To Kill A Mockingbird: Film Analysis

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The Academy Award nomination for best picture, motion picture of To Kill a Mockingbird, premiered on 25 December 1962 in Los Angeles. This production was developed by Alan J. Pakula. This noir film originated from a novel originally published in 1960, by Harper Lee. The leading roles in this film were played by Rosemary Murphy, John Megna, Gregory Peck, Phillip Alford, and many other great actors from that time. A brief synapsis of the film is this story covers a three year span where the “hero” of the film who happens to be the father (Atticus Finch), who is a lawyer, of a brother and sister by the names of Jem (10-year-old) and Scout Finch (6-year-old), was given the case of representing Tom Robinson, an African American accused of rape in the town of Macomb Alabama. …show more content…

Because the townspeople did not want to take the time and examine all of the facts of the case against Tom Robinson, they were acting off of the little information that they felt to be true. As listed in Goodykoontz, 2014, “A familiar narrative technique in a film noir is first person point of view, often in the form of voice-over narration by the main character”. The movie starts off with the sister, Scout, narrating her brother Jem and meeting Dill Harris (6-year-old) for the first time and playing around as children would do back in the 30’s, not like kids in this time frame. The kids led a carefree life running about the town and were always protected and guided by the maid. During the scene at dinner, the father, Atticus, talks of the time when he was thirteen or fourteen and he first handled a gun. He then mentions one of the most important rules his father gave him at that time which was “never to kill a mocking bird because they play in the gardens and make

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