Change trucks to donkey carts, picking grapes instead of harvesting wheat

Kaia 2021-12-09 08:01:21

I always thought "Easy Rider" was the first road movie, but now I understand that as early as 1940, Grape of Wrath had the elements that a road movie should have, broken trucks, traveling west along the highway, and constantly encountering people and things.

Is the director of the Communist Party of America? The leftist color of the film is so strong, the ratio of good, bad, positive, and opposition is like black and white. Ordinary people are kind, even at any gas station grocery store, shop assistants and truck drivers are so humane.
If the film is replaced by Chinese actors, trucks and donkey carts, grape picking is changed to wheat harvesting, and the title is changed to "Angry People", wouldn't it be a main theme film that exposed the darkness of capitalists and the people's consciousness in the early days of my country's liberation?
It was released in the 1940s. In the McCarthy era, hehe~

I admire the trucks in the film very much. They look dilapidated and may fall apart at any time, but they can travel more than a thousand kilometers west without repairs. No wonder Khrushchev refuses to let the Soviet Union. When the film was released, the quality of American trucks was so good, what about the Soviet Union? The abject poor in the United States could even buy a broken car during the Great Depression. What about the people in the Soviet Union who lived in honey?

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The Grapes of Wrath quotes

  • [last lines]

    Ma Joad: Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people.

  • [the family is leaving the farm, heading for California]

    Al Joad: Ain't you gonna look back, Ma? Give the ol' place a last look?

    Ma Joad: We're going' to California, ain't we? All right then let's go to California.

    Al Joad: That don't sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before.

    Ma Joad: I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. Never had to lose everything I had in life.