Kevin's Watch

Not much to say, but
Man that was a good book!

I love it when she's a ham for the play.

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.

This is on my "to read" list - I keep putting other stuff ahead of it (like the Gap series.) But I'm a huge fan of the movie, it's one of my all-time favorites.

Yeah, the movie is great, I guess back then, they made movies more closley linked to the books thatn today.

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.

excellent book. the only one Harper Lee would write. some say that Truman Capote helped her with it.

dlbpharmd wrote:This is on my "to read" list - I keep putting other stuff ahead of it (like the landover series.) But I'm a huge fan of the movie, it's one of my all-time favorites.

Hey! I never said I wanted to read the landover series!

Damn Hackers!!!!!

It is a great book.

I would like to see another movie version. in the right hands it would be astounding.

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.

i was thinking Buscemi as Boo, William H Macy as Atticus. take it form there.

i'm guessing the kids would be hardest to cast. can kids portrait the roles convincingly?

Not nowadays when people can't even get the kids' ages right. (Harry Potter). Of course, acting experience is not easily acquired, but still...

well, yeah, it was a great book. Loved it but didn't appreciate it at first. Gotta reread.

we are reading it for our book club. saw the movie last night. (julie's first time for either the book or movie)

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.

sgtnull wrote:I would like to see another movie version. in the right hands it would be astounding.

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*

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?

~Lyr

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.

I almost named my son Atticus! One of my favorite characters in literature, PERIOD!