Tom Joad

I'm sitting down here in the campfire line.

With the ghost of old Tom Jones.

Thank you.

In terms of whether it's a country or a blues or a folk album, it's influenced by all these things, but Springsteen has always said he's very influenced by Woody Guthrie and people like that, and Pete Seeger, whose songs he's recently paid tribute to on We Shall Overcome.

Y'all know the story.

Tom Joad gets out of prison.

He's on parole.

How many times does he say the word parole in that one scene? That scene was

This movie is very family-forward.

It's very family-centric.

It really revolves around this family to the point where Tom Joad almost gets swept into the family and he just becomes one with the family as opposed to this one singular passionate person who...

It kind of seems like he is actually willing to basically sacrifice himself for the greater good.

Today, a successful book is optioned, spends five years in development hell, goes through a dozen script rewrites, and faces endless casting delays.

But in 1939, Ford and the studio recognized the immediate visceral relevance of Steinbeck's story about the Joad family's struggles.

And they bypassed all that friction to get it on screen while the dust of the Depression was literally still settling.

And Ford won his second of four Best Directing Academy Awards for it, a record he actually still holds today.

The film stars Henry Fonda as Tom Joad and Jane Darwell as Ma.

Now, the article makes an interesting point here.

At the time of the film's release, the novel wasn't yet considered a literary classic simply because it was brand new.

Bef- before we get into that and to put a bow on these, these early Fire Emblem games, where do we end up seeing Fire Emblem's influence elsewhere in video games?

Oh, I th- think it's kinda like Tom Joad, wherever you see of a turn-based strategy game, I'll be there, that kinda thing.

Yeah, it, it's just, uh...

It's hard to say because it's, Fire Emblem's been around for so long, but at the same time, it's not by a long shot the only turn-based strategy series out there.