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Old 09-20-2014, 03:06 PM   #5
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
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Last night I watched the 1940 movie version starring Henry Fonda as Tom Jode. I was wondering how they were going to do the ending in a 1940 film. If Clark Gable could shock audiences of the era with his "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" line, how was John Ford going to handle a teenager breast feeding an old man?

Spoiler:
... By changing the ending, that's how. Remember that line in chapter 28 where ma talks about how man lives in fits and spurts but life for a woman is more like a stream? They build on that line and where in the book ma ends that conversation by saying "We ain't gonna die out," the movie ends with her talking about how the rich come and go but "We're the people who live."


The movie was pretty good, and certainly captured the spirit of the book, even if there were quite a few changes and omissions from what John Steinbeck wrote.
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