Anyone Watching To Kill A Mockingbird?

[ladybirder]

I'm loving it.  Must be the original with Gregory Peck.

[Canary42]

I've seeen it. Wonderful film. 

[ladybirder]

The book by Harper Lee was one of the few I kept when I had a clear out a couple of weeks ago.  Has to be one of the best books ever written.  

Agree Canary, it is a wonderful film.

[Samuraisan]

Where was it on ?

[hellywelly4]

I haven't seen the film but the book was wonderful. I was there, under the trees on the dry dusty road. I've never read a book like that since.

[ladybirder]

Exactly Helly.  It usually appears in lists of best ever books.  Gregory Peck looks amazing in it.

Sam I have been trying to remember which channel it was on and I can't.  I do know it was on one I had never seen before, way down on the lists.  I'm thinking it had probably 2 or possibly 3 capital letters followed by 2 numbers. 

I'm on Amazon Prime and Netflix and just flicked through both and no sign of TKAM.

Perhaps someone can tell me where I watched it?

[naomi24]

Great book.  I bought the movie for just a few pounds on Amazon.

[naomi24]

It's on sky.  £3.49 to rent, £5.99 to buy.

[pastafreak]

I just looked at last night's schedule on freeview. It was on TBNuk...Channel 66.

[ladybirder]

That's it Pasta   Free.  How did you find it when it didn't show up on my TV list of last night's viewing.  Ah, I've just pressed CH List on a button on my remote I didn't know I had and it show's up there.  THANK YOU.  Perhaps it's one of those only evening viewing channels.

And thank you too N.  You might want to keep an eye on it as is a FREE chanel.

[naomi24]

I bought the film on Amazon, LB.  I have several of what I regard as classic films and that's one of them.

[Hymie]

I read the book - but I still don't know what a mockingbird is, or how to kill one.

[Canary42]

You should try Catcher in the Rye Hymie, nothing about harvesting grain.

[naomi24]

Canary, I loved that book!  What a peculiar work it is.  

[Canary42]

Yes Naomi, it's one of my favourites. It has some weird and wonderful characters in addition to Caulfield (e.g. his awful room mate Stradlater) and the delightful relationship with his sister Phoebe.  Full of teenage angst, humour, and sentiment all mixed in an entertaining manner. A wonderful book indeed.  I return tie and time again to Catcher and Mockingbird, both eminently re-readable.

[Canary42]

*time

[Peter Pedant]

yes the orig - it has Gregory Peck - and yeah  I made myself watch it because the alternative was the latest guff on AB

Remarkably dated - "look everyone, this is dated thirty or so years before we filmed it. And one of the last black-and-white films to show its age"

Peck eats a meal in a three piece suit without a napkin. The portions are small by the way. - the children ( kids) are high pitched and whiny and have flashes of "beyond their years". There is a black servant.

The big case - the jury is biassed - is not a lesson for 2024. We rely on juries as a bastion against appointed judges who we now perceive as less fair, more pig-headed and inclined to support the masters who appointed them.

The death of the convict is not extra-ordinary but standard. You tell the man to take a pee and then shoot him in the back and say he was trying to flee. It may have been novel then. The sheriff should tell the family of the death and not Atticus - who should say " I am not telling them, it  is obviously untrue".

So overall I found it dated and I didnt last the course.

We have other lessons to learn, ( Ukraine and Gaza, immigration). The difficulties of a section of the American population with another section a hundred years ago has nothing teach us now.

This is ( was ) Downton Abbey transferred thirty years later to Alabama. Period drama with no message - like Chekhov, Three sisters ( he didnt write THREE plays did he?) or Garcia Lorca - Yerma

[Peter Pedant]

O god I am on my own again - having read the usual suspects' most respectable and cogent views.

I read the book - but I still don't know what a mockingbird is, or how to kill one.

They are in the town 'to kill a mockingbird' ? perhaps not and in one scene , Gregory Peck explains he is given a gun ( rifle) and told not to kill a mockingbird...again it says absolutely nothing to a british readership.

looking back on it - the plot is a bit woozy - the rabid dog has nothing to do with the trial, or the wrongful conviction...

[naomi24]

Canary, I found the language in Catcher in the Rye quite extraordinary.  I've never read anything like it.  Utterly unique.

[Canary42]

PP, you're certainly living up to your moniker.