Accuracy of FAR AND AWAY
The movie Far and Away is a great depiction of the Oklahoma land rush, as well as immigrant life in the United States. The movie is extremely accurate, and it was hard to find parts of the movie that were not accurate. The movie takes place in the 1800s and starts out in Ireland. In Ireland, tenant farmers were rebelling against landlords after years of poverty. Tom Cruise plays Joseph Donnelly, a poor Irish farmer who seeks revenge after his father's death. In these days there was a big stretch between the rich and the poor, and his landlord was one of the wealthy greed mongers who has done nothing but cause havoc on their lives and make them miserable. He meets Nicole Kidman, and she makes Joseph a proposal, she desperately wants to escape the confines of her wealthy Irish lifestyle in search for land and freedom and excitement that America promises. She had a flyer that she got from an American talking about the free land that was offered in the Oklahoma area. They hop on a boat and come to America. The movie shows the life of immigrants in great detail. Hundreds of beggars and peddlers are on the docks by the b
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Approximate Word count = 763
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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