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The Truth about Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind History

is consistently used in films as a technique to teach the values

and morals of events that occurred. But what's the point in

teaching history through films when they are terribly fictional?

In films, the director finds the best 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 "monkey 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 being

evolution vs. religion. Yet there was also 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 truth is

stranger than fiction and according......

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