AquaBlue

Why is Marlee Matlin so popular? Yeah she's deaf but so what.There have been plenty of important Deaf individual in our history. Why her?

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Cheri

I wouldn't say "popular" just that she is well known by the Deaf community, because she's famous and she's an actress.

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AquaBlue

Yes but the Deaf have achieved more in history than she has...why not praise them more than Matlin?

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Cheri

I don't praise Marlee Martin, but I can't speak for others.

As you know the public schools do not educated us about the Deaf Culture, so there's a lot that we did not know back then. Helen Keller was the most popular in our history, because we were taught about Helen Keller's life biography in school.

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GarnetTigerMom

Marlee just a well known deaf actress, But she does do good on her words that she helps other deaf communities. She was also pretty cool gal before she got famous. Some of my classmats did act in the movie with her in the "Children of the Lesser GOD", I would say she have faced many many challenges in her life. Now she facing "dancing with the stars" is good challenges to prove that deaf people can do it. I think she tying to help hearing people understand deaf people more in a different view. We all know that there's a movie coming out called " Sweet nothng in my ears" seems like good educations for hearing people to understand deaf situations faces with hearing parents. But I can say she a good actress and that good enough for me.

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deafskeptic

Hmm.. I wonder if we have the same classmates from MSSD? Several of my classmates were in that movie.

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PowerON

noted that Marlee Matlin make sure the movie or tv she is in, have to be CC or else, she gonna fight. So, she did.

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Cheri

Unfortunality, I wish that was true, but One of her movies that I brought on DVD "Where the truth lies" did not appear to have closed caption.

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PowerON

it does have CC, otherwise, you may have not set correct on your DVD player to allow enable CC.

I look on amazon that show "Where the Truth Lies" have CC.
Amazon.com: Where the Truth Lies (Unrated Theatrical Edition)

and subtitle, too!

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Cheri

That's not the movie I was speaking of, "Where the truth lies" is with Marlee Martlin and Regina King. It's based on the true story.

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jillio

She is in the public eye, and quite often she is the only deaf person many hearies have ever seen, even from a distance. Hearies need a readily accessable model of a successful deaf person to open their minds to learning about other important individuals.

AquaBlue

That's important!

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Chase

Quite well said. In addition, I don't think we popularize Marlee Matlin over other deafies, but she does make significant contributions to give the hearing world glimpses of the deaf culture.

At least she's believable in what she does, not like some personalities who would have us believe that playing an adept political fugure makes them one . . . or that singing well gives them special knowledge of global science.

JClarke

You mean these peeps in the deaf party from the film scene, aye?

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deafskeptic

Yes and the speech class too.

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JClarke

Awesome.

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PowerON

...... eh? ok.

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GarnetTigerMom

I think so, Most of them I know graducated classed of 85 to 86 from MSSD. Smile. It be a small world.

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GarnetTigerMom

Well said! :-)

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GarnetTigerMom

Yeah, subtitles is always there. :-)

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AquaBlue

Then what is needed are several more Matlins out there because the heraing world is clueless when it comes to Deaf culture.

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Anij

Personally growing up Marlee Matlin, and Linda Bove were the only Deaf people I saw on tv ... as a hoh/deaf kid growing up that was a HUGE thing!

It wasn't about them being famous as much as it was about them being respected - on screen and off screen. I'm trying to think of a way to explain this in English... ummm .... while the hearing world was making me feel rather small -they ( Marlee and Linda etc) were (and are) this reminder that not everyone thinks deaf are dumb.

Of course there's more than just Marlee Matlin, Linda Bove etc out there ... Phyllis Frelich, Bernard Bragg, Groups like Deaf West,NTD& CTD are all HUGE.

They're Role models - currently one of my strongest role models is Deanne Bray(Kotsur) and it's not just because of Sue Thomas FB Eye.

The hearing world is infused with positive role models that kids and adults alike can look to... for hh/d who don't have a "community" it's more important than many people realise to be able to turn on the tv, and see people that the world sees as "successful" who just so happen to understand the same struggles, challenges, hopes, joys, and "life" that I do ...

JMHO

Jolie77

Agreed. I also would like to add this on my part - Marlee is the first deaf actress to win an academy award. That alone carried a lot of weight and it did indeed broke a lot of barriers. It gave a glimpse of how deaf people were able to incline their selves into the hearing world. She was also a "pioneer" to represent the deaf community in the films on a major level, especially when it comes to be able to bridge the gaps between both worlds.

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