To Kill A Mockingbird Movie And Film Analysis

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As we read any type of literature, regardless if it is fiction or non-fiction, we picture and see that story vividly in our minds. We think about ourselves being in that situation, in that time in the book, or it reminds us of certain times in our life that we have experience what the characters in the story have experienced. From the selected movies that we were presented to choose from, eight of them that I know of, were novels or short stories such as The Shawshank Redemption which was written by Stephen King, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Fight Club written by Chuck Palahniuk and one of my favorite movies A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. Each movie or literature had a significant impact on pop culture. From something as minuscule …show more content…

To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960, the movie was produce in 1962 and even after 43 years we still see the same topics in our pop culture. There are various subjects in the book and movie that translate to today’s pop culture, to real life, and how the views from when the movie was produce have changed or stayed the same since then. This included but not limited to: respecting elders, disciplining children, family dinners, bullying, neighborhood gossip, single parents, and that perception can be a bad thing. Even in today’s time we still see or read about this sort of things in social media, in the news, in person, in multimedia, and in literature that is written in our …show more content…

“It is a sin to kill a mockingbird…they don’t do anything but make music for us to enjoy,” (1962) is what Atticus taught his kids during dinner in the movie. They are the mockingbirds in the story due to their innocence being destroyed after hearing the guilty verdict and death of Tom Robinson. The intentions of the director and author was to showcase how there is good and evil in the unlikeliest people. The racial discrimination and narrow mindedness that is present in small towns specifically in the 1930s where this movie was based in. They present the importance of a moral education whether it is coming from the parents or from a higher power and this is evident when Scout argues with teachers due to them being unsympathetic to her peers

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