The novel and movie do last, I think, because they are founded in real experience and feeling. My parents were scarred by the Depression, it was a remembered devastation I sensed in their very tones of voice, and 'The Grapes of Wrath' shows half a nation with the economic rug pulled out from under it.
Running time129 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$800,000Box office$2.5 million (rentals)The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 American directed. It was based on 's 1939 -winning. The screenplay was written by and the executive producer was.The film tells the story of the Joads, an family, who, after losing their farm during the in the 1930s, become and end up in.
The motion picture details their arduous journey across the United States as they travel to California in search of work and opportunities for the family members.The film is widely considered to be one of the. In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States by the as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.' Contents.Plot The film opens with Tom Joad , released from and his way back to his parents' family farm in. Tom finds an itinerant ex- named Jim Casy sitting under a tree by the side of the road.
Casy was the preacher who Tom, but now Casy has 'lost the spirit' and his faith. Casy goes with Tom to the Joad property only to find it deserted. There, they meet Muley Graves who is hiding out. In a, he describes how farmers all over the area were forced from their farms by the deed holders of the land. A local boy , hired for the purpose, is shown knocking down Muley's house with a. The large Joad family of twelve leaves at daybreak, along with Casy, who decides to accompany them. They pack everything into a dilapidated 1926 ' adapted to serve as a in order to make the long journey to the promised land of California.The trip along is arduous, and it soon takes a toll on the Joad family.
The elderly Grandpa dies along the way. Tom writes the circumstances surrounding the death on a page from the and places it on the body before they bury it so that if his remains were found, his death would not be investigated as a possible homicide. They park in a camp and meet a man, a migrant returning from California, who laughs at Pa's optimism about conditions in California.
He speaks bitterly about his experiences in the West. Grandma dies when they reach California, the son Noah and son-in-law Connie also leave the family group.The family arrives at the first transient migrant campground for workers and finds the camp is crowded with other starving, jobless and desperate travelers. Their truck slowly makes its way through the dirt road between the shanty houses and around the camp's hungry-faced inhabitants.
Tom says, 'Sure don't look none too prosperous.' After some trouble with a so-called 'agitator', the Joads leave the camp in a hurry. The Joads make their way to another migrant camp, the Keene Ranch. After doing some work in the fields, they discover the high food prices in the company store for meat and other products.
The store is the only one in the area, by a long shot. Later they find a group of migrant workers are striking, and Tom wants to find out all about it.
He goes to a secret meeting in the dark woods. When the meeting is discovered, Casy is killed by one of the camp guards. As Tom tries to defend Casy from the attack, he inadvertently kills the guard.Tom suffers a serious wound on his cheek, and the camp guards realize it will not be difficult to identify him. That evening the family hides Tom under the mattresses of the truck just as guards arrive to question them; they are searching for the man who killed the guard. Tom avoids being spotted and the family leaves the Keene Ranch without further incident. After driving for a while, they have to stop at the top of a hill when the engine overheats due to a broken fan belt; they have little gas, but decide to try coasting down the hill to some lights. The lights are from a third type of camp: Farmworkers' Wheat Patch Camp (Weedpatch in the book), a clean camp run by the, complete with indoor toilets and showers, which the Joad children had never seen before.Tom is moved to work for change by what he has witnessed in the various camps.
He tells his family that he plans to carry on Casy's mission in the world by fighting for social reform. He leaves to seek a new world and to join the movement committed to.Tom Joad says:I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look, wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build, I'll be there, too.As the family moves on again, they discuss the fear and difficulties they have had.
Ma Joad concludes the film, saying:I ain't never gonna be scared no more. I was, though. For a while it looked as though we was beat. Good and beat. Looked like we didn't have nobody in the whole wide world but enemies. Like nobody was friendly no more.
Made me feel kinda bad and scared too, like we was lost and nobody cared. Rich fellas come up and they die, and their kids ain't no good and they die out, but we keep a-coming. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out, they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, cos we're the people. as Tom Joad.
as Ma Joad. as Jim Casy. as William James 'Grandpa' Joad. as Rose of Sharon. Far cry 5 lord of the wings. as Pa Joad. as Al Joad.
as Muley Graves. as Connie Rivers. as Grandma Joad.
as Noah Joad. as Uncle John. as Winfield Joad. as Ruth 'Ruthie' Joad.
as Mr. Thomas. as Caretaker. as Wilkie. as Davis. as Policeman. Harry Tyler as Bert.
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William Pawley as Bill. as Joe. as Inspection Officer. as Leader.
as Proprietor. as Floyd.
David Hughes as Frank. as City Man. as Keene Ranch Foreman.
as Tim. Adrian Morris as Agent. as Muley's Son. as Spencer. as Driver. as Mae. as Deputy (uncredited).
as Migrant (uncredited)Novel According to, The Grapes of Wrath was America's best-selling book of 1939 and 430,000 copies had been printed by February 1940.In that month it won the, favorite fiction book of 1939, voted by members of the. Soon it won the.In 1962, the committee said The Grapes of Wrath was 'great work' and one of the committee's main reasons for granting Steinbeck the. Magazine included the novel in its 'TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005'.
In 2009, also included the novel in its '100 novels everyone should read'. In 1998, the ranked The Grapes of Wrath tenth on its list of the.Differences from the novel The first part of the film follows the book fairly closely. However, the second half and the ending in particular are significantly different from the book. While the book ends with the downfall and break-up of the Joad family, the film switches the order of sequences so that the family ends up in a 'good' camp provided by the government, and events turn out relatively well.In the novel, Rose-of-Sharon ('Rosasharn') Rivers (played in the film by ) gives birth to a baby. Later she offers her milk-filled breasts to a starving man, dying in a barn. These scenes were not included in the film.While the film is somewhat stark, it has a more optimistic and hopeful view than the novel, especially when the Joads land at the Department of Agriculture camp – the clean camp. Also, the producers decided to tone down Steinbeck's references, such as eliminating a monologue using a land owner's description of ' as anybody 'that wants thirty cents an hour when we're payin' twenty-five,' to show that under the prevalent conditions that definition applies to every looking for better wages.The film emphasizes Ma Joad's pragmatic, forward-looking way of dealing with their situation despite Tom's departure, as it concludes with her 'We're the people' speech.
Ivy and Sairy Wilson, who attend to Grandpa's death and travel with the Joads until they reach California, are left out of the movie. Noah's departure from the family is passed over in the movie. Instead, he simply disappears without explanation. In the book, Floyd tells Tom about how the workers were being exploited, but in the movie he does not appear until after the deputy arrives in Hooverville. Sandry, the religious fanatic who scares Rose of Sharon, is left out of the movie.argued that the film uses visual imagery to focus on the Joads as a family unit, whereas the novel focuses on their journey as a part of the 'family of man'.
She points out that their farm is never shown in detail, and that the family members are never shown working in agriculture; not a single peach is shown in the entire film. This subtly serves to focus the film on the specific family, as opposed to the novel's focus on man and land together.In the film, most family members are either reduced, such as Al, Noah and Uncle John, to background characters or, like Rose of Sharon and Connie, to being the focus of only one or two relatively minor scenes. Instead, the film is largely concerned with Tom, Ma and, to a lesser extent, Jim Casy. Thus, despite the film's focus on the Joads as a specific family rather than a part of the 'family of man', the movie explores very little of the members of the family itself.Soundtrack. Henry Fonda – '.
Eddie Quillan – 'Going Down the Road Feeling Bad' (Traditional). ' (Words & music by & )Production According to critic, both and director John Ford were odd choices to make this film because both were considered politically. Zanuck was nervous about the left-wing political views of the novel, especially the ending. Due to the common to the era, Darryl Zanuck sent to to help him legitimize the film.When Zanuck's investigators found that the ' predicament was indeed terrible, Zanuck was confident he could defend political attacks that the film was somehow pro.
Ebert believes that also helped sell the film's message, as Communism received a brief respite from American demonizing during that period.Production on the film began on October 4, 1939, and was completed on November 16, 1939. Some of the filming locations include:, both in;, and, all in;, all in;, all in.The film score by is based on the song '. Additionally, the song 'Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad' is sung in a nighttime scene at a labor camp.The film premiered in on January 24, 1940, and on January 27, 1940. The wide release date in the United States was March 15, 1940.Reception Critical response of wrote:In the vast library where the celluloid literature of the screen is stored there is one small, uncrowded shelf devoted to the cinema's masterworks, to those films which by dignity of theme and excellence of treatment seem to be of enduring artistry, seem destined to be recalled not merely at the end of their particular year but whenever great motion pictures are mentioned. To that shelf of screen classics Twentieth Century-Fox yesterday added its version of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, adapted by Nunnally Johnson, directed by John Ford and performed at the Rivoli by a cast of such uniform excellence and suitability that we should be doing its other members an injustice by saying it was 'headed' by Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine and Russell Simpson.When critic retired in 1967, he named The Grapes of Wrath one of the best fifty films ever made. (N.B.: 40 percent of the works Crowther named were not American-made, so he was placing this work in a large context.)In a film review written for magazine by its editor, he separated his views of Steinbeck's novel from Ford's film, which he liked.Chambers wrote:But people who go to pictures for the sake of seeing pictures will see a great one.
For The Grapes of Wrath is possibly the best picture ever made from a so-so book.Camera craft purged the picture of the editorial rash that blotched the Steinbeck book. Cleared of excrescences, the residue is a great human story which made thousands of people, who damned the novel's phony conclusions, read it. It is the saga of an authentic U.S.
Farming family who lose their land. They wander, they suffer, but they endure. They are never quite defeated, and their survival is itself a triumph.A review in reported, 'Here is outstanding entertainment, projected against a heart-rending sector of the American scene,' concluding, 'It possesses an adult viewpoint and its success may lead other producers to explore the rich field of contemporary life which films long have neglected and ignored.' Wrote in, 'With a majesty never before so constantly sustained on any screen, the film never for an instant falters. Its beauty is of the sort found in the art of, and, as the landscape and people involved belong to the world of these painters.' The year-end poll of 546 critics nationwide ranked The Grapes of Wrath as the second-best film of 1940, behind only.
Awards wins (1941)., as Ma Joad., John Ford.Academy Awards nominations (1941)., as Tom Joad., Robert L. Simpson., Darryl F. Zanuck and Nunnally Johnson.,., Nunnally Johnson.Other wins.: NBR Award; Best Picture- 1940.: NYFCC Award; Best Director, John Ford; Best Film- 1940.,: Blue Ribbon Award Best Foreign Language Film, John Ford- 1963. – 1989.recognition.
– #21.:. Tom Joad – #12 Hero.:.
'Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.' – Nominated. – #7. – #23Home media. The film's trailerThe film was released on VHS in 1988.
It was later released in video format on March 3, 1998 by 20th Century Fox on its Studio Classic series.A was released on April 6, 2004 by 20th Century Fox Entertainment. The DVD contains a special commentary track by scholars Joseph McBride and Susan Shillinglaw. It also includes various supplements: an biography of Daryl F. Zanuck, outtakes, a gallery, lauds motion pictures at Academy featurette, Movietone news: three drought reports from 1934, etc.The film was released on on April 3, 2012, and features all supplemental material from the DVD release.See also., a film review aggregator websiteReferences. Solomon, Aubrey (1989). Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History.
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