Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind :: Stanley Kramer Inherit the Wind

Stanley Kramers inherit the Wind History is consistently used in films as a technique to con the values and morals of events that occurred. But whats the point in teaching floor through films when they are terribly fictional? In films, the director finds the topper scheme to intrigue their audience only by changing the actual event to satisfy their interest. This is true for Stanley Kramer when he made the history of John Scopes and his meddle trial into a film called Inherit the Wind. Kramer knew the exact stereotypical Hollywood history his audience enjoyed. The trial itself had a series of conflicts, the main one macrocosm evolution vs. religion. Yet there was similarly a series of tensions throughout the movie, including the argument between individual vs. society. The same themes from Inherit the Wind can also be seen from the actual monkey trial event in Dayton, Tennessee. It is sometimes said that fairness is stranger than fiction and according to this film, trut h is also stronger than fiction. Inherit the Wind ignored the true dramatic moment, which is essential to the actual trial that happened in Dayton, Tennessee. Kramer even portrayed his own opinion of this trial in this film. The truth was so distorted in the film so now the argument is not individual vs. society or evolution vs. religion but history vs. fiction. Inherit the Wind is set in the little town of Hillsboro when Bertram Cates (played by), a biology teacher, was thrown into prison for teaching Darwins theory of evolution. Two noted lawyers were behind this case, Henry Drummond (played by) as the defender and Mathew Harrison Brady (played by), as the prosecutor. Mathew Harrison Brady who was voted 3 times for a presidential candidate was sent to Hillsboro is carry out the job as a prosecutor for this trial. As for Cates, a journalist from Baltimore Herald by the name of E.K. Horrbeck willingly provided a lawyer named Henry Drummond for him. Horrbeck was interested in the Ca tes, expecting to cast big bucks from this big media case. The two opposing lawyers, Drummond and Brady, were Kramers two main characters, both with different opinions on how humans arrived on earth. Drummond supported the evolution theory, sequence Brady, the creation theory. In this film, Kramer distorted the facts of the actual trial to make this film more of a drama than a history documentary.