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My Left Foot

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My Left Foot	label	My Left Foot
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My Left Foot	comment	My Left Foot is the 1954 autobiography of Irish cerebral palsy sufferer Christy Brown. Paralyzed from birth, Brown is written off as helpless and incapable of doing anything. But Christy's indomitable mother never gives up on the boy. Using his left foot, the only part of his body not afflicted, Brown learns to write. He grows up to become a well-known author and painter.The novel was made into an Oscar-winning drama in 1989 directed by Jim Sheridan, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown and Brenda Fricker as his mother.
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My Left Foot / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
My Left Foot / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: Christy is a poet and a painter, but even he is prone to this trope. Dr. Eileen Cole just rolls with it when she offers to teach him speech therapy.
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My Left Foot / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
My Left Foot / int_361a1d26	comment	Anguished Declaration of Love: Christy to Eileen when they're out dining after the showing at Peter's gallery. It does not go well, as Eileen's already engaged to Peter: It all goes downhill from there, and is most likely the start of Christy's alcoholism (before, he would just drink socially)...
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My Left Foot / int_3fff5717	type	Genius Cripple
My Left Foot / int_3fff5717	comment	Genius Cripple: The main character could only move his left foot due to cerebral palsy, but still wrote several poetry books and became very famous in Irish literary circles.
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My Left Foot / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
My Left Foot / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Christy's father. He comes across as somewhat cold at first, but when Christy writes "MOTHER" on the floor, he takes him for a drink. Perhaps his most heart of gold moment comes when he takes over from Christy's mother to build Christy a room.
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My Left Foot / int_4e02dc42	type	Ironically Disabled Artist
My Left Foot / int_4e02dc42	comment	Ironically Disabled Artist: Christy was afflicted with cerebral palsy since birth. Only his left foot is completely controllable, and he uses it to paint with acrylics on canvas, and to pen books of poetry, which are acclaimed by critics. This makes Christy Brown a Genius Cripple who penned his autobiography, which became the basis for the screenplay.
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My Left Foot / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
My Left Foot / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: The way in which the story is told.
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My Left Foot / int_62566e01	type	Extremity Extremist
My Left Foot / int_62566e01	comment	Extremity Extremist: The protagonist, an almost-total tetraplegic who is carried around in a wheelbarrow, uses his only working appendage — guess which one — to do some damage in a Bar Brawl.
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My Left Foot / int_757bbdb8	type	Massive Numbered Siblings
My Left Foot / int_757bbdb8	comment	Massive Numbered Siblings: Christy had 13 surviving siblings.
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My Left Foot / int_9ca12273	type	Handy Feet
My Left Foot / int_9ca12273	comment	Handy Feet: Christy has no choice but to use his left foot as a hand.
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My Left Foot / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
My Left Foot / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: Christy hatches a plan to get free coal by using himself to distract the coalmen while his brothers loosened the truck's tailgate, causing the coal to fall out.
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My Left Foot / int_acedb8f5	type	Oscar Bait
My Left Foot / int_acedb8f5	comment	Oscar Bait: And it worked, giving Day-Lewis his first Best Actor win.
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My Left Foot / int_b15ad926	type	Time-Shifted Actor
My Left Foot / int_b15ad926	comment	Time-Shifted Actor: Hugh O'Conor plays the 9-year-old Christy Brown, opposite Daniel Day-Lewis playing him as an adult.
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My Left Foot / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
My Left Foot / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: In the film version, the character Dr. Eileen Cole never existed. She was supposed to represent an amalgam of several people who helped Christy. Robert Collis was his mentor in every way — in his education and physical development but, more than that, he encouraged him to paint and write. In fact, he proofread Christy's first book and contacted the publishers for him — the lot. Dr. Patricia Sheehan, who had played a very important role in Christy's development, was very much against the portrayal of Eileen Cole in the film.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

My Left Foot	hasFeature	Dyeing for Your Art / int_4c2f15db
My Left Foot	hasFeature	Extremity Extremist / int_4c2f15db
My Left Foot	hasFeature	Ironically Disabled Artist / int_4c2f15db
My Left Foot	hasFeature	Physical Disability in Media / int_4c2f15db
My Left Foot	hasFeature	The Film of the Book / int_4c2f15db

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