Already Viewed-"To Kill A Mockingbird"

The third movie that i have already seen is "To Kill A Mockingbird" a 1962 movie directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck, John Megna, and Frank Overton. This movie is based off of the book by Harper Lee and tells the story of Atticus Finch and his two children, Scout and Jem. Atticus is a lawyer who decides to represent a black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman in a small, prejudicial town in 1932 Alabama. The movie, just like the book, has a lot of different side stories such as when a rabid dog comes into the town and Atticus shots it, and things from Scout's childhood. The main story, however, is Atticus trying to get Tom Robinson out of jail with an all white jury and a prejudiced judge. He shows a lot of evidence that proves that Tom is innocent of raping an illiterate white woman named Mayella Ewell (trying say that five times fast). However, because Tom is black he is easily convicted. When he is being "transferred" to a "safe state prison", he tries to escape and is shot and killed while he runs away. Throughout, the entire story Scout talks about the creepy man next door named Boo Radley who nevers comes out of his house. Scout, her brother Jem, and their friend Dill talk about all their adventures and how they are scared of Boo until one night after a Halloween dance at school. They are on their way home after a Halloween dance at school when they are attacked by some random person. Jem falls and gets hurt, but Scout just runs away. She ends up getting home to find Jem in his bed with a broken arm, in the shadow is Boo who had saved the children's lives. It turns out that Bob Ewell, the father of Mayella, attacked the children and Boo stabbed him to death, it also comes to light that Bob was the one who raped Mayella and blamed it all on Tom. The Sheriff decides that Bob fell on his knife and Atticus thanks Boo. Scout calls him a mockingbird because he does no harm and only does good.
      A clip of Atticus cross-examining the victim Mayella Ewell:

I really enjoyed reading this book and I think the movie really exemplified the books meaning. I read the book going into my freshman year of high school for my English class. I had Ms.Hurley for English class my freshman and sophomore year of high school at the all girls school I went to. She was such a funny teacher because she was really quiet and the class really walked all over her. I remember she made me sit in the front row because I talked too much to my friends and i actually started to pay attention at that point. Then when I had her for sophomore year she immediately put my seat in the front of the class. That is when I read the book and fell in love with classic books such as The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, Wuthering Heights, etc. I am mad that "Twilight" destroyed Wuthering Heights because Bella is obsessed with it. It's just not the same...just kidding I still love it! Anyway, i saw the movie my junior year of high school when I was sick and stayed home from school. It was one of those days where nothing is on TV and I had already watched everything recorded on DVR. So i was flipping through the channels when i found "To Kill A Mockingbird". Since I liked the book so much I decided I should give the movie a try. The movie is really good and the storyline is interesting, but there were some moments where it seemed to drag one. It would get slow at some parts and then pick up at others. All in all, I think its a really good movie but unless you like sitting for over two hours watching a black and white film, this movie is probably not for you.