Dalton Trumbo

The first big round of Award season nominations are in with Trumbo leading a balanced field at the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Director Jay Roach's biopic about the life of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo bagged three nominations, the most of any film in contention. The film's leading man, former Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston, scored a best actor nod in an extremely crowded field. His co-star, Helen Mirren, was also recognized in the supporting actress category. The pair, together…

despair and devastation, as author Dalton Trumbo attempts to explore in his novel. The book title captures the reader, not only from the author’s perspective about war but also of compassion and one’s own mortality. Trumbo’s story about his main character Joe mimics his own life’s story. Very much like Joe, Trumbo came from a working-class family, lost his father, and worked at a bakery. Where the two parallel lives diverge is when Joe was sent off to war and Trumbo went off to University Of…

McCarthyism and Movie Trumbo The Cold War was the longest global conflicted from 1945 to 1989 where The United States and the Soviet Union tried to have global hegemony after the WWII. It was a period full of threats, fear and persecution, which imposed its indelible mark on the conscience of the society of that time. In the reality, this conflict was bipolar, manipulative, propagandist and absurd clashed between 2 ideologist as capitalism and Communist. Throughout the different stages of the…

government abused their power in the United States, and into foreign lands. Senator McCarthy lead the attack on communism in the US and accused and punished many people for being communists. Among these people were Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, depicted in Trumbo (directed by Jay Roach). Also in the U.S., news reporters like Edward R. Murrow, who is depicted in Good night and Good Luck (directed by George Clooney), challenged McCarthy and brought to the public’s attention the wrong and…

In the novel Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. Trumbo uses repetition, excessive description, and diction, to develop the theme of helplessness. In the novel, Joe has gone through a series from flashbacks of his childhood days. In these recollections, helplessness is commonly seen within Joe, and the people who appear in them. In Joes first flashback, he is working out on the desert with a bunch of Mexicans. He has just been through a bad break up with his girlfriend Diane and decided to run…

individuals, the democratic process supports authority and their manipulation by placing them in the limelight and encouraging the spread of falsified ideas and brainwashing. In both Patrick Henry’s “Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention” and Dalton Trumbo’s novel, Johnny Got His Gun, the supposed values of democracy are deconstructed and put through the…

Leading up until the 1940’s during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the studio system ruled the film industry. The big studios such as Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, and RKO Radio Pictures owned their own theaters and controlled what was played at them. However due to many reasons, both the Golden Age of Hollywood and the studio system would come to an end. In 1948, the US Supreme Court issued a decision in the U.S. vs. Paramount Pictures antitrust lawsuit.…

Like in the movie Trumbo. In the film the main character, Dalton Trumbo, was part of the Hollywood 10 who were blacklisted by the government and sent to jail. Dalton Trumbo was a Communist and the others were liberals or democrats. At the time they created a group called the House Un-American Activities Committee that would gather evidence on how…

the information to the public, “He wanted a nose so that he could smell rain and burning wood. He wanted a mouth so he could eat and talk and laugh and taste. He wanted arms and legs so that he could work and walk like a man, like a living thing” (Trumbo 221-222). Trumbo’s use of diction evokes the presence of Joe’s integrity by highlighting Bonham’s longing to be set free so that he could show people the harsh consequences of war. Bonham’s intention behind being set free is so that he can be an…

a fight, and for what reason, is an essential life skill that everyone should know how to do. Authors and directors have expressed this theme in many works of literature and film throughout time. One novel specifically, Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo, follows the life of a young soldier, Joe, who physically lost a lot due to war. While Joe is hospitalized and stuck inside his own mind, he realizes he doesn’t know what he was fighting for or why he risked his life. On the other hand, in the…