Which Movie had the Biggest Impact on you?

Question

and why?

Want Senior opinions, but anybody can answer.

Answer 1

I would have to say John Ford's movie "The Grapes of Wrath " because it's about a true story of Okies in search of land, jobs, and dignity during the dust bowl era in Oklahoma to California. From the terrible winepress of Dust Bowl oppression will come terrible wrath but also the deliverance of workers through their cooperation. In 1962, the Nobel Prize committee cited Grapes of Wrath as a great work and as one of the committee's main reasons for granting Steinbeck the Nobel Prize for Literature. The whole tragedy lies in the simplicity and impossibility of their dream: a house, a family, and a steady job. This left a powerful impact on myself as a human being relating to family, love and poverty. In the book and at the end, Rose of Sharon commits the only act that is not futile, she breast feeds a starving man, still trying to show hope in humanity after her own negative experience. This final act is said to illustrate the spontaneous mutual sharing that will lead to a new awareness of collective values. A must see movie in my opinion.

Answer 2

I'd have to agree with Bobe above - "The Grapes of Wrath", both the book and the film, had a huge impact on me. The speech of Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, "I'll be there..." is to me, one of the greatest speeches in literature or film. It gives me goosebumps just think about it.

"Well, maybe it's like Casy says. A fella ain't got a soul of his own, just a little piece of a big soul - the one big soul that belongs to ever'body. Then...then, it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be ever'-where - wherever you can look. Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad - I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise, and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too. "

Answer 3

The movie that has the Biggest Impact on me is the movie Click with Adam Sandler.

This movie has the Biggest impact on me because i sometimes want to fastforward my life but then i think back to Click and i realize then i could be missing out on many great things.

Answer 4

The movie was called "The Joy Luck Club". It was about four thirty something Asian women trying to understand their 60 something year old mothers. You see the story from two points of view. One, of course, is from each exasperated daughters. And then you see what each mother went through in their lives in China, during WW2. Actually the movie could have been done with any ethnic group. But when you see the hardship the older women faced as young women it packs quite a wallop.

Answer 5

'the stable Earth'. Pulitzer Prize rewarding handbook by using Pearl greenback. everyone could desire to study this handbook! Covers virtually the coolest deal approximately human nature. 'the place the crimson Ferns strengthen' by using Wilson Rawls. First handbook that made me cry. 'The sign of the Beaver' by using Elisabeth George Spears. Newbery Award Winner. in easy terms a nicely handbook. 'The Bible'...as quickly as I initiate looking out and suggestion it. action picture: Ben Hur - Inspiring Sound of music - packed with wish and Love Jane Eyre - Riveting! The Empire strikes back! - Sound visual exhibit unit! Surprises

Answer 6

Many have scared me, caused me to think, but I would have to say that the one that has blown me away the most is the one done last year called BLOOD DIAMOND....I will never buy another diamond Ever!! It was an extraordinary movie of TRUE story and Leo DiCaprio played his butt off and should of had an academy award for this movie! He isn't even one of my favorite actors but he was superb in this film. After that I would have to say, Fahrenheit 911, Fahrenhype 911, and THE GOOD SHEPHERD.

Answer 7

There was a movie years ago called "Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night". It starred Susan Dey as a mother who abused her daughter and by the time her family and husband , husband's family etc. figured it out and tried to help Mary Jane and her mother she had taken the little girl (Mary Jane) to a motel room and killed her. It had such a profound effect on me I cried for days. If a mother can't take up for you, love you, protect you who will ya know !!! Plus the fact Laura Partridge played the Mom didn't help !!!!

Answer 8

I guess sitting up late with my mother as a kid watching all the old Musicals..Annie Get your Gun. Calamity Jane...Oh I just can't remember all the titles but it was the one on one time I spent with my Mother that had the impact....she's my best friend.And I still like the old musicals.

Answer 9

I'd have to say " Rainman and " Radio" . Two of my four boys are autistic ( although they never have memorized a phonebook and are very social ) . It hits a spot in me and from way back, long before my children I have always taken up for " special needs people " I knew alot growing up and the locker room scene in "Radio" kills me.

Answer 10

Either An Inconvenient Truth or To Kill a Mockingbird.