Jun26

listen to the mockingbird.

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“summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots,

or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat;

it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.”

– harper lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

 

one of my all-time favorite books and movies and here were are once again, in summer.

i even played ‘scout’ once in a scene of a play, and it was something.

 

 

 

 

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credits: j.b.  lippincott & co., universal pictures

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  2. It’s a great book indeed. I actually preferred the book to the film, as it allowed me to imagine my own version of the characters. Coming from England, it was a taste of a very different world across the ocean too.
    Best wishes, Pete.

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    • I love books for that reason as well, and was glad that I read the book before I saw the film, though I think it was very well cast. interesting to think about it from the point of view of someone not from the states.

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    • such an amazing book, and here is a blurb about the film –
      o Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American coming-of-age legal drama crime film directed by Robert Mulligan starring Gregory Peck and Mary Badham, with Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, James Anderson, and Brock Peters in supporting roles. It marked the film debut of Robert Duvall, William Windom, and Alice Ghostley. Adapted by Horton Foote, from Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name, it follows a lawyer (Peck) in Depression-era Alabama defending a black man (Peters) charged with rape while educating his children (Badham and Alford) against prejudice.

      It gained overwhelmingly positive reception from both the critics and the public; a box-office success, it earned more than six times its budget. The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Peck and Best Adapted Screenplay for Foote, and was nominated for eight, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress for Badham.

      In 1995, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. In 2003, the American Film Institute named Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th century. In 2007, the film ranked twenty-fifth on the AFI’s 10th anniversary list of the greatest American movies of all time. In 2008, the film ranked first on the AFI’s list of the ten greatest courtroom dramas. In 2020, the British Film Institute included it in their list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 15.[3] The film was restored and released on Blu-ray and DVD in 2012, as part of the 100th anniversary of Universal Pictures.[4] It is considered to be one of the greatest movies ever made.

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  10. I love that you played Scout! Your post is perfectly timed, Beth. I’ve got “To Kill a Mockingbird” on my re-read list this summer. Can’t put my finger on the ‘why’ but I feel like I need to return to it. Just because.
    xo! 🥰

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  16. One of the best, classic, historically significant books of all times. And just another sad sign of the times currently, this book is now being banned in some schools, libraries, etc. around the country. How can that even be possible? Chris

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  17. I saw the movie and then read the book. And of course was moved by both.
    I wonder now if I read the book first and then saw the movie …. (I still would be greatly moved)
    Some books/movies I think it doesn’t matter which comes first ….

    I can’t quite explain what I mean ….. but said it anyway. LOL

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  20. I adore this book, too.
    Wow, what a fab visit here today.
    Finding a telephone booth, omg!
    That bear – hahahahaha
    The station facelift in Detroit -beauty
    and Ned… you know I feel like I came from my peace and love post, to more P&L posts.
    Thank you, Beth!

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  22. One of my very favorite books! The movie is just as good, a rarity for movies about books. Yes, summer is here, and it’s wonderful! Harper Lee says it so well. I secretly wanted to be Scout.

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