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Winner of the UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize for 1938. It was made into a motion picture in 1940, which starred a young Creator/WilliamHolden as George and which received four UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations. The second-most common SchoolPlay on television, behind ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.
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Winner of the UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize for 1938. It was made into a motion picture in 1940, which which was directed by Sam Wood, starred a young Creator/WilliamHolden as George George, and which was adapted by Thornton Wilder from his own play. Frank Craven and Martha Scott reprised their roles from the original Broadway production as the Stage Manager and Emily, respectively. None other than Creator/AaronCopland himself composed the music. It received four UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations. nominations.
The second-most common SchoolPlay on television, behind ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.
The second-most common SchoolPlay on television, behind ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.
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* GainaxEnding: The first two acts are a SliceOfLife romance, and then the third act begins in a cemetery and reveals that several characters have died, most recently [[spoiler: Emily.]] The afterlife is spent sitting on your grave among the recently dead, able to remember your life with perfect clarity-at first. Memories and the emotional bonds to family and friends are gradually lost as time goes on. However, the Stage Manager says that the dead are waiting for some "eternal" aspect of themselves to emerge once earthly concerns are shed; where the spirit goes afterwards is not explained, but the dead do gain a new and intense appreciation for life, and mourn that the living do not share it.
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* GainaxEnding: The first two acts are a SliceOfLife romance, and then the third act begins in a cemetery and reveals that several characters have died, most recently [[spoiler: Emily.]] Emily. The afterlife is spent sitting on your grave among the recently dead, able to remember your life with perfect clarity-at first. Memories and the emotional bonds to family and friends are gradually lost as time goes on. However, the Stage Manager says that the dead are waiting for some "eternal" aspect of themselves to emerge once earthly concerns are shed; where the spirit goes afterwards is not explained, but the dead do gain a new and intense appreciation for life, and mourn that the living do not share it.
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* TheNothingAfterDeath: A strange, debatable example.
** The dead are waiting "for the eternal part in them to come out clear," as the Stage Manager puts it. It seems as if the dead in Grover's Corners are waiting to move on to some other plane, that they are in a kind of purgatory. It's worth noting that the souls in the cemetery are all relatively recent dead, from the last couple of generations. Older souls have moved on.
** The dead are waiting "for the eternal part in them to come out clear," as the Stage Manager puts it. It seems as if the dead in Grover's Corners are waiting to move on to some other plane, that they are in a kind of purgatory. It's worth noting that the souls in the cemetery are all relatively recent dead, from the last couple of generations. Older souls have moved on.
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!!Tropes particular to the 1940 film:
* BornInTheTheater: The question-and-answer scene from the play is reproduced in the film. Given that this is a film, it plays out as this trope, with the characters looking right at the camera while questions are called out from the audience.
* DreamSequence: Act III and Emily's death turn out to be a long dream sequence in the film.
* HappyEnding: A major change from the play, as Emily turns out to be alive at the end.
* IdiosyncraticWipe: The MediumAwareness and NoFourthWall from Wilder's play manifest themselves in a different way in the film. The conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Webb in the film is interrupted by ''a hand covering the camera''. It turns out to be the Stage Manager, as the hand passes away from the camera to reveal him somewhere else, introducing the next scene.
* IWasQuiteALooker: "I was the prettiest girl in town next to Mamie Cartwright", says Mrs. Webb, in response to a direct question from Emily as to whether she was pretty when she was young.
* MatchCut: Several of these between the Gibbs and Webb households at the beginning of Act I and Act II, as Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Webb get breakfast ready, suggesting the similarities of small-town family life.
* PragmaticAdaptation: The film did not attempt to recreate the minimalist staging of the play, instead using perfectly ordinary sets suggesting a small New England town. Otherwise it's a highly faithful adaptation of the film, except for the revised ending, including the Stage Manager's narration and all the MediumAwareness from the play.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: That horrifically depressing ending to the play is omitted from the film. Instead Act III turns out to be a dream of Emily's, and she ends the movie very much alive.
!!Tropes particular to the 1940 film:
* BornInTheTheater: The question-and-answer scene from the play is reproduced in the film. Given that this is a film, it plays out as this trope, with the characters looking right at the camera while questions are called out from the audience.
* DreamSequence: Act III and Emily's death turn out to be a long dream sequence in the film.
* HappyEnding: A major change from the play, as Emily turns out to be alive at the end.
* IdiosyncraticWipe: The MediumAwareness and NoFourthWall from Wilder's play manifest themselves in a different way in the film. The conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Webb in the film is interrupted by ''a hand covering the camera''. It turns out to be the Stage Manager, as the hand passes away from the camera to reveal him somewhere else, introducing the next scene.
* IWasQuiteALooker: "I was the prettiest girl in town next to Mamie Cartwright", says Mrs. Webb, in response to a direct question from Emily as to whether she was pretty when she was young.
* MatchCut: Several of these between the Gibbs and Webb households at the beginning of Act I and Act II, as Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Webb get breakfast ready, suggesting the similarities of small-town family life.
* PragmaticAdaptation: The film did not attempt to recreate the minimalist staging of the play, instead using perfectly ordinary sets suggesting a small New England town. Otherwise it's a highly faithful adaptation of the film, except for the revised ending, including the Stage Manager's narration and all the MediumAwareness from the play.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: That horrifically depressing ending to the play is omitted from the film. Instead Act III turns out to be a dream of Emily's, and she ends the movie very much alive.
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* DayInTheLife: Title of the first act, which is just that, a portrait of daily life in Grover's Corners, with emphasis on the budding romance between George and Emily.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 1938. It was made into a motion picture in 1940, which starred a young William Holden as George and which received four AcademyAward UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations. The second-most common SchoolPlay on television, behind ''RomeoAndJuliet''.
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** The dead are waiting "for the eternal part in them to come out clear," as the Stage Manager puts it. It seems as if the dead in Grover's Corners are waiting to move on to some other plane, that they are in a kind of purgatory. It's worth noting that the souls in the cemetery are all relatively recent dead. No one from Colonial times is stuck there.
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** The dead are waiting "for the eternal part in them to come out clear," as the Stage Manager puts it. It seems as if the dead in Grover's Corners are waiting to move on to some other plane, that they are in a kind of purgatory. It's worth noting that the souls in the cemetery are all relatively recent dead. No one dead, from Colonial times is stuck there.the last couple of generations. Older souls have moved on.
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* DreamSequence / HappyEnding: The 1940 film turns that incredibly sad Downer Ending into a dream had by Emily, who ends the movie very much alive.
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* AbsentMindedProfessor: Professor Willard.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Rebecca and Wally, to George and Emily respectively.
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* TheCynic: Simon Stimson, especially at the end of Act 3.
--> '''Simon Stimson:''' Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those... of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another. Now you know - that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.
--> '''Simon Stimson:''' Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those... of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another. Now you know - that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.
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* FlatCharacter: Howie Newsome, although it's intentional. In each appearance, he delivers the milk and exchanges small talk to demonstrate the repetitious nature of small town life.
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* DownerEndingDownerEnding / BittersweetEnding: Depends on the reading. Everyone dies, but that's life. Learn to appreciate it while you have it, because you only get one.
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* ThisLoserIsYou: The pessimistic way to interpret the play's ending: You do not (and as per the quotes above, possibly ''can'' not) adequately appreciate each moment of your life. (Optimistically, it's just an {{Aesop}} about appreciating your life ''more'', but that doesn't really fit with how ''depressing'' that ending is.)
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* ThisLoserIsYou: The pessimistic way to interpret the play's ending: You do not (and as per the quotes above, possibly ''can'' not) adequately appreciate each moment of your life. (Optimistically, it's just an {{Aesop}} about appreciating your life ''more'', but that doesn't really fit with how ''depressing'' that ending is.)''more'').
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* [[Leitmotif]]: The hymn "Blest Be the Tie That Binds" appears at least once an act.
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* GainaxEnding: The first two acts are a SliceOfLife romance, and the brief third act shows us that life is meaningless, everything will be forgotten, and that you will sit on a grave for eternity. It's all done in a very surreal manner, and has several characters acting completely differently [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness to show the effects]] of such a bleak fate.
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* GainaxEnding: The first two acts are a SliceOfLife romance, and then the brief third act shows us begins in a cemetery and reveals that life is meaningless, everything will be forgotten, and that you will sit on a grave for eternity. It's all done in a very surreal manner, and has several characters acting completely differently [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness to show have died, most recently [[spoiler: Emily.]] The afterlife is spent sitting on your grave among the effects]] recently dead, able to remember your life with perfect clarity-at first. Memories and the emotional bonds to family and friends are gradually lost as time goes on. However, the Stage Manager says that the dead are waiting for some "eternal" aspect of such themselves to emerge once earthly concerns are shed; where the spirit goes afterwards is not explained, but the dead do gain a bleak fate.new and intense appreciation for life, and mourn that the living do not share it.
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* TheNothingAfterDeath: Debatable.
** There is no Heaven. There is no Hell. Every spirit, good and bad, is stuck together, sitting on their tombstone for all eternity. And even though you are given Mental Time Travel powers that let you relive any day of your life, all this does is further drive home to you how much of your life was wasted until you become a cold, emotionless shell of the person you were.
** However, the dead are waiting "for the eternal part in them to come out clear." This is mentioned a couple times. It seems as if the dead in Grover's Corners are waiting to move on to some other plane, that they are in a kind of purgatory. It's worth noting that the souls in the cemetery are all relatively recent dead. No one from Colonial times is stuck there.
** There is no Heaven. There is no Hell. Every spirit, good and bad, is stuck together, sitting on their tombstone for all eternity. And even though you are given Mental Time Travel powers that let you relive any day of your life, all this does is further drive home to you how much of your life was wasted until you become a cold, emotionless shell of the person you were.
** However, the dead are waiting "for the eternal part in them to come out clear." This is mentioned a couple times. It seems as if the dead in Grover's Corners are waiting to move on to some other plane, that they are in a kind of purgatory. It's worth noting that the souls in the cemetery are all relatively recent dead. No one from Colonial times is stuck there.
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* TheNothingAfterDeath: Debatable.
A strange, debatable example.
**There is no Heaven. There is no Hell. Every spirit, good and bad, is stuck together, sitting on their tombstone for all eternity. And even though you are given Mental Time Travel powers that let you relive any day of your life, all this does is further drive home to you how much of your life was wasted until you become a cold, emotionless shell of the person you were.
** However, theThe dead are waiting "for the eternal part in them to come out clear." This is mentioned a couple times.clear," as the Stage Manager puts it. It seems as if the dead in Grover's Corners are waiting to move on to some other plane, that they are in a kind of purgatory. It's worth noting that the souls in the cemetery are all relatively recent dead. No one from Colonial times is stuck there.
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* GenderNeutralNarrator: The Stage Manager's gender is unspecified. However, the Stage Manager does briefly assume a male role, that of Mr. Morgan, who owns the drugstore.
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* LohengrinAndMendelssohn: The standard "Here Comes the Bride" is played at the wedding.
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* TheTalk: Mrs. Webb alludes to this on Emily's wedding day.
--> '''Mrs. Webb''': I hope some of her girl friends have told her a thing or two. It's cruel, I know, but I couldn't bring myself to say anything. I went into it blind as a bat myself.
--> '''Mrs. Webb''': I hope some of her girl friends have told her a thing or two. It's cruel, I know, but I couldn't bring myself to say anything. I went into it blind as a bat myself.
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* WeAreAsMayflies: One of the recurring themes of the play, with frequent references being made to the age of the universe, the stars, and how quickly time passes.
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Winner of the PulitzerPrize for 1938. It was made into a very well-received motion picture in 1940, which marked the screen debut of Creator/WilliamHolden as George. The second-most common SchoolPlay on television, behind ''RomeoAndJuliet''.
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''OurTown'' is a three act play written by Thornton Wilder in 1938, set in the fictional community of Grover's Corners.
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* EverytownAmerica: Portrayed and then somewhat deconstructed, as the play demonstrates the pain and tragedy that one will find even in an Everytown.
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* HollywoodGeography: The coordinates given for Grover's Corners would actually put you in the ocean just off the coast of Massachusetts. Hard to say if this is Wilder being sloppy with a map or Wilder not wanting to identify Grover's Corners with any real town.
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* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler: Emily]]; {{Justified|Trope}} because it really was common back in 1913.
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* GainaxEnding: The first two acts are a SliceOfLife romance, and the brief third act shows us that [[spoiler:Life is meaningless, everything will be forgotten, and that you will sit on a grave for eternity. It's all done in a very surreal manner, and has several characters acting completely differently [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness to show the effects]] of such a bleak fate.]]
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* GainaxEnding: The first two acts are a SliceOfLife romance, and the brief third act shows us that [[spoiler:Life life is meaningless, everything will be forgotten, and that you will sit on a grave for eternity. It's all done in a very surreal manner, and has several characters acting completely differently [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness to show the effects]] of such a bleak fate.]]
* GreekChorus: The Stage Manager fills this role, providing exposition and commenting on the action.
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* TheNothingAfterDeath: There is no Heaven. There is no Hell. Every spirit, good and bad, is stuck together, sitting on their tombstone for all eternity. And even though you are given Mental Time Travel powers that let you relive any day of your life, all this does is further drive home to you how much of your life was wasted until you become a cold, emotionless shell of the person you were.
** Except not quite. The dead are waiting "for the eternal part in them to come out clear." This is mentioned a couple times. The obvious interpretation is that the Rapture is on its way and the good folk will someday leave the graveyard to chill with Jesus in heaven.
** Or else it's purgatorial.
** Except not quite. The dead are waiting "for the eternal part in them to come out clear." This is mentioned a couple times. The obvious interpretation is that the Rapture is on its way and the good folk will someday leave the graveyard to chill with Jesus in heaven.
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* TheNothingAfterDeath: TheNothingAfterDeath: Debatable.
** There is no Heaven. There is no Hell. Every spirit, good and bad, is stuck together, sitting on their tombstone for all eternity. And even though you are given Mental Time Travel powers that let you relive any day of your life, all this does is further drive home to you how much of your life was wasted until you become a cold, emotionless shell of the person you were.
**Except not quite. The However, the dead are waiting "for the eternal part in them to come out clear." This is mentioned a couple times. The obvious interpretation is It seems as if the dead in Grover's Corners are waiting to move on to some other plane, that they are in a kind of purgatory. It's worth noting that the Rapture is on its way and souls in the good folk will someday leave the graveyard to chill with Jesus in heaven.
** Or else it's purgatorial.cemetery are all relatively recent dead. No one from Colonial times is stuck there.
** There is no Heaven. There is no Hell. Every spirit, good and bad, is stuck together, sitting on their tombstone for all eternity. And even though you are given Mental Time Travel powers that let you relive any day of your life, all this does is further drive home to you how much of your life was wasted until you become a cold, emotionless shell of the person you were.
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* {{Gayngst}}: Simon Stimson is predominantly, though not definitively, identified as a closeted gay character, driven to alcoholism and eventually suicide.
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