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"The world in a fresh light: To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962),…
"The world in a fresh light: To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962)
The movie...
"It seemed more like a series of short stories than a novel." It often feels like a series of moments and parts, incidents in search of a film.
De-familiarization of every day objects: constant with the film's perspective.
It makes us look at the world again and to see it in a 'fresh light', like through Scout's eyes.
The director...
Robert Mulligan: one of postwar America's most underrated directors.
Collaborating with producer Alan J. Pakula (60s) Mulligan made a series of features for theatrical release.
'To Kill a Mockingbird' was the first of Pakula-Mulligan collaborations
The actor...
Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck)
Peck acted as the lawyer to defend the rights of Tom Robinson, the African-American accused of raping a white women.
Peck made his name playing a series of decent men standing up for just cases, becoming an icon of integrity and high-mindedness for American audiences.
The Civil Rights struggle...
In 1962 America was in the throes of the struggle for African-American Civil Rights.
The Civil Rights movement grew in strenght and impetus throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
In 1964 the Civil Rights Act based on race to be unconstiturional.
'To Kill Mockingbird': appeared the same year as the Supreme Cpurt ruling that segregation was unconstitutional in all transportation facilities.
Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch
Played by Mary Badham, is the moral centre of the movie.
This little girl, despite women's sensitivity and imagination, has a lot of spirit and energy.
Some of her iconic scenes are, for example, when she refuses to act like little girls are suppossed to.
Her natural, assured and never cloying performance led her to an Oscar nomination at the age of nine.
Gender and class
Originally, the book was set during a period in America's history in when millions of men were out of work.
Social standing is central to the problems the film works through. It is significant that tradition gender characteristics are deeply involved with one another in Scout.
Then, the film came out at the time, during the 1960s, there was an emergence of college-educated white-collars class of lawyers, teachers and corporation executives.
