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abumbyanyothername Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 08:33 PM
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Grapes of Wrath on TCM
"They come with the Cats."

"The whats?"

"The Catepillar tractors. And for everyone of 'em, there was 10, 15 families throwed right out their homes."
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 08:39 PM
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1. Grapes of Wrath
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armyowalgreens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 08:40 PM
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3. haahahaahahaha
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:10 PM
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15. Well done..
:applause: :applause: :applause:
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yodermon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:22 PM
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17. the ducks in the background are a nice WTF touch
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:27 PM
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18. Glad you noticed.
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 11:38 PM
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25. Did they become


:shrug:

-Hoot
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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 08:39 PM
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2. Jim Casy and Tom Joad
Casy is a great character, following the philosophy of William Blake
when he says "All that lives is holy." He believes in a kind of
oversoul or spirit that has its own synergy, and you can see how
this wonderful Weltanschauung imbues itself in the hero, Tom Joad,
when he says to ma, before he leaves, that wherever there is injustice
or people in need,"I'll be there."

I do believe that John Steinbeck is the greatest author who ever lived,
and Grapes of Wrath the greatest book.
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Lorax7844 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 11:33 PM
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23. John Steinbeck is definitely one of the greats.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 08:48 PM
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4. K&R #2 n/t
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 08:49 PM
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5. I *dare* anybody at this website to UnRekkk!1 n/t
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wiggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 09:04 PM
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6. watching. nt
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 09:07 PM
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7. The speach of Ma's in the car about the difference between men and women
is pure classic literature...
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Staph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 09:13 PM
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9. It's classic lit and it's true (I think).
Ma Joad -- "Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta - well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream - little eddies and waterfalls - but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way."
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 09:35 PM
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10. I truly believe that...
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abumbyanyothername Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 09:08 PM
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8. Grandpa died
"Seems like a lot of time the gov'ment's got more interest in a dead man than a live one."
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Arctic Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 09:43 PM
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11. I always remember the last few pages of the book.
When th e nursing mothers baby dies and she offers her milk to the dieing man. I get the feeling of Life will continue no matter what comes our way.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 09:45 PM
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12. Who would have thought we'd all be reliving this in many ways . . . ????
Edited on Sat Aug-01-09 09:46 PM by defendandprotect
GOP's "third world America" . . .!!
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 09:49 PM
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13. "If there was a law"
"they was workin' with maybe we could take it, but it ain't the law. They're workin' away our spirits, tryin' to make us cringe and crawl, takin' away our decency." - Tom Joad
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Graybeard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:01 PM
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14. Muley's scene always gets to me.
John Qualen, the great character actor, has a scene at the very beginning of the film as Muley, one of the farmers who has to leave his farm and home because of "some paper with writing on it."

He squats down and takes two handfuls of the dried soil and squeezes them saying that it is theirs. "We were born on it. We lived on it. We worked on it." And the way he says, "worked...", he spits it out in a combination of hate and frustration. You can feel all of the sweat and pain that he has put into working his farm.

It brings tears to my eyes every time.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:20 PM
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16. for the last 30 years it`s been the factory workers.....
mother nature is`t as cruel as those who sold our labor to the lowest bidder...

350+ lost their jobs when two plants shut their doors for good where i live...
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:29 PM
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19. This movie teaches socialism.
It should be banned. *puts on flameproof suit*

Hey, somebody had to say it. :evilgrin:
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:43 PM
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21. What is these 'Reds' anyway?
Every time ya turn around, somebody callin' somebody else a Red.
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Daveparts still Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 11:40 PM
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26. What's All this Talk About Reds?
Every time I turn around somebodies calling somebody a red! (Tom Joad)
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abumbyanyothername Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:41 PM
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20. "We keep a comin'.
We're the people that live. They cain't wipe us out and they cain't lick us."
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Lorax7844 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 11:31 PM
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22. missed it
so I bought the dvd instead:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000DJZ8R/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=3130520367&ref=pd_sl_54uyt4r92t_e

7.99 not a bad deal.
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Graybeard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 11:45 AM
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27. A film you can watch over and over again.
And owning the DVD you will. And you will notice something new each time you watch this great film.
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Daveparts still Donating Member (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 11:35 PM
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24. They're working away at our Spirits
Edited on Sat Aug-01-09 11:35 PM by Daveparts still
"And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."

The Grapes oF Wrath
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