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Edna Spalding: You took a no-account piece of land and a bunch of people that didn't know what they were doin' and you farmed that land better than anybody could - colored or white. You're the one that brought in the first bale of cotton this year. Don't you ever forget that.
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Moze: [whispering to Edna] That ain't the seed you're paying for. He's charging you for grade-A seed, but that's gin-run quality.
Edna Spalding: Somethin' wrong, ma'am?
Edna Spalding: Mr. Simmons, I think maybe you gave us the wrong seed?
W.E. Simmons: Well, so I did. That's just an honest mistake, idn't it, boy? Idn't it, boy?
Moze: Yes, sah.
W.E. Simmons: Now you idiots give Mrs. Spalding the wrong seed. We're lucky her nigger caught it. That's a smart nigger you got there, Mrs. Spalding. He's a credit to his race.
Robert Benton
Robert Douglas Benton (Robert Benton), born on September 29, 1932 in Waxahatchie, Texas, USA, is an American director, screenwriter, and producer.
In 1967, he co-wrote the screenplay " Bonnie and Clyde " with David Newman , which was nominated for the best original screenplay at the 40th Academy Awards
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. In 1972, directed his first film " Bad Company "
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. In 1977, directed the comedy film " The Late Show "
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, which was nominated for the best original screenplay at the 50th Academy Awards
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. In 1979
, he wrote and directed the romantic movie " Kramer vs. Kramer "
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, which won the 52nd Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay
[6] , and he won the 52nd Academy Awards for this film Best Director Award
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.
In 1984, the feature film " Places in the Heart " directed
by him was released. The film was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay in The 57th Annual Academy Awards
[1] . With this film, he was nominated for The 57th Annual Academy Awards for Best Director.
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. In 1987, directed the comedy film "Nadine". In 1994, directed the drama " Nobody's Fool "
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, which was nominated for the 67th Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay
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. In 1998, the suspense thriller film " Twilight " directed by him was released
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. In 2003, directed the drama film " The Human Stain "
[10]
. In 2007, directed the romantic movie "The Feast of Love"
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.
Character Evaluation
Robert Douglas Benton is an excellent director
. In the movie "Kramer vs. Kramer", Robert Douglas Benton uses his natural and delicate approach to show the family changes of an ordinary American couple. The emotional conflicts and value disputes of the characters in the film have profound social connotations, which bring unlimited thinking and interpretation space to the audience
. The seemingly narrative style, but soft and rigid, contains multiple antagonistic relationships between characters. This enables a family ethics film to show ups and downs in a life-like presentation, reflecting the barriers to communication between people in social reality. Harmonize with the deep desire, loss, escape and guilt in people's hearts comprehensive review of Film Literature , "Popular Literature and Art").
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