"The book of the origin of species" by Charles Darwin, debated in 'Heritage of the wind'.
New installment of our film series related to education, in which today we review a classic, 'Inheritance of the Wind', directed by Stanley Kramer in 1960 with a screenplay by Harold Jacob Smith and Ned Young, which were based on the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. In the tape the cast is headed by: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Claude Akins, Florence Eldridge, Donna Anderson, Noah Berry Jr. and Harry Morgan, among others.
In 'Inheritance of the Wind', John Scopes is a Mississippi professor who was put on trial for teaching with "The Book of the Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin. It was another chapter in the battle between science and religion, but not only that, it was much more ... an attack on freedom of thought. For all this, Stanley Kramer decided to bring the story to the big screen in 1960, and it did so to my humble opinion remarkably.The opposing theories of Darwinism and creationism are the two opposite poles that face in an explosive battle lawyer Henry Drummond (Tracy) and ultra-conservative leader Matthew Harrison Brady (March) in a small Tennessee town where a professor is on trial for teaching the theory of evolution to his students.
I consider 'Inheritance of the wind' a very appetizing movie to watch in the high school classroom, whose underlying argument is freedom of thought, and whose validity is evident. We find a Church closely linked to power, a Science that cannot be understood by the Church, and we find the negative gaze of the most stale Catholics unable to admit that, as they say in the movie, “The Bible is a book. A good book, but not the only book.