"Inherit The Wind" the loneliest feeling in the world...
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- My favorite scene from a stellar film.
"It's the loneliest feeling in the world
to find yourself standing up
when everyone else is sitting down.
To have everybody look at you and say,
"What's the matter with her?"
I know what it feels like.
Walking down an empty street,
listening to the sound of your own footsteps.
Shutters closed,
blinds drawn,
doors locked against you.
And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something,
or if you're just walking away.
...But all you have to do is knock on any door and say, "If you let me in, I'll live the way you want me to live, and I'll think the way you want me to think," and all the blinds'll go up and all the windows will open, and you'll never be lonely, ever again. "
60 years later and those words still ring truth: _"You kill one of their Fairy Tale notions and they'll bring down the wrath of God, Brady and the State Legislature on you every time."_
No big sound track to create emotion, just brilliant actors and an equally brilliant script to create a compelling drama that is still relevant today
Reminds me of when I joined the Marine Corps while growing up in the Bible Belt. Everyone I knew tried their best to stop me from leaving. It was almost a jihad from the way they acted. Insults, put downs, intimidation, the works.
That was 40 years ago and I still think about it. I’m so happy I moved out right after high school.
Really? Because I grew up in the Bible belt as well, and that's not my experience at all. I never, ever, in all the fifty-three years I've lived on this earth -- and I say this as an atheist who grew up in an evangelical family, but long ago lost all his belief in revealed religion -- met an evangelical who tried to keep anyone from joining the military to serve his country. Unless perhaps because they thought he wasn't cut out for military life and was making a mistake -- but that was nothing to do with religion. I joined the army after I finished college, and nobody said a word to discourage me from signing up. I've known evangelicals all my life, and whatever their flaws, I've never known them to behave in the way you describe. I'm not discounting your experience, and I'll grant it's possible your community was filled with a particularly bad, cult-like version of Christians. But I really don't believe that's mainstream Christianity in the 20th/21st century. Not all Christians are like the Westboro Baptist Church.
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I live in the midst of Christian\Catholic\ non-denominationals. They encourage the military. Why would said folks you mentioned not?
@@ddave7026 Because my wanting to leave was to get away from religion, and where I grew up, it was either factory worker, farmer or military.
Religion for my family was conformity, they could not handle the fact that I joined to get away from that conformity. Bible Belt all the way. My experience was just like that courtroom, and I was all alone with no one to support me.
Of course, me telling them my reasons for leaving them didn’t help too much. 🤣🤣🤣
Spencer Tracy talking to Dick York about conformity was exactly what I was going through. It wasn’t about the military, it was why I joined the military, which was getting away from them and their beliefs.
That’s why they tried so hard to stop me.
@@blockmasterscott what's sad, I myself think.
am now a Christian, I was fairly agnostic my whole life. My daughter is a sergeant in the army airborne division and she actually found faith IN the service!
Fundamentalists are a funny bunch.
...and still one of the best lines ever spoken - especially when it deals with conformity
@Richard Jezewski - When you have a great script & Spencer Tracy to deliver the words & the meaning, you have movie magic.
Dick York and Gene Kelly proved that could tackle serious acting roles. Tracy was one of the greatest actors ever.
I think you're reacting to Inherit the Wind, but this clip is from Judgement at Nuremberg.
@@MrGadfly772 No, it's not. It's "Inherit the Wind."
I love that line. "Our house, or his church..." So powerful. He doesn't say "my" house, as so many men of the period might have. He asks her to build something together as a partner. It's both respectful and loving. She can have the dream of her father, or she can have her own dream. But she can't linger in both places. Sometimes in life you have to pick a side. Ignorance and selfish bliss, or knowledge and pain.... and truth.
So relevant right now. Just do what they say and think like they think, put on the little red hat, and start saying "woke" this and "woke" that, and you'll find so many friends. But the moment you ask why you should treat someone different as evil, or ask why you have to see your fellow American as the devil... they'll kick you out so fast your head will spin.
Jesus is the truth .
This speech is more relevant in 2021 then it was in 1960 when this film was made, or the play in 1955, or the Scopes Money Trial from 1925 which inspired it. Its been almost a hundred years and we are are more backward now than ever...and accelerating.
Let's keep going backward and not stop until we reach the 13th century.
@@tradcathgroyper7411 Lets not...Covid is bad enough, lets not add the Black Death and Christian Nationalism to the mix.
@@embossed64 The Black Plague was in the 14th century and has no connection to the moral values of the time period. Catholic nationalism is not only great but essential. The world being ruled by kings and emperors at the service of the Church is the most natural system of government that the world has ever seen and the one best conducive to order, right moral virtue, and the worship of Almighty God. Let their be a Saint Louis IX in every nation!
@@tradcathgroyper7411 Tell you what, you prove your god exists and that he wants unelected, tyrant inbred kings to rule us, otherwise, no.
@@embossed64 The Lord exists because the universe had a beginning and it is impossible for something to be created out of nothing. His existence is testified to in an indisputable way in Sacred Scriptures, with Old Testament prophesies being fulfilled in the new, as well as through the traditions of the Church and a multitude of miracles throughout the centuries. Monarchy is the best form of government because it most closely corresponds to the rule of Christ. Power, the Bible tells us, comes from God, but in democracy, it comes from the people. The idea that people can vote on what is true or false, and on what is right versus what is wrong, is absurd.
my favorite words about individuality
One of the finest movies to grace a screen, featuring Tracy and March, two of the finest actors in cinematic history. Doesn't get any better than "Inherit the Wind."
Never compromise, not even if the face of your own starvation...You're all alone
Still one of the best movies I've ever seen.
finally watched this film (my son's recommendation).
best movie i've ever seen.
and this is my favorite scene as well.
Any movie with Spencer Tracy is worth watching. He WAS a natural actor.
People harp on this film because it doesn't follow the historical events, but the original play (and this film) have such great writing and scripting... the whole of hollywood could learn something from such a classic.
Dick York was well cast as Bertram Cates in this movie. He was a young and sensitive actor and you see this in all of his pre-Bewitched roles. He always played
"little" characters but made them quietly large by his naturalistic behaviour in the part. You can particularly see this in his two appearances in The Twilight Zone.
Didn't Dick York have severe health problems, that eventually cost him his life?
@@thecowboy9698 He tore several back muscles during the making of They Came To Codura (1959) and suffered from problems arising from that injury for the rest of his life. By the time he was compelled to quit Bewitched, he couldn't even stand up straight without some kind of support. He also developed emphysema from heavy cigarette smoking.
@@thecowboy9698 He died of complications of AIDS.
I would really love to watch this movie fully. It seems so....inspiring.
MikeJRthe2nd you ever watch it ?
Cates, Drummond and their ilk had to deal with this loneliest feeling for years and years but they stuck to their beliefs. Brady got a taste of that feeling at the end and couldn't handle it for more than a few minutes.
The magnitude of him saying, "It's his church or our house, and you can't live in both" is staggering. To say that to a preacher's daughter took balls of steel. Actually not that--if you stand in your principles, it doesn't have to come down to balls of steel at all.
Actually, takes BRASS balls to sell real estate--Glengarry Glen Ross.
Another great play adapted to film 🎬
An amazing movie even today, and still relevant.
The actress that portrays Rachel Brown is also absolutely beautiful.
Donna Anderson ,is the actress who portrays Rachel Brown . born in the late 30s , she is about the same age as Connie Stevens and Connie Francis , and happily , all 3 of the beauties are still alive today .
I kinda agree with Rachel's character , as Darwin was just a lying trouble - maker .
@@RobertStambaugh-l5r What did Charles Darwin lie about exactly?
My wife , son and i and our friends at our Fundamental Baptist Church are value producing humans , we are not filthy apes .
Our ancestors are Adam and Eve , not some slimy creature that ' supposedly ' crawled out of the ocean a billion years ago .
No one ever saw a filthy ape ' magically ' turn into a human .
Darwin lied that a filthy ape can ' magically ' turn into a human .
No ape or monkey is turning into a human today .
I saw my grandparents and they weren't monkeys .@@2l84me8
Darwin was himself highly religious for the first half of his life, and delayed for years the publication of his conclusions on Evolution and Natural Selection, while he struggled with the implications they had forth existence (necessity for) a God and for conventional religion. Only when another scientist in a far corner of the world was preparing to publish results along similar lines as his did Darwin release his Theory, fully supported by the detailed observations he had made aboard the ship Beagle and elsewhere. The last thing Darwin wished to do was to mock God, yet he reached a point where to withhold his insights from the world seemed at least equally wrong.
@@RobertStambaugh-l5r Not remotely true but enjoy your delutions.
Also, Noah Beery, Jr. plays a nice little role. I love his face when the death of his son is brought up. As a humble farmer who has seen the light, Beery lifts me up, especially when he posts the value of his farm for Drummond's bail.
A great, much underrated character actor. This was 14 years before he got cast as Rocky Rockford opposite James Garner in the classic tv series "The Rockford Files."
Darrin #1 was a great underrated actor wow
What a great scene! Every word like poetry.
I say Donna Anderson's line to anyone I dislike, because it disturbs them somehow.
"Bert and I don't live on the top of the world---We live in Hillsborough, and when the sun goes down it's dark. Now why do you have to come here and make it different?"
Dick York was REALLY good in this. A screen full of heavyweights, and he held his own.
@thedarkyobo
I myself was once a devout Christian as a teenager. I went to my church every Sunday for services and to participate in a service-based youth group. The program itself was the reason so many kids went back. I'm sure you are a passionate believer, because the very reason you are responding to me is why I did when I was faithful. But you have to know that a good church community is what brings people in. You can't scare kids into faith in school. Let them love god on their own.
Raise up a child in the way he should go,and when he is grown he will not depart from it.....it's the parents responsibility
Or let them find their own answers, and love them for making a choice that makes them feel free and authentic in what they believe or not believe ...as the freedom to choose is what makes us free to love, for real.
You got to show God to be lovable
Many extraordinarily great scenes in this film, this is probably my favorite. It is the crux of the case, surrender or don't!
oh my, thank you for sharing. those words gave me chills.
Thank you for the upload, an amazing speech!
Any time you dare challenge the howls of the majority, any majority religious or otherwise, you walk a dark, lonely street.
I can remember my grandparents watching this.
Damn, this was on my birthday. And this line still speaks to me.
This movie aged like fine wine.
Great film. Tracy was actually almost sober
Things are better now in 2024 than they have ever been. Other comments here can shut it
That's deep
its one of my mantras
One of the great scenes with Spence Tracy,Gene Kelly and Dick York.
50 years later a full 180 degree turn. Do not believe or else
I am an outsider… I’ll never fit in… this reminds me of the importance of that…
Despite the fact that this piece of FICTION has strong ties to a real case, they are not one and the same. That said, the logic of the defense in this film is rather sound. The caricature of the majority of fundamentalists is also rather sound. It's not that we believe all christians are crazy nutjobs, it's that we believe that there is no place for religion in law. Religion deserves no favors, nor any restrictions from private life. It should be a separate entity.
Religions? That retarded thinking that mankind is somehow important and he makes up the rules.
Christianity? why not Islam; still a made up religion , lies, nonsense, and perversions of the true nature things. Get real.
@snoman99991 Inherit the Wind was never intended to be a historical play about the Scopes trial; Lawrence and Lee used elements from the Scopes trial to write a play that was really a slam against McCarthyism.
I don't think most of the goons in America realized that. Even the frauds and goons at Harvard, our affirmative action garbage dump, think this is only about the monkey trial. It's about dogmatism and you are right-It's about the McCarthy plague...somewhat like the islamic plague we have now with ISIS and other scum.
I WAS BORN NAKED & ALONE, & I INTEND TO GO OUT THAT WAY.ONLY I PICKED UP THIS GURU ALONG THE WAY,TO STREAMLINE THE WAY.JAI MAHARAJI
My favorite quote from this film is when Drummond (Tracy) tells the Judge (Henry Morgan)
"And soon your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating, we'll be marching backward...BACKWARD... through the glorious ages of that 16th century, when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind."
That’s what Trump/MAGA is doing. Marching us backward.
Ironically, this black and white movie has more color than most movie that’s released today.
pack it in, and you'll never be lonely again.
@Sickopath333 ...Punctuated equilibrium was suggested to explain why evolution appears to happen in fits and starts in the fossil record. Fairly recent discoveries in genetics are shining light on why that would happen, showing that simple random mutation doesn't play as big a role as is traditionally thought. But the fact of evolution by natural selection is still overwhelmingly evident and is not under dispute by science.
95 years ago....and you can still have a conversation like this with millions that refuse science because they need to believe in fables for their life to mean something. What a disgrace to the human mind.
Why does it bother you that people believe in God?
Im just curious
@@user-pi3hd2bt3f I know I am not responding for him, but I think that is because a lot of people use their god to justify their alwful behaviour.
@@DemiRurge thats not Gods fault tho
@@user-pi3hd2bt3f true, but when nobody has seen or heard from him, all we are left with are his followers and their interpretations of said god's word.
@@DemiRurge not all His followers are bad tho
In fact most aren't. But because those that use theor faith to do harm are the loudest people think we are all like this
"You'll kill one of their fairytale notions and they'll bring down the wrath of God, Brady, and the state legislature every time."
Tell me he hasn't described the current political climate with its Christofascists and magical thinking.
Darwin was a lying son of the devil .
@dakotagerman1 You're right about everything except ID not being creationism repackaged. The repackaging was proven in court. Early versions of the ID textbook "Of Pandas and People," use the words "creationism" and "creator" which were -- after teaching creationism became illegal -- changed to "intelligent design" and "intelligent designer." One draft of the book even included "cdesign proponentsists." An apparent typo from when the editor tried to change "creationists" to "design proponents."
Anyone here in 2020?
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@@oofergod7749 u have commented the word I usually say..what a coincidence
But of course, that doesn't make it impossible. See the important point of logic is that we cannot prove nor disprove the supernatural. We can know that it is incredibly unlikely, but to outright prove or disprove it would be fallacy.
That said, that would be an extraordinarily complicated way to create everything.
@thedarkyobo
I no longer have that faith. I have my own reasons, as does any atheist who deconverted. That doesn't mean we never knew. It disgusts us that you want beliefs irrelevant to the study of biology being wedged into the curriculum. If you want to have religious studies offered as courses in high school, that's not even offensive. When kids can choose to participate in religion it becomes a freedom. You are restricting freedoms by asking children to decide in their science class.
He should dump her and marry Elizabeth Montgomery.
@dakotagerman1
Well, we can't take any chances, can't we?
@DarwinsFriend
It's a pleasure to see reality for myself. The very welcoming community that is online atheism had a profound impact upon my arrival at nontheism. While I probably never spoke with you prior, thank you. We all have a hand in making this world a better place.
@snoman99991 Excellent comment.
They must have been brave taking on this movie at the time that they did.
It could have been difficult today.
With all the creatards, and fundies running around out there .
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OoOoOo Spence-ahh
I like what York tells his fiancee , that the religion practiced in that town isn't the Christianity practiced in other places ( paraphrased) .
It's so poignant and true !
I guess I'd of been tied to a sour apple tree there too , not that I believe all of sciences theories are facts ,but I do believe science has truths to tell us !!!
It was the American way - now it's block anybody who says something you don't like, shout down dissenters, and boycott people who believe differently than you do.
Saaaammmm, did your mother have anything to do with this ? Sam, Endora?
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@snoman99991 Having government not based on religion does not mean the government should tell students their religion is wrong. Is it that crazy to just teach students the facts and let them decide what to believe?
DarkYobo commented 'Having government not based on religion does not mean the government should tell students their religion is wrong"
And your statement is a shining example of where the Zealots of Creationism are wrong every single time. The Government does NOT tell them that their religion is wrong, just that it will not be practiced within a public institution funded by taxpayers of many different religions and taxpayers who are non-religious in any way shape or form.
2:57 to 3:00. I would add bigotry to that list. A truly unholy combination of traits if I have ever seen them.
i agree. thou it seemes that religion does not agree with it. religion needs people to join in it, or stay in it. and when socaity promotes critical thinking and enlightenment the defenses of religion go up. one of the most effective way of religion to spread is social dominion and discrimination of other view points. this is why missionaries arm tribes that convert to their religion so that they whuld go and force convert others. or they try to pass laws that discrimante others and favore them
Magyar fordítást kérem !!!!!!!!
"demonstrably self defeating"? You don't get to claim it's demonstrated without actually demonstrating how. Humanism has brought an increased quality of life across the globe. Postmodernism and existentialism don't even deal with the same practical actors and reflect different developments in human thought. Sliding everything besides faith into one category (sloppily) is a tactic called 'othering', in which you define all but one course as undesired, and flatly assert your own POV as truth.
I don't think he was. He produced and/or directed socially-conscious films.
Ah the way forward in Republjcan eyes 2017! Bigots
@snoman99991 Most intelligent comment I've ever seen on RUclips.
Clarence Darrow lost the case in reality.
A $100 fine. Some loss.
It wasn't even a real case. As with most things, it was a publicity stunt. Look it up...of course jewish Hollywood doesn't miss an opportunity to make white Christians look weird.
@thedarkyobo
The government isn't telling anyone they're wrong. The government has a responsibility to protect education. That means in a science class, you teach science! Having a basic education in science opens many doors for students in college. Because of how important science is to your education, we should be giving kids a leg up whenever we have the opportunity. If kids want religious studies, they should seek out the church to do so. I've known many devout teenagers. They do it.
Lets keep in mind that you're the same person who tried to reduce all of human thought in history to one source because 'it is convenient to do so' and supports a conclusion you had already reached long before having learned about such things. You've invoked several names and ideas that apparently are not understood as many of them actively refute the notion of deities. You then appeal to human authority in 'scholarly thinkers', and then appeal to divine authority which is equally fallacious.
Eric Logan cz
Are you writing poetry, or arguing a point? I don't need florid visuals, like snaking through history or strangleholds of foolishness. Your words mean nothing. They are excuses for substance, exotic phrasing designed to replace the answers your sentences mean to provide. Relativism is perfectly valid, because both you and I don't know everything. We are inherently imperfect, but that is hardly damning. I've seen terrible evils perpetuated in the name of religion. Molestation? Try again.
It’s amazing to me this religious ignorance is still here in 2024 people believing in mythical beings 🤪
Here's why what you're saying is full of shit, through and through. Is something evil because god commands it so? Or is it inherently evil and that's why god commands against it? If you believe evil is the result of what god decides arbitrarily, then to describe something as evil means nothing about it's content or character. It simply means god disapproves of it, which is an appeal to authority. If god commands against because of inherent evil, god is powerless against it, i.e. not a god.
This channel has been dead for years