Thread: Books and movies based on them - Книги и их экранизации

Older daughter is reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee for her English class. This book won a Pulitzer Prize and seems to be on more best lists than I can recall and yet somehow, I've never read it. She had watched the movie, I think last year, and rewatched it this week. She noticed some changes from the book and some things that were exactly the same. She really wanted to see what Boo looked like in the film and he was not as scary as she wanted him to be (but I think that was part of the point... that he was not that evil looking). The film won three Oscar awards.

For those not familiar with it, it is about the U.S. in the South and racial injustice and is told through the eyes of a ten year old girl. It is powerful and eyeopening. It makes you think and question your own beliefs and behaviors in a way that is not preachy.

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One thing you should never do is see the movie and then read the book.

Sometimes one can be quite surprised by reading the book which inspired the filmmakers to film it. Here we go with the “Minority Report” by Philip Dick. I’d watched the movie long time before read the story. Having started to read the story I did expected that I knew everything that Dick wrote even before my eyes caught it.

Yeah! Сhief Anderton got the red ball.
Yeah! Сhief Anderton discovered that there can be a “minority report”.
Yeah! Сhief Anderton came to see if he had one.
What?!Сhief Anderton did have a minority report?! Did the Philip Dick write a story which is less complicated than the movie?
Oh? Please, No! Chief Anderton did fired a gun and the man dead!!!

So, this is an example when the story can be turned upside down.

Originally Posted by rockzmom

Older daughter is reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee for her English class. This book won a Pulitzer Prize and seems to be on more best lists than I can recall and yet somehow, I've never read it. She had watched the movie, I think last year, and rewatched it this week. She noticed some changes from the book and some things that were exactly the same. She really wanted to see what Boo looked like in the film and he was not as scary as she wanted him to be (but I think that was part of the point... that he was not that evil looking). The film won three Oscar awards.

For those not familiar with it, it is about the U.S. in the South and racial injustice and is told through the eyes of a ten year old girl. It is powerful and eyeopening. It makes you think and question your own beliefs and behaviors in a way that is not preachy.

book on wiki
film on wiki
complete book online in English
complete film on YouTube

Younger daughter is now reading this and interestingly enough... it is in the news as it was re-released for its 50th anniversary 'Mockingbird' film at 50: Lessons on tolerance, justice, fatherhood hold true - CNN.com

The book that accompanies the DVD also includes several pages from Gregory Peck's "To Kill a Mockingbird" shooting script, including the actor's own notes and scribbles. On the very last page of the script, he simply wrote the words: fairness, stubbornness, courage, love.

This brings up two subtle but notable scenes from the film that hinge on the word "hey." In the scene where Atticus is standing guard outside Tom Robinson's jail cell, it is Scout who diffuses the situation by picking out Walter's father from among the lynch mob and asking him to tell Walter she said "hey." At the very end of the film, when Scout realizes the mysterious man who saved her and Jem's lives is Boo (Robert Duvall in his dialogue-less screen debut), she looks at him, and says "Hey Boo." In a way, the word "hey" is code for, "we're equal."