To Kill a Mockingbird Reviews

To start with, the book is absolutely wonderful with great characters and a moving story. To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best adaptations of a book, it is not only faithful to the source material but it almost improves on it. Do I have any criticisms? Not really, other than to say that the film is a tad overlong for my liking. But it is a brilliant film, with a beautifully crafted story that still maintains the emotional punch of the book about a lawyer in the Deep South and the effect of the rape trial on his children. The film is beautifully shot, the whole film is incredible to watch, and the score is sensitive. The script is effective and sticks closely to the book, and the direction from Robert Mulligan is very impressive. The acting is really good, I have read that Henry Fonda would have been better for Atticus Finch, although Fonda was a great actor, Gregory Peck does give a superb and career-best performance in this film. And he is very well supported by an excellent Robert Duvall as disturbed Boo Radley, while Mary Badham and Phillip Alford are very well-cast as the children. Overall, a wonderful and faithful adaptation and just an excellent film really. 9.5/10 Bethany Cox

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I wanted to see this movie when I once view the people i follow in listal ratings of all this is the movie with the best rating wih 9,8/10

21/12/2017

the story was getting better and better and more interesting which gives more speculation that it will happen

even so I leave something confusing the end

the characters are well characterized and with good personality at the same time his performances were good

the music is average even so I felt cheated the synopsis when I saw it I thought that Finch would be very stressed and when the trial was over he would finish saving Tom Robinson by giving him innocence

even so it was a film that I enjoyed a lot and recommended I will give it its due
10/10

Spanish
esta película la quise ver cuando una vez cuando listal viendo las calificaciones de los que seguía esta tenia la mayor calificación de un 9,8/10 lo cual me intereso en verla

21/12/2017

la historia se hacia cada vez mejor e mas interesante lo cual daba mas especulaciones de que pasara

aun asi me dejo algo confuso el final

los personajes están bien caracterizados y con buena personalidad a la vez sus actuaciones eran buenas

la música era decente

aun asi sentí engaño el la sinopsis cuando la vi por que cuando empezó el juicio pensé de que finch estaría muy estresado durante el juicio y cuando terminara el juicio terminaría salvando a tom Robinson dándole inocencia

aun asi fue una película que disfrute mucho y recomendada le dare su merecido
10/10

It is a wonderful movie based on Harper lee's novel 'To Kill A Mockingbird' directed by Robert Mulligan. The film begins by portraying the innocence of tomboyish 6 year old Scout(Mary Badham) and her elder brother Jem(Philip Alfrod)and their widower lawyer father Atticus Finch(Gregory Peck).
It has two parallel storyline which shows Atticus defends Tom Robinson(Brock Peters),a black man accused of raping a white woman and the two young Finch's fascination with their mysterious rumoured to be dangerous neighbour Boo Radley(Robert Duvall).Robinson's trial gives the film its momentum.The warmth and integrity of the characters in this movie is outstanding.The acting is incredible and the directing is brilliant. It is one of the best movie I have ever seen.

I shouldn't have to tell you that To Kill A Mocking Bird is considered to be one of the greatest films ever to be made. I shouldn't have to inform you that this film is based off of the book by the same name, which is met with an equal amount of praise. But what I say now is important: This film is certainly worthy of all the praise.

To Kill A Mocking Bird is based off of Harper Lee's book by the same name. It's about a young girl named Scout, and her older brother Jem, and their puny friend, Dill. Scout's father, Atticus (Gregory Peck) takes a case to defend a black man named Tom Robinson, who is charged of raping a white woman.

That's really all there is to it. It's a simple tale, but an affecting one.

One of the best parts of the film, is the title sequence: A skillfully edited opening displaying wonderful cinematography and a beautiful score. During the title sequence, we see Scout, rummaging through a box of play things. She hums an eerie tune as she doodles with crams, creating a magical opening sequence with a slight creepy tinge.

The acting is wonderful. Some of the best I've seen. The kids are very loveable (though Dill may take some getting used to), and Gregory Peck's performance as Atticus, is strong, though I still don't believe it's good enough to win an award (though it did). People say it's an understated performance, but that doesn't change my mind. Peck did well, but not award-winningly well.

I briefly mentioned the score, and I will mention it again. It is composed by Elmer Bernstein. The music captures the innocence and wonder of being a child, and accents and punctuates the film's main feel. The score emphasizes on the piano, with good use of the flute, and good use of the violin later on. Towards the end, Bernstein appears to have a fancy for harmonicas, which he utilizes well. To Kill A Mocking Bird's score is one of the best scores I've ever seen. Don't miss it.

The film has an innocent, child-like feel, but when Tom Robinson's trial starts, that innocence goes away. It returns, and strongly too, during Scout and Jem's Halloween walk back home. As I mentioned before, the music does wonders for capturing that feeling.

The movie is not extremely faithful to the book, however. It keeps the main points, but many things are changed or altered. Most of the character's roles are shrunken, and some characters have been omitted all together. Much of the humor from the book came from the narrating, but without a narrator, much of that humor is lost.

Also, the book took it's time with everything. The film is odd, in the way that it is over two hours long, yet it doesn't feel very long. But at the same time, the events go by much quicker in the movie then in the book, but the movie doesn't feel rushed. It retains that laid back feeling.

To Kill A Mocking Bird still has humor and charm, but not quite as much as the book. I am not going to lower the score of the film due to the differences between the book and film, but I do want to point it out. There are many characters who didn't get enough screen time, however, and in the book, it wasn't like that.

But I digress.

In an odd way, To Kill A Mocking Bird (the film, not the book), reminded me of the film adaption of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. I very much enjoyed the book series, but it didn't work as a movie. Too much humor is in the narrative, so a lot of humor didn't translate well. Also, the film rushed many of the events, and changed things quite a bit.

To Kill A Mocking Bird is very similar in all these respects, but the difference is this: To Kill A Mocking Bird works.

Even if To Kill A Mocking Bird doesn't give some of the characters enough screen time, this film is certainly worthy of the praise it has received. Wonderful acting, an incredible musical score, and a meaningful story are only a small segment of what makes To Kill A Mockingbird the masterpiece it is.

Tämä onkin jo suoranainen klassikko, eikä suotta. Elokuva on aivan loistava heti ensi sekunteilta lopputeksteihin. Maailma ja kuinka sitä kuvataan otta heti otteeseensa eikä siitä pääse irti ennenkuin lopputekstit antavat luvan. Juoni mainio ja yhteiskunnan eriarvoisuuden kuvaaminen täysin ajatonta. Ihmitystä herättää myös kuinka nykypäivän näytteliöltä puuttuu juuri tuo karisma, jota Gregory Peck tuo Atticuksen rooliin!

Since it is such a massive classic, I was really eager to check it out and I had some really high expectations towards the damned thing. Eventually, the more I think about it, the more I come to believe that this movie might be actually rather overrated, even by myself. I mean, it is indeed a huge classic and I really liked it but there were definitely some elements that did bother me. The first thing was probably the fact that Roger Ebert surprisingly didn't like it and, in his review, he developed some really solid arguments about what went wrong with this movie. Furthermore, I thought it did take a very long time to take off. Also, you always hear that Atticus Finch is a great character, brilliantly played by Gregory Peck. It is true but actually the movie didn't focus on him but on his children and I wasn't thrilled by this choice. To conclude, I should definitely rewatch it at some point to make up my mind about the damned thing but, for the time being, it remains a very good movie, a great classic and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

Incredible. Really incredible. Brock Peters is an absoulte revolation, Gregory Peck is naturally brilliant, and the young cast is just fantastic. An engaging, gripping and heartbreaking story, accompanied by a score that fits the film so well it was as if the film was written with the score in mind, not the other way round. It's great that music appears throughout the film and then disappears during the trial, it's as if you are sitting in the courthouse yourself, watching the injust manner of the trial in which Peck's lawyer, Atticus Finch, has no power of control other than saying the right thing. I love the scene in which Finch sits outside the room in which Peters' character is contained, and the scenes with 'Boo' Radley, in particular. And the way the film is split into thirds, going from the children to Finch, to the children again is excellently done. One of those films I feel I ought to talk about for hours but find difficult to put into words. A true masterpiece.

5/5

'To Kill a Mockingbird' is my favourite film in history. I loved the book, I loved the movie. Everything about this production is terrific. I watch it a lot and never get sick of it.

Set in the old 30's in America, the plot is built on how black men were treated and were looked upon as different back then. Peck (in his Oscar winning performance) plays Atticus Finch, a powerful lawyer who is hired to defend a black man accused of raping a young girl. Peck is the ultimate father figure and gives a memorable performance (for which he won an Oscar) that shall be remembered through this generation of filmmaking.

Shot back in 1960's it is presented in black and white, but thankfully the film hasn't dated and is still an extremely well made movie. It has great acting and great directing from Robert Mulligan (who recently died).

This masterpiece is another prime example of how such a classic movie can still be respected and looked upon as a work of cinematic art during modern days.