Where Rose breastfeeds a man who is so sick of starvation that he cannot have solid food. I think it would have been an appropriate depiction of the deprivation and put a great close at the end. Can anyone tell me why and how this was changed?
shareIt probably has to do with censorship back in those days.
The book is so much better than the film in so many ways.
If it harms none, do what thou wilt.
Uh, it was the year 1940.
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4) You ever seen Superman $#$# his pants? Case closed.
do you think the original ending would have been persisted with if this movie were made today.
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They could make an R-rated version which would include the original ending (as well as some other scenes too).
Plus, unlike 1940, Hollywood today is not fixated with ending every movie with a big peppy cheery celebratory flourish. The ending of "Grapes of Wrath" would be considered corny today.
Even under the standards of 1940 the final "hootenanny" music blast of "Red River Valley" at the end of the movie always seems awkward to me, like the Joads are driving off to a big barn dance rather than limping barely on their feet to the next camp hoping to exist a few weeks longer.
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4) You ever seen Superman $#$# his pants? Case closed.
maybe.
Where there's smoke, there's barbecue!
It's hilarious that a film which would accurately depict the book's ending, would to this day be highly controversial. A R-rating for a scene showing breastfeeding, the most natural thing in the world, but then we have endless depictions of murder in movies rated PG-13.
There is nothing sexual about the way the book ended, not in the slightest. It's a testament to the triumph of the human spirit.
Quot homines, tot sententiae.
I can't imagine Hollywood portraying such a scene without over-sexualizing it which would ruin the movie.
share1940. Cant do it.
And I’m not sure the movie should have done it. In the book, this scene worked because they had a lot building up it, with the disintegration of the family, Rosasharn’s depression over Connie’s departure, and the community that developed over their kind (ie the Wainwrights).
The scene with Rosasharn nursing a stranger fit the novel. But it didn’t fit this film, where Rosasharn was an afterthought, where Noah and Al hadn’t left, and where there was no Wainwright family. To put the scene with Rosasharn would require another film.
Roman charity. There is no way they would have ended a film like that when it was made. Even today I would be surprised to see it. Wasn’t she technically a teenager?
shareIll never forget reading that ending. What an ending
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