their students to stay in their classrooms. And oh god,
Speaker 1: it was the teachers. I think that pissed me off
Speaker 1: more than anything. I hated them, hate even it was somehow,
Speaker 1: and I don't know why, but for some reason, it
Speaker 1: was even worse than the chanting outside to me because
Speaker 1: that's like mob rule and craziness and the ridiculousness of that.
Speaker 1: But then the people that are sworn educators for children
Speaker 1: that are treating this girl so horribly. It's something about
Speaker 1: that struck me and it just kissed me off that
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was.
Speaker 5: There's an aspect of.
Speaker 2: It would in a sense I kind of some somehow
Speaker 2: maybe I'm wrong, correct me if it needs to not
Speaker 2: be in this but like like if a doctor was
Speaker 2: treating this situation similar, like wouldn't treat another human Like
Speaker 2: it's with teachers, especially with teachers with young education that's
Speaker 2: so important and like it's like this old that they
Speaker 2: take to like educate the next generation and it's just going,
Speaker 2: are you? But again, it's not a world that like
Speaker 2: I understand, that's not you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 2: I never lived in a world that this was in
Speaker 2: any way relevant in my in my experience, So it's
Speaker 2: just it was like, oh, you gotta be kidding me, Like,
Speaker 2: like you are an educator, you should know better.
Speaker 5: Like that's how it felt watching this movie. I really did.
Speaker 2: It made me so angry, Like those people out there
Speaker 2: are they're not as educated.
Speaker 5: As you like. They they don't know.
Speaker 3: You know, you're supposed to be better than that.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yeah, Well there's good teachers and bad teachers, good.
Speaker 5: Doctors and bad that's true, So true.
Speaker 3: Lawyers and bad lawyers.
Speaker 1: There's absolutely just because somebody's in a profession doesn't make
Speaker 1: them good people.
Speaker 6: Nope.
Speaker 1: The Marshals are with Ruby and her mother in the
Speaker 1: main office when parents start barging into rooms and removing
Speaker 1: their children. One mother uses it a horrible slur on
Speaker 1: a way out, Ruby Asser. There's a lot of those
Speaker 1: in this movie, so I'm skipping over all of them.
Speaker 1: Obviously they're they're they're there, and we're of the time.
Speaker 2: And the one thing I did put in this, like
Speaker 2: Sabriss was just like that was so jarring and hard
Speaker 2: to hear in a Disney Channel movie that some of
Speaker 2: the slang that was used, evenings written things that were
Speaker 2: written on the posters. Yeah, belt, I mean it was
Speaker 2: obviously what was you know what I mean, like it was.
Speaker 1: Well, that's why I'm glad. I hate to put it
Speaker 1: this way, but I'm glad they did it. Meaning I'm
Speaker 1: glad they kept it in because you don't want them
Speaker 1: to soften it for the fact that it's Disney, because that's.
Speaker 3: What it was going through.
Speaker 1: It's like, we're not going to change the words that
Speaker 1: were hurled at this little girl because it might offend
Speaker 1: people nowadays watching the movie, or it might upset kids.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, you needed to hear the actual vile
Speaker 1: things that were being thrown this.
Speaker 3: Six year old and now trying to kindergarten or first rate.
Speaker 1: And so I'm glad that that they said, no, we're
Speaker 1: not going to we're not going to cut these out because.
Speaker 3: They're horrible words.
Speaker 1: We're keeping them in specifically because they're horrible words. That's
Speaker 1: why we're keeping them in.
Speaker 5: As a hard watch, skin crawled every time.
Speaker 3: Yes, and it's supposed to.
Speaker 1: Ruby asked her mom where the other black girls who
Speaker 1: were supposed to enroll with her are, and a teacher
Speaker 1: on the phone with the district name Miss Woodmere, says
Speaker 1: she supposes the parents had the good enough sense not
Speaker 1: to put their children through this. At the same time,
Speaker 1: a new teacher, Miss Barbara Henry, has arrived, but Miss
Speaker 1: Woodmere tells her to come back tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Hours later, everyone is still waiting in the main office
Speaker 1: It's three PM and Ruby's even falling asleep. The bell
Speaker 1: rings and Miss Woodmere dismisses Ruby for the day. Ruby announces, Wow,
Speaker 1: school was easy, which was funny. Now we're in a
Speaker 1: new house. It is a guy that was outside Ruby
Speaker 1: school who was upset he was running late to a conference.
Speaker 1: We find out his name is doctor Robert Cole. He
Speaker 1: kisses his wife and admits he never even made it
Speaker 1: to work. The streets were blocked and she'll never believe why.
Speaker 1: He explains the protest and hateful scene, saying he'd never
Speaker 1: seen anything like it. His wife says people can be
Speaker 1: so mean and that she grew up watching how people
Speaker 1: treated her nanny. They acted like her color made her
Speaker 1: guilty of something. He wonders if he could help her
Speaker 1: and the family like he did for kids with polio.
Speaker 1: His wife thinks it's a great idea, and now we're
Speaker 1: at the school. The next day, the angry mob has
Speaker 1: gotten even bigger and more unruly. As Ruby in her
Speaker 1: arm Federal security they pull up. The mob pushes to
Speaker 1: the motor kid as Ruby and Lucille got out of
Speaker 1: the front door. One guy even tries to spit on them.
Speaker 1: We see a concern Doctor Coles in the crowd, now
Speaker 1: full military uniform. Back inside the school, Ruby's introduced to
Speaker 1: her new teacher, missus Henry. She's the new staff member
Speaker 1: who arrived yesterday but was sent home. She excitedly introduces herself,
Speaker 1: shaking both Ruby and Lucille's hands. She proceeds to hold
Speaker 1: Ruby's hand and walk her to a classroom, all as
Speaker 1: the other teachers stare, and of course judge. Missus Henry
Speaker 1: says she's heard that Ruby is quite the student. While
Speaker 1: back in the main office, doctor Coles is escorted in
Speaker 1: by the local sheriff. He's introduced this captain, doctor Robert Coles,
Speaker 1: and padded down by the Deputy Marshall. We're now back
Speaker 1: in the classroom. It's just Ruby, Lucille and missus Henry,
Speaker 1: who is very flustered in her new surroundings. Protesters are
Speaker 1: yelling racist things outside, so missus Henry shuts the window
Speaker 1: with the help of missus Bridges. Missus Henry reveals she's
Speaker 1: originally from Boston and has taught kids at overseas military bases,
Speaker 1: but recently got married in her husband's work brings her
Speaker 1: here to New Orleans. Lucille welcomes her to the South,
Speaker 1: which feels like both a greeting and a warning. Over
Speaker 1: in Miss Woodmere's office, doctor Robert Coles tells Woodmere that
Speaker 1: he wants to talk to the little girl and see
Speaker 1: how she's doing with all this stress.
Speaker 3: She refuses, using.
Speaker 1: Another disgusting slur, and won't even give her name to him.
Speaker 1: She has strict orders and if he's so interested, he
Speaker 1: should go talk to what she calls that colored People's Organization, referring,
Speaker 1: of course, to the NAACP. Knowing he's hit a dead end,
Speaker 1: he says good day and leaves back. In Ruby's classroom,
Speaker 1: missus Henry writes down a word and Ruby yells out Christmas. Then,
Speaker 1: when instructed to write words with only the letters she
Speaker 1: sees spelled in Christmas, she first spells out christ missus
Speaker 1: Henry tells Lucille that her dexterity is very advanced for
Speaker 1: her age. Ruby continues to write down new words as
Speaker 1: Miss Henry looks out the window at the angry mob,
Speaker 1: and then eventually just shuts the blinds. We'now in the
Speaker 1: school hallway, missus Henry is looking for the lounge and
Speaker 1: another teacher, Miss Spencer. At first ignores her, but eventually
Speaker 1: and very reluctantly shows her the way, commenting she must
Speaker 1: have really needed a job to take this one. Were
Speaker 1: now in the teacher's lounge, missus Henry tells Spencer she
Speaker 1: doesn't need consolation. She's taught children from many different backgrounds
Speaker 1: and she's enjoyed them all. Another teacher says the school
Speaker 1: is ruined and missus Henry is partly to blame.
Speaker 3: Than she leaves.
Speaker 1: Missus Henry thinks it's silly for the whole school to
Speaker 1: empty out because one little girl. Obviously she was offered
Speaker 1: this position and didn't know that she'd be teaching only
Speaker 1: one student. Miss Spencer reveals she told the principles she
Speaker 1: wouldn't teach Ruby, using another slur in the process.
Speaker 3: Yikes.
Speaker 1: She then ironically transitioned into prayer before eating so horrible
Speaker 1: racial slur. You're ruining this school. Everything's off. Now I'm
Speaker 1: going to pray to Jesus because this seems like exactly
Speaker 1: the type of thing God.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just like it kept getting worse.
Speaker 3: It's just very, very difficult.
Speaker 1: Miss Henry is obviously dumbfounded by all of her new coworkers.
Speaker 1: Were now outside the school, and another day has come
Speaker 1: to a close. Ruby and her mom are again leaving.
Speaker 1: Walking through the protest, Lucille covers her daughter's ears. This time,
Speaker 1: we're now Ruby's house. Eban is reading the paper and
Speaker 1: tells his wife that things are getting very dangerous.
Speaker 3: It's not too late to take her out of the school.
Speaker 1: He knows that Ruby's supposed to go alone tomorrow and
Speaker 1: can't imagine putting her through that. Lucille is sick of
Speaker 1: people telling her what she can and can't do. They
Speaker 1: can't be afraid any longer. Mister Bridges barks back that
Speaker 1: he was in the war, He's not afraid, and she
Speaker 1: better watch out who she's talking to. She apologizes and
Speaker 1: argues that the school is cleaner and nicer, and that
Speaker 1: her teacher, Missus Henry, is smart and kind. We're now
Speaker 1: in the kids' rooms. Lucille says good night and tells
Speaker 1: Ruby that she has to go back to work tomorrow.
Speaker 1: She asks if Ruby can be a brave girl and
Speaker 1: go to school by herself with the big men. Ruby
Speaker 1: thinks it over and says okay. Lucille reminds her that
Speaker 1: Jesus also the mob and even prayed for them. She
Speaker 1: gives Ruby one last kiss, knowing tomorrow might be tough, and.
Speaker 3: So we're now at school.
Speaker 1: The next day, Ruby arrives with just the Deputy Marshalls
Speaker 1: and the crowd has gotten even bigger. Doctor Coles is there,
Speaker 1: still very concerned. The Deputy Marshal tells Ruby to remember
Speaker 1: what he said, just keep looking straight ahead, and then.
Speaker 3: They make their way to the front door. When one woman.
Speaker 1: Yells, I'm gonna hang you until you choke to death
Speaker 1: a six year old girl amongst the hatred. Ruby looks
Speaker 1: straight ahead, hearing her mom and dad's voice in her head.
Speaker 1: She's a brave little girl and God loves her. She
Speaker 1: sees KKK and the N word written on the wall,
Speaker 1: mimicking the famous Norman Rockwell painting as well. Just then
Speaker 1: a tomato is thrown at the school, which is also
Speaker 1: captured in that painting. Inside, the teachers are still judgmentally
Speaker 1: staring at missus Henry taking Ruby to class, noting that
Speaker 1: she looks so very special. Today, after school, Ruby and
Speaker 1: Allison are sitting on some steps eating otter pops. Ruby
Speaker 1: asked Alison if she's Catholic yet Alison says no, The
Speaker 1: nuns are mean and hit her on the knuckles. Ruby
Speaker 1: says her teacher is nice, but she's the only student
Speaker 1: in the entire school. Allison says her dad blames Ruby
Speaker 1: for all the horses up the street and nobody likes them.
Speaker 1: Just then, Ruby's dad is back from work, holding several
Speaker 1: bags of donuts, and he just looks completely and totally emotionless.
Speaker 1: We cut inside the house. The whole family is eating,
Speaker 1: except for Avon. Ruby asked, if he isn't hungry, then
Speaker 1: why did he bring home all those donuts. He just
Speaker 1: sits in silence, then says that the bakery heard what
Speaker 1: a brave thing she was doing and wanted to give
Speaker 1: them a special treat now. Later in the night, while
Speaker 1: cleaning up, a very emotional Abon tells his wife he
Speaker 1: was fired. His boss says he can't keep him with
Speaker 1: a child in a white school. He'd been working there
Speaker 1: for eight years and there's no one better at fixing
Speaker 1: cars than him. Lucille agrees and says he'll get another job.
Speaker 1: That's why his friend at the bakery shop gave him
Speaker 1: all his donuts because he felt bad about the job.
Speaker 1: Even starts to cry and wonders what he's going to
Speaker 1: do now, and this is another moment where it was
Speaker 1: just like, man, the acting, you know, the film itself
Speaker 1: is great, obviously, but the acting in this book, yeah,
Speaker 1: very good.
Speaker 5: So good.
Speaker 2: I mean I was, I mean I was already after
Speaker 2: the second day of school and then finding she was
Speaker 2: going to go to school without her mom. I know,
Speaker 2: I am already crying. And then the husband, I'm like
Speaker 2: sobbing at this point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: Very tough, very tough to see what this family was
Speaker 1: going through and the whole community was going through, but
Speaker 1: even their own community then turning on them right to
Speaker 1: where it's like you're you're getting in from every angle
Speaker 1: at that.
Speaker 2: Point, every single angle, I mean, especially when you're you know,
Speaker 2: your neighbor, your friend, these kids were playing baseball just
Speaker 2: a few days ago together, you know, and and they're
Speaker 2: obviously a very tight knit community. They hang out all
Speaker 2: the time, and then for that to happen, and you
Speaker 2: can see both sides of the coin, right like them
Speaker 2: having a hard time because of someone else's decisions, you know.
Speaker 3: Just it's yeah, it was tough.
Speaker 5: It's all hard.
Speaker 3: Yep, it really is.
Speaker 1: He says white folks were fine when he was willing
Speaker 1: to die for this country. But you try to give
Speaker 1: your beautiful little daughter what they have, and they'll remind
Speaker 1: you how it's actually their country.
Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am was a soldier.
Speaker 1: Yes, Lucille knows it's tough right now, and he probably
Speaker 1: blames her for everything, but they're going to get through this.
Speaker 1: He leaves for the bedroom while she stays back and
Speaker 1: cries in the kitchen. The next morning, Evan walks out
Speaker 1: of the house with Ruby. He's going to go with
Speaker 1: her to school today, but the deputy Marshall says he's sorry,
Speaker 1: it's just too dangerous.
Speaker 3: Evan can't believe this. He's her father.
Speaker 1: The deputy thinks that since he is her father, he
Speaker 1: might not be able to restrain himself.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Evin kisses Ruby goodbye, and she drives off with the officers.
Speaker 3: At school. The day is over once again.
Speaker 1: I could Oh my god, I couldn't even imagine being
Speaker 1: a dad and walking your kid through that. You'd be like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna know it. Oh, I couldn't even imagine.
Speaker 2: I mean, so, it's like you're basically saying it's safer
Speaker 2: to go with these strange, stranger men, these men that
Speaker 2: are strangers to her than it is for me.
Speaker 5: To take my own. It's safer for them her to
Speaker 5: go with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well with at the time, it's safer to go
Speaker 1: with armed white protectors than it is for her black
Speaker 1: father to walk her into school?
Speaker 3: Right, crazy?
Speaker 2: That is?
Speaker 5: I mean that is so heavy?
Speaker 3: Yep, so heavy.
Speaker 1: At school, the day's over once again, missus Henry is
Speaker 1: chasing after miss Woodmere to point out that Ruby isn't
Speaker 1: taking fizz Ed and should have some type of music class,
Speaker 1: But instead of concerned, miss Woodmere just walks away. She's
Speaker 1: now forced to vacate school property expeditiously just because of Ruby.
Speaker 1: Missus Henry points out that it's not Ruby's fault, it's
Speaker 1: because of people's attitudes towards Ruby. Miss Woodmere claims she's
Speaker 1: caught in the middle. What does missus Henry expect.
Speaker 3: Her to do? And she gets in her car and
Speaker 3: she leaves.
Speaker 1: Back in the classroom, we get a montage Ruby is
Speaker 1: studying and now missus Henry is even teaching Fizzed. They're
Speaker 1: doing jumping jacks as people still protest outside, yelling slurs
Speaker 1: and things like I'm going to poison you, Ruby asked
Speaker 1: her when all the other kids are coming back, so
Speaker 1: things can just get back to normal. Missus Henry says,
Speaker 1: the students will come back eventually. Their parents are just angry.
Speaker 1: They'll get over it, but for now she has her
Speaker 1: very own school. The bell rings and missus Henry tells
Speaker 1: Ruby she'll be back in thirty minutes after lunch. And
Speaker 1: I thought this was weird that now she sits alone
Speaker 1: in silence. It seemed like I was waiting for something
Speaker 1: to happen while she was by herself, Like I was
Speaker 1: just on edge, safe, thinking something was gonna happen.
Speaker 3: I wrote it down by herself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's in a very unsafe environment. There are people outside, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, picking against her in there, and then you're
Speaker 2: telling me you're gonna leave her alone that to mention
Speaker 2: she's five or six.
Speaker 5: I don't think you leave five or six through.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't leave a group of them alone anyone else,
Speaker 2: like they're.
Speaker 5: Little, you know.
Speaker 3: It was that was absolutely terrible.
Speaker 1: Back home, mister Bridges is sitting on the porch. His
Speaker 1: neighbors are playing some instruments while there's are staring at
Speaker 1: him quite visibly upset. And then doctor Broyard's car pulls up,
Speaker 1: now accompanied by doctor Coles and his wife.
Speaker 3: We're now inside Ruby's house.
Speaker 1: Lucille is folding laundry when doctor Broyard introduces the family
Speaker 1: to the Coles. Doctor Coles is a psychiatrist and came
Speaker 1: all the way from Biloxi to help. Abon admits that
Speaker 1: they can't afford a psychiatrist. Doctor Coles assures them he
Speaker 1: won't be charging anything. Mister Bridges thanks him, but nobody
Speaker 1: in their house is crazy.
Speaker 3: Quote unquote.
Speaker 1: Doctor Cole says he has a lot of experience working
Speaker 1: with kids facing diversity, and it's helpful to speak to
Speaker 1: somebody outside the family. Aban isn't hearing it, though, and
Speaker 1: wishes them a nice day. Doctor Cole gives Lucille her
Speaker 1: card and thanks them as they leave. We're now back
Speaker 1: in class. It's lunchtime again and missus Henry gives Ruby
Speaker 1: a book as she leaves for lunch. This time, a
Speaker 1: frustrated Ruby just knocks it over. Then the Deputy Marshall
Speaker 1: enters the room to check on her, and they give
Speaker 1: each other a little smile.
Speaker 3: And I was.
Speaker 1: Hoping this was going to be a relationship. We got
Speaker 1: to see a little more same. Yeah, I was hoping
Speaker 1: to see that. They started to befriend this little girl,
Speaker 1: Like I was kind of really hoping for that relationship
Speaker 1: to blossom.
Speaker 3: A bit.
Speaker 2: I was too, just because I mean I started thinking
Speaker 2: about this being a real story, and like, you know,
Speaker 2: like him looking at this young girl, going wow, going
Speaker 2: through so much, and I'm sure if we got a
Speaker 2: chance to speak to her that there were certain relationships
Speaker 2: that she built hundred as she was sort of in
Speaker 2: this isolation aspect.
Speaker 1: We also have to imagine, so it's nineteen sixty, so
Speaker 1: people like her father's age and the age of these
Speaker 1: deputy marshals, most of these people were probably in the war,
Speaker 1: whether it was the First World War or the Second
Speaker 1: World War. Her father was undoubtedly the second, but some
Speaker 1: of the older gentlemen might have been in the First,
Speaker 1: but probably the Second World War.
Speaker 3: But most of these people probably saw battle right.
Speaker 1: And I have to imagine bravery recognizes bravery. So when
Speaker 1: you've been in the war or you've done this stuff
Speaker 1: and now you're looking at a six year old little
Speaker 1: girl who's keeping her head up and walking through hatred,
Speaker 1: I have to imagine you start to respect that person
Speaker 1: even as a little kid. A soldier is going to
Speaker 1: look at that child and just recognize bravery. So I
Speaker 1: have to imagine that there is a relationship that took
Speaker 1: place between her and those marshals, and would love to
Speaker 1: find out what that was like, really incredible. We're now
Speaker 1: in Ruby's backyard. Abon and Lucille are having tea with
Speaker 1: doctor Boyard and his wife. Lucille is hoping someone in
Speaker 1: the NAACP can help Abe and find some work, but
Speaker 1: doctor Boyard doesn't think now is a good time for
Speaker 1: him to be looking. He needs to lay low and
Speaker 1: let things settle down. But Aben knows that the donations
Speaker 1: aren't gonna last forever. But doctor Boyard says he'll make
Speaker 1: sure that all of their needs are met. And you
Speaker 1: can tell this man doesn't want to just be handed money.
Speaker 1: He wants to work, which I know that feeling you
Speaker 1: just want to work. Missus Cole says, to remember what
Speaker 1: a privilege it is for Ruby to be doing this,
Speaker 1: but Aban doesn't get it. How is it a privilege
Speaker 1: to put your six year old in danger? How is
Speaker 1: it a privilege to lose your job? He slams down
Speaker 1: a newspaper and heads inside. One of the younger kids says.
Speaker 3: Uh, oh, Daddy's mad.
Speaker 1: Later, back on the front porch, Evan is trying to
Speaker 1: calm down on the steps when his wife joins him.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to talk, but instead just gets up
Speaker 1: to play ball with his son. In the kitchen, Lucille
Speaker 1: is now giving abe and a haircut. Their youngest daughter
Speaker 1: runs in, younging that Ruby called her little brother Charlie
Speaker 1: the N word and then threatened to kill him a
Speaker 1: little later, in the dining room, Lucille is cleaning while
Speaker 1: Ruby sits at the table playing with a doll, but
Speaker 1: we quickly realize she has tied a ribbon around the
Speaker 1: doll's neck and is now holding it up in the
Speaker 1: air like a noose.
Speaker 3: Lucille is, of course concerned. And if someone only.
Speaker 1: Saw this scene of Ruby Bridges in a d com,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what they would think.
Speaker 3: They think it was like a horror movie or something crazy.
Speaker 1: But this little girl is obviously having some serious problems
Speaker 1: at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again it's the that the mom reacts and
Speaker 2: how you I talk about the acting, You see the
Speaker 2: it going through her eyes in her head of how
Speaker 2: what's the best way to react to what she's doing?
Speaker 2: Is it to you know, your instinct is to freak.
Speaker 5: Out or you know what I mean, or have a big,
Speaker 5: big reaction, and she really just.
Speaker 2: It was like, oh man, this mom is just that.
Speaker 2: Yeah's handling this a rock star, obviously like a rock
Speaker 2: star exactly.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: It's the next day and the Bridges have finally called
Speaker 1: doctor Coles to sit with Ruby. He asked her to
Speaker 1: draw a picture of her school and she includes stick
Speaker 1: figure protesters out front. Doctor Coles asks if that's how
Speaker 1: the people look to her, and she admits she doesn't know.
Speaker 1: She doesn't look at them because her mom and the
Speaker 1: other man told her not to. After the session, we're
Speaker 1: inside doctor Cole's car. He's driving home with his wife
Speaker 1: in the passenger seat. She praises the Bridges and encourages
Speaker 1: him to sit down with them at their next visit.
Speaker 1: He explains he's not there to socialize. He's also confused.
Speaker 1: According to Ruby, everything in school is fine and she's
Speaker 1: having a good time.
Speaker 3: Missus Coles is sure he'll eventually figure it out. We
Speaker 3: jump cut to the school.
Speaker 1: The out for Blood protesters are still yelling mean and
Speaker 1: racist things at Ruby as she's escorted to the door,
Speaker 1: and a very disturbed doctor Coles watches on from nearby.
Speaker 1: We're back at Ruby's house in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1: A scared Ruby climbs into bed with her parents. She
Speaker 1: says she had bad thoughts, and Lucille asks if she
Speaker 1: said her prayers. Ruby says no. Sir Mom tells her
Speaker 1: to go and ask God to take.
Speaker 3: Care of it.
Speaker 1: Ruby returns to her room and kneels at her bed
Speaker 1: to pray, as Lucille watches on from the doorway. We're
Speaker 1: now at Stein's grocery store. Ruby and her dad are
Speaker 1: grabbing some milk as two white men stare on in judgment.
Speaker 1: As usual, Ruby says hi to the owner, missus Stein,
Speaker 1: who this time coldly responds by asking that they don't
Speaker 1: ever come back. Abben asks why, but missus Stein just
Speaker 1: tells him to leave. Abben scoffs and reminds her that
Speaker 1: his family supported her when she first moved in, and
Speaker 1: white customers wouldn't buy from her because she's Jewish. All
Speaker 1: he's been is good to her. But if this is
Speaker 1: what she wants, so be it. We're now back at
Speaker 1: the Bridge's kitchen and they've all finished dinner except for Ruby.
Speaker 1: She says she's not hungry, but Lucille begs her to
Speaker 1: please eat. Ruby says she'll have some chips out of
Speaker 1: a bag, but only from a new bag and a
Speaker 1: Coca cola. As she says it, Lucille takes away Ruby's
Speaker 1: untouched plate and gives her a sealed bag of chips
Speaker 1: and some sort of pill or vitamin and then it's
Speaker 1: never mentioned. We don't know what that is. Was she
Speaker 1: giving her an aspirin, something to sleep?
Speaker 3: Vitamin C? It's literally never talked about again.
Speaker 2: But it was so deliberately given. It was like, I
Speaker 2: thought this was gonna be an aspect of what they had,
Speaker 2: what they felt that needed to happen.
Speaker 5: You know, what is a neentative?
Speaker 1: Is it? I mean, yeah, I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1: And again never just never mentioned again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if that was like a scene
Speaker 2: that was cut later on or yeah, this was a
Speaker 2: I don't know, it just didn't make any sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Ruby asked if missus Stein has ever stood outside her
Speaker 1: school and said those mean things. Missus Bridges says no,
Speaker 1: she's Jewish and people aren't much nicer to her. Ruby
Speaker 1: reveals they've been banned from the store, and Lucille says
Speaker 1: that she's not very nice. Ruby doesn't know why no
Speaker 1: one likes her, but her mama suers her it's not her.
Speaker 1: They just don't want black kids going to their schools,
Speaker 1: but she deserves a good education. She reminds Ruby that
Speaker 1: God loves her and these protesters don't know what they're
Speaker 1: talking about. And the next day at school, as Ruby arrives,
Speaker 1: the scene outside is even more unruly and racist. Then
Speaker 1: a man breaks through the barricade and runs towards Ruby.
Speaker 1: As a result, the Marshall's rush her to safety, but
Speaker 1: it turns out the man was a reverend and he
Speaker 1: was just trying to return his daughter to school. He's
Speaker 1: then called a trader and spit on by a protester,
Speaker 1: so the US Marshal also helps him.
Speaker 3: And his daughter.
Speaker 1: Inside in the classroom, missus Henry is comforting a crying Ruby,
Speaker 1: insisting that not all people are like the protesters. This
Speaker 1: is where she tries to explain slavery to Ruby, detailing
Speaker 1: that the South was forced to free all the slaves
Speaker 1: and some people just haven't gotten over it. Ruby wonders
Speaker 1: why they say all those mean things. She didn't do
Speaker 1: anything to deserve it. Missus Henry agrees, they just feel
Speaker 1: threatened and they don't even like themselves. It's lunchtime now
Speaker 1: in the classroom, and once again Ruby is all alone.
Speaker 1: She pours her thermos into a nearby glue container, then
Speaker 1: high it's her sandwich in a cabinet, and we still
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 3: What this is about.
Speaker 1: At this point, we're starting to put it together, but
Speaker 1: we're not quite there. We just know that while Ruby
Speaker 1: seems to be hiding it very well, she's obviously dealing
Speaker 1: with some serious psychological issues, which how could you not yeah.
Speaker 1: That night, in the Bridge's dining room, Ruby is again
Speaker 1: sitting with doctor Coles and he asked about one of
Speaker 1: her new drawings.
Speaker 3: It's of Alison and Alison's dad.
Speaker 1: Ruby says Alison is sad because she's not allowed to
Speaker 1: play with her anymore. Doctor Coles is shocked to hear
Speaker 1: Allison is black, especially because she uses pink crans for
Speaker 1: her skin color. He also notices she drew herself with
Speaker 1: pink skin and blue hair, and everyone who's black is
Speaker 1: missing body parts, but missus Henry and doctor Coles are intact.
Speaker 1: We see that Aban is now looking on from a
Speaker 1: nearby doorway as Ruby picks up one of doctor Cole's
Speaker 1: drawings and jokingly makes fun of it. They share a
Speaker 1: laugh as he agrees he's not much of an artist. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: in the kitchen, Lucilla and Missus Coles are having a
Speaker 1: good time cooking. Doctor Coles enters and his wife is
Speaker 1: excited she's learned how to make red beans and Rice.
Speaker 1: Aban wants to talk to doctor Coles, but he really
Speaker 1: has to hit the road.
Speaker 3: Doctor Cole says he's concerned about Ruby.
Speaker 1: He asked if they've noticed any unusual behavior, and Lucille
Speaker 1: reveals she'll only eat packaged foods and soda.
Speaker 3: Doctor Cole says he thinks he knows what's happening.
Speaker 1: One of the Hecklers has repeatedly threatened to kill Ruby
Speaker 1: by poisoning her. The Bridges can't believe it. Lucilla's so
Speaker 1: upset she leaves the room. Doctor Cole apologizes and Evan
Speaker 1: says it's not his fault. In the bedroom, Lucilla's now
Speaker 1: crying very hard. How can people be so cruel to
Speaker 1: her baby? She thought they were just doing the right
Speaker 1: thing at this point. I imagine, Sabrina, you had lost it.
Speaker 2: I am just I'm like inconsolable at this point, like
Speaker 2: I oh to figure out that was what it was right,
Speaker 2: And again you're talking about a little girl, six year
Speaker 2: old girl, when little girls this age take everything so literal,
Speaker 2: like everything that is said is absorbed, it's internalized, and
Speaker 2: I'm just.
Speaker 3: It's like I'm not I'm not talking about it.
Speaker 5: I can't. It's so sad.
Speaker 1: I know, it's it is very difficult. Evan finally says
Speaker 1: Ruby is not staying at the school anymore. Lucille wants
Speaker 1: her to pray. Lucille wants to pray on it. God
Speaker 1: wouldn't give her more than she can handle, but Aben
Speaker 1: lays down a frame picture of Jesus. He knows he's
Speaker 1: doing what's best for his daughter. He knows that Ruby
Speaker 1: now thinks white people are better than them, which is
Speaker 1: why she draws black people deformed and white people perfect.
Speaker 1: It's so many levels, Lucille. As Lucille asks what that
Speaker 1: has to do with Jesus, and Evan reminds her they
Speaker 1: don't even really know what Jesus look like. When Ruby
Speaker 1: sees that picture of Jesus every day, her God looks
Speaker 1: more like the white folks outside protesting than they do
Speaker 1: her At doctor Cole's house. Doctor Cole asks his wife
Speaker 1: to make dinner. After saying no to her beans and
Speaker 1: rice at the bridges, His wife says she's not hungry
Speaker 1: now she had a home cooked meal. She says good
Speaker 1: night and abruptly heads off. You could tell there's some
Speaker 1: issues going on with them as well. In Ruby's backyard
Speaker 1: the next afternoon, Ruby is so excited to show her
Speaker 1: dadt her newest report card. She got all a's. Evan
Speaker 1: is proud, but you can tell something's bothering him. He
Speaker 1: asks if she likes her new school. She proudly says yes,
Speaker 1: and he's glad she does. He tells her that Mary
Speaker 1: and Carl are waiting for her up the street, so
Speaker 1: go get changed to play. Ruby heads inside and Evan
Speaker 1: stares at their port card, confused about what to do next.
Speaker 1: The next day, at school, people are still protesting. These
Speaker 1: people just won't go away. But a white mom is
Speaker 1: walking her two kids to the front door. Another woman
Speaker 1: who's been calling everyone a trader, watches on as her
Speaker 1: son sprints to join his friend. He wants to go
Speaker 1: to school too, so themselves starting to cross the picket lines.
Speaker 1: Because again you're not born hating people.
Speaker 3: You're taught it.
Speaker 1: In Ruby's kitchen, Ruby still won't eat. Her mom reminds
Speaker 1: her the rice and beans were wrapped at the market,
Speaker 1: no one could have contaminated it. Eventually, Ruby takes a
Speaker 1: bite and asks her mom when those people will stop
Speaker 1: yelling at her. Lucille tells her she's got a turn
Speaker 1: to the Lord. The men are there to protect her,
Speaker 1: and God loves her. Doctor Broyard and his wife arrive
Speaker 1: and have a gift for Ruby. It is a beautiful
Speaker 1: blue dress. Doctor Broyard's wife, Alma, wonders if they can
Speaker 1: spend the day with Ruby sometime. They have a piano
Speaker 1: and they can teach her to play. Evan doesn't look thrilled.
Speaker 1: He walks out to get some fresh air. Lucille apologizes
Speaker 1: her husband is obviously having a very hard time with
Speaker 1: everything going on, which you don't blame the man.
Speaker 2: No, you just found out this couple who's I mean,
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, you have your own piano back then
Speaker 2: that was huge to own it like a piano is
Speaker 2: a big statement of Yeah.
Speaker 1: They also of wealth, I imagine, but also I think
Speaker 1: as a as a father, and again I'm a stepdad
Speaker 1: not the same, never raised a child from birth.
Speaker 3: So I have to imagine, though.
Speaker 1: A you color notwithstanding you don't want your child used
Speaker 1: as a prop, and you're starting to feel like, well,
Speaker 1: what are all these people are? What is my daughter
Speaker 1: getting out of this other than hatred? Where yes, it
Speaker 1: might be good for this community or good for this community,
Speaker 1: or good in the overall run, but why do I
Speaker 1: have to sacrifice my daughter's mental health, physical well being
Speaker 1: to make it better for everyone else in the world. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the only one where they're head held high the entire
Speaker 1: time as Ruby, even though she's starting to have a
Speaker 1: mental breakdown a bit. And it's one of those things
Speaker 1: where I have to imagine the dad is being told
Speaker 1: you can't get a job, we'll just give you handouts,
Speaker 1: and he's like, I don't want handouts.
Speaker 3: I'm a man.
Speaker 1: I want to work. I was a soldier for God's sakes.
Speaker 1: I want to work for my living. I want to
Speaker 1: take care of my family. I don't want my daughter
Speaker 1: being pulled around all over the place, being used as
Speaker 1: a prop by this community.
Speaker 3: By that, he must be just losing it as a
Speaker 3: man at this point.
Speaker 1: Yes, I couldn't imagine then the mom, you know, just
Speaker 1: trying to do what's best for her child, because that's
Speaker 1: all she's looking at is the education that her kiki.
Speaker 3: It's so crazy the number of things that must be
Speaker 3: going through all these people's heads.
Speaker 2: Yes, as a family unit, the polls, and then also
Speaker 2: having two younger kids that you're trying to raise try
Speaker 2: to set a good example for try to show the
Speaker 2: inspiration that.
Speaker 5: Their older sister is doing. It's like, how do you
Speaker 5: explain that to little ones? Right?
Speaker 2: Like, it's just it is such a hard, incredible inspiration
Speaker 2: that this family is willing to go through all of
Speaker 2: these struggles yep, to help not just their family out,
Speaker 2: but their entire like such a bigger picture. Yeah, this
Speaker 2: is what they keep putting in front of their own
Speaker 2: sacrifice that they're doing.
Speaker 1: And then and that's the question, is what, you know,
Speaker 1: do I sacrifice my child safety for future children?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: And it's again it's it's such an important question because
Speaker 1: societally you would probably look at it and go, of
Speaker 1: course you do that, that's that's what you need to do.
Speaker 1: But personally, as a parent, you're probably like, well, then
Speaker 1: you do it with your kid. I'm not gonna do
Speaker 1: it with them. I'm not you know, until that first
Speaker 1: person steps up. It's there's so many levels. Again, there's
Speaker 1: so many levels of what's going on. So in the backyard,
Speaker 1: Lucille tells her husband that the Broyards mean well. Eban argues,
Speaker 1: they don't actually care about Ruby. If they were real friends,
Speaker 1: they would have invited them all to tea, not just Ruby.
Speaker 1: They aren't real friends around for the nightmares and eating disorder.
Speaker 1: It's true, Lucille yell's back. There's nothing wrong with Ruby,
Speaker 1: seeing how good education can help in life. She wants
Speaker 1: her to experience being in a nice house without having
Speaker 1: to clean it. Evan just doesn't want his daughter being
Speaker 1: used anymore. Mister Bridge is now in the front porch,
Speaker 1: letting off some steam by whittling a stick. One of
Speaker 1: the neighbors walks up and reveals he has a few
Speaker 1: house painting gigs coming up and he could use some help.
Speaker 1: He can't pay a mechanic salary, but it would be something.
Speaker 1: Evan shakes his hand. He appreciates the offer, and I'll
Speaker 1: see him in the morning. Ruby is now alone in
Speaker 1: the classroom and decides to peek through a keyhole to
Speaker 1: see the next door and is immediately depressed. Missus Henry
Speaker 1: returns and asks if everything's okay. But Ruby now knows
Speaker 1: that more kids came back, so why aren't they all
Speaker 1: in the same class. Missus Henry sets her up to
Speaker 1: make some see okay, so well sets her up to
Speaker 1: make some more Valentines. But I thought as the kids
Speaker 1: were starting to break through the picket line and more
Speaker 1: kids were being put in, I thought, now there were
Speaker 1: going to be two kids in her class, and now
Speaker 1: there's going to be three kids in her class.
Speaker 5: Sae.
Speaker 3: But no, she's still in.
Speaker 1: A class by herself while the whole other class is
Speaker 1: being taught without her.
Speaker 2: Well, and the segregation topic was this principle was like, well,
Speaker 2: I'm not that's not what we're doing here, and the
Speaker 2: marshal was like, yes you are. You are, like you
Speaker 2: are absolutely doing here. This is by law what you
Speaker 2: have to do. So it's interesting to know that, you know,
Speaker 2: if this, if this went this way, and it was
Speaker 2: like a couple kids at a time that they then
Speaker 2: were going against the law and still segregating them like
Speaker 2: they were breaking the law because of their own values versus.
Speaker 5: Following what the law was saying that this was a
Speaker 5: de segregation.
Speaker 3: I want to.
Speaker 1: Know what the law says, because because the you know,
Speaker 1: being raised by two lawyers, the law is very literal,
Speaker 1: meaning one word can change the entire thing. So did
Speaker 1: it say we're integrating the school or did it say
Speaker 1: we're integrating the classroom, because you know, you could see
Speaker 1: some lawyer come up and saying, hey, I said I'd
Speaker 1: integrate the school. There's a black child in the classroom
Speaker 1: right next to us. The school is integrated. I never
Speaker 1: said I'd into great the classroom, and they would use
Speaker 1: these kind of legal loopholes, and.
Speaker 3: I wonder if something like that.
Speaker 1: I'm so curious to know the actual ins and outs
Speaker 1: of what the law said, because they know they did
Speaker 1: everything they could to try.
Speaker 3: To skirt the letter of the law.
Speaker 1: At this point, though, missus Henry rushes to Miss Woodmere's office.
Speaker 1: She tells her there's no reason why Ruby should be
Speaker 1: there and by herself all day, especially since the other
Speaker 1: kids are also first graders and right next door. Miss
Speaker 1: Woodmere explains that Miss Spencer doesn't want to teach Ruby
Speaker 1: and no one is going to force her to, so
Speaker 1: missus Henry suggests that the kids come to her class
Speaker 1: for some of the day. She'll teach them all. Missus
Speaker 1: Henry says it's cruel to isolate a child, and if
Speaker 1: they continue to separate Ruby, she's breaking federal law. So
Speaker 1: there you go. I'm so curious to know what the
Speaker 1: law said. Missus Henry threatens to call Superintendent Redman, and
Speaker 1: missus Woodmere looks heated.
Speaker 3: And so over in Ruby's classroom.
Speaker 1: Missus Henry finally opens the connecting door to miss Spencer's
Speaker 1: classroom and Ruby looks elated. All the semi reluctant students
Speaker 1: line up, and missus Henry introduces them to a beaming Ruby.
Speaker 1: The kids start playing a game of Duck Duck goose
Speaker 1: in one of the girl skips right past Ruby. Missus
Speaker 1: Henry reminds her that Ruby's playing too, but the little
Speaker 1: kids still won't touch Ruby's head. That little boy, the
Speaker 1: rude woman outside, Jimmy, says he can't play with Ruby
Speaker 1: because of his mom and uses an absolutely disgusting slur
Speaker 1: in the process. It seems some other kids don't want
Speaker 1: to play with her either. Ruby looks very hurt. This
Speaker 1: is obviously not going to be easy, as if anything
Speaker 1: has been. Later that day, in Ruby's dining room. Ruby
Speaker 1: and doctor Coles are together again. Ruby says Jimmy didn't
Speaker 1: hurt her feelings.
Speaker 3: She gets it.
Speaker 1: If her mom or dad told her not to play
Speaker 1: with somebody, she wouldn't either. Allison's dad told her not
Speaker 1: to play with Ruby, but she still does sometimes. Ruby
Speaker 1: asked doctor Cole if his mom would let him drink
Speaker 1: some special blend tea with her. Doctor Cole asked Ruby
Speaker 1: if she but if she'd be upset if his mommy
Speaker 1: said he couldn't. She says she would be sad because
Speaker 1: maybe he wouldn't visit her anymore. Ruby says she's lonely
Speaker 1: at lunch time since the other kids don't play with her.
Speaker 1: He wonders if there's anything she could do to make
Speaker 1: herself feel better, like cry or draw, and Ruby immediately
Speaker 1: changes the subject. Our tea is ready, and then they
Speaker 1: pray together. In the backyard, Ruby and Allison are playing
Speaker 1: a card game with Ruby's dad sitting on the steps nearby.
Speaker 1: Ruby asks Allison if her dad would let them play
Speaker 1: ball together, and she says probably no. Her dad says
Speaker 1: black people shouldn't be focused on games. They should be
Speaker 1: working hard. If you want something in this world, and
Speaker 1: right on time, Allison's dad yells at her and he
Speaker 1: runs and grabs her. He tells Abm that before Ruby
Speaker 1: went to that school, the neighborhood was fine, but now
Speaker 1: there are barricades and people are talking about boycotting Marti Gras,
Speaker 1: which means his tavern will be empty. They leave, and
Speaker 1: Ruby sits next to her dad on the steps, somehow
Speaker 1: able to still make each other smile, and again they're
Speaker 1: just getting it from all possible.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Crazy.
Speaker 1: And now in the front of the school, Ruby is
Speaker 1: making her normal bee line to the front door, surrounded
Speaker 1: by protesters, but now we see there's also a supportive
Speaker 1: group of black people quietly watching on from afar, and
Speaker 1: this time something different happens. Ruby turns back not only
Speaker 1: to look, but to walk back down the steps.
Speaker 3: The marshals don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: She makes it to the final step and starts moving
Speaker 1: her mouth confidently, but we can't hear what she's saying
Speaker 1: over all the yelling. We're at Ruby's house later and
Speaker 1: doctor Cole wants to know what she said. Did she
Speaker 1: finally snap and get angry at them? She says no,
Speaker 1: she was praying for them. She prays for them every
Speaker 1: day in the car, but had forgotten that morning a shock.
Speaker 1: Doctor Cole asked what prayer, and she responds while we
Speaker 1: see images of the angry mob, she says, Please God,
Speaker 1: forgive these people, because even if they say those mean things,
Speaker 1: they don't know what they're doing, so you can forgive them,
Speaker 1: just like you did those folks a long time ago
Speaker 1: when they said terrible things about you. She notices they
Speaker 1: used to have a picture of Jesus on the wall,
Speaker 1: but somebody stole it, so she's going to go put
Speaker 1: up her paintings.
Speaker 3: On the wall now instead.
Speaker 1: In the living room the bridges, there are two other
Speaker 1: kids and missus Cole are watching TV. Little Carl jumps
Speaker 1: on missus Cole's lap, and when Lucille tries to get
Speaker 1: him off, missus Cole says it's okay. Doctor Coles and
Speaker 1: Ruby enter and start taping her pictures to the wall.
Speaker 3: Abe admits that.
Speaker 1: Doctor Cole's visits and attention make Ruby feel really special.
Speaker 1: Lucille asks if the doctor would like something to drink,
Speaker 1: and he finally says yes.
Speaker 3: But says to call him Bob.
Speaker 1: Doctor Coles appreciates Aban's words, but they are the ones
Speaker 1: that make Ruby feel special and strong, and now her
Speaker 1: drawings are so much better. She's using brown crans to
Speaker 1: draw perfectly depicted black family members. Lucille returns with not
Speaker 1: only a drink, but a bowl of gumbo. He loves
Speaker 1: it and they all start laughing. Later on, at the
Speaker 1: Cole's house, Missus Coles is transcribing her husband's report on Ruby.
Speaker 1: He's impressed by her courage and purpose and the family's
Speaker 1: ability to support her. As he continues to reveal his observations.
Speaker 1: We see Ruby at school, now reading a book out
Speaker 1: loud to the students next door. Everyone is listening except Jimmy,
Speaker 1: who sadly still has his fingers in his ears. Miss
Speaker 1: Spencer and Miss Woodmere are watching on as Miss Spencer
Speaker 1: actually looks proud of Ruby. Doctor Coles continues, having something
Speaker 1: to believe in protected Ruby from psychiatric symptoms and gave
Speaker 1: her a dignity and strength that is utterly remarkable, And
Speaker 1: of course he's talking about her faith in God. Miss
Speaker 1: Spencer points out to Miss Woodmere that Miss Henry is
Speaker 1: a good teacher. Even her kids can't read this well.
Speaker 1: Miss Woodmere doesn't look in pressed and is handed a
Speaker 1: note from the janitor. The lunch bell rings, and Ruby
Speaker 1: is back with missus Henry in their room when miss Woodmere,
Speaker 1: a janitor, and the Deputy Marshall all enter the classroom.
Speaker 1: Aparently there have been mice and cockroaches in the room,
Speaker 1: and the janitor needs to find out why. As he searches,
Speaker 1: the janitor stumbles on the cabinet filled with Ruby's hidden food. Later,
Speaker 1: missus Henry opens the big tub of glue on her
Speaker 1: desk and sees everything Ruby's been doing to avoid eating.
Speaker 1: Missus Henry isn't angry, she's just very concerned. Ruby says
Speaker 1: she's been eating more than she used to, but doesn't
Speaker 1: always like what her mom makes with that. Missus Henry
Speaker 1: and Ruby finally eat lunch together and have a lot
Speaker 1: of fun in the process. The next day, in class,
Speaker 1: missus Henry hands Ruby a test to see how much
Speaker 1: she's learned from this entire year and wishes her luck. Later,
Speaker 1: in Ruby's backyard, Ruby is sitting alone when doctor Coles
Speaker 1: arrives with a large box.
Speaker 3: He says it's a surprise.
Speaker 1: He takes out a doll's house and tells her to
Speaker 1: pretend the house is her classroom and that the dolls
Speaker 1: are the students. He wants Ruby to tell them who
Speaker 1: they are and what they're like. Ruby picks some of
Speaker 1: the dolls and starts describing classmates, eventually getting to Jimmy.
Speaker 1: She says he used to be bad, but now he
Speaker 1: plays okay, but sometimes he remembers that she's black and
Speaker 1: gets bad again. He pushes her and calls her mean things.
Speaker 1: Doctor Cole asks what she does in response, and she
Speaker 1: says nothing. She used to do bad things back, but
Speaker 1: not anymore. Ruby wants a cola, so she runs inside
Speaker 1: and grabs one. Aben tells doctor Coles their wives are
Speaker 1: making gumbo and asks if he wants to take a
Speaker 1: walk with him later, and doctor Coles says sure in
Speaker 1: the front yard. Later, doctor Coles and mister Bridges are
Speaker 1: across the street and we see Missus Stein from the
Speaker 1: grocery store carrying a box filled with things for the Bridges.
Speaker 1: Abon notes that things are finally starting to calm down.
Speaker 1: We're now in the neighborhood jazz club. Doctor Coles and
Speaker 1: Aben walk into a full on jam session and all
Speaker 1: sit down together. Aban reveals he got a purple heart
Speaker 1: for being wounded while saving a white soldier. Doctor Coles
Speaker 1: points out that he shed blood for a country that
Speaker 1: doesn't even allow him to enjoy the freedom that he
Speaker 1: fought to maintain, and that probably doesn't feel good. Aban
Speaker 1: says that's why he doesn't have much faith in integration.
Speaker 1: Doctor Coles admits that before he met Ruby, he never
Speaker 1: thought about segregation. Aban admits that he learned a lot
Speaker 1: from Ruby too. We're now in the crowded school office.
Speaker 1: Missus Henry gets Ruby's test scores and they're incredible. As
Speaker 1: she celebrates, Miss Woodmere says she's lowering the score to
Speaker 1: more accurately reflect her ability, and that's when I wanted
Speaker 1: to reach through the screenpl my gosh, this lady.
Speaker 3: Was infuriating, truly infuriating. It really really was.
Speaker 1: Ruby has been privately tutored the whole year with special
Speaker 1: attention with being sir. Scores are inaccurate when compared to
Speaker 1: students who didn't get this treatment. Miss Henry says, Miss
Speaker 1: Woodrear is just upset because Ruby did better than the
Speaker 1: other students. Woodmere insists ruby scores are too high and
Speaker 1: will change them how she sees fit. Miss Henry reminds
Speaker 1: her the only reason she was privately taught is because
Speaker 1: she wouldn't put her in with the other children. Miss
Speaker 1: Woodmere says the experiment to mix the children failed, but
Speaker 1: missus Henry insists that the kids don't care what color
Speaker 1: she is. It's only the parents and the ignorant people
Speaker 1: who teach them to hate. Miss Woodmere says if missus
Speaker 1: Henry is unhappy at.
Speaker 3: The school, she shouldn't come back.
Speaker 1: Then Miss Spencer tries to stand up for Miss Henry finally,
Speaker 1: but another teacher tells her to shut up.
Speaker 5: Missus has slapped that girl too.
Speaker 1: A lot of possible slapping, Yes, a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of slap, boat hurt and hurt risk. By the
Speaker 1: time I was done, missus Henry wonders if the children
Speaker 1: mean anything and leaves, but on her way out, she
Speaker 1: says the country is changing, whether Miss Woodmere likes it
Speaker 1: or not.
Speaker 3: Then an emotional Miss Spencer speaks up again.
Speaker 1: Missus Henry worked her behind off and spent nearly every
Speaker 1: minute of the day dedicated to her job. She reminds
Speaker 1: Miss Woodmere her job is to support the teachers, not
Speaker 1: sabotage them, and then she races after Miss Henry finally
Speaker 1: yes back in the neighborhood kids are playing baseball again,
Speaker 1: and Alison's dad is pitching to Carl, Ruby's little brother.
Speaker 3: When Aban pulls.
Speaker 1: Up after a long day of house painting, Allison's dad
Speaker 1: seems to have come around. He says everyone is actually
Speaker 1: really proud of Ruby. Doctor Coles and his wife pull up,
Speaker 1: and Ruby skips over to offer a popsicle. Ruby and
Speaker 1: the doctor work at a nearby table, and she says
Speaker 1: she's going to have a birthday party soon and wants
Speaker 1: the Coles to come. He says they'll be there and
Speaker 1: asks about her new drawing. It's him, Missus Coles, the
Speaker 1: boy yards and Jimmy. Jimmy is now her friend, even
Speaker 1: though his mom doesn't want him to be and he
Speaker 1: doesn't call her names anymore. She thinks people are happier
Speaker 1: when they make good friends. Doctor Coles agrees and says
Speaker 1: she's been a great teacher, then asks for a hug.
Speaker 1: Inside the school of Smiling, Ruby walks by Woodmere, who
Speaker 1: looks like she's been crying. Her ruling with bigotry has
Speaker 1: come to an end. Yay, in the school's playground, Missus
Speaker 1: Henry and Ruby are sitting on a bench when one
Speaker 1: of the other students calls over for Ruby to sit
Speaker 1: with her.
Speaker 3: Miss Spencer apologizes to missus Henry.
Speaker 1: She's sorry they didn't get to know each other better
Speaker 1: over this year and thinks what she did was the
Speaker 1: right thing and she did it very well. Missus Henry
Speaker 1: says that means a lot to her. Hopefully next year,
Speaker 1: if Miss Spencer gets Ruby or someone like Ruby as
Speaker 1: a student, she can do the same.
Speaker 3: Nearby, Ruby is on the playground carousel having fun with Jimmy.
Speaker 3: And with that we hear some narration about Ruby Bridges'
Speaker 3: Educational Foundation, established in nineteen ninety five to build an
Speaker 3: understanding of cultural diversity within public schools across the nation.
Speaker 3: Under Ruby's leadership, The growth and success of the foundation
Speaker 3: continues to prove that the sacrifices her family made were
Speaker 3: not in vain.
Speaker 1: And that is our movie. That was a tough one
Speaker 1: to watch. But what did other people think about it?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Why don't we do some real reviews?
Speaker 1: And I have the one star from some idiot named
Speaker 1: phrase three oh seven. Ugh. Uh, And it's just as strange.
Speaker 3: It's strange, and you cannot like a movie. You can
Speaker 3: you can understand, you can.
Speaker 1: Say respect the the subject matter of a movie, and
Speaker 1: not like a movie that's perfectly okay, hey it didn't
Speaker 1: wasn't directed well, it didn't like the acting.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 1: This says we were expecting something with intelligent talking points
Speaker 1: instead of a glorified ten minute YouTube presentation blown up
Speaker 1: into a poorly scripted TV movie. If your kid doesn't
Speaker 1: have an interest in or understanding of American civil rights movement,
Speaker 1: then consider something like The Box Trolls instead.
Speaker 3: One star.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what that means, just right around,
Speaker 2: right with the people on the pic, like you're just
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 3: I just don't get what it even means though, It's like,
Speaker 3: what do you what are you saying? It?
Speaker 5: Almost Yeah, it's so weird.
Speaker 2: I've got the five star, which I'm I do love
Speaker 2: this five star.
Speaker 3: It's a good, good one. Yeah.
Speaker 2: From Rosanna Bodafogo. Those films that hurt in the soul,
Speaker 2: if it hurt to watch. I can't imagine what it'd
Speaker 2: be like to live in an act of racism. It
Speaker 2: seems impossible to have such a brave little girl, beautiful family,
Speaker 2: that education and character is priceless. Ruby Ridges bought bravely
Speaker 2: for a lot a biography that is needed, deserved, exciting, delicate, courageous, faithful,
Speaker 2: very proud of this Disney production.
Speaker 3: That was great.
Speaker 1: And you know what, We're not gonna do a feature
Speaker 1: game this week. There's no points and I.
Speaker 5: Don't have any Sabrina sees.
Speaker 1: Okay, the things just score this movie, yes, and we're
Speaker 1: just gonna go with Little Heroes as our scoring system.
Speaker 3: Out of time that one out of ten, that's what
Speaker 3: we're gonna do. What did you think you go first?
Speaker 2: As hard as as it was to watch, I'm right
Speaker 2: there with our five star. It was a great movie
Speaker 2: that I felt really shed light on a hard topic
Speaker 2: and Disney did it in a delicate way.
Speaker 5: Even though it was rough.
Speaker 2: It was rough to watch, but I mean I was
Speaker 2: just pulled right in with this family and just in
Speaker 2: awe of such an incredible story and to really know
Speaker 2: that this is of someone's real life was just incredibly inspiring.
Speaker 2: I loved this movie. Hard to watch, but oh, this
Speaker 2: was a great one. This is ten Little Heroes for me.
Speaker 2: I thought the acting in this movie was phenomenal. It
Speaker 2: was just such a good watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: From a historical standpoint, the story was obviously outstanding. As
Speaker 1: a film, the acting was wonderful. I would have liked
Speaker 1: a little bit more from the script in regard to
Speaker 1: some of the other relationships that Ruby had. The other
Speaker 1: thing is it has to be very, very difficult to
Speaker 1: have a movie based around a six year old because
Speaker 1: as an actor, as good as you are at six,
Speaker 1: it's tough tough to act ever, but let alone as
Speaker 1: a six year old. I think as a film, some
Speaker 1: of Lord Selma was better in my opinion, just as
Speaker 1: a movie. That being said, this was, you know, incredible.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think to the difference between the actors
Speaker 2: and Lord similar Selma, where it was a pretty big
Speaker 2: gap compared to a five or six year old.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's easier to put a movie through a
Speaker 1: kid's eyes when your actors eleven or twelve, much easier
Speaker 1: and also.
Speaker 2: Script wise, you're then talking about this young actor like
Speaker 2: the relationship, like the relationship we wanted between her and
Speaker 2: the Marshall, like that would happen. You know, that's a
Speaker 2: delicate relationship to have put on screen. So it is
Speaker 2: I think you were a little they were somewhat limited,
Speaker 2: I guess with that agree age different.
Speaker 3: That being said, Disney does these movies so well.
Speaker 1: This to me is like, it's so funny because people
Speaker 1: think of the Disney Channel Bread and Butter as like
Speaker 1: a high school musical, as these big lavish musicals that stuff.
Speaker 3: And they certainly are, and I totally see that.
Speaker 1: I see why Cheated Girls, why a whole generation of
Speaker 1: girls still dress like the Cheata Girls and other stuff.
Speaker 1: It's so important. But Disney also does stuff like this
Speaker 1: so unbelievably well. They know the audience they have, and
Speaker 1: they know that you can make something like this an
Speaker 1: incredible teaching moment for an entire generation of people watching
Speaker 1: a movie. So that's why I love these movies again,
Speaker 1: The Selma, Lord Selma, This Color of Friendship. There's a
Speaker 1: reason why these are like my favorite kind of movies
Speaker 1: to watch is because a I love history, I love
Speaker 1: true stories, but I also love putting them through the
Speaker 1: eyes of a kid. I mean, the idea of watching
Speaker 1: this little girl and you want to reach through and
Speaker 1: grab her and hold on to her and be like,
Speaker 1: I'll walk you to school every day like that.
Speaker 3: There's a power in that.
Speaker 1: When it comes to a movie where it's like you
Speaker 1: want to jump through the screen to somebody, You want
Speaker 1: to jump through the screen to slap a lady in
Speaker 1: the face.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's like but there's a power in that filmmaking where
Speaker 1: you're just like, I'll be there for you if you
Speaker 1: need me.
Speaker 3: And it's so that movie did this. It was absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 2: And to know that Disney did that four kids, not
Speaker 2: just us, not for us adults. It's for kids to
Speaker 2: give them that level of empathy or it's a time
Speaker 2: that they don't know anything about, and it's.
Speaker 1: Just But again, I think I liked some alert someone
Speaker 1: better and I think I gave some alert Sema ten.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to give this a nine point five.
Speaker 3: Little Heroes.
Speaker 1: This was a great movie all the way around. It
Speaker 1: really is an important movie, tough movie, tough movie to watch.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I cry, like literally through the majority
Speaker 2: of these scenes that were it was so hard to
Speaker 2: think about this young little girl, to think about her mom,
Speaker 2: her whole family, her community, everyone.
Speaker 5: It was just rough.
Speaker 3: The dynamic of the family is so interesting to watch.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's.
Speaker 1: Another thing where this doesn't get talked about, and you
Speaker 1: you think about it, or it doesn't get talked about
Speaker 1: it enough. And you know, every person has to find
Speaker 1: this their own way if they have it or they don't,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter either way around.
Speaker 3: It's whatever works for you. But it also shows the
Speaker 3: power of faith in this.
Speaker 1: Movie, where you know, they talk about how this little
Speaker 1: girl's faith is one of the things that psychologically kept
Speaker 1: her right safe at least that you know, she was
Speaker 1: starting to have some problems, but that was the one
Speaker 1: thing she leaned on. And if you have whatever that
Speaker 1: is in your life, if you sometimes it's your family,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's your faith, sometimes it's your partner, sometimes it's whatever.
Speaker 1: But if you have that that structure in your life,
Speaker 1: it's something that can be very helpful and protective. And
Speaker 1: that was another interesting aspect of this movie. So if
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it, go check it out again. It
Speaker 1: is it's a tough watch, but an important one. And
Speaker 1: you know, if you want to check out other pioneering names,
Speaker 1: something like Ruby Bridges, then you know, especially when it
Speaker 1: comes to integration, read stuff about Claudette Colvin or the
Speaker 1: Little Rock Nine, Barbara John's there's some incredible stories out there,
Speaker 1: so please go and check those out our next movie.
Speaker 1: We're going back to dcoms. We're going back to some
Speaker 1: of the lighter hearted dcoms and more of the stuff
Speaker 1: that is quote unquote dcom films.
Speaker 3: That we've been watching.
Speaker 1: We want to close the summer out here, and we
Speaker 1: want to do it right because we want to do
Speaker 1: it with a snowboarding movie, and we also want to
Speaker 1: do it before the summer ever started.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, So we want to close the summer out before
Speaker 3: the summer started with the snowboarding movie, with the snowboarding movie.
Speaker 5: And here at Magical rewind. That just makes it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the trucks completely tracks. Nothing I said is wrong.
Speaker 1: It completely tracks Ever Nope, it works. We're going to
Speaker 1: be watching the twenty fourteen snowboarding movie Cloud nine. By
Speaker 1: the way, you do not have to watch the first
Speaker 1: eight to understand what happened.
Speaker 3: It is available.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, there's not a Cloud one through eighth. I
Speaker 1: have you heard of this movie?
Speaker 2: No, because I feel like what I was in Aspen
Speaker 2: Cloud nine was a club at one of the top
Speaker 2: of the okay where they spray move everywhere.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure that was the you're in of.
Speaker 1: Club where you were getting sprayed Wow, nice, I'm the one.
Speaker 3: I'm the guy in Amen.
Speaker 2: How much is about? I don't think that's what this
Speaker 2: dcom will be about, though.
Speaker 3: I have a big feel probably not.
Speaker 1: It's my favorite part of Aspen is the thirty seven
Speaker 1: dollars drinks Ridiculous. It is available now Cloud nine to
Speaker 1: stream on Disney Plus. And while we wait, we have
Speaker 1: a park Opper episode for you that you do not
Speaker 1: want to miss. We are so happy to get this
Speaker 1: person we got to speak to because you know, we
Speaker 1: just listened to watch this movie and is one of
Speaker 1: our favorites.
Speaker 3: The Slumber Party.
Speaker 1: Yes, we got to talk to the star of The
Speaker 1: Slumber Party, Darby Camp herself.
Speaker 3: We were so excited. We know her best as Megan.
Speaker 1: Of course, we talked her all about starring in The
Speaker 1: Tween Hangover, which is also We're hard. What's what it
Speaker 1: was like to drive a Hedgehog? Did she actually shave
Speaker 1: her eyebrow? Here is a small snippet of what you
Speaker 1: can expect.
Speaker 4: We had our stunt coordinator in the go kart like
Speaker 4: in the Hedgehog, and he was driving it underneath, and
Speaker 4: we actually were freely going on the road like in
Speaker 4: the real road. There were some scenes that were green screen,
Speaker 4: like the close ups and like all of our screams
Speaker 4: and all of that, but no, we were actually on
Speaker 4: the road, like going in this go car, and it
Speaker 4: was so much fun and the best part, which I love,
Speaker 4: is just the freedom to be able to just go crazy.
Speaker 1: Make sure to listen to that one. She was so
Speaker 1: cool to talk to us and we had a ton
Speaker 1: of fun with Darby. It's one of the many interviews
Speaker 1: in recaps you can find online just by searching for
Speaker 1: Magical Rewind wherever you get your podcasts. It is worth
Speaker 1: noting if you listen to us just on the Podmeats
Speaker 1: World feed, you're missing all of our awesome interviews and
Speaker 1: there are some really cool behind the scenes stories, so
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Speaker 3: Thanks everybody, and we'll see you next time.
Speaker 6: Bye bye.
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