To Kill A Mockingbird
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To Kill A Mockingbird
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Man that was a good book!
Man that was a good book!
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That was a great book, one that I did not appreciate nearly enough in school. I need to go back and read it again. One of the parts that struck me most was when Atticus shot the rabid dog... it shows a cold and calculating part of him, and how uncomfortable he is with it.
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I am ashamed to say that having had to read this for an English assignment in school (many years ago), I got fed up about 20 pages in, and asked my dad to tell me what happened in it so I could write my assignment.
Can't remember what mark I got for the assignment though.
Can't remember what mark I got for the assignment though.
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Yeah, same. But knowing this age, they will film a version with Brad Pitt, and Kevin Spacey as Boo Radley, and Morgan Freeman will play the main negro character.
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I don't think they could do the origional movie any justice if they ever refilmed it.
I would like to see it re-released.
Movies about books nowadays stray so far away from the origional story--they'd have to add a lot more action bits, a gun fight or car chace or two-Bob Ewell would have to get beaten up by Atticus, and then there would have to be a big sex scene between Mayella and Boo!
Maybe A&E could redo it, they usually do a good job.
I would like to see it re-released.
Movies about books nowadays stray so far away from the origional story--they'd have to add a lot more action bits, a gun fight or car chace or two-Bob Ewell would have to get beaten up by Atticus, and then there would have to be a big sex scene between Mayella and Boo!
Maybe A&E could redo it, they usually do a good job.
I thought you were a ripe grape
a cabernet sauvignon
a bottle in the cellar
the kind you keep for a really long time
a cabernet sauvignon
a bottle in the cellar
the kind you keep for a really long time
You can't! There could be no other Atticus Finch but Gergory Peck!!!! WHo else could be Scout? Or Boo Radley? There isn't a single thing wrong with that movie--not one! *hugs movie close*sgtnull wrote:I would like to see another movie version. in the right hands it would be astounding.
To Kill A Mockingbird is among my favorite novels of all time, and the original movie is so well done that it would be a sacrilege to try to replicate it. But damn it. . . if it would be done, A&E better be the ones doing it.
*shudders at the thought of Atticus doing a sex scene* That would be so wrong! Not that Atticus wasn't sexy. . . it was more the case that he was a man focused on taking care of his family, doing his job, and doing what was right. All of which, in my book, would make him sexy anyway. How'd we get on this subject anyway?
Incredible book. I don't blame Harper Lee for never publishing another book. How could you follow something like that?
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no Sarge. no. absolutely n o t. some remakes just should not be.
and this is one of them. it is in a minority of novel to sceen adaptations that worked even with changes made in the story.
no. i absolutely forbid it.
and this is one of them. it is in a minority of novel to sceen adaptations that worked even with changes made in the story.
no. i absolutely forbid it.
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have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
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