Sentences with phrase «folk hero john»
Whitehead conducts an inventive, funny, and bittersweet inquiry into the significance of folk hero John Henry by paralleling the legend of the steel - driving man who took on the Industrial Revolution with the story of a cynical black writer, who pits himself against the Information Age.
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The people of the area are still annoyed at Creek and Long — «the Gestapo,» as one housewife calls them — and John Arambel has become a local folk hero.
As with John Wayne's Ethan Edwards (Travis's spiritual forefather), his thwarted patriarchal possessiveness is not tempered by anything like genuine concern, yet it is enough... to make him a peculiarly American folk hero.
JOHN HENRY (2000) U.S. Release Date: October 30, 2000 Director: Mark Henn Producer: Steven Keller Imaginatively told through words, music, and stylish visuals, «John Henry» celebrates the life and legend of a great American folk hero.
The latter is an origin story for the eponymous folk hero that is currently in production for a Spring 2018 theatrical release date, with Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Oscar - winner Jamie Foxx starring as a young Robin Hood and Little John, respectively.
john teeling certainly has some interesting companies and contacts and is abit of a folk hero in some parts of the emerald isle.
From the title, we assume it to be that of folk hero, John Henry, who as a 19th century working - class figure, beat the machine that was about to take over his job, leading to his death.