Lesson notes: Disability

Disability:
Music played in the background - Ian Dury and the Blockheads 'Spasticus Autisticus'

Views on disabled people:

• Rely on other people a lot;
• Sometimes excell at non-physical things i.e. Stephen Hawking excelled at science;
• Depending on disability - spme more abled still put heart and soul into everything;
• Can be nice, but difficulty to communicate;
• Don't want to be patronising towards them, therefore easy to avoid;
• More confortable around someone physically disabled than mentally;
• Sympathetic towards them.

Famous Disabled people:

• Stephen Hawking (motor neurone)
• Heather Mills (1 leg)
• Gordon Brown (1 eye)
• Stevie Wonder (Blind)
• Ray Charles (Blind)
• Verne Troyer (Dwarf)
• Albert Einstein (Autistic)
• Leonardo DaVinci (Autistic)
• Ian Dury (Polio)
• Terry Pratchett (Alzheimers)
• Mozart (Deaf)

Hollywood link to disability:

• Rainman - Dustin Hoffman
• Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks
• My left foot - Daniel Day Lewis
• I am Sam - Sean Penn
• Born on the fourth of July - Tom Cruise
• Waterboy - Adam Sandler
• The Ringer - Johnny Knoxville
• The curious case of Benjamin Button - Brad Pitt
• Unbreakable - Samuel.L. Jackson
• I-Robot - Will Smith
• Million Dollar Baby - Hillary Swank
• Avatar - Sam Worthington

What makes these succesful: Allows us as an audience to relate better to these disabled people whereas we probably wouldn't if we saw them in person. Also, they are unrealistic, so they give us an idea of a different kind of life where these people become very succesful.