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Kenyatta 2021-12-09 08:01:21
Idealistic works dressed in reality
The film could not be released in the Soviet Union at the time because the poor in the United States were able to drive around in a car when they could not eat enough to beautify the "evil capitalism" part. I think it's more than that. In the film, the pastor was arrested for assaulting the police,...
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Jamison 2022-03-21 09:01:54
[Film Review] The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and The Long Voyage Home (1940)
In 1940, there are two John Ford pictures,THE GRAPES OF WRATH and THE LONG VOYAGE HOME, entering the Oscar race (with 7 and 6 nominations respectively including BEST PICTURE), the former won him the second of his unsurpassable record of 4 wins in BEST DIRECTOR category.
As of today, THE GRAPES OF...

Charles D. Brown
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Edmond 2021-12-09 08:01:21
The atmosphere and heaviness in Ford's bones are very suitable for shooting this kind of drifting subject. Both the lens and the story frame are large. Although it is just a family migration, it can represent the turbulence of that era. Henry Fonda's perseverance, the mastery of the role of mother, and many vivid supporting characters all add points to the film.
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Edmond 2022-03-21 09:01:54
If I were a bird, I should also sing with a hoarse throat: this land battered by the storm, this river of grief and indignation that roams us forever, this furious wind that blows ceaselessly, and that from The incomparably gentle dawn in the woods... —and then I died, and even the feathers rotted in the earth. Why are there tears in my eyes? Because I love this land so much...
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Casy: You don' know what you're a-doin'.
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Casy: Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say.