Solution...if they remake it, boycott it, just like we do all of the socially re-engineered remakes out of commiewood.
Will it have any relevance in 2013 the way it did in the Dust Bowl?
Talk about hubris! Hanoi Jane is liable to go kick Spielberg in the nads for wrecking her father’s best work.
I’m just positive....positive......that the young people of America will swarm to see a movie about white people moving in the 1930s. Speilberg’s arteries must be hardening.
I heard they are remaking the Godfather as well with Leonardo DiCaprio as Don Corleone.
Just kidding, well....maybe not. With all these remakes it’s just a matter of time isn’t it?
I didn’t like the first one that much.
It’s an awful book...read it in high school, thought it was communist propaganda then...still do so today. The movie is a cartoon of the book...ALL the poor people are lionized...everybody else is shown as part of the problem.
That Hollywood is going back to this...speaks volumes about why their movies have so little interest for the great majority.
They just don’t get it.
When I saw the film at a young age and being pre-politically conscience, I was disturbed most by government man wearing white, IIRC. He represented Saint Sam and not Uncle Sam.
They like to remake old movies so they can insert sex and lots of f-bombs, even though that word was rarely used by decent people.
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I had to read the book in school and it was the most boring book ever!
SCTV had a funny parody about it called Grapes of Mud I recall though.
Spielberg thinks he’s John Ford. He needs to think harder.
About 20 years ago my Parents rented a house in Southern California.
Their Landlady played the (blonde) preteen Daughter in the Movie. She did some Shirley Temple Movies back then too.
She was very complimentary of Henry Fonda from her experiences on the Set with him...
I guarantee you the new “Dust Bowl” will be a result of global warming.
Maybe Ma Joad will be played by Rachel Jeantel.
A film about Middle East terrorism, “The Rapes of Gath”.
Except set in the near future, after DemocratCare fully kicks in.
Never remake a classic..
Spielberg must be going goofy.
btw.. I can see John Goodman playing Pa and Ma..
Justin Bieber can take Henry Fonda’s partafter he gets out of rehab.
Cher can play a out of work cabaret singer who hasn’t eaten in weeks. that way she can meld right into the part.
LoLi can make a cameo as a car wreck in the desert and Joy Behar as a mudhole operator. Oprah as a lettuce picker crew captain and John Malkovic has to be in there somewhere with Nic Cage.
Ya gotta love Tom Joad’s practical approach and impatience with whiners in that book. My favorite was always the one-eyed man and the “cow’s ass” comment.
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“The one-eyed man stood helplessly by. “I’ll help ya if ya want,” he said. “Know what that son-of-a-bitch done? He come by an’ he got on white pants. An’ he says, ‘Come on, le’s go out to my yacht.’ By God, I’ll whang him some day!” He breathed heavily. “I ain’t been out with a woman sence I los’ my eye. An’ he says stuff like that.” And big tears cut channels in the dirt beside his nose.
Tom said impatiently, “Whyn’t you roll on? Got no guards to keep ya here.”
“Yeah, that’s easy to say. Ain’t so easy to get a job - not for a one-eye’ man.”
Tom turned on him. “Now look-a-here, fella. You got that eye wide open. An’ ya dirty, ya stink. Ya jus’ askin’ for it. Ya like it. Lets ya feel sorry for yaself. ‘Course ya can’t get no woman with that empty eye flappin’ aroun’. Put somepin over it an’ wash ya face. You ain’t hittin’ nobody with no pipe wrench.”
“I tell ya, a one-eye’ fella got a hard row,” the man said. “Can’t see stuff the way other fellas can. Can’t see how far off a thing is. Ever’thing’s jus’ flat.”
Tom said, “Ya full of crap. Why, I knowed a one-legged whore one time. Think she was takin’ two-bits in a alley? No, by God! She’s gettin’ half a dollar extra. She says, ‘How many one-legged women you slep’ with? None!’ she says. ‘O.K.,’ she says. ‘You got somepin pretty special here, an it’s gonna cos’ ya half a buck extry.’ An’ by God, she was gettin’ ‘em, too, an’ the fellas comin’ out thinkin’ they’re pretty lucky. She says she’s good luck. An’ I knowed a hump-back in - in a place I was. Make his whole livin’ lettin’ folk rub his hump for luck. Jesus Christ, an’ all you got is one eye gone.”
The man said stumblingly, “Well, Jesus, ya see somebody edge away from ya, an’ it gets into ya.”
“Cover it up then, goddamn it. Ya stickin’ it out like a cow’s ass. Ya like to feel sorry for yaself. There ain’t nothin’ the matter with ya. Buy yaself some white pants. Ya gettin’ drunk and cryin’ in ya bed, I bet.”
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The one-eyed man said softly, “Think - somebody’d like - me?”
“Why, sure,” said Tom. “Tell ‘em ya dong’s growed sence you los’ your eye.”
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Just for the record, I was there during the Depression and Steinbeck's "Grapes" is a monumental telling of truth as to how it was in the 1930's.
And now, today, America's economy sits on a ledge similar to that shortly before the 1929 market collapse, and you ain't seen nothing yet.
My advice ... be prepared.