Every acting class should watch this movie. Tracy once said, "Don't act, just behave"

63 years later, the symbolism, Bible vs Science book, faith vs knowledge, sentimentalism vs cynicism, all balanced in the closing shot of a hall of justice. Relevant as ever especially in the realm of our current media landscape. Marvelous performances by all.

Powerful ending. I also respect Gene Kelly for diving into such a role. Not only a great dancer.

Tracy towers as perhaps the greatest actor in Hollywood history. The outstanding screenplay and timing of dialogue throughout the movie, with Kelly and March performing superbly in supporting roles, make this movie and especially this ending among the finest one will see on screen. How this movie did not win the Oscar is criminal.

@user-zi6tz9zm5d

2 ай бұрын

Criminal indeed...such a very good movie....

While great acting is a given from Tracy, I have to say that Kelly gave one of his best performances as a serious, dramatic actor in this film--while he was always a great song-and-dance performer

@MCP2012

2 жыл бұрын

Very well-said, Tim. Gene Kelly held his own splendidly!

"You never pushed a noun against a verb unless it was to blow something up" I have to remember to use that sometime.

@johnnypastrana6727

4 жыл бұрын

I am sure we will both find the appropriate time to use that one... :)

@jamesalexander5623

3 жыл бұрын

I have used this line in many a debate with an Evangelical .... "The Bible is a Book,it's a Good Book .... But it is Not the Only Book!"

@infonomics

3 жыл бұрын

Don't memorize it for later verbatim use. Instead, learn the meaning of it then use your own creativity in expressing the meaning.

The message of the film is clearly to think for yourself, and to respect differences of opinion. It's rare to see that in a film.

@isaiahwilliams2642

4 жыл бұрын

It's a great message, and one that's never been more relevant with how the internet likes to make it illegal to not have the popular opinion.

@RobTheNotary

3 жыл бұрын

Too bad you can’t do that today

@DrownedInExile

3 жыл бұрын

But not all opinions are worth respecting.

@surgeland9084

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrownedInExile No. Conservatives and the rest of the political right can suck a fat one.

@ilanpi

3 жыл бұрын

The real message of the film is to not at all be faithful to the historical facts.

Gene Kelly's best role, and he didn't sing a note or dance a lick.

@hansbosse1106

3 жыл бұрын

A much-underrated actor.

@Jillian_Paige

3 жыл бұрын

@@hansbosse1106 He certainly was. :) I just came here from watching this film for the first time since high school. (I couldn’t appreciate it - or these masterful performances - back then.) I’m so glad someone uploaded this final scene - which I have now added to my favorite videos. I read raves about Tracy and March, and I thoroughly expected great performances from them (which, of course, they delivered) - but no mentions of Kelly, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I shouldn’t have wondered. He blew me away. His sarcastic, smart aleck-y lines were delivered deliciously with his characteristic charm - but what impressed me most were the moments in which he wasn’t talking. Watching Fredric March at the dinner table, listening and reacting in the courtroom - and especially his close-up in this magnificent final scene. He said so much, without uttering a word. He really should be lauded alongside March and Tracy. His performance was just as impactful and just as memorable (and it’s my personal favorite of the three).

originally..Gene didn't want to do the film..he was spending time with his daughter in Greece..but..when Stan Kramer(The film's producer and director)told him that Spece Tracy and Freddie March were going to portray the lead characters:"Henry Drummound & Mat Brady"? Gene..said to Stan on the phone.."I'm flying out tomorrow.."and he did and he did a brilliant performance as"E.K.Hornbeck".

I've never seen such pure cinema...Spencer Tracy, incredible.

this scene really pulled the whole film together.

"Who else would defend my right to be lonely?" I love that.

@russellcampbell9198

Жыл бұрын

Me too.

One of the greatest movies ever made with a wonderful cast and a topic still in controversy today

@VtRD

4 жыл бұрын

Thinking a lot about this movie in our current pandemic. He that troubleth his own house shall Inherit the Wind.

@mikek5958

3 жыл бұрын

@@VtRD Yeah, China.

@WJack97224

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and sadly, manmade political government is still secular. We should not have manmade political government in tyrannical control of education. So, always identify the root cause of a defect or failure and avoid wasting time on symptoms.

@DrownedInExile

3 жыл бұрын

@@WJack97224 A secular government with a godless constitution is the best chance for liberty and prosperity for all.

@WJack97224

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrownedInExile, Well of course that is your opinion however the history of the world teaches just the opposite. Manmade political governments have committed the atrocity of wars of mass murder/slaughter, the ruination and pain of economic recessions, the ruination and pain from the debauchery of the money via inflation/legalized counterfeiting, the ruination of morality and wellbeing via the welfare state that is based on the immorality of looting A to satisfy B/stealing and the imposition of stinkin' naggar slave debt slavery via the massive borrowing by the politicians and setting up the debt bomb from hell on future generations.

Spencer tracy is the best in every film he acts in

@creamcheese1048

5 жыл бұрын

How true.

All great performances but no one, including Tracy himself, could have played the role of Brady with the level of humanity that March provided. What could have been just a clown was turned into a flawed but sympathetic character. March's wife gave a similar stellar performance as his on screen wife. Two of the best film performances ever given.

@hansbosse1106

Жыл бұрын

Spencer Tracy, Frederick March, Gene Kelly. All three delivered superb performances. A dream cast if there ever was one.

@c.a.savage5689

9 ай бұрын

Florence Eldridge

Gene Kelly was rather nervous doing this film. Especially this scene, alone with Tracy. "I'm a hoofer, swapping dialogue with an actor's actor. I talked to him about my misgivings. He listened, telling me every role builds actor's abilities. I had no illusions about myself. I put the straw hat on, cocked at a dancer's angle, to prove it."

Where oh where has great film making gone.

@Shadowman4710

4 ай бұрын

Mostly into television...

"Who else would defend my right to be lonely" is my favorite closing line of any film. Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy): I cannot imagine a world without Matthew Harrison Brady. E.K. Hornbeck (Gene Kelly): Get me the Baltimore Herald, please. Drummond: What did he die of? Did they say? Hornbeck: He died of a busted belly. Drummond: There was once greatness in the man. Hornbeck: Can I quote you in the obituary? Drummond: Write anything you damn-write anything you please. Hornbeck: How do you write an obituary for a man who’s been dead thirty years? Operator? Say, what’d he say to the minister? You know, that fits. He delivered his own obituary. Where’d you put that-oh, there it is. His book! It was Proverbs, wasn’t it? Drummond: “He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise in heart.” Hornbeck: Wow. Wow, Col. Drummond, we’re growing an odd crop of agnostics this year. Drummond: You know, Hornbeck, I’m getting damn sick of you. Hornbeck: Why? Drummond: You never push a noun against a verb except to blow up something. Hornbeck: You know, that’s a typical lawyer’s trick-accusing the accuser. Drummond: What am I accused of? Hornbeck: Contempt of conscience. Sentimentality in the first degree. Drummond: Why-because I refuse to erase a man’s lifetime? Hornbeck: No. Because you know what I thought of him, and I know what you thought, so let’s leave the lamentations to the illiterate. What is this-“Be Kind to Bigots Week?” Why should we weep for him? ‘Cause he’s dead! Besides, he cried enough for himself during his lifetime. The National Tearduct from Weeping Water, Nebraska. Oh ho, he flooded the nation like a one-man Mississippi. You know what he was, that bible-beating bunko artist! Drummond: A giant once lived in that body. But Matt Brady got lost because he looked for God too high up and too far away. Hornbeck: You hypocrite. You fraud. The atheist who believes in God. You’re just as religious as he was. Drummond: Everything is grist for your mill-isn’t it? Well, go ahead, grind it up: Brady’s past, Cates’s future. My God. Don’t you understand the meaning of what happened here today? Hornbeck: What happened here today has no meaning. Drummond: You have no meaning; you’re like a ghost pointing an empty sleeve and smirking at everything that people feel or want or struggle for. I pity you. Hornbeck: You pity me? Drummond: Isn’t there anything? Wha-what touches you? What warms you? Every man has a dream. What do you dream about, what do you need? You don’t need anything, do you? People, love. An idea, just to cling to. You poor slob. You’re all alone. When you go to your grave, there won’t be anyone to pull the grass up over your head. Nobody to mourn you, nobody to give a damn. You’re all alone. Hornbeck: You’re wrong, Henry. You’ll be there. You’re the type. Who else would defend my right to be lonely?

@judyfowler2023

4 жыл бұрын

Bret Gammons yeah, we watched it

@kurtbaumann7686

4 жыл бұрын

It's terrible when time moves on isn't it. A person is famous even important and people hear and like what he has to say. Then then the times change he becomes a relic and is forgotten. Matthew Harrison Brady had one last bid for fame and chasing after it killed him. Would anybody remember him and anything that he accomplished?

@DrownedInExile

3 жыл бұрын

@@kurtbaumann7686 I don't think it would have mattered whether Brady lived or died. This mountain of bigotry, divisiveness, stupidity and ignorance he helped spawn is all he'd ever be remembered for. If he didn't have the political savvy to recognize that, no wonder he failed to win the presidency 3 times.

@WJack97224

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the transcription. I wish Henry Drummond could have defended the right of the Southern States to secede from the Union before the Civil War.

@ilanpi

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrownedInExile The characterization in the movie of William Jennings Bryan is totally preposterous and precisely designed to inspire the attitude that you have expressed.

This was the scene that convinced me Kelly could ACT!

Spencer Tracy was a giant!

@mrspector117

9 жыл бұрын

not even close

@thekingcobra63

7 жыл бұрын

This movie was a masterpiece, the 99 version was a pale comparison and was one of those movies that should have never been made. Don't screw with perfection, when they do it is just stupid. Don't remake Citizen Kane, don't remake 12 angry men, don't remake Patton, Zulu, Song of Bernadette, or so many other movies that they keep trying to re-do because they cannot come up with an original idea.

@robertlongwill8856

6 жыл бұрын

Stephen Adams I saw that movie and it was piece of crap this movie with Spencer Tracy and Frederick March was so much better

@williamsnyder5616

5 жыл бұрын

I loved Tracy. I loved one anecdote from Robert Wagner about him. In the early 1950s, Fox was grooming Wagner as a star and teamed him with Tracy and Richard Widmark in a damn good Western called "Broken Lance." Once on the set, Wagner---in awe of Tracy only after a few days of shooting---asked Tracy the secret of good acting. Tracy looked at him and said, "Know your lines." Then, Tracy walked away. Wagner said he thought and thought about this and then it dawned on him. It wasn't just memorizing your lines, but it was KNOWING your lines. What motivates a character? What makes jim tick? Wagner never was great , but he was great in "Broken Lance."

@scottmiller6495

5 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest male actors of the 20th century !!!!!

"He weighs the volume in his hand; this one book has been the center of the whirlwind. Then Drummond notices the Bible, on the Judge's bench. He picks up the Bible in his other hand; he looks from one volume to the other, balancing them thoughtfully, as if his hands were scales. He half-smiles, half-shrugs. Then Drummond slaps the two books together and jams them in his briefcase, side by side. Slowly, he climbs to the street level and crosses the empty square." - _Inherit the Wind_ (1955)

@Y.Moroboshi

3 жыл бұрын

This ending really stuck with me, and it's been more than 20 years since I've seen this film. The symbolism is pretty clear, signaling that you don't need to keep the sciences and religion apart. It's not one or the other, despite what some may think.

@the-Albino-Rhino

2 жыл бұрын

And in the movie, the visuals juxtapose even better. The new, white, hardback, hardly touched science book vs. the warn, old, bookmarked black Bible. The coat jacket, which keeps you warm, is black, compared to the all white hair and hat of Drummond. The judge's chair is in the direct center background, and the bronze blind justice sits opposite a window showing equal amounts of shadow and light. A lamp stands between blind justice AND the judge, signifying that light is both artificial and important to justice, and that the judge must play up to his namesake and judge how the light illuminates reality. Tracy becomes the new judge in lieu of one present, complete with a perfect mix of light and dark clothes, with two seemingly incongruent books on equal footing.

What a man. He delivered this brilliant performance a year before Judgment at Nuremberg. Another film that makes you think clearly and leaves you gasping for breath

@WJack97224

3 жыл бұрын

@CD_Promo, interesting point about Judgment at Nuremberg. The German Judges who were on trial, amoungst others, claimed in their defenses that they were only following orders. The court said that may be but you are still expected to know the difference between right and wrong. This was later called "The Nuremberg Defense" and it did not "wash." Today bureaucrats still gravitate to the "Nuremberg Defense" when they harm others and the gd courts in some cases are allowing it as a defense. Amerika is in the toilet; manmade political government is the bane and pain of mankind; politics is violence; it is not Christian; it is diabolical rot.

“You never pushed a noun against a verb except to blow up something.” Journalism never changes...

Fredric March took a character that might have been seen as a complete buffoon and imparted a human element that allowed viewers to feel empathy for him. He was the one that should have been nominated, and won, the academy award.

@scottmiller6495

5 жыл бұрын

Frederic March and Spencer Tracy both deserved the Academy Award for their incredible performances in this fantastic film !!!!!

@johnnypastrana6727

4 жыл бұрын

He was amazing in his role...they both were but only one was honored...but we know the truth don't we? It counts for something?

@taleraneran

Жыл бұрын

I agree

@hansbosse1106

2 ай бұрын

Tracy's performance was towering, but it's hard to argue vs. Frederic March. Two of the greatest actors in the history of motion pictures, if it were possible Tracy and March should have shared the Best Actor Oscar--and Gene Kelly should have gotten Best Supporting Actor award. He proved that he was far, far more than a singer and dancer. Three brilliant performances.

Great conclusion to a great film delivered by two greats.

I just came here from watching this film for the first time since high school. (I couldn’t appreciate it - or these masterful performances - back then.) I’m so glad someone uploaded this final scene - which I have now added to my favorite videos. I read raves about Tracy and March, and I thoroughly expected great performances from them (which, of course, they delivered) - but no mentions of Kelly, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I shouldn’t have wondered. He blew me away. His sarcastic, smart aleck-y lines were delivered deliciously with his characteristic charm - but what impressed me most were the moments in which he wasn’t talking. Watching Fredric March at the dinner table, listening and reacting in the courtroom - and especially his close-up in this magnificent final scene. He said so much, without uttering a word. He really should be lauded alongside March and Tracy. His performance was just as impactful and just as memorable (and it’s my personal favorite of the three).

@jimmyh2226

Жыл бұрын

You didn't happen to have had a certain tall, blond guy for your high school biology teacher?

We watched this movie in my 9th grade history class, and I remember being so shocked at the plot twist of him picking up both books at the very end. That ending has stuck with me for years and I just think of it sometimes. I'll definitely watch the movie again someday. ~:~

When followers of faith believe that they have become the chosen protectors of that faith, they can loose grace, wisdom, and compassion.Then sadly replace them with finatisim, doctrine, and hate. We must remember that true faith is not just knowing the word but truly living it.

What a powerful scene...tough to upstage old Spencer though...the force of his personality was great...

Tracy was a beast in this movie but what else would you expect? Honestly, I'm impressed by Gene Kelly. Straight drama wasn't his go-to and he was awesome in this.

@carolbradshaw6105

6 жыл бұрын

He was brilliant.

@scottmiller6495

5 жыл бұрын

This film should have won Best Picture of 1960 instead they gave it to The Apartment! This film was much better !!!!!

@isaiahwilliams2642

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair, Kelly did seem made for this role since this reporter was a fast talking wise crack always seemingly putting on a show for those around him and with his musical background he was perfect as that type.

@okyouknowwhatever

2 жыл бұрын

@@isaiahwilliams2642 I don't think the real Mencken had that type of boyish mischievous charm though of a Gene Kelly, but was more of a wry sarcastic character. So he's playing Mencken but with his own type of charisma.

One of Hollywood’s classic movies.. IMO, Spencer Tracy was/is probably the finest actor in the history of Hollywood. In this movie Fredrick March equals him all the way.

For a second there I thought Gene was going to dance out of the courtroom!😁

Gene Kelly held his own in this

I have for sooooooo many years loved this movie...not just the performance of both Spence and the other great actors but the daringness of the promotion of the essence portrayed here..the right to think...it is now more important than ever.. yes Inherit the wind is a movie that everyone should watch for sure....and it has been for years......the right to think...

Gene Kelly is so overlooked in this movie. Granted, Tracy and Marsh own this movie, but Kelly nails his support role.

@Shadowman4710

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, this was perhaps his greatest performance, and I think his last great film. I love the look on his face while Tracy is berating him-he's really shook by it. And then he does his customary smirk and gives a zinger back. This is still my favorite film, after all these years.

The moment when a movie's clown character seems ready to cry. And it isn't done in a stupid or shallow way.

According to an interview that film historian and lecturer:Prof.Richard Brown did with Gene Kelly for American Movie Classics"Reflections Of The Silver Screen"..Gene got a long distance call from filmmaker Stan Kramer(while Gene was on vacation in Greece with one of his daughters and her friend)to audition for the role of"E.K.Hornbeck"for "InHeirit The Wind"..he told Stan that he didn't want to do it..that he was on vacation with his daughter and her friend in Greece.But? Stan finally got Gene to audition for the role..when he told him that he hired Spence(Tracy)and Freddie(March)to play "Henry Drummond & Mat Brady"for the film.

Although not in this scene, I'm surprised that no one else has mentioned Dick York (Bertram Cates) and his performance in this movie. He proved that he could go toe-to-toe with the mighty Spencer Tracy in a scene.

@mikek5958

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely wonderful performance by him. He is sadly overlooked but only because of the shadows cast by those two giants.

Brilliant movie and this scene in particular!

GK took this part so he could act with Tracy and March. He loved the play. Based on the true story...read the play.

During the trial, we don’t know much of Drummond’s convictions, beyond swaying a verdict. The end is a stroke of genius. I like that he pensively puts the Bible on top of Darwin. Far from Hornbeck’s accusations, it’s not hypocrisy. I think it adds to the credibility of his defense (for freedom of thought). What good is any belief if we don’t find it willingly...

@johnnypastrana6727

4 жыл бұрын

@Salnsd Yet Fauci is indeed the salesman for the Bill 'slip them a mickey' Gates' vaccine. His nonsense will end up burning millions alive and they will take it willingly because of misplaced trust in these pseudo men of science.

@DrownedInExile

4 жыл бұрын

@Salnsd Indeed. Religious people love to brag about how many scientists were religious. It's cargo-cult logic. They fail to understand the underlying mechanisms behind not only science, but of their own religion.

@DrownedInExile

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnnypastrana6727 Total nonsense.

One of the great endings in motion picture history.

Jerome Lawrence was a personal friend of mine. A truly nice person.

What great screenwriting, and who better to deliver it.

perfect scene, perfect dialog.

Good movie

Brilliant all around.

What a film!

Seeing this reminded me of a video here on KZread, Evolution by the channel breaking in the habit

Love, love, love Spencer Tracy. Was he drunk in this final scene? Slurring his speech? Anyone else think so? RIP, Spense

@stockvaluedotcom

7 жыл бұрын

He never drank on set. Paul Newman on the other hand early in his career went through a case of beer a day.

@michaelpatrickmoore8900

6 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing. Definite slurring in that scene. Not sure though, what the cause might be other than drunk or medication reaction. Such a contrast to all the other scenes that were strong and clearly spoken?!?!?

@NECHOII

6 жыл бұрын

@ANN FIESTA : Spencer Tracy was playing the part of a very weary, tired lawyer at the end of an unforgetable day. Notice he didn't stumble or stagger on his way out of the courtroom.

@peterroycroft

6 жыл бұрын

Tracy was unfortunately an alcoholic. I think he is definitely drunk in that scene...and yet he is still superb! It's not the only scene in the movie where his voice seems thick with drink. The man's presence in most movies lifts them all up a notch.

@okyouknowwhatever

2 жыл бұрын

He looks more depressed than drunk, honestly. And apparently he suffered from some type of depression.

I love courtroom dramas

This was the best male actor ever to live

i looooooove this ending

I would hardly call Fredric March "supporting" here; rather it's Kelly who's supporting the two marvelous leads.

@mikek5958

2 жыл бұрын

Well said.

Kelly's character is the true opposite of March's in that while March's character has contempt for those who do not believe and much convert them, Kelly's has contempt for all those who do believe and only mock them. Neither are willing to give ground.

It’s frightening how drummond’s speech applies to today’s society more than ever.

This movie is a masterpiece. I love the ending where Spencer Tracy puts Charles Darwin's book, " The Origin of Species " together with the Bible. Somewhere, in between what those two books contain, there has got to be an answer !

@sson386

5 жыл бұрын

This is how I like to believe in the world. Evolution is real as it has been observed and documented by great scientists as Darwin but I also believe some higher power set everything into motion for it work out as it does. It may not be God in the definition of Christians, but something that would be akin to a god.

@toncuz8291

4 жыл бұрын

@Epsensieg 18 It's not that hard to believe in a superior. Just look at the world around you. But, that's where it ends. When people try to push some white, male cult-hero (like Jewish Moses, Christian Jesus, Islam's Mohammed)...that's when I stop listening. In America, there's about 200 million non-thinkers who believe that there was a man who "died for their sins". Except...he never really died. He "rose from the dead" a few days later. So, millions of people across the globe are told to worship a guy...who gave up his weekend.

@johnnypastrana6727

4 жыл бұрын

My take was a bit different, he was like 'which book should go on top'...he chose the bible.

@kurtbaumann7686

4 жыл бұрын

Somewhere there has to be a balance.

@DrownedInExile

Жыл бұрын

No. "The Origin of Species" is well supported demonstrable reality. While the Bible is a jumbled error-ridden mess of bronze-age fairy tales. The truth doesn't always lie between opposing sides.

It's like this scene was written with Ricky Gervais in mind.

I'm not sure I can recall a better last scene in any movie I've seen.

Both characters had very valid points in their debate, I didn't see either one as being right or wrong.

That man ate well

Spencer Tracy always looked much older than he actually was. He was 60 in 1960, right?

@stockvaluedotcom

2 жыл бұрын

Tracy was a very heavy drinker. He did not drink while he was working, though.

@Shadowman4710

Жыл бұрын

@@stockvaluedotcom Not generally but he had his lapses. He apparently had one in the middle of filming "Bad Day at Black Rock" and the producers had to fly Katherine Hepburn in from Italy to talk him down.

@kitsygirl

7 ай бұрын

I'm sure the white hair didn't help him look younger, either.

My favorite courtroom movie harry Morgan judge Claude akins preacher Noah berry father of stubbins boy Norman fell radio engineer. By the last line where he says you'll show up to my funeral isn't in the play. Ends with him saying atheist who believes in God then tells cates not to call him colonel anymore he's out and they forget books so Drummond picks them up and that's how play ends

Surge' has it wrong, in a big way, the film is about the Evolution of Man, of approaching Higher Ideals through Reason and Humanism. It is clearly not about tolerating or respecting bigoted imbecilic ideas which are harmful, but understanding the roots of hatred and bringing those unformed prejudices into the Light of Reason and true Justice.

@noisekeeper

5 жыл бұрын

Calm down Hornbeck.

The moment which kinda ruined the scene to me is at 5:24 where Tracy turned slightly to the right while walking to avoid go against the camera. Sure the entrance to the courtroom is a straight corridor. I don't know why it wasn't getting the scissor in editing room? A minor flaw in otherwise an outstanding movie

I’ll never understand why they made a remake of this film years later starring George C. Scott and Jack Lemmon. It simply cannot compare to this 1960 version at all. Scott and Lemmon’s performances were, of course, completely competent and professional, but lacked the intensity and emotional weight that Tracy and March brought to the play. This is THE definitive film performance of all time of a great play that is every bit as relevant today as it was when it was released.

i love youll be there youre the type

It says a lot that Gene Kelly holds his own alongside Tracy and March.

@Shadowman4710

4 ай бұрын

I also give a lot of credit to Dick York, who was mostly known for "Bewitched." This film is loaded with great character actors.

@colinbaker3916

4 ай бұрын

@@Shadowman4710 As I’m sure you know, this was a couple of years before Bewitched.

@Shadowman4710

4 ай бұрын

@@colinbaker3916 Yes but that's the role he's mostly known for.

2:20 I've never understood that. What makes Tracy's character "The Atheist Who Believes In God"?

@johnniea4684

4 ай бұрын

Because he recalls Brady's biblical quote verbatim, demonstrating complete familiarity with it, the type that only comes with reading it often. So, despite defending Cates, he is someone who is a Christian. To Hornbeck, a man who believes in a black and white world, one of absolute right and wrong, a nuanced position stinks of hypocrisy. I think this is what is meant by the line.

@johnniea4684

4 ай бұрын

Hornbeck assumes throughout that because Drummond is defending atheistic teaching, which is contrary to the Bible, that he must also be an atheist himself. To a man like Hornbeck, who is as much of an absolutist as Brady, Drummond's nuanced position, in which he is able to see both positives and negatives in Brady is a sign of hypocrisy. To him, Brady is the enemy, so for Drummond to say that Brady once had great qualities, desired to do good but succumbed to his own fallability, Hornbeck is incapable of accepting that. This accusation by Hornbeck follows directly on from his surprise that Drummond has perfect recall of the biblical quote uttered by Brady.

today you would have to add another book to the two spencer is carrying and that book is cosmos carl sagans book!

Every time the Kraken comes with its stupid attemps to make my think I'm losing it, the Hornbeck in me gets more stubborn

It seems at the end there is an effort to support both teams. Trying to please both parties. I personally don't understand the ignorance of fact.

@trialk1

9 жыл бұрын

kevvoo1967 the same with me that feeling

@j7220

8 жыл бұрын

kevvoo1967 I disagree. This scene is brilliant because it is dialogue between two secular people who are fighting for the rights of a man accused of wrong doing by a bigot and a bigoted town who backed jailing an innocent man. Spencer Tracy sees that Brady was once a good man who lost himself in religious piety. Gene Kelley says this man did so much evil that to acknowledge any good the man ever did turns a blind eye to the lives destroyed by one man's self-righteous crusade. This is a common argument my fellow atheists have amongst ourselves. It is also why this movie is a true classic.

@jeffreylundin4716

8 жыл бұрын

+kevvoo1967 I personally don't understand ignorance of nuance.

@TheMrTtilley

8 жыл бұрын

+kevvoo1967 It is to point out the real evil; one who has no belief, no value, no feeling, the media out for a good story to sell papers and what ever else..

@EmptyMan000

8 жыл бұрын

+Tom Tilley Such idealists seemed so pretentious to me. Talking to the one who lacks ideals and faith as alone and unloved, then speaking of pity as if the person speaking actually cares. Such people speak as if they are in better or elevated condition for their ideals when they may be worse off. Only sentimentality and haphazard beliefs providing comfort in an ambivalent setting.

People today are like Hornbeck

@indigosunset70

6 жыл бұрын

true. everyone is cynical these days.

@1eagleeyez

6 жыл бұрын

Indigo Sunset true, and they’re know -it all! But they’re not smarter than anyone

Great ending. Such as Gene Kelly's character, "Even if I know I'm doomed, I have the right to live by my own my monstrosity and defend my essence through thick and thin....Wait, people would say that the executioners are long gone and the game's up. True, but the reasons they came in the first place still remain. Don't suppose I don't remember all the glances of hot girls since 1998, or how subtly people have attacked me since time immemorial, or the probable shadowy government long term conspiracy: was my birth in 1986 pre-ordained or at least the early childhood trauma I still can't remember that propeled the entity to blind and 'isolate' me for life?". So it goes🙃😆😅🤔😥

For a devout Catholic like Tracy, this role was the antithesis of his own beliefs.

@bobmcgahey1280

6 жыл бұрын

no it was not if you knew anything about catholicism you'd know it accepts evolution

@carolbradshaw6105

6 жыл бұрын

absolutely not.

@iVenge

5 жыл бұрын

Beliefs my ass... he was a serial adulterer.

@judyfowler2023

4 жыл бұрын

Richard Conner even in real life I think Tracy knew the value of science, and probably questioned his beliefs in this movie, but not just religious beliefs, but common sense is in there too

@LordZontar

3 жыл бұрын

Antithesis? Not at all. Throughout the movie, Henry Drummond is accused both of being an agnostic and an atheist, but Drummond himself never said what he was and never took any kind of position regarding religious faith one way or the other. The issue simply wasn't important to his purpose in taking the case. That he defended evolution and the right to think made him no more irreligious than his final statement about Brady made him religious.

4:40-5:00 when trying to decide to either buy an xbox one or ps4 but made the right choice.

Oof. Gene Kelly was only 12 years younger than Spencer Tracy.

BBC1 voyage of Charles Darwin 1978...

Brady didn't get lost because he looked for a god or gods too far up or whatever. He got lost because he tried to reignite his near-dead career upon a mountain of ignorance, stupidity, bigotry and hatred. Win or lose, that's all he's going to be remembered for. If Brady didn't have the political savvy to recognize that when he was alive, it's no wonder he failed to win the presidency 3 times. If Hornbeck is erasing Brady's entire life, Brady gave him a lot of help there.

@WJack97224

3 жыл бұрын

@DrowedInExile, Oh, it sounds like you have some hatreds, too.

@DrownedInExile

3 жыл бұрын

@@WJack97224 /eyeroll

@WJack97224

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrownedInExile, Well, don't shoot the messenger. The road is wide but the gate is narrow; many are called but few are chosen.

@DrownedInExile

3 жыл бұрын

@@WJack97224 More Eyeroll. You have a high opinion of yourself.

@WJack97224

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrownedInExile, Again, pejoratives don't win you a debate. Ad hominem attacks are simply not winning. Argumentum ad baculum is simply immoral, i.e. politics is immoral; it is violence!

I'd like to see Al Pacino as Drummond. And I feel Bob Odenkirk would make a terrific Hornbeck.

@Shadowman4710

4 ай бұрын

Interesting choices. Who do you see as Brady?

@ekathe85

4 ай бұрын

@@Shadowman4710 Tommy Lee Jones maybe.

Presstitutes

Brady....turned to the dark side and couldnt come back.

Tracy already suffering and weak...from his alcoholism.....here still had 7 years to live and a few more movies to make...and if Katherine Hepburn hadnt been by his side the whole time...he would never had made it..that far

@Shadowman4710

4 ай бұрын

Between this and his death in 1967 he managed to do "Judgement at Nuremburg," "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" Not a bad record for somebody in decline.

'Why should we cry for him? Because hes dead?' Shocking to hear a person say that. More shocking that you hear it regularly these days, even just here on youtube.

@EmptyMan000

2 жыл бұрын

If you hear it regularly, how on Earth is it shocking?

@antondelacruz9362

2 жыл бұрын

@@EmptyMan000 because 'shocking' isnt the same as 'surprising'.

El final es decepcionante...😩

Sadly the society we live in now is full of Hornbecks

Humanity will be forever lost in turmoil without Spiritual awareness.

@DrownedInExile

4 жыл бұрын

Nonsense.

Hahah, has there ever been a more American ending to a movie?

Tracy pissed most of the time

@Shadowman4710

4 ай бұрын

Didn't hurt his acting.

It's weird how the film posthumously vindicates the Brady character, after presenting him as somewhat of a buffoon and a has-been seeking glory at the twilight of his life, at the last minute whilst condemning the nihilism of the Mencken stand-in.

I'm certain that there are some good actors nowadays,but in regards to what I'm watching now most of them are fake.

When Drummond was talking to Hornbeck about being alone, it's clear he was actually talking to people of this generation. Believing in nothing has never been an bargain, you have to pay for it,

@perpecedecelequex

3 жыл бұрын

Respectfully disagree. If you would talk about the line's intent, my interpretation is it wishes to show both sides of the coin sow hatred and disrespect. Someone can believe in something so hard they lose critical thinking, which is dangerous, but they can also be so critical of everything that they lose human respect and open-mindedness. He will die alone because he rises to the occasion to point out the flaws in everything instead of seeing the nuanced value of it all, embracing the chance to make the world his enemy. It isn't criticizing the lack of a belief, but the lack of compassion, empathy, and tolerance.

@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen

3 жыл бұрын

"Believing in nothing has never been an bargain" I wonder what you mean by "believing in nothing." Are you referring to atheists? Because a one can believe in a great deal without believing in god.

Brady: fox news Drummond: national review Hornbeck: cancel culture / twitter

@paulmccarthy1527

3 жыл бұрын

Brady wanted to cancel Cates so he was the true administrator of cancel culture.

@baalzebullordofhell6967

2 жыл бұрын

'Cancel Culture' isn't real.

@okyouknowwhatever

2 жыл бұрын

@@baalzebullordofhell6967 Now they're trying to cancel my boy Joey Rogan.

@baalzebullordofhell6967

2 жыл бұрын

@@okyouknowwhatever Yeah, because he's a racist vaccine denier. Stop whining.

I really wish more Athiests today were like Drummond, too many of them are like Hornbeck

@thepunditspundit1776

4 жыл бұрын

Dracosermonomicon In all honesty, I think the end proves Drummond wasn’t an atheist. He just had questions like all humans should have. He was probably a more astute biblical scholar than Brady

@bfettrulez6734

4 жыл бұрын

Jacob you hit the nail on the head. Even today in this political climate everyone is locked an idea of 2 prisms. Prisms are multifaceted. I’m a practicing Catholic & a Trump supporter. Do I wish he would just close his mouth sometimes? Yes! Doesn’t mean I’m not fond of his policies or hate Democrats. Many of my friends are atheists. I just don’t get why are differences have to be dividers. I love discovering different points of view on nearly any subject.

@DrownedInExile

4 жыл бұрын

@@bfettrulez6734 America leads the world in COVID-19 infections/fatalites, thanks to the Impeached-President Trump's incompetence. Are you fond of that?

@bfettrulez6734

4 жыл бұрын

DrownedInExile actually I could have sworn I read somewhere that China was at fault for the virus

@Dracomut

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed, the origin of the virus was in China.

Ending doesn't make sense, but they were afraid to let atheism have the last word

@yaronhoff

Жыл бұрын

It's the Humanist vs the Nihilist. The first believes in man, the second believes in nothing.

@warplanner8852

Жыл бұрын

The coexistence of science (the Darwin book) and religion (the Bible)? My God, man, doesn't _anything_ touch you?

This is a talk with CNN if it were a man.

Cynicism is useful, powerful, vital... but it is not food. You can value atheism without becoming a religious bigot. You can be religious without become a bigoted zealot. I've always loved the message, science is fact and truth, but it is not club to beat people with. The bible and other spiritual tomes contain ancient spirituality and powerful timeless concepts but they cannot be your governing principles alone. We don't have to hate the former to understand and embrace the later.

I just finished watching the controversial movie “Inherit the Wind”, starring Spencer Tracy, which unfortunately many people today base their understanding of the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial, which took place in 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. I say “unfortunately” because this movie (the most famous version of three films based on the Scopes Monkey trial) is nothing more than a grotesque distortion of what really happened--a perfect example of how vested interests; namely, support for creation or evolution can deform or distort reality in order to create what one writer (Carol Iannone ) calls “a ideological motivated hoax.” For example, the high school teacher on trial (John Scopes) was a mathematician, not a biologist.In fact, there is no evidence whatever that he actually taught evolution. Although he had briefly substituted as a biology teacher, he did not remember teaching evolution, but he had used the standard textbook, Hunter’s Civic Biology, which contained a short section of the subject. In his own autobiography, “Center of the Storm”, he stated: “To tell the truth, I wasn’t sure I had taught evolution. … Darrow had been afraid for me to go on the stand. Darrow realized that I was not a science teacher and he was afraid that if I were put on the stand I would be asked if I actually taught biology. … If the boys had got their review of evolution from me, I was unaware of it. I didn’t remember teaching it.” Moreover, the trial itself was not instigated by Christian fundamentalists; it was instigated by the ACLU, which was trying to recruit a Tennessee teacher to challenge the Butler Act ( In 1925, the Tennessee legislature passed a law called the Butler Act, which forbade teaching that man came from lower life forms. It didn’t prohibit teaching other aspects of evolution). John Scopes willingly agreed to say he taught evolution and be served with a warrant. Everything was done with his consent. Also, there was no lynch-mob mentality or atmosphere--no marching of the locals to the hotel and singing they’ll hang him from a tree, as depicted in the movie. In fact, the people of Dayton gave Darrow, the defense attorney, a banquet. Here’s how he (Charles Darrow) himself summarized his experiences there: “Yet I came here a perfect stranger, and I can say what I have said before that I have not found upon anybody’s part - any citizen here in this town or outside, the slightest discourtesy. I have been better treated, kindlier and more hospitably than I fancied would have been the case in the north, and that is due largely to the ideas that southern people have and they are, perhaps, more hospitable than we are up north.” William Jennings Byran, far from being an ignorant bigot opposed to all science, even the introduction of zoological evidence into the trial as evidence, as portrayed in the movie, was actually a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Here is what he really said about science during the trial: “Give science a fact and it is not only invincible, but of incalculable service to man.” Bryan opposed Darwinism, not because he was against science, but because he recognized that the fish-to-man theory lacked scientific support (to which I say “Amen). In fact, Bryan, far from being depicted in the movie as never having read Darwin’s works, it was Bryan himself who introduced them. He was quite familiar with Darwin’s works and frequently quoted Darwin, both in the courtroom and in his writings. John Scopes, needless to say, never had to pay a fine and did no time in jail. Where has what Charles Darrow ( Spencer Tracy) calls “progressive enlightenment” brought us to date? It has brought us to where prayer, Bible reading, and God’s law and commandments are banned from our public schools--where we have widespread lawlessness and disrespect for authority, even at the elementary level, in our public school system, kids killing kids on school grounds, increase in mental illness and teenage suicide, etc. Why? Because if kids are taught that they are just some highly evolved animals as a result of unplanned, mindless, accidental, materialistic evolution, then, don’t be surprised if they act like such in a hostile world where the only law is the law of the jungle. As I said before, on the basis of over 35 years reading and researching many aspects on both sides of the debate, I believe if the evidence for biblical creation was given as much exposure as the evidence (or lack of same) for "goo-to-you" evolution that is funded by government and supported by the social media, biblical creation would win hands down. If something like the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925 were to happen today, you would not have Hollywood producing such ridiculous and grotesely distorted and deceitful films as “Inherit the Wind” because, contrary to what was portrayed in the movie, such a trial would be decided solely on the basis of the most up-to-date scientific evidence, not the Word of God, and would win hands down (i.e information theory: .all alleged “proofs” of “evolution in action” or “go-to-you” evolution do not show functional new genetic information is added to genes. Rather, they show sorting and/or loss of genetic information in the genome of life forms. Sorry folks, but I find I simply don’t have enough faith to believe in “a fairy tale for grown-ups,” as Dr. Louis Bounoure, Director of Research at The French National Center for Scientific Research once described it. It is far more logical and reasonable to believe a superintelligent Creator-God created this universe and all life in it (read Genesis 1:1; Psalm 19:1 Romans 1:20;etc.). God bless.

@michaeldeo5068

5 жыл бұрын

Ray Winsor I am just now finding out how distorted this movie is from the true events that happened. I hear the 2010 movie "Alleged" is a much more accurate and honest portrayal of the scopes trial and of the people involved. Also the biology book, that was being used at the time called A CIVIC BIOLOGY. Presented In Problems. BY. GEORGE WILLIAM HUNTER, contained racist and eugenic theories in it as well as passages on evolution.

@tdjones9471

4 жыл бұрын

I"m guessing you probably ceased to be sentient ariund 1925...?

@willym9836

4 жыл бұрын

I don't recall that this was ever said to be a true recounting of the Scopes Trial - either the play or the movie. It is used as a basis for the plot - it's called theatre. Sort of like Shakespeare with Romeo and Juliet or Richard III. Playwrights sometimes do that.

@DrownedInExile

4 жыл бұрын

@Ray Windsor Every word of what you said about evolution was wrong. Does your god reward ignorance and stupidity?

@jamesalexander5623

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrownedInExile ..... Believing in an Invisible Bearded Man in the the Sky IS Ignorance and Stupidity!

No need for the Bible.

They don't make great movies like this anymore. Everything has to be based on the poison of political correctness.

@TheBermudaMan

4 жыл бұрын

Really? Because if anything, most of the poison seems to be coming from the people who DESPISE political correctness.

@Madbandit77

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheBermudaMan But isn't political correctness a lousy synonym for human civility? Political correctness comes off as an Orwellian term. If you want to bring people together, you can't shoot terms that sound authoritarian.

@baalzebullordofhell6967

2 жыл бұрын

Cry about it, you bigoted moron.

@okyouknowwhatever

2 жыл бұрын

@@Madbandit77 The modern left has turned into ugly ugly Neo-moralists. It's beyond pathetic.

@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820

Жыл бұрын

Political correctness has always existed though. Why do you think this movie was far more sympathetic to the evolution side of the argument than people were in 1925? People’s views, their understanding of science, had changed (evolved?) by 1960. This movie itself is “political correctness” in action. And that should be enough to tell you that whatever you want to call that phenomenon, even if it goes too far sometimes, it’s not always a bad thing.