One of the most humane moments in cinematic history. This scene is just piercing, all seeing, simple, it's just so clear to me.

@KomackinoA

4 жыл бұрын

@@bigtimepimpin666 Incredibly bad ass. And this to me isn't inspiring like some rousing speech from a football coach in a movie...this cuts STRAIGHT to the heart, just the simple humanity in compassion that I think lies deep in all of us or anyone who has experienced needless suffering and wouldn't wish it on others.

@bigtimepimpin666

4 жыл бұрын

@@KomackinoA basically, where there is injustice, abuse, and poverty, I'll be there. John Steinbeck was an awesome American.

@zahiddar3675

4 жыл бұрын

It's so moving. People forget that progressive governments are responsible for every post war achievement on both sides of the Atlantic. All conservatives do is try to find ways of enriching themselves while blaming the most vulnerable. Steinbeck knew and Henry Fonda expressed it. The post corona world needs a new Marshall Plan and a new Harry Truman but instead we have losers like Trump and Johnson.

@johnw8984

4 жыл бұрын

I'm reading this right now not this particular passage but the book there's a lot of stuff in the book that didn't make it to the movie it was quite a bit rougher in the book the storyline I'm talking about

@mirazusta2002

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnw8984 An imposible task to reproduce the novel in its enterity in the 129 minutes the movie lasts, still, I personally like the movie very much. On the other hand, I read (wilipedia) that John Ford's movie adaptation, though stark as it is, it is more optimistic and hopeful (especially regarding its last passages.)

My dad grew up in this time. He refused to see the Grapes of Wrath. Hit too close to home.

Unfortunately, we have forgotten, what life was like in the Depression Era. And Americans now think socialism and regulation is evil. When it was regulations and socialistic programs that gave the working class some power against the plutocrats that run this country. Social Security, Minimum wage, mandatory breaks, child labor laws, the right not to be imprisoned in your work place (Triangle Shirt Waist Fire) etc. Those things were not just given to us.

@BEHEDETY

4 жыл бұрын

socialism gives misery to em' to us to me

@jonathangasana

4 жыл бұрын

al d HOW QUICKLY THEY FORGOT

@user-bo8eq7ki5w

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, in the USSR it was a "big secret" no one spoke about Roosevelt, about his restriction of monopolistic business, about winning workers ' rights, about the minimum wage. It's good that you understand this.

@johnhuddleston8647

3 жыл бұрын

Sure, socialism is the answer to EVERYTHING!! Any problems you have with the government, they find out, they do one of two things: reeducation into a twisted ideology.....or they just kill you!!! With all due respect, your teachers failed you!!!!

@rafaelsales5827

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnhuddleston8647 You don't even try to understand socialism enough to at least respect it. You just repeat the same jibberish over and over. Try to read something about socialism with your mind open to try to at least view it from another perspective and then you'll see.

Jane Darwell really transmits that "loving mother" expression in her face, it's almost unreal...I felt like i was inside Tom's flesh and she was my mother....I cried at least once when watching this movie for the first two or three times. So much heart in it.

Its amazing.... Its almost 80years and Tom Joad is still here. We can see Tom Joads Ghost everyday

@UberKrispy

5 жыл бұрын

Yes I feel his ghost all around these days

@tommymas1

5 жыл бұрын

And now we know what Bruce has been writing about.

@honkeetonk203

3 жыл бұрын

Name? .... Still Joad.

@marcane6122

3 жыл бұрын

He told you he'd be there

@dont.ripfuller6587

2 жыл бұрын

Look in their eyes Ma

The acting is transcendent. Steinbeck's words move the human soul. When the distraught mother says, "i don't understand, Tom," her delivery brings tears to my eyes. Simply a spectacular scene!

through the years i saw tons of american movies I've just watched the movie this morning I am not exaggerating this is the best scene i've ever seen

@notmyname1289

7 жыл бұрын

I agree, Henry Fonda has two of the greatest scenes ever in movie history in my opinion this one and the one in the Ox Bow Incident, (the part where he reads the letter). If you haven't seen it check it out mate it is fantastic.

@1mespud

7 жыл бұрын

So True.. Everyone be careful out there..

@stephengeorgerobinson8962

7 жыл бұрын

This film had a real effect on me as a young boy, it a harrowing story, fiction but accurate for the time. I read the book as an adult and realised the movie softened the story for the viewer, especially the ending. Thanks for posting

@VolkXue

7 жыл бұрын

I'm from Oklahoma and I wish more people today in my state understood the generations before them.. They have this weird idea that what they do and what they support 'all American' and it the 100% reverse of their predecessors

Words that are just as important today, as 80 years ago.. Great monologue..

"... just a little piece of a great big soul"

@howedelamitri

8 жыл бұрын

"I am The Whole/I'm just a slice" . We're all connected. Our lives/the passing of Time....illusion

This speech is so reassuring. I imagine a gentle soul helping someone out during their darkest moments. I'll be there...

@tammyclay62

Жыл бұрын

I think there was a deep truth in that scene. When we lose someone we love , that person stays in our hearts.

Even if this film does not faze you, you're still a part of that one big soul that belongs to everybody.

Henry Fonda's performance in this always puts a lump in my throat and a tug at my heart. This monologue, and him reading the letter at the end of "The Ox-Bow Incident" always get me )...;

@1mespud

7 жыл бұрын

True..

Acting on another level...saw this film for the first time today (although I've read the book before) and was moved to tears by the performances, particularly in this scene, and I have never cried at a movie before. so powerful, so real, so talented. I only wish there were more films and actors of this level being made today.

@cbesthelper404

11 ай бұрын

Yes, this is a great one. If you haven't already seen it, you may also like, "How Green Was My Valley".

Transcendentalism at its finest. Great job Mr. Fonda... You will, indeed, be missed.

I'll be there, too.

@SooziinCa

6 жыл бұрын

Good! I'm there along side ya!

@campinatorxbox1610

5 жыл бұрын

Hey can I join?

@jonathangasana

4 жыл бұрын

Terry Green I’ll be there too

John Steinbeck is the greatest writer of all time.. what a beautiful monologue

To this day I use Jane Darwell's explanation of the difference between men and women's thinking...that was just genius writing...and she did a beautiful job of displaying it!

This is so profound and so fucking brilliant.

Just finished the book today...While reading the end I had to work hard not to cry...had a big difficulty to gulp...fiction or not, it made me think of all the misery and pain humanity has been working through anywhere at any time. Cheers to those who have felt like tom joad...

2020 as relevant as ever. My father read the entire novel aloud to my mom & me over a period of weeks back in 1976. I was nine at the time but still understood most of it. Good memories!

@cyclonasaurusrex1525

2 жыл бұрын

That is amazing!

This needs to be bumped up especially in this day and age God bless all who are in need.

"... little piece of the big soul... the one big soul that belongs to everybody". Very reminiscent of Fonda's monologue at the end of "The Ox-Box Incident", three years later: "and what is anybody's conscience except a little piece of the conscience of all men that ever lived?"

those 9 people who disliked this video have gotta be completely soulless

@JeffGannon

8 жыл бұрын

or just neoliberal puppets.

@JoeTyler85

7 жыл бұрын

or corporate shells

@davsaltego

7 жыл бұрын

Joe Diaz Really? Are you that ignorant? Do you have any idea what this movie (novel) was about?

@billmcgill3739

7 жыл бұрын

Dan Quiggle ... Shills.

@billmcgill3739

7 жыл бұрын

Far too many in the USA have no idea of our past history and our struggles as this nation developed. No curiosity and no desire to read or even watch a serious old movie. I'm not a liberal as defined today. But the original roots of liberalism in our country dealt with real widespread poverty, abuse of power and a more sane sense of our future at a time when it was critical. Great book, movie, and message. Many liberals today are just concerned with micro aggressions, silly pc vocabularies, and getting something for nothing. Both parties need to focus on the real essential issues of debt, spending, saving, jobs, training, and education. We run a very high risk of becoming a banana republic. More interested in fighting over nonsense than resolving serious issues.

this is one the most inspirational moments in cinema and literature. thank you for uploading !!!

@tommymas1

5 жыл бұрын

And in music. Springsteen was trying to remind about this years ago.

Tom Joad is the real Batman

@feeno1188

8 жыл бұрын

Nah, he's the Joker. He looks so much like Jared Leto, it's frightening ! :O

@stevenperrell7217

8 жыл бұрын

But his mindset! its the original batman!

Who was it that said "dissent is the highest form of patriotism"? Wise words.

@koyb

5 жыл бұрын

Howard Zinn? Thomas Jefferson?

@alwillk

5 жыл бұрын

Donald Trump? lol

@jackburton3540

4 жыл бұрын

@@alwillk trump ain't no dissenter

@dont.ripfuller6587

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackburton3540I don't disagree but he's certainly not one to fall in line either.

These scene seriously brings tears when I watch it

WE should also look and John Carradine's performance As Casey he is mystical He is like the soul of the people without being pompous. His close ups are unreal Carradine vested so much in every part he had in films and there were countless I esp like him in " The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence 1962 and " The Last Hurrah" 1958 remarkable

superb movie Henry Fonda should of won the Oscar for this movie flawless.

@homermontana2392

2 жыл бұрын

you're right even james stewart who took the oscar believed that henry should have won not him

Thanks, This movie moved me more than any other. The human spirit at it's worst and best

Tom is busy right now, fighting along side protestors, fighting the abusive police, and fighting the landlords who want to evict families.

This man who has nothing will still take care of us, shelter us, keep us safe, both as our friend and our brother. In this world that seems worn down and rotten, it was very good to have known Tom Joad.

This and the ending to "it's a wonderful life " are the 2 greatest performances in cinematic history.

@Divamarja_CA

3 жыл бұрын

I greatly appreciate the beauty and community spirit of Bedford Falls. What might be said nowadays of a town that bands together to help someone in need? That shares what they can to bail out someone who has always put their needs ahead of his own? Are they a town full of losers? Suckers? I hope not. “A toast! To my big brother George, the richest man in town!”

@monkeyface6139

3 жыл бұрын

They didn't go near the end of 'Grapes'...the part in the barn with Rose of Sharon was omitted. Kinda puts a different spin on what Steinbeck predicts for the future.

@randywhite3947

Жыл бұрын

James Stewart was almost in this film and Henry almost played George Bailey

I've always believed Henry Fonda never got the credit he deserves for performances like in this movie. His words are spoken with a quiet assurance that while watching him you feel like you're not watching a movie but rather a man who is saying exactly what he feels. Same thing in Mr. Roberts and his portrayal of President Lincoln.

No acting eclipses Henry Fonda. His era and thereafter.

you get it if you are here. Mad Love!

People now are anti-union because they don't know what life was is like when Henry Frick was your boss or what the Great Depression was like, but this was a good speech

@TheIsh1988

6 жыл бұрын

Yep.

@melissacline196

6 жыл бұрын

Workers today have no idea of how much they owe to the early unions. Such as the 40 hour week.

@Rayhuntter

5 жыл бұрын

people are anti-union because of anti-union corporate propaganda and repression.

@jonathanlocke6404

5 жыл бұрын

They're anti-union because of instances where unions were corrupted. People always want to blame the institutions, or the ideas behind the institutions, but the institutions fail because people make the institutions. And people are greedy, and corrupt, and shortsighted, and selfish. The institutions and the ideas didn't fail. Humanity did.

@bill4270

4 жыл бұрын

I worked. as a "casual" years back for a trucking company, I had no Union representation but was forced to pay Union dues. Take your Union, stick it up your rectal canal

Jane Darwell's quite intensity coming through her eyes won her an Oscar for playing Ma Joad.

This scene, the dialogue and Henry Fondas magnificent performance has brought me to tears. What a powerful, moving speech. The world can be such a cruel place full of injustice but there is always someone tirelessly fighting for the weak and the oppressed...the victims of injustice.

Note to Hollywood, please don’t EVER even THINK of remaking this classic!

I guess I'm fine with Jimmy Stewart winning the Oscar this year, but man, this was a hell of a performance.

@tammyclay62

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad Jane Darwell won an Oscar. Her performance gave the movie a woman's perspective.

Not an easy part to play-- could have easily slipped into sounding preachy or overacting or even hammy-- but Fonda is so authentic, so real, so subtle, he becomes Tom Joad. Masterful acting.

Tom Joad totally became a full fledged superhero after the events of this movie

I read the book when I was in my 20's ; I'm 63 now. I'm attempting a re-read. I understood what he was saying to me the first time, but life hadn't taken it's toll at that point. I'm finding it hard to turn the pages this, it's too powerful and true still. Steinbeck's words have a place in my soul ; this and 'Eden' are for me, two of the greatest works ever written. Henry Fonda captures the spirit of Tom perfectly here ; a terrible beauty. There should be a statue of Joad as big as the Statue of Liberty ; he is the voice and conscience of every decent man...or he should be.

I have seen a thousand movies, and this is my favorite scene.

@mE-zx7pt

3 жыл бұрын

Mine too, and just as relevant in 2020 as it was in 1939.

This movie came on TV about once every 4 years, my daddy loved it, made us watch it and I thought it was some old boring movie at the time, when we got a DVR he kept it saved on there, he might not agree but this movie helped me on my path to becoming an anarchist (anarcho-communist). God I miss him we would argue up a storm but I loved him. That was my old man. All in the family, Sanford and son, true grit and the searchers, listening to ELO or Squeeze while stoned out of my mind as you drove me to school, you were the best and I realized it far too late. If a genie gave me a with it'd be for you to be here now. You always told me that one day you wouldn't be around anymore and I'd have to do things myself but I never expected that day to come. I'm sorry for being the way I was and the way I still am but I just wish you didn't have to go so soon it wasn't long enough. We never got to spend the time like we should of because you had to work 2 jobs to support us but I feel I understand you now more than ever.

The voice of the working class. - United States 2014

@juanshaftpatel7488

5 жыл бұрын

you mean slave class

@alwillk

5 жыл бұрын

And the American people elected an elitist in Donald Trump. A guy born into wealth who never worked a day in his life. A con-man.

@tommymas1

5 жыл бұрын

@@alwillk Yes. And we'll fix that mistake. Many countries have done this or much worse.

@tommymas1

5 жыл бұрын

@@juanshaftpatel7488 Not even close buddy. There has always been a lower class and a system based on class and caste in every country. But not even close to what amounts to slavery.

@cfusickone

5 жыл бұрын

....2019

ILL BE THERE SITTIN DOWN BY THE CAMP FIRE LIGHT.........

You can keep your jingoistic pseudo patriots like Rush Limbaugh. I'll take Tom Joad any day of the week. He is a true patriot.

@TheMisfit291

7 жыл бұрын

Let me add this, that goes for Trump and his entire administration as well. For the record I find Hillary just as repugnant.

@juanshaftpatel7488

5 жыл бұрын

why do you need a hero so bad?

@sidDkid87

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheMisfit291 *Tulsi / Bernie 2020!!!*

@bigtimepimpin666

4 жыл бұрын

@@juanshaftpatel7488 No one said they needed a hero. In fact they stated they dislike Cheallery as well so it look slike htye are not into the hero who will save us mentality.. It's the value system that Joad is expressing against injustice and poverty. I'm a capitalist. But the "capitalists" in the GOP don't believe in markets and their efficiency. They believe in cronyism and corruption. I dont need a Bernie Sanders Messiah to save me. I'll save myself. I don't even believe in Socialism. But I will vote for a leftist like Sanders and company any day. YOU CANT BUY THIS PERSON. And I would add I see a worse messiah save us from ourseleves mentality with the brainless Trumpeteers.

@jackburton3540

4 жыл бұрын

@Mike England That trump never cared for anyone except himself. He's a selfish son of a bitch and it shows in everything he does. Ain't no billionaire ever gonna make America great cause if they're a billionaire it means they made themselves great off the backs of other people's work. In his case, he made his fortune off of cheating the poor folks in New York and kicking people out of their homes and buying up the projects, the one place those poor folks depended on for shelter. Trump ain't got no morality or compassion. No one man can make a country great, and a man without morals can't think enough outside himself to make no country great. How can you call us sheep when you worship a dollar?

You were there ! Tom Joad

The injustice done to George Floyd led me to recall this very clip and today I searched it. Especially at 37 seconds...

@justinfromgod941

4 жыл бұрын

Peter Werner I think Floyd brought us here to remind all the long fight we’ve had together. We are one!

@peterwerner651

4 жыл бұрын

@@justinfromgod941 "We are one." Truly wise words. Thank you for commenting on my comment. :)

@justinfromgod941

4 жыл бұрын

Peter Werner Actually I hear messages from my angels or dearly departed and this was told to me so I posted it on my KZread channel. Then I forgot to ask who is saying this. I usually get an answer at the time or in a few days. I believe it was Floyd wanting us to remember this and remind others! Love and light! We are winning! We are all one!😘💕🕺❤️🥰🎉💃☀️✊🏾🖐🏽🖐🏿🤚🏾🖐🏻🇺🇸 that’s why Europeans came to USA because us the Natives love everyone and we are blessed so you will be too😘❤️🎉🖐🏽🤚🏾🖐🏻🕺✊🏾🇺🇸💃🖐🏿☀️💗💪

One of my all-time favorite scenes. This is cinematic gold.

A post was just taken down from my online writer’s group. The person claimed that books “like Grapes of Wrath” and “Fried Green Tomatoes” weren’t relevant to “society” because all readers want is “fantasy.” I had some issues with comparing the two books, which she took as a personal attack. I then explained how historically and socially significant Steinbeck’s work was to the starving victims of the Great Depression, and even comparing the films, Fried Green Tomatoes was a good ‘90s film for Kathy Bates, but Henry Fonda’s performance has gone down as legend. Watching this again, I don’t regret my words one bit.

I love this, I wish I was Henry Fonda playing Tom Joad

Brilliant!! Thank you so so much for posting this!!

Greatest film ever.

@randywhite3947

3 жыл бұрын

Yup

Thank You. That needs to be seen by those who are open to seeing it.

We used this speech to start the first Real Work May Day film festival in Santa Cruz 20 years ago😊

It's a pity this movie isn't available on streams, it's a master piece

Thanks great words and timely as well!

Such a classic scene, thanks for posting.

It reallly did break my heart that my smart, well educated 17 year old daughter didn't "get" a reference to this quote. It is so beautiful and beautifully performed by Henry Fonda, a rich boy.

Miss ya Henry!

I was shocked too but lack the technical smarts to do what you done. Thank you Evan

"Ever'body might be just one big soul, Well it looks that a-way to me. Everywhere that you look, in the day or night, That's where I'm a-gonna be, Ma. That's where I'm a-gonna be. Wherever little children are hungry and cry, Wherever people ain't free. Wherever men are fightin' for their rights, That's where I'm a-gonna be, Ma. That's where I'm a-gonna be."

@lsf698

4 жыл бұрын

@John Afella And the parts about eating stuff they raised and living in houses they built...

Well thanks so much for posting this we were just talkin about it and tried to find it

Im shocked too. Thanks for uploading this

Thanks Evan..This is important stuff..

I have seen thousands of movies. This is my all-time favorite scene.

Wonderful..... all way round.

Saw this in high school and never forgot it.

Beyond words!

Viva la Revolucion!

how Ironic that this is still happening today the greed of few will eventually end our world as we know it there will be no water the most precious liquid that we have & that gives us LIFE folks Life WILL NOT BE HERE FOR YOUR GRAND SONS OR GREAT GREAT GRAND SONS.

I love this book and I loved this movie. I love Tom Joad.

Lots of passion here ❤

i'll be there...

fight so hungry people can't eat, the way guys yell when they're mad, or when kids laugh when they are hungryand they know supper is ready, when or when people are living in the houses they build

@UberKrispy

7 жыл бұрын

I'll be there.

This scene is so heartbreaking.

This scene is why you love ❤ Henry Fonda ...and will for some time or so, I reckon 😊🗽🌠

This one hits home

true hero

Der beste Film aller Zeiten! Gut, dass es kein Remake gibt, die schauspielerische Leistung von Henry Fonda und Jane Darwell ist nicht zu toppen.

Made me cry.

We've lost our way...

Bro I remember watching this when I was 8 this is like one of the realest mfs in all of history 😂😂😂😂

There’s so many references to this speech in so many movies and TV shows I just had to find the original

I'll be there....

true patriot, makes me cry every time

Tom is talking about the American Common man who gets abused , taken for granted and mistreated in American society

Much of what I am found its beginnings in reading the Grapes of Wrath when I was about 13 or 14. It was certainly more of an education than the tripe that they parroted out to junior high students.

My favorite part of the book..

Great scene from a great movie. Read the book - it's Steinbeck at his best!

Master Class

We are one !

The Goast of Tom Joad

I am at a loss. I can not decide which is a better scene.: This one or the Gregory Peck closing argument scene in To Kill a Mockingbird

Where my religious and political views meet. Thank you for reuploading

@philvinson130

7 жыл бұрын

I always liked this scene, but great actor Robert Duvall said in an interview he thought the acting in this film was substandard. Well, it was a different time, and perhaps an earlier style of acting.

I stand corrected, I looked in the book, and it was there, not the first time I've been wrong.

And today Anthony Eduards brought me here!