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Actors: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Meet John Doe |
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MEET JOHN DOE is a movie directed by Frank Capra in 1941. This film was nominated for the Academy Award in the Best Original Story category.
D.B. Norton has just bought one of the local newspapers and fired most of the employees. Ann Mitchell manages to be rehired by writing an article that shake the people's conscience. The article is signed by a man called John Doe who's announcing to the world that he'll comit suicide on Christmas Eve in order to protest against the social ills.
The management of the newspaper secretly decides to pick an ordinary homeless guy from the streets and to ask him to impersonate John Doe in front of people. Soon everybody is waiting for the daily column of John Doe, still written by Ann Mitchell. John Doe clubs are founded and each of his apparitions draws huge crowds.
D.B. Norton is waiting for the right moment to make John Doe announce the creation of a third political party whose candidate will be....D.B. Norton himself. But will John accept that the important social movement he's created in the country shall be taken over by heartless politicians?
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Meet John Doe |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Polit/Social/Race/Gender activism
Yes
Plotlet:
- liberal/lefty activism
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- con-artist/white collar crime
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- journalist
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) muscular
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Dumb
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair style
- (woman) long wavey
Body type
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- not employed but independently wealthy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) fat
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- sports arena
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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