Okey - Okey

Japanese: オーキー - おーきー
Okey - Okey

...Zanuck, who was a Republican but also a close friend of President Roosevelt, had a strong interest in social service, and even filmed the final scene in which Tom Joad's mother (Academy Award-winning actress Jane Darwell) says, "The people don't die" after he leaves his family. The title of "The Grapes of Wrath" comes from the first stanza of "The Republic Hymn" (1862) by JW Howe, an American female poet who wrote about the Civil War. Steinbeck originally planned to write this not as a novel, but as a kind of "photojournalism" book on the theme of the poor people called "Okies" who were migrating from Oklahoma to California. This is also the basis for the claim that the documentary style of this novel was influenced by the works of Per Lorentz (The Plow That Breaks the Plains, 1936, The River, 1937, etc.), a leading American documentary filmmaker and a friend of Steinbeck, and in fact Steinbeck was delighted when he saw the finished film, saying, "It's like watching a documentary."

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Okie" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…共和党員でありながら,ローズベルト大統領の親しい友人であったザナックは,社会奉仕に大きな関心をもち,トム・ジョードが家族と別れて去って行った後に,〈民衆は死なない〉と母親(アカデミー助演女優賞のジェーン・ダーウェル)に言わせるラストを自ら撮って付け加えたという。 《怒りの葡萄》の題名は,南北戦争をうたったアメリカの女流詩人J.W.ハウの《リパブリック賛歌》(1862)の第1連に由来し,スタインベックは当初これを小説としてではなく,〈オーキーOkie〉と呼ばれたオクラホマからカリフォルニアへ移住して行く貧民たちをテーマにした一種の〈フォト・ジャーナリズム〉の1冊として企画した。アメリカ記録映画作家の第一人者であり,スタインベックの友人でもあったペア・ローレンツ(《平原を拓く鋤》1936,《河》1937,等)のドキュメンタリズムがこの小説の作風に影響を及ぼしているという指摘の根拠もそこにあり,実際スタインベックはできあがった映画を見て〈まるでドキュメンタリーを見ているようだ〉と喜んだという。…

※「オーキー」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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