Captions Added by Theater to Film

A theater in Austin, Texas has added open captioning to the Oscar nominated film There will be Blood. The Alamo Drafthouse Ritz Theater made the move after the studio decided not to release a caption disk to go along with the movie. The film is significant to the Deaf community because Russell Harvard appears in the film as HW Plainview, the deaf son of the main character. Plainview becomes deaf after an explosion at his father's oil derrick. Harvard attended the Texas School for the Deaf, and is a deaf actor who landed his first movie role in the film.

There Will Be Blood

You can see a student from Gallaudet University in a major new film that just opened in limited release nationwide. Theatre arts major Russell Harvard plays the son of an oil tycoon in There will be Blood. The film features Daniel Day-Lewis and is based the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair and set in the California frontier at the turn of the 20th century. The Austin, Texas native is also taking part in the Gallaudet stage production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. He’s already had parts in CBS’ CSI: New York with Marlee Matlin, Deaf West Theatre’s Sleeping Beauty. Read more at DeafNewsToday.com.