TKAM Movie Anylisis, Stanley Suter

 Prompt- 1.     How would you prove or disprove that one version of To Kill A Mockingbird is more affective in delivering its message than the other? Be sure to provide specific pieces of evidence to support your opinion.

          To start off with this week's blog I need to go straight to the book. I really enjoyed reading this, so my opinion may be slightly bias, just putting it out there. The main point of the book was racism and social bias put into something along the lines of "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." The theme was that Tom Robinson and Boo Radley where both mockingbirds (I felt proud of myself for making the connection) because they were innocent, but they were misjudged (and in Tom's case killed.) 

          The movie was a very good visual interpretaion of the book. I believe that for people our age, without as much attention and detail to specific quotes and actions in the book, it was easier to understand and was faster moving. However, it was like a "Sherlock Holmes" movie, peices of the puzzle were missing and the end of the movie was completely unpredictable. The main plot line was pretty much left alone, excluding the change of scenes and some characters not being present (such as when Jem meets the adults in front of the Radley house, in the book Dill was with him, in the movie he just went back to get them.

          All in all, you have to read the book before you read the movie. You don't get all of the details in the movie, and you cannot properly anyilize characters behavior at an efficient pace in the movie. In the book, important scenes that developed the children (i.e. Ms.Dubose) were erased, so you do not get the idea that they are seeing the world differently at all, instead you just think that they are a bunch of rambunctious children on an adventure/mystery to defend a black man and find the ghost of the town. While looking at the book, you can clearly see that the trial and Boo are the main plot, and are therefor explained much further than the Movie. Book wins.