To Kill a Mockingbird

[Guest]

just ended on Turner Classic Movies.

It's one of my movie favorites. I always sob when the gallery stands in honor as Atticus walks out of the courtroom. (Doesn't everyone?)

I found it just by accident this evening. But it was the perfect break I needed from the insane political rhetoric filling every single damn channel these days.

(Except, of course, the Bravo channel, because now Queer Eye is on - talk about And now for something completely different!)

Anyone else feeling eclectic tonight?

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Anyone else feeling eclectic tonight?

Does eating PEZ and listening to Bach count?

~lucky

I love To Kill A Mockingbird, but have to fall back on Dr. Strangelove. I know, off the beaten path, but the beaten path is so hard on the knees.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

en re the Films Screwed Books thread, IMHO, "Mockingbird" was the opposite, one of those rare instances where the movie was a faithful and brilliant adaptation of the book.

Rumple Foreskin

ps Oh yeah, I haven't felt ecletic since the last time I stuck my finger in an empty light bulb socket.

 

[kellycummings]

Truly one of the great films and books. As I said in a different thread, I've always considered Atticus Finch to be one of the greatest fictional characters ever.
I never tire of seeing the movie and have read the book 3 or 4 times. I also find it amusing that Dil is based on Truman Capote. When you watch you can really see it.
Nothing against Capote, In Cold Blood was a brilliant piece of work, but he was a bit of a queen. LOL

 

[Guest]

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Does eating PEZ and listening to Bach count?

That does it, you're the gurl of my dreams.

Perdita

 

[lucky-E-leven]

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That does it, you're the gurl of my dreams.

Perdita

The feeling is mutual, chica, how eclectic are you tonight?

~lucky

 

[Guest]

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The feeling is mutual, chica, how eclectic are you tonight?

Wide open, ready to spread out. . .

 

[lucky-E-leven]

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Wide open, ready to spread out. . .

Your ellipse is promising...

And to think, I was planning on going to bed without dirty thoughts. Thanks for saving me the horror!

~lucky

 

[thenry]

Anyone else heard the rumor that Truman Capote actually wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird?"

 

[jthserra]

He was a boyhood

friend of Harper Lee. I had not heard any rumors that Lee didn't write the book.

jim : )

 

[thenry]

The specific rumor I heard was that he ghost wrote her only book, and that she ghost wrote one of his. Having read a couple of his, and read about his novel on a race-related murder trial in the south, I begin to wonder. Capote's first book, "Other Voices, Other Rooms" even reads like a children's book, albeit with a heavy-handed dash of pedophilic homosexuality.

 

[pop_54]

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Wide open, ready to spread out. . .

Wot Both of you? Purdy darling's


Lo lucky love Never go to bed alone and frustrated dear, there's always a willing helper here abouts. (Dr Strangelove gets a regular airing here as well, the kids love it, and they weren't born when it was made)

On the thread subject yes I too found the 'Mockingbird' film a very true to the book if not better experience. Books rarely translate faithfully to the screen, mainly due to the quirks of the particular producer/director, and or a crap screen writer.

Rumple, please don't try that at home again, the lightbulb thing