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To Kill a Mockingbird - Patreon Version (Patreon)

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2024-08-17 12:00:06
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No Sync Required Version: https://cinebingers.ca/USH0Y9c157 - For Patreon tier "Bingers on The Wall" or higher.

Movie runtime: 2:09:10

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Jay Davis

Boo! Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you. I just think this movie is Rad... ley. (For Simone, we just had to watch the movie in school, not read the book. I think you got the better school, tbh.)

Śéáń

Oh neat, unexpected. I studied the novel in school and loved it, stuck with me to this day. This is a great excuse to watch the film, I've not seen it since then.

djKENTO

and here comes my Star Trek connection fact. Gregory Peck’s grandson currently plays Spock on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

SbE

Damn it, this gave me no useful advice on killing mockingbirds:(

Odd Thomas

Mock - YEAH Ing - YEAH Bird - YEAH

JakeyShakeyBakeyBoy

As wonderful as the movie is in all aspects that we know, Elmer Bernstein’s score is oftentimes overlooked. It’s one of his best, among so many famous works he did. The dude was a great composer, with so many people from the past few decades influenced by him for film scores. Also Roman Holiday would be a great future pick for classics down the line 🙂

Odd Thomas

Now you've seen this you can watch Vanilla Sky! For reasons.

djKENTO
>>146808850

I would LOVE a Vanilla Sky reaction. That movie is so wild. They can watch it... but they are NOT READY hahaha.

Tay Schumaker

Atticus laying out she was hit on the right side, followed up by proving the dad is left handed leading to George to conclude it must be because they think left handed people are inherently evil cracked me up

Grandalf

I just had to chime in here and say that my chosen "Grandpa name" is Grandalf, and I was very proud when my youngest daughter named my second hobbit ( granddaughter ;) ) Harper Leigh.

Buhr

Fun fact! To Kill a Mockingbird is loosely based on Lee Harper's childhood. Dill is based on her childhood friend, Truman Capote.

Chris H.

I've always marveled that two of the most famous, greatest writers of mid-20th Century American literature grew up together as little kids in this tiny Alabama town.

Mitchell Bowker
>>146806877

Also, the kid who played Dill, John Megna, is in the Star Trek episode “Miri” which they recently watched. Plus, it’s the same episode which contains the quote Simone used in her introduction “beaker full of death!”

Odd Thomas

Robert Duvall is always good, even if the film is awful (Days of Thunder). Some good ones are Falling Down, Open Range, Jack Reacher

Keith Brown

This movie came out the same year as "Lawrence of Arabia" so many of the Oscars this should have won went to that movie. The exception Gregory Peck won best actor beating out Peter O'Toole .

Logan Nelson

These older movie polls NEED to include Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)... Waterworks for days

Keith Brown

Author Harper Lee not only patterned Atticus after her real father but the kids friend Dill was patterned after Harper's real life childhood friend Truman Capote .

Raven Dark

Until now, I'd only ever seen this movie or read the book once. Like so many others, I had to read the book in Grade 12 for English class. I loved it. On the last day of school, instead of doing work, the teacher brought this movie in and we watched it. I love both. This is also a great reaction. I'm glad you guys liked this movie as much as you did. It's really great. George, a "prowler" is a word used for someone who's sneaking around a house or a neighborhood, usually for the purposes of committing a crime, like breaking in or robbery. You were confused as to why they started calling Boo Radley Arthur. While you were still recovering from him lurking at the door (lol), the doctor who came to treat Jem introduced him as Arthur Radley. Boo is a nickname he was given, probably because everyone in the neighborhood was so scared of him. So, Boo as in what you say to scare someone. At a few points after he'd been introduced, Scout called him Mr. Arthur, which is probably part of the reason it confused you, but I think that was just because it's the kind of thing a kid would do. I don't think that Mayella sounded the way she did because it was overacting, but because she was saying what her father told her to say. I think you two are right and she was acting that way because she was afraid of what would happen if she got it wrong. I also think you were right, George, in what you said about Mayella being both daughter and mother (shudder). Which makes me think something else about their relationship. Simone, you are correct in what you said about it being normal for an unmarried woman to live with their parents until they are married off, and to never have kissed a grown man. BUT, I also think it was still uncommon for a woman who is a fully grown adult to be unmarried, and the reason she was is because of her father. When fathers did that sort of thing to daughters at that time, they sometimes set them up so they had to stay with them so they could continue victimizing them. I also wonder if the reason she behaved so forcefully with Tom was because force is the only thing she knows when it comes to intimacy. She behaved with him the way her dad behaved with her. As you said, that doesn't make it right, but her situation is so messed up that it's not really black and white as to how innocent she was in this situation. Oh, and in terms of the jury, I'm sure some of them were, as you said, unable to bring themselves to speak up for Tom because of the mentality of the times, but also because they were afraid they would become targets if they sided with him. I say this based on the way Mayella's father tried to intimidate Atticus near the beginning of the film. They probably convicted him partly out of fear. This is such a well-crafted story. I love it so much.

Justtired

There are certain roles it is difficult to imagine anyone else playing, like Stallone as Rocky or Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey. Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch also falls in that category

REDR58
>>146813693

“Friends, we love you all but I also have a sinister motive for asking you all here... ‘ sinister’ being Latin for left-handed.”

Lana Gorgeous

The is definitely not innocent the women who falsely claimed Tom Robinson hurt her. That is the basis for the lynching on 14 year old Emmitt Till, and so many black men lynched during that Jim Crow era in the United States.

Mike FromOz

"I'm not a ham! I'm a monster!!!!"

Foamy

Richard Dickerson was lynched in my hometown of Springfield, Ohio in 1904. He was dragged out of the city jail and hanged in the town square. In 1966 we elected one of, if not the first African American mayor in the country, Robert C. Henry. Change happens. Light wins, but it takes too long in my opinion. Especially in a US state like in this movie, Alabama. Great movie and reaction. I hadn't seen it a long time.

AstralCars

I had the privilege to see the stage version of To Kill A Mockingbird that was written by Aaron Sorkin. It might even be a better adaptation of the book than the movie. More time was spent on the African-American characters and their point of view and the racial politics was more clear-eyed than any adaptation could be in the 1960's. Totally recommend seeing the Aaron Sorkin stage version if you ever get the chance. Also, Mary Badham who played Scout in the movie played Mrs Dubose in the play so that was really cool.

JediLounger

Been a long time since I have seen this. I also read and watched this in high school, but my senior year English teacher was a bit rebellious. We also watched Aliens, and then wrote a paper on the parallels between Aliens and the Beowulf story.

E. D.
>>146819791

and A Civil Action; I wish S&G watch it some day, it has some similarities to Erin Brockovich

REDR58

Speaking of Truman Capote, as a few people have mentioned here, there is an excellent movie “Capote” (2005) with Philip Seymour Hoffmann as Truman Capote. Catherine Keener (from “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”) appears as Nelle Harper Lee in the movie as well.

Ricardo Alanis

Also recommend “Inherit The Wind” as another great black and white courtroom drama.

Starman Deluxe

Gregory Peck is in the original "Cape Fear". Which is actually far scarier than the remake

Zoran24

This is my first time watching the movie, cried reading the book as an adult after reading it in school. My fav quote from the book that wasn't in the movie: (Scout asking Atticus about the verdict) “How could they do it, how could they?” “I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it – seems that only children weep.”

E. D.

I wonder how George synchronizes the footage from the cam filming him and the films he’s watching.

John

This was a great reaction and watch. As it relates to Robert Duvall, I'd like to think Don Corleone would have approved. Atticus Finch is generally recognized as one of the greatest protagonist in US cinema. I think to think the judge knew Tom was innocent and that is why he asked Atticus. It is also important to remember the Right to Counsel was not a constitutional right until 1963, making Atticus' decision even more courageous. I like to think that Atticus served in WWI and saw some stuff. I base this on Mr. Euwell called him Captain and his accuracy with a rifle. George you are right this is written from Scout's perspective so it feels like Stand by me and the Sandlot for the exaggerated memories of childhood. The social racial aspects of the Jim Crow are maddening and worthy of scorn and pity. The trial was pro forma and the outcome was already decided, it has to be clear Tom is innocent for the injustice to be clear. For Tom to pity a white woman is to challenge that racial hierarchy and his "place". For the record, Atticus, Jim, and Scout were probably middle class and definitely poor by 1932 standards. He had a housekeeper, they never wanted for food or clothing. Thanks for the great content. I would recommend a potential poll biopics (non-music): Malcolm X, Lincoln, Gandhi, One Life, The Imitation Game, Spartacus, and Hotel Rwanda

Matthew Abbott

If you get the chance you should read (or reread, Simone) the book. It’s fantastic, and there’s a lot they had to cut for the film.

Joshua White

Hi guys. I just watched your reaction to To Kill A Mockingbird, which I was so excited to see. I think you guys would really benefit from the perspective of the Russian Formalists. They came up with the idea of "defamiliarization," which presents the world in a way that forces the audience to rediscover the world through new eyes. It was a super influential theory, and it pervades this movie so thoroughly, starting with the extreme closeups of these artifacts that Jem found, and then the hyperstylized gothic shadows. Man, it's so pervasive in this film. Read the Russian Formalists. Be well.

Lyle Morgan

You guys do a great job of choosing the old movies that have contemporary pacing. Highly recommend “A Face in the Crowd” as another older one with contemporary themes. Andy Griffith is amazing in it.

REDR58

Mayella is sexually and physically abused by her father and is just as much a victim. Especially being of the time, a woman would need to "know her place" almost as much as a black man. Did she lie about Tom? Sure, but she is being coerced by this ongoing brutality. She may not be a good person, but she is definitely a victim. I think she almost admits the truth but then you can see in real time how she changed her mind during the testimony as she is likely remembering what her father will do to her if she steps out of line.

Rupert Purcat

Even in Australia in the eighties we read To Kill a Mockingbird' and I'm glad we did. The eldest daughter would have raised the younger siblings after their mother has died and was probably abused sexually and otherwise by the father. Another movie with similar themes from the 90's is 'A Time to Kill'. A great follow-up for this one.

Jacob King

Having everyone read it in high school probably does a disservice to the book. It’s an examination of the adult world from a child’s perspective but the reader is meant to hold both halves of the story in their head. Like Simone I refused to read any of the books that were required but I did read To Kill A Mockingbird specifically because it had been removed from the syllabus for my year. The movie is pretty good. At the start when you thought it felt like a horror movie I did think you should have The Night of the Hunter on a future poll, maybe in October. Definitely check out Capote with Catherine Keener and Philip Seymour Hoffman as grown up Scout and Dill.

Mushie Motion
>>146850037

you record two tracks, video and/or audio with a synch sounds such as a clap or a loud mouse click. the video starts at the /clap/click. Pretty simple stuff.

Lamar Savage

A masterful film, a masterful Peck performance, a wonderfully nuanced performance by Mary Badham. Harper Lee's novel is a true literary classic. It is very rare that the movie treatment of such a classic is so brilliant in and of itself!

Noel Valdez
>>146849539

Thinking about what has happened after and till to this day that quote hits hard.

Noel Valdez

I do believe having this be a book you read as a kid makes it hit less when you're that age. I didn't fully grasp this story and reckon with it until I reread it as an adult. I love it now, but when I was in high school I hated school work so I just read it super fast and didn't take it in at all the first time.

BangDroid

Was having issues with audio on a lot of your reaction vids. It seemed way too boosted, George's mouse clicks were super audible and I couldn't see any other comments about it. Anyway, I noticed that watching on YouTube itself didn't have this and that's where I noticed the embedded player on Patreon had Stable Volume turned on, which is like some kind of compressor. So if anyone else is fussy with audio or has click misophonia, try disabling Stable Volume.

Trevor S Bright

I think the Ewell mom died, so now asshole Bob wastes his time being drunk all the time, so Mayella is forced to be the "mom" for her younger siblings. Although it's implied her dad might be sexually abusive. So, regardless of her age, she's kind of stuck taking care of the kids since her drunken abusive dad isn't going to. And I think her testimony is a mix of what George said, being out of fear for her dad, and the inherent racism in the county, like when she lashed out at the end toward Atticus for his nice mannerisms which she mistook for him thinking he's better than her. That part is deflection. She probably had similar angry feelings toward Tom, but not as much as Bob did.

Brad Lowry

(I'm traveling so please indulge me if my comments are redundant...) This is a great movie with Gregory Peck based on a best-selling novel with a theme of Social Justice in 1963... Not right away, but definitely come back to seeing another great movie with Gregory Peck based on a best-selling novel with a theme of Social Justice in 1947: A Gentleman's Agreement

Brad Lowry

I'm sure that someone posted this, but on the off chance that nobody did... The character Dill Harris was based on an actual childhood friend of Harper Lee who grew up to be Truman Capote. Truman Capote also became a writer, most famously of "In Cold Blood" which is another movie you guys should see – the original with Robert Blake, that is. And, of course, Truman Capote was played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in the film "Capote" for which he won his Best Lead Actor Oscar. British actor Toby Jones also played Truman Capote in "Infamous" for which he won a London Critics Circle Film Awards for British Actor of the Year.

Brad Lowry
>>146870949

Both "A Face in the Crowd" and "A Gentleman's Agreement" were directed by Elia Kazan, which might be a reliable way to select good older movies.

Brad Lowry
>>146982223

I agree that it is rare that a movie and book are both so good. A reason that it is so in this case might be that they got a great playwright in his own right, Horton Foote, to adapt the novel to a screenplay. A fact I only noticed this time through of the many times I've seen it.

Gary Fixler
>>147889262

Oh my god, I just realized... Peck, Peters, Dill... There's a Peters Piper picked a Peck of Dill pickled something joke hiding in here.

Gary Fixler

To Kill A Mockingbird is still on Broadway. Atticus is currently played by Greg Kinnear, who took over in 2022 for Ed Harris, who took over for Jeff Daniels in 2019. The touring production starred Richard Thomas, who has been in a ton of things, especially The Waltons, an old, popular TV drama, that was used for a long time as a stand-in for a peaceful, happy, family. Like people would say "this isn't the Waltons" to mean everything isn't perfect here, and don't expect it to be. Anyway, it's fun to look them up and see them all in the same tan suit on stage. They all kind of look like each other when dressed that way.