The themes in To Kill a Mockingbird range from good vs. The screen adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird is one that is not to be missed, due to its incredible acting and wonderful depiction of the town of Macomb. With a name like Gregory Peck and the fact that the movie won many Oscars, including best actor in a leading role, it is hard to not write a glowing review of this film.
This classic film does just that. The actors and the casting are superb. What really stood out for me in this film was Brock Peters, who played Tom Robinson. When Tom takes the stand and is questioned about the crime he is accused of committing, one cannot but feel empathetic and saddened by the injustice he is faced with.
This is what I believe Harper Lee also wanted to achieve for her readers, an understanding of what social injustice feels like. While the movie is fantastic, the adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird was definitely not as magical as the book. Understandably, this is an adaptation and not every single detail from the book can be included. However, so much is omitted from the film that viewing it is quite different from reading the novel.
Many key points and characters are missing from the movie version. Also, important events that are significant to the plot of the novel are missing, such as the interactions the children have with Mrs.
Overall, the book and the movie share the same morals. They also portray the same basic storyline, although the movie lacks the details contained in the book.
For the minute allotted running time of the film, the director did a satisfactory job involving what he thought was the main point of the book. A noticeable discrepancy in the film and the book is the absence of characters. One important character in the book that did not appear in the movie is Aunt Alexandra. In the book, she moved in with the Finches to be a female role model for Scout, but spent most of her time nagging the family and sharing her opinions about the townspeople's social status.
In the book, Scout is being ushered into the gender role associated with a southern lady. She is very hesitant to assume this role and conform to what society expects of her as she grows up. Up to this point in her life, Scout has had very few female role models as her mother passed away and she spends most of her time with her brother, Jem. She does have Calpurnia, who looks after the children while their father is at work, but there is a comparative loss of women that Scout can look up to and follow.
This no doubt contributes to her hesitancy to step into those female roles that society expects her to conform to. However, film can accomplish things that novels can't, and vice versa. Likewise, film has limitations that a novel doesn't. This essay explores some of the differences between To Kill a Mockingbird , the film and the novel.
By its nature, film is a visual medium, which makes a first-person story difficult to tell. To have Scout narrating throughout the film as she does in the book would prove distracting, so Scout as narrator is only presented to set the mood of a scene in the film. As a result, viewers don't get a strong sense of Scout's first-person narration as they do in the book; instead, they simply notice the childlike perspective portrayed in the story.
The film uses music to help reinforce the child's point-of-view. The music is very elementary, and much of the score is composed of single notes without chords or embellishments.
Because the narration is not as straightforward in the film, the film seems to shift more to Jem's experiences. For example, Jem finds all the articles in the tree. Jem accompanies Atticus to tell Helen Robinson of her husband's death. Jem is left alone to watch his sister. Scout is still an important character, but the film expands on her brother's role. A film has less time to tell its story and therefore often concentrates the events of a story into fewer characters; when a book makes the transition to film, characters and their actions are often combined.
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