Inherit the Wind: Difference between revisions

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=== The film includes examples of: ===

* [[Amoral Attorney]]: Brady's more interested in preaching than prosecuting and his religious devotion is more or less a way to be famous, compensating for all the times he's failed to become president. In contrast, the town accuses Drummond of taking the case solely to denounce religion, though Drummond is an agnostic who has nothing against religion save for the ~~fundmentalists~~' literal interpretation of the Bible.

* [[Amoral Attorney]]: Brady's more interested in preaching than prosecuting and his religious devotion is more or less a way to be famous, compensating for all the times he's failed to become president. In contrast, the town accuses Drummond of taking the case solely to denounce religion, though Drummond is an agnostic who has nothing against religion save for the fundamentalists' literal interpretation of the Bible.

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Brady and Hornbeck

* [[Big Eater]]: Brady; yet another way of coping with his inferiority complex after losing a presidential race three times.

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* [[Law Procedural]]

* [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]]: Rachel Brown. Not literally a mad scientist, obviously.

* [[Mind Rape]]: Pretty much what Drummond eventually (and ~~inadvertantly~~) does to Brady, signified by his [[Heroic BSOD]] / [[Villainous Breakdown]] depending on the interpretation.

* [[Mind Rape]]: Pretty much what Drummond eventually (and inadvertently) does to Brady, signified by his [[Heroic BSOD]] / [[Villainous Breakdown]] depending on the interpretation.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Henry Drummond = Clarence Darrow; Matthew Harrison Brady = William Jennings Bryan; E.K. Hornbeck = H.L. Mencken; Bertram Cates = John Scopes

* [[Penultimate Outburst]]: Drummond's brush with a contempt charge

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** And, as mentioned above, the actual Scopes Monkey Trial was a hoax and a publicity stunt designed to put Dayton, TN back on the map. Clarence Darrow had announced publicly that he would defend, ''pro bono'', anyone who was arrested for teaching Evolution in a state where it had been outlawed. Scopes agreed to claim to have taught Evolution and be tried, though nobody could prove that he had actually taught it. Likewise, Bryan eagerly jumped on the bandwagon despite not having practiced law for 36 years by that point.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: All antagonist characters receive this.

** Rev. Brown ~~ges~~ so fanatical that he damns his daughter to Hell, which also counts as a [[Moral Event Horizon]].

** Rev. Brown gets so fanatical that he damns his daughter to Hell, which also counts as a [[Moral Event Horizon]].

** Brady loses it in court and starts yelling the names of all the books in the Old Testament even though no-one is listening to him anymore. The breakdown continues to the next day and {{spoiler|up to his death. As he dies, all the pent-up speeches he was to make if elected President finally come out}}. This may also count as a [[Heroic BSOD]].

** Hornbeck, previously a [[Deadpan Snarker]] with no real emotional attachment to anything, gets really pissed off when Drummond chews him out for {{spoiler|insulting Brady after his death}}. He even slips up in insulting Drummond, calling him "an atheist who believes in God!" Er, Hornbeck, Drummond is an ''agnostic'', not an atheist, remember?