AFIS 100 YEARS100 MOVIES 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION American Film Institute
Joined by their friend Casy, a former "fire and brimstone" preacher, the Joads begin their long trek west on Route 66. Their hopes for a bright future are dimmed when a man at a roadside camp warns of no work in California, but the family continues on. As the Joads cross the great California desert, Grandma dies, and the remainder of the family emerges from the desert to find no jobs and hoards of starving migrants. The visual effects of the film, which was directed by Neill Blomkamp and inspired by apartheid in his home country, were designed to evoke a kind of insect-like alien, but one that viewers would sympathize with as the film went on. Set in the then super-futuristic year of 1997, Carpenter’s vision of America is essentially one giant war zone with the island of Manhattan serving as a maximum security prison. Unfortunately for the president of the United States , that’s exactly where Air Force One crash lands following a hijacking. Starring as Police Capt. Hank...