so..im sitting here watching

[protus]

The grapes of wrath
on tmc or such.
funny ..how if we see youtube vids of " transit" camps like shown in this film (ironic the ones ive seen are in California anyway) , youll see so many people freak out like it could "never" happen or "shouldnt" happen.

anyway..just a simple thought i had while watching old movies( which i love to do)

[Lowdown3]

I don't think I've seen that whole thing, but it's basically Ma and Pa Okie Kettle load up the car and pile things 10 foot high and leave after the evil bankers take their land back (in black and white). Then they get to some work camp in CA where they dance or some crap??

Or am I thinking of another movie?

[protus]

thats it, henry fonda is in it.
okies trying to find work in cali. they "bug out" in their run down truck, and go from labor camp to labor camp. lots of crime, corruption, cities pushing the "migrant" workers out , beatings, killings etc.
not abad film, but i just find it funny how many seem to forget how bad it was at one time not to long ago.......

[Cimarron]

My Grandparents were among the many that made this trip. They had three kids, my dad being the youngest at 6 (I think). I remember hearing about the family living in S. Ca. in camps and one of the few memories my father had was. They were camped on the beach and he had to push sand up around the bottom of the tent so the wind didn't blow in. Little was told of the trip and then forgotten as times got better. They kept moving north eventually setteling in N. Cali. I don't think that the movie was an accurate telling of the movement with them glossing over how hard it really was on people..but that's Hollywood I guess.

[protus]

I don't think that the movie was an accurate telling of the movement with them glossing over how hard it really was on people..but that's Hollywood I guess.

oh i agree, but i find the similarities at to what some people were screaming "look america is crashing" and what you see represented in the films(even ones like Of mice and men) and what was floating around the web the last few years interesting. Let alone the simple fact that these people were looking to work...not just sqaut and expect a hand out like many who are doing it today.

[Cimarron]

oh i agree, but i find the similarities at to what some people were screaming "look america is crashing" and what you see represented in the films(even ones like Of mice and men) and what was floating around the web the last few years interesting. Let alone the simple fact that these people were looking to work...not just sqaut and expect a hand out like many who are doing it today.

Yes, I agree. Folks back then had a different mind set, it was "you didn't work, you didn't eat" way of life. Not, live off the Gov. freebies.

[WiseOwl]

I made my wife watch this not too long ago. One of my favorite books. I have always wondered why that haven't remade it for modern screens, like they do every old movie.

Rage had a good song (Springstein wrote it) called The Ghost of Tom Joad.