Analysis of Opening Scenes of Film Version of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird

Analysis of Opening Scenes of Film Version of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird

I am going to be analyzing about the first ten minutes of the film to

kill a mockingbird and I will also be analyzing about the opening

credits. This story is about the situation in America Macomb in the

early 1900s were there are racial segregations among the black and

white people with some innocent victims trying to stop racism. This

film was made in 1962 in America and it was directed by Robert

Mulligan. This film was from the book, “To kill a mockingbird”, and

the book was written by Harper Lee. It was set a long time ago at

around 1961, and this also show by the quality of pictures it has

[black & white].

When the film starts there is a child singing like a mockingbird and

this illustrate innocence among people, as well as at the same

occasion the child was drawing a mocking bird to express its feelings

because the mockingbird represents the idea of innocence. The mocking

bird also represents Tom Robinson because he was destroyed by evilness

but he was innocent. In the opening credits there is also a marble

which explain the black and white people being united together because

the marble was black and white around. There was a pocket watch which

was ticking to show that time was running out for the racial

segregation, and in other terms racisms was going to end in the

future. On the first few minutes the child rubs the word to kill a

mockingbird which means there is going to be death and the death will

be death of innocence. The word to kill resembles death so it

illustrates that there would be death.

The music in the opening of the credits was to show depression among

the people in the story and about what film it would be like. The

music reminds of the incident that occurred in the story when a black

innocent soul was killed and all the black people in pain and sorrow.