Grapes_of_Wrath

Grapes of Wrath Grapes of Wrath-Movie vs. Book The Grapes of Wrath In John Ford's film The Grapes of Wrath, the audience travels along with an Oklahoma family that has set out to find wealth and privileges in California during the Great Depression. The film was taken from John Steinbeck's classic novel The Grapes of Wrath. The filmakers intentions in putting this novel to screen was to show how the impact of the Great Depression effected the families of that time. The film was taped in a journalistic, documentary-style black and white texture which helped create a strong feeling of poverty and realism to the audience. The filmakers did a good job at recreating scenery to make the plot as real as possible. The use of actual dialect of the Okies, was helpful to make the dialogue as realistic as possible. Throughout the movie the family's clothing, possessions and even the car added to the effect that Steinbeck had created when he wrote his novel long ago. As the movie progresses, there is actually two stories, one of the individual journey of the Joad family, and one for telling the general plight of the migrants. The director shows the individual family to show family, film, movie, joad, great, grapes, tom, own, make, john, audience, wrath, welfare, throughout, possible, people, one, novel, individual, good, world, thinking, things, strong, show, land, first, concerned, concern, camp, beginning, whole, trying, taken, take, steinbeck's, steinbeck, shows, showing, shift, seen, really, progresses, prison, plight, out, others, much, migrants, migrant, later