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.
I guess I am being really overly snarky about it. But, the whole tone of the film I remember was sickening.
I still recall thinking… if Americans were like the cry baby, self pitying creeps in the film, we'd still be British colonial subjects. It made me sick as ALL self-pity does!
It's unwholesome and it is NOT constructive!
I don't think we need ANY MORE of the self-pitying, victimhood mentality in this country. It is bad enough as it is and we don't need to cultivate MORE of this.
My grandparents were forced from their homeland (where they had lived for generations) and came here to a completely NEW and different place. They knew NO ONE, they didn't speak English, they had absolutely NOTHING and were immediately and relentlessly subject to some of the most bourgeois xenophobia you ever saw!
But, the main thing they DIDN'T have and certainly DIDN’t MISS having was self-pity. That was strictly scorned and mocked!
Yeah, right - playing both roles, using split-screen. John Goodman as "Pa" and John Goodman in drag.
Regards,
Well, I suppose it's a "classic" if you're into New Deal socialist propaganda fine-tuned by Hollywood members of the Communist Internationale. I'll give Steinbeck's politics the benefit of the doubt but Hollywood Communists turned his book into a "classic" piece of collectivist crap.
If you have any interest in learning what a Stalinist stooge FDR was, read Diana West's "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character." It's life-altering.