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.
“Will it have any relevance in 2013 the way it did in the Dust Bowl?”
You can bet your sweet a$# Spielberg will make sure it does . ..in SPADES!
He will make absolutely SURE that everyone walking out of the film will have a renewed (or brand new, as the case may be) hatred for Conservatism and Capitalism. BANK ON IT!
Are you kidding? Dust Bowl "climate change" will be blamed on anthropogenic global warming abetted by rapacious free market agricultural policies under evil conservative Herbert Hoover. The loss of the farm and land will be blamed on CO2-loving, greedy Wall Streeters and big banks.
Meanwhile, FDR will be portrayed as a socialist people's hero who carries a recessive black gene that is somehow passed on to an unnamed future mixed white/black President. That President will carry on FDR's glorious trailblazing policies leading to a full Communist paradise.
Ma Joad will be transformed into a feminist "hero" and Tom Joad will come out of the closet, celebrating his homosexual relationship with his former cell-mate that culminates in a beautiful gay marriage ceremony on the beach at Malibu. The movie will end as Agenda 21-inspired environmentalists descend upon the Great Plain with horse-drawn wagon loads of native grass seeds to restore it to its pristine natural state, while nasty humans are herded into idealized urban tenements. The End.