Not surprisingly, Johnson characterized the audition process as "not normal". After the fourth screen test, he found out that he had already been hired and the screen tests were meant to gauge the abilities of the other actors, not him. However, during the meeting, he gave no inclination that he wanted to cast Johnson, but Johnson kept getting called in from screen tests. Parks personally chose Kyle Johnson to play the character of Newt, after a brief meeting with him in a Beverly Hills hotel. These men tried to include as many black technicians as possible for the film. Also working with Parks was James Lydon as associate producer and Burnett Guffey as cinematographer. Assisting him with directing were Jack Aldworth and Fred Giles. In addition to being the screenwriter, he was also the director, producer, and music composer.
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Parks also wrote the screenplay, and as a result, the script for the movie did not deviate much from the book, except for featuring fewer characters for the sake of time. The film The Learning Tree is based on Gordon Parks's 1963 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. Through all this, the film is able to capture "an adolescent boy's initiation in sex, love, death, justice and injustice, and, because he is black, a fair measure of racial hatred" in "a profoundly nostalgic way", according to New York Times movie reviewer Roger Greenspun. Encouraged by his mother Sarah, Newt reveals to Judge Cavanaugh that Booker committed the murder, and also testifies in court, but rather than doing the good he intended it to do, Newt's testimony leads to the suicide of Booker and almost being killed by Marcus. Newt initially keeps quiet about what he has seen, but appears to be bothered that Silas Newhall, who was at the scene of the crime for another reason, is being accused for a murder he did not commit. One day when Newt is eating his lunch in the loft of Jake's barn, he witnesses the brutal attack and murder of Jake by Booker Savage, Marcus' father. Another scene depicts Newt forced into a brutal boxing match at the County fair. While Marcus is in jail, Newt begins to work for Jake to make up for his actions and those of his friends, and also begins a relationship with the new girl in town Arcella Jefferson, but his relationship with her is ultimately destroyed when Chauncey Cavanaugh, a white man and son of the local judge, rapes and impregnates Arcella, who ultimately moves away out of shame. Overall, data show EDCs at toxicant relevant levels in the Mira and stress the need to monitor rivers that are allegedly less polluted.Īlkylphenol ethoxylates Alkylphenols Oestrogens Phytoestrogens Sitosterol.Newt Winger, Marcus Savage, and several of their friends steal apples from Jake Kiner's orchard, and when Jake confronts the boys, he is beaten and left for dead by Marcus, who is later sent to jail for his actions. In addition, phosphates were above legal limits at both spring and summer (>1 mg/L). In view of these, the oestrogenic load of the Mira River attained ≈47 ng/L EE2eq. The EDC concentrations were normalised for ethynylestradiol equivalents (EE2eq). In contrast, the global average levels of phytoestrogens (≈140 ng/L) and of SITO (≈295 ng/L) were lower than those reported worldwide. Indeed, the annual average sum of EDCs was ≈57 ng/L for oestrogens and ≈1.3 μg/L for industrial/household chemicals.
Unexpectedly high levels of oestrogens and of industrial/household pollutants were measured at all sampling sites, including those located inside natural protected areas. For this propose, waters from six sampling sites were taken every 2 months, over a 1-year period (2011), and analysed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The targeted EDCs included natural and pharmaceutical oestrogens (17β-oestradiol, oestrone and 17α-ethynylestradiol), industrial/household pollutants (octylphenols, nonylphenols and their monoethoxylates and diethoxylates and bisphenol A), phytoestrogens (formononetin, biochanin A, daidzein, genistein) and the phytosterol sitosterol (SITO). However, because environmentalists have claimed that the Mira could be moderately polluted, a range of 17 EDCs were measured not only at the estuary but also along the river. On this presumption, the levels of endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs) in Mira waters were never measured. The Mira River is a Portuguese water body widely known for its wilderness and is advertised as one of the less polluted European rivers.