Claire Danes Portrays Temple Grandin with Uncompromised Brilliance - Catch the Film on HBO
Expect to see an Academy Award handed over for Claire Danes' amazing HBO portrayal of Temple Grandin. Many thanks to HBO and DISH Network Packages for airing this film!
Heck, I think they should hold a special presentation now and just give her the undeniably deserved honor without delay.
Claire's performance is nothing short of brilliant. With unsentimental accuracy she captures every conceivable nuance of the unique intellect and social complexities that come part and parcel with Grandin's autism.
The real life Grandin is now a 60-something university professor. Far from your typical autistic person (if there is any such thing as a typical person in any category), Ms. Grandin didn't speak until age 4. Her mother taught her to read and write. Some years thereafter at a boarding school, she and her supportive and respectfully encouraging mother connected with Dr. Carlock, a teacher who discovered that Temple's high-functioning autism manifested itself with an unusually photographic mind.
Temple's abilities to capture and retain exceptionally detailed images and further locate and dissect details within those mental pictures eventually lead to her design of the humane (and ultimately far more efficient) systems that are now employed by the majority of today's cattle ranches and slaughterhouses.
Temple Grandin's story is thoroughly fascinating. I can't imagine that any other actress could have given us such a compelling depiction of this accomplished woman. Grandin's mother described her very accurately and articulately as "Different but not less." Be sure your DISH network packages include HBO and other premiere channels; you don't want to miss out!
If Danes so chooses never to act another moment in her life, she could not have given us more than this spectacular presentation. What more can we say? Bravo Claire. Bravo.
