John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath

Behind every great story or movie, there is a basis from which it came from, be it an event that happened in the director's or author's life, or the time era in which it was written or produced. The Grapes of Wrath basis is from John Steinbeck's time era which was during the Great Depression. You can tell while watching the film how the plot resembles problems that people were facing in real life because of the depression.
The Grapes of Wrath was first a political, drama novel written by John Steinbeck that was released back in 1939. The novel was such a huge hit when published that director John Ford decided to make a film adaptation of the novel just one year later. After having watched the film myself, I can say I truly enjoyed it. It has everything you could want in a movie; relatable, likable characters, an interesting plot, and many different themes, which when used together, created this engrossing and captivating film. …show more content…
Henry Fonda played Tom Joad, the protagonist of the movie, Jane Darwell played Ma Joad, the mother of Tom, and John Carradine played Jim Casy, a reformed preacher. They portrayed their characters so flawlessly and genuinely which made the movie even more believable and delightful to watch. In fact, because all of the characters were portrayed so phenomenally I could not help but feel as though they were not acting as those characters, they were those characters. The wonderful acting definitely assisted in making the film more remarkable and interesting to watch and I applaud whoever cast the