On the Waterfront which was directed by Elia Kazan in 1954, was a highly acclaimed film that showed the problems that were associated with the labor unions at the time with a bit of other events that affected the outcome of the movie. This film was set in New York City and purposely made in black and white in order to give the affect of the old ages. This movie starred Marlon Brando (Terry Malloy), Karl Malden (Father Barry), Lee J. Cobb (Johnny Friendly), Rod Steiger (Charley Malloy) and Eva Marie Saint (Edie Doyle). This group of actors helped make the film the great that it is known as today. They even helped the movie win 8 Oscars!
In this essay I am going to compare the various crowd scenes that were in the movie. All these scenes impacted the way the movie progressed. It had great impact to the finale of the movie.
The first one I will compare is the scene with the dockworkers scrambling for work tabs. This scene is the scene that shows just how big of an influence the mob was in people’s lives. This is set near on the docks near the boat, which has all the cargo. You can see the mob boss Johnny Friendly (with the assistance of his mob friends) handing out work tabs to the people. The men
The next scene that has an important impact in this film is the scene where the people are cowering away as Terry gets into a fight with Johnny Friendly. Johnny Friendly was fighting with Terry because Terry went to court against him in order to fight for justice and for the people who are not in unions. Terry Malloy had to fight for the others. He did not want to be the bum that Edie accused him of being. So, Terry went into to talk to the mob that he once was a part of. Johnny Friendly and his mob did not appreciate what Terry did to them. They felt betrayed by one of their own. Terry was even offered a job to be part of the mob and still get paid for not having to do nothing. He did not want it because those were the same people who killed Joey Doyle. Terry then went and got into a punching fight with Johnny. Since Johnny has all these people who are in the dock house that stay with him while watching over the business, they defended their boss. Terry was ganged up on. All the crowd of dockworkers did was stare. They let the person that was defending them be hurt. Terry was being punched everywhere and thrown near the edge of the harbor. He was defeated by Johnny’s people and thrown into the water. Then, Edie and Father Barry ran through the idle crowd to help Terry. The cowering crowd was ordered to go back to work by Johnny Friendly and his people after this whole incident had occurred.
’s hands are all waving in the air in hopes for a job. S
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