{"id":48392,"date":"2020-04-11T14:24:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T21:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=48392"},"modified":"2021-07-27T13:57:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T20:57:19","slug":"green-pastures-the-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=48392","title":{"rendered":"Green Pastures, The (1936)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;In my own image, let there be man.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Poster-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-48393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Poster-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Poster-90x128.jpg 90w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Poster.jpg 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAfrican-American children in  a rural church listen to their Sunday School teacher (George Reed) tell creatively staged biblical stories, including the story of Adam (Rex Ingram) and Eve (Myrtle Anderson), Noah (Eddie &#8220;Rochester&#8221; Anderson) and his ark, and Moses (Frank Wilson) &#8212; all overseen by &#8220;De Lawd&#8221; (Rex Ingram) himself.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>African-Americans<\/li>\n<li>Biblical Stories<\/li>\n<li>Play Adaptations<\/li>\n<li>Priests and Ministers<\/li>\n<li>Rex Ingram Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nBased on a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Green_Pastures\">Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name<\/a>, this film with an all-black cast remains a unique relic of its era &#8212; nicely described in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcm.com\/this-month\/article\/12788%7C0\/The-Green-Pastures.html\">TCM&#8217;s article<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine, if you can, a &#8220;Southern-style Heaven&#8221; where black English vernacular is spoken, fish fries and free cigars are plentiful, and the Hall Johnson Choir sings spirituals in the background all day. In other words, you have a broadly played black miracle play&#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>TCM&#8217;s article also points out criticism of the movie by black film historian Donald Bogle, who notes that it &#8220;rests on a cruel assumption: that nothing could be more ludicrous than transporting the lowly language and folkways of the early twentieth-century Negro back to the high stately world before the flood.&#8221; With that said, it&#8217;s refreshing to see a rare mainstream 1930s movie centering black individuals&#8217; lives, experiences, dreams, and fears; it&#8217;s too bad the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vC-zVnp3K2w\">film&#8217;s trailer<\/a> was literally dominated by white actor Dick Powell (though at least this gives crucial historical context to the film&#8217;s release and reception).   <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A creative biblical narrative<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Ingram.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Ingram-1024x585.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-48395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Ingram-1024x585.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Ingram-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Ingram-128x73.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Ingram-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Ingram-1536x878.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Ingram.png 1713w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Noahs-Ark.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Noahs-Ark-1024x593.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"371\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-48394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Noahs-Ark-1024x593.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Noahs-Ark-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Noahs-Ark-128x74.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Noahs-Ark-768x445.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Noahs-Ark-1536x890.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Green-Pastures-Noahs-Ark.png 1697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, as a unique film of its era. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?page_id=1784#historical\">Historically Relevant<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0027700\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/1890\/the-green-pastures#articles-reviews?articleId=12788\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1936\/07\/17\/archives\/the-green-pastures-at-last-seen-in-film-at-music-hall-rex-ingram-as.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In my own image, let there be man.&#8221; Synopsis: African-American children in a rural church listen to their Sunday School teacher (George Reed) tell creatively staged biblical stories, including the story of Adam (Rex Ingram) and Eve (Myrtle Anderson), Noah (Eddie &#8220;Rochester&#8221; Anderson) and his ark, and Moses (Frank Wilson) &#8212; all overseen by &#8220;De Lawd&#8221; (Rex Ingram) himself. Genres: African-Americans Biblical Stories Play Adaptations Priests and Ministers Rex Ingram Films Review: Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=48392\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48392"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74495,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48392\/revisions\/74495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}