Gregory Peck became very close with Mary Badham (Scout), for years afterwards he referred to her as "Scout". He also became good friends with Brock Peters (Tom). Peters even delivered the eulogy at Peck's funeral.
Cal DOES play a much larger role in the current Broadway production of “Mockingbird,” deftly making up for the play’s omission of Miss Maudie and Aunt Alexandra. It’s GREAT... the audience stood, stomped, applauded, roared...
You're right, but there was something strange about Calpurnia and Atticus in the book. I don't mean anything bad about them, it's just...I don't know how to explain it. They seemed very close. I may be reading too deep into it, but it's just that they seem to have a close relationship, and I was thinking two things; since Calpurnia worked for the Finch family, I thought it odd that Scout and Jem's grandfather gave Cal Blackstone's Commentaries, which are England's law books and she taught her son, Zeebo, how to read from those books. The lack of Calpurnia's physical description (and Zeebo's lack if description) was also odd, because even minor one-scene characters had descriptions. I was thinking maybe Atticus and Calpurnia were half siblings. Or, because of the lack of a father for Zeebo, since the story said nothing about Cal's relationship status, maybe Cal was Atticus' first love and that's why he didn't get married to Scout and Jem's mother until he was middle aged. I just wish there was a story which goes through Atticus' secrets.
I really like "It's a Wonderful Life" but "To Kill a Mockingbird" is mythic, in ways that the former only parallels. "It's a Wonderful Life" shows us the the form of human life, that love beats reality. But "To Kill a Mockingbird" shows us not only that form, but also hints at why and how the hiding takes place. “Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.”
The kid's performances in this movie were extraordinary, especially the little girl whom played Scout and was nominated for an Academy Award at the age of 10.
"The really killer thing is that neither Scout's nor Jem's actors had ever acted in anything before." Which tells us something else extraordinary about the film: direction. It's so easy for us moviegoers to miss, but Robert Mulligan rared back and passed a miracle with these kids. (IMHO) I seem to recall Mary Badham saying how wonderful Gregory Peck was, too, with her and the other kids. Remember the scene where Jem went snooping around the Radley's yard at night and Scout waited for him at the fence? Remember when she heard the gunshot? OMG, her face!! How can a director get an untrained, amateur, child actor to react that way?
I feel this is probably the best adaptation ever made of an American novel. I've read the script and it feels just like reading the book. Perfectly adapted, cast, and acted.
My favorite scene from this film is by far the scene where the man (it might be Mr. Yule but I'm not sure) spits on Atticus at the Robinson household. It is a perfect summation of Atticus's character. You can see him almost snap and lose his temper, but he just takes out a handkerchief, wipes off his face, and leaves. All without a single line of dialogue.
Such a great film, but the fact that atticus's children see him in a completely different light when the sherrif asks him to shoot the rabid dog (because he was a great shot,a side of him they never knew about) was a clever piece of writing. And almost an aside from the main story!
I've watched the movie a few times and on some deep subconscious level assumed /hoped that the jury would do the right thing and set Tom Robinson free. Then I catch myself and realize that it's the deep south and no one's going to do a black man any favors when his word is against the word of a white person, no matter how flawed that white person.
A fact I found out through the movie commentary was that the directors pushed to have real kids with now Hollywood experience play Scout, Jem and Dill because they wanted the characters to feel real. He wanted them to actually play around and be kids.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! Great book and movie. Gregory Peck does a FANTASTIC performance as Atticus Finch. My favorite scene is: When Gregory gives his speech in the courtroom. AMAZING!
I don't know exactly why, but this movie and book are both extremely captivating. This is also a rare example of a movie being on equal par with it's source material. They both deserve to be as lauded as they are. Masterpieces of literature and cinema.
I wonder why To Kill a Mockingbird was filmed in black and white. Technicolor became relatively cheap and easy to use by the mid 1950's, and black and white films tended not to do as well. I'm sure there was a reason here, but I don't know what it is.
It could still be a budget issue, even during the 90's there were people who used black & white to save money. Or a creative choice, so the viewer would focus on the story.
Honestly, I'm glad. It adds a lot of character to the movie. It also makes white people whiter, and black people blacker. Showing a stark visual difference along with a social difference that matched the time.
Love how in the game The Darkness when you are celebrating your birthday with Jenny, when you sit down on the couch to watch a movie it is To Kill A Mocking Bird and you can watch the entire movie.
if you're saying what I think you are, they do. to kill a mockingbird takes place between 1933-1935, and grapes of wrath (if im not mistaken) takes place during the dust bowl, which happens during the same years. so yeah, they do exist in the same universe, just different regions
I read this in English this year, and we did an essay about the book. Before reading it, I thought it dealt exclusively with racism. As it turns out, however, it is a story of courage, justice, and prejudice.
that was the best book I've ever read, except for the Bible of course;) I almost believed that Tom Robinson would go free, but all along I knew he was destined to die. there's so many good lessons to be learned from this book.
When I first heard that we were going to watch To Kill a Mockingbird, I thought it would end up being a bore but, thankfully, I was wrong. My favorite character was the person that was shunned by the town for having married a black woman.
I don’t understand how people can hate this book. It’s slow to start but it get so good. Also is it just me or was Gregory Peck a handsome lookin man in this movie because dang
A lot of great movies came out in '62 as well The Miracle Worker, The Birdman of Alcatraz, Lolita, How the West was Won, The Manchurian Candidate and many others.
Brock Peters was a magnificent actor with a truly diverse range; he worked with Peter Sellers in the film "Heavens Above!" as well as voicing Darth Vader in radio adaptations of the first three "Star Wars" movies, and playing two different characters in the "Star Trek" franchise; the treacherous Admiral Cartwright and New Orleans restaurateur Joseph Sisko. He was also an accomplished singer, having performed in "Porgy and Bess" and "Carmen Jones," among others.
I love this movie,is an inspirational and a well thought,for we young ones of today. I think movies like this should be sold instead of those sold now, thumps up for the producers of the movie. may every African american who died these way rest in perfect peace.
In the game the Darkness ( the first one ) you can actually watch the whole movie on a TV screen . Picture quality and sound aren't great but it's the full movie
I remember studying this for GCSE English- in year 11- John Tuite asked us to do homework on racism from a book you've read, and to explain the characters involved.
dbz was around in the 90's when i was a teen. I'm not ashamed to say i was a huge fan. You're never too old for your own childhood that just makes that chilling nostalgia feeling crawl down your spine. By the way my beautiful wife loves it too. Anyways back to my point, you're right this film is indeed a classic. But does that stop people from at least trying to make it better than it already is. Sure some might see it as a foolish attempt but others might see it as an opportunity.
My favorite tkam trivia is when they shot the court scene they had to shoot the shots with the kids separately cause the content in the scene was considered too much for children. And by the way I live in Scottsboro AL.( The place where Scottsboro boys happened.)
This is my all-time favorite book and movie. Thanks to Harper Lee, the world knows how racism can go too far but the values of family and the human spirit are what drives us on. Harper Lee and Gregory Peck are saints in my eyes.
Why not??! Go check them out!! It's an incredible novel and quite a great film.. I think I've read the book more often than any other, and I've been a lifelong fan of reading lol xD
To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the world’s best loved novels, is set in our beautiful town of Monroeville, Alabama, where Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee grew up just a few blocks from the old courthouse. Informative exhibits about Harper Lee and her childhood friend Truman Capote guide you to the famous courtroom, restored as it was in the 1930s. Our acclaimed play production of To Kill a Mockingbird is Alabama’s hottest theater ticket each spring.
I liked even better the scene in the bedroom when Scout first comes to recognize Boo. The way those sweet, gentle smiles, showing genuine affection, slowly come to both faces could melt a snowman.
when my kids were small, we used to do all the lines. 'oh, I don't believe u'. 'i swear, Scout, u act more like a girl every day'. 'run for your life Scout. come on Dill!'
+fly124 It was actually written before To Kill A Mockingbird and was never actually released. Although it was intended to be a sequel at the time, it is now considered to be an early draft.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 9nl.pw/Mockingbird Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature. Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up. Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. 9nl.pw/Mockingbird
That's true but they didn't have the type of technology we have today. It was hard to convict anyone of anything. As it says in the book it is the word of a white man against the word of a man of color.
The great Henry Bumstead is worth mentioning for the (Oscar-winning) Art Direction. I had the privilege of meeting him in the late 90s (he died in 2006). Pure old-Hollywood class.
One of my favourite movies ever along with another To - To Sir With Love. So sad how race and the justice system is still such an issue in America 50+ years later...
to kill a mocking bird is supermans favorite movie? wow actually fun fact about gregory peck and DC, in the graphic novel Kingdome Come, Alex Ross based the elderly bruce wayne on gregory peck, ross was known to put little cameos in his works, like having popeye and Bea Arthur in Marvels
Gregory Peck became very close with Mary Badham (Scout), for years afterwards he referred to her as "Scout". He also became good friends with Brock Peters (Tom). Peters even delivered the eulogy at Peck's funeral.
Good knowledge, love that
I, too, enjoy the trivia sections of IMDB
@Christine P - Also, Mary always continued to call him Atticus.
I only wish this movie had been longer and fleshed out some of the characters more. Calpurnia was much more central, for instance.
and aunt alexandra wasn't even in the movie
I loved Cal so much.. It's hard to pick a favorite character, but I think she'd be up there with Atticus, Dill, and Judge Taylor for me..
Cal DOES play a much larger role in the current Broadway production of “Mockingbird,” deftly making up for the play’s omission of Miss Maudie and Aunt Alexandra. It’s GREAT... the audience stood, stomped, applauded, roared...
You're right, but there was something strange about Calpurnia and Atticus in the book. I don't mean anything bad about them, it's just...I don't know how to explain it. They seemed very close. I may be reading too deep into it, but it's just that they seem to have a close relationship, and I was thinking two things; since Calpurnia worked for the Finch family, I thought it odd that Scout and Jem's grandfather gave Cal Blackstone's Commentaries, which are England's law books and she taught her son, Zeebo, how to read from those books. The lack of Calpurnia's physical description (and Zeebo's lack if description) was also odd, because even minor one-scene characters had descriptions. I was thinking maybe Atticus and Calpurnia were half siblings. Or, because of the lack of a father for Zeebo, since the story said nothing about Cal's relationship status, maybe Cal was Atticus' first love and that's why he didn't get married to Scout and Jem's mother until he was middle aged. I just wish there was a story which goes through Atticus' secrets.
I would pay for a 5 hour TKAM film just covering out every events on the book
In my opinion, To Kill a Mockinbird and It's a Wonderful Life are by far the two most intense movies EVER.
+Robson1898vascao Preach it
+Robson1898vascao those two are my favorites, such beautiful movies
those two movies r those i want on blu-ray
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I really like "It's a Wonderful Life" but "To Kill a Mockingbird" is mythic, in ways that the former only parallels.
"It's a Wonderful Life" shows us the the form of human life, that love beats reality. But "To Kill a Mockingbird" shows us not only that form, but also hints at why and how the hiding takes place.
“Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.”
When I was a little kid I thought the book was called Tequila Mockingbird
lol
I know I'm late but I thought the same thing when I was little lol
Oh, lord! Haha!
Shaira Bungcag ei! That's so me!
I think they used that on a "Get Smart" Episode.
The kid's performances in this movie were extraordinary, especially the little girl whom played Scout and was nominated for an Academy Award at the age of 10.
The really killer thing is that neither Scout's nor Jem's actors had ever acted in anything before.
After?
"The really killer thing is that neither Scout's nor Jem's actors had ever acted in anything before."
Which tells us something else extraordinary about the film: direction. It's so easy for us moviegoers to miss, but Robert Mulligan rared back and passed a miracle with these kids. (IMHO) I seem to recall Mary Badham saying how wonderful Gregory Peck was, too, with her and the other kids.
Remember the scene where Jem went snooping around the Radley's yard at night and Scout waited for him at the fence? Remember when she heard the gunshot? OMG, her face!! How can a director get an untrained, amateur, child actor to react that way?
@@Astrobrant2 Some people are just naturals.
Jem had actually a minor amount of experience, but this was his first significant role
This is my favorite film of all-time. I watch it on my birthday every year as a little gift to myself.
I feel this is probably the best adaptation ever made of an American novel. I've read the script and it feels just like reading the book. Perfectly adapted, cast, and acted.
My favorite scene from this film is by far the scene where the man (it might be Mr. Yule but I'm not sure) spits on Atticus at the Robinson household. It is a perfect summation of Atticus's character. You can see him almost snap and lose his temper, but he just takes out a handkerchief, wipes off his face, and leaves. All without a single line of dialogue.
Androminous I haven't seen the movie but, Bob Ewell spits on Atticus' face in the novel.
Such a great film, but the fact that atticus's children see him in a completely different light when the sherrif asks him to shoot the rabid dog (because he was a great shot,a side of him they never knew about) was a clever piece of writing. And almost an aside from the main story!
Both the novel and the film have .a very special place in my heart. They are two of the finest works of the 20th century.
I just love Gregory Peck's voice.
Anyone else think Jem was adorable???
clique clique everywhere
Me! Scout and Dill are too!!!
Jishwa is my husband Scout was adorable too!
ATTICUS IS HOT NGL
“Atticus would be there all night, and he’d be there when Jem waked up in the morning.”
One of the greatest films ever and an amazing book
Agreed, I give it an 11 out of 10
I've watched the movie a few times and on some deep subconscious level assumed /hoped that the jury would do the right thing and set Tom Robinson free. Then I catch myself and realize that it's the deep south and no one's going to do a black man any favors when his word is against the word of a white person, no matter how flawed that white person.
My Favorite scene is when Boo Radley comes into the picture...
All time favorite book! One of the best movies made ever made as well.
To Kill A Mockingbird was an tear jerker, although not to the extent of Where The Red Fern Grows it was certainly emotional.
Where the Red Fern Grows could be considered more heartbreaking, but I think To Kill a Mockingbird covers a more depressing topic.
Gregory Peck was a god among men.
We had to analyse Atticus's speech for an English exam. Just great! :-)
So did we, truly a beautiful speech!
A fact I found out through the movie commentary was that the directors pushed to have real kids with now Hollywood experience play Scout, Jem and Dill because they wanted the characters to feel real. He wanted them to actually play around and be kids.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! Great book and movie. Gregory Peck does a FANTASTIC performance as Atticus Finch. My favorite scene is: When Gregory gives his speech in the courtroom. AMAZING!
"December 25th, 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of "To Kill A Mockingbird" in theaters."
I don't know exactly why, but this movie and book are both extremely captivating. This is also a rare example of a movie being on equal par with it's source material. They both deserve to be as lauded as they are. Masterpieces of literature and cinema.
I find it amazing all the work that went into the making of that set. Well made, well acted movie.
Thanks. Glad you enjoy them.
"Hey Boo" when I read that line...❤
Trivia: The book was originally called Atticus
Atticus Finch IS the Optimus Prime of literature
I wonder why To Kill a Mockingbird was filmed in black and white. Technicolor became relatively cheap and easy to use by the mid 1950's, and black and white films tended not to do as well. I'm sure there was a reason here, but I don't know what it is.
It could still be a budget issue, even during the 90's there were people who used black & white to save money. Or a creative choice, so the viewer would focus on the story.
Let the people imagine. It's like a coloring book.
Honestly, I'm glad.
It adds a lot of character to the movie.
It also makes white people whiter, and black people blacker. Showing a stark visual difference along with a social difference that matched the time.
well it DID do very well regardless
It is as easy as black and white. Because black and white exists in this novel it was deliberately chosen
Love how in the game The Darkness when you are celebrating your birthday with Jenny, when you sit down on the couch to watch a movie it is To Kill A Mocking Bird and you can watch the entire movie.
In 8th grade we had to read this for English. I hated it. Now in 12th grade, we had to read it again and now I love it. Truly a masterpiece
I'm glad you've come to appreciate it.
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That speech Gregory Peck gives, OMG! I was watching it in class, it felt like I was in that courtroom.
it's kinda fun to think that maybe The Grapes of Wrath and To Kill A Mockingbird take place in the same universe
if you're saying what I think you are, they do. to kill a mockingbird takes place between 1933-1935, and grapes of wrath (if im not mistaken) takes place during the dust bowl, which happens during the same years. so yeah, they do exist in the same universe, just different regions
I read this in English this year, and we did an essay about the book. Before reading it, I thought it dealt exclusively with racism. As it turns out, however, it is a story of courage, justice, and prejudice.
that was the best book I've ever read, except for the Bible of course;) I almost believed that Tom Robinson would go free, but all along I knew he was destined to die. there's so many good lessons to be learned from this book.
When I first heard that we were going to watch To Kill a Mockingbird, I thought it would end up being a bore but, thankfully, I was wrong. My favorite character was the person that was shunned by the town for having married a black woman.
Dolphus Raymond! :-) Fantastic character
I liked Dill the most.
Yep dolphus and his Coca Cola lol
I don’t understand how people can hate this book. It’s slow to start but it get so good. Also is it just me or was Gregory Peck a handsome lookin man in this movie because dang
Such a beautiful book!
We are reading the book in english class and we came to the conclusion that Atticus is Jesus. There's no other explanation.
Wtf xD
I love this book.
So do I, I have the 50th anniversary edition of the book. Just don't read 'Go set a Watchman'.
Lisette Garcia I read the first two pages, and when I found out that Jem had dropped dead, I quit reading. Jem is one of my favorite characters.
That's John Williams playing piano in the soundtrack. He started out as a young man working under composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote the soundtrack.
sounds like '62 was a great year for acting cause Peter O'Toole was also in Lawrence of Arabia the same year
A lot of great movies came out in '62 as well The Miracle Worker, The Birdman of Alcatraz, Lolita, How the West was Won, The Manchurian Candidate and many others.
thepayne I wouldn't have wanted to be an Oscar voter that year. Too many great performances and movies to just pick one from each category.
Brock Peters was a magnificent actor with a truly diverse range; he worked with Peter Sellers in the film "Heavens Above!" as well as voicing Darth Vader in radio adaptations of the first three "Star Wars" movies, and playing two different characters in the "Star Trek" franchise; the treacherous Admiral Cartwright and New Orleans restaurateur Joseph Sisko. He was also an accomplished singer, having performed in "Porgy and Bess" and "Carmen Jones," among others.
This is one of my favorite books and the movie. Sad that Gregory Peck isn't alive anymore... one of the most known heroes from the 20th century.
People die damn it! The spirit never dies, so he is still alive in a different form.
This year marks the 18th year of his passing.
I love this movie,is an inspirational and a well thought,for we young ones of today. I think movies like this should be sold instead of those sold now, thumps up for the producers of the movie. may every African american who died these way rest in perfect peace.
In the game the Darkness ( the first one ) you can actually watch the whole movie on a TV screen . Picture quality and sound aren't great but it's the full movie
Robert Duvall was fantastic in this movie !!!
Whoa, I didn't know Boo was Robert Duvall.
I remember studying this for GCSE English- in year 11- John Tuite asked us to do homework on racism from a book you've read, and to explain the characters involved.
Elmer Bernstein composed the music. It brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to it. Very evocative.
The kid who played Jem is adorable and he kinda grew up to look like Atticus so I thought that was pretty cool
5:17 LOL! But unlike Mockingbird, the author of Marry Poppins absolutely hated Disney's film adaptation.
There is a small Novelty store in downtown Spokane, WA called 'Boo Radleys' The owners' wife is a High School English teacher.
I'm actually reading the book right now, and I think it's pretty good so far.
dbz was around in the 90's when i was a teen. I'm not ashamed to say i was a huge fan. You're never too old for your own childhood that just makes that chilling nostalgia feeling crawl down your spine. By the way my beautiful wife loves it too. Anyways back to my point, you're right this film is indeed a classic. But does that stop people from at least trying to make it better than it already is. Sure some might see it as a foolish attempt but others might see it as an opportunity.
Only to miss school jeez that's what I call dedication
This movie should be offered for free on you tube all the time.
My favorite tkam trivia is when they shot the court scene they had to shoot the shots with the kids separately cause the content in the scene was considered too much for children. And by the way I live in Scottsboro AL.( The place where Scottsboro boys happened.)
You guys make very interesting videos.
I actually love the book and film, it's very famous.
Atticus Finch was cast perfectly!
Please do a "Top Ten Best Gregory Peck Performances." Please, please, pretty please?!
Walter: Move aside Finch
Atticus: Go home
savage
To kill a mockingbird
One of my best education movies with good lectures and quote
This is my all-time favorite book and movie. Thanks to Harper Lee, the world knows how racism can go too far but the values of family and the human spirit are what drives us on.
Harper Lee and Gregory Peck are saints in my eyes.
what about "to kill a mockingbird 3: revenge of the mockingbird"
I think I'm the only one on this planet who has not seen this movie or even read the book, "To Kill A Mockingbird."
read it!!!! it's amazing!! trust me I'm a bit like you hate books but even I like this so I'm sure you will!
Please do yourself a favor and read the book
no im with you, but im watching brief summaries of it because of hw
No, Chibi, you're not the only one. There's a kid named Kula who lives in a yurt in Mongolia. He hasn't read the book or seen the movie either.
Why not??! Go check them out!! It's an incredible novel and quite a great film.. I think I've read the book more often than any other, and I've been a lifelong fan of reading lol xD
Amazing book and spectacular movie
To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the world’s best loved novels, is set in our beautiful town of Monroeville, Alabama, where Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee grew up just a few blocks from the old courthouse. Informative exhibits about Harper Lee and her childhood friend Truman Capote guide you to the famous courtroom, restored as it was in the 1930s. Our acclaimed play production of To Kill a Mockingbird is Alabama’s hottest theater ticket each spring.
fav. scene is scout and boo sitting on the porch swing
I liked even better the scene in the bedroom when Scout first comes to recognize Boo. The way those sweet, gentle smiles, showing genuine affection, slowly come to both faces could melt a snowman.
Cant wait for the next movie to hit cinemas "To Kill A Mockingbird 2: MOCKINGBIRD TO THE EXTREME!!!!!!
Atticus had guts.
Best thumbnail EVER!!!
Best movie ever
when my kids were small, we used to do all the lines. 'oh, I don't believe u'. 'i swear, Scout, u act more like a girl every day'. 'run for your life Scout. come on Dill!'
superhero origins: atticus finch
I'm here because I'm reading the graphic novel. It's amazing!
one heck of a good movie
I got a test on jt tom. And I didn’t read the book. So
Thanks for the vid
While all of the actors delivered A+ performances I still think Scout was my favorite.
My favorite actor by far
I really wish the narrator knew the meaning of irony.
LOL based on a true event. Based on a couple of true events I'd say. And many times the ending to the story wasn't so happy.
I HATE what Harper Lee has turned Atticus into in the so called sequel!
I read about 50 pages and just had to give up its unfinished in so many ways so messy and mixed up and just plain dull :(
+Sophie sullivan And probably no punctuation?
+fly124 It was actually written before To Kill A Mockingbird and was never actually released. Although it was intended to be a sequel at the time, it is now considered to be an early draft.
I heard that Harper Lee said that 'Go set a Watchman' was just a draft, but it seems her editor published it without her knowing.
I was kinda disappointed when Jem has died :(
I love the movie so much 💯❤️❤️
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often.
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" You're father's passing."
chills
That trial wouldn't have even took place nowadays if there was no evidence, he wouldn't have even been arrested!
That's true but they didn't have the type of technology we have today. It was hard to convict anyone of anything. As it says in the book it is the word of a white man against the word of a man of color.
Bill Cosby
Random? Except it's one of the best movies ever based on one of the best books ever...
can you create moments and top 10 for Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Michael Jordan, Queen, Linkin Park and Five?
The great Henry Bumstead is worth mentioning for the (Oscar-winning) Art Direction. I had the privilege of meeting him in the late 90s (he died in 2006). Pure old-Hollywood class.
such a good book and such a good movie.
Best book and movie ever.
I AM STARTED READING THIS BOOK
solving argument like a sir....?
To Kill a Mockingbird is a film that should never be remade!!
Well that is fair. And thank you for voicing your opinions logically and politely; that is so rare on the internet today. Any-who, have a good day.
One of my favourite movies ever along with another To - To Sir With Love.
So sad how race and the justice system is still such an issue in America 50+ years later...
Lord of the Flies next
to kill a mocking bird is supermans favorite movie? wow
actually fun fact about gregory peck and DC, in the graphic novel Kingdome Come, Alex Ross based the elderly bruce wayne on gregory peck, ross was known to put little cameos in his works, like having popeye and Bea Arthur in Marvels