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Very good book and movie. Wonder if this will be challenged by anyone.

“Hollywood classic” simply means “degenerate conditioning” to free thinking people.

This movie like several others had a theme very unwelcome in Mississippi when it was originally released. Before this screening, a factual presentation of the local reaction to this movie when it was originally released would be very instructive to young people viewing it now. It might even be instructive to some old folks who have conveniently forgotten.

If the Clarion Ledger still had employees who get out of the office, yes, one of them would challenge it.

I watched a bunch of the trailers. Fodder, indeed, for democrat votes next Tuesday. Coincidental? Hardly. Mary Hawkins should shut the damned thing down.

This book had a huge influence on me and alot of people of my boomer generation.

This is the 60th anniversary of the film, which has been remastered in HD.

To Kill a Mockingbird, is the first example (that I, personally, know of) of 'THE SOUTHERN WRITER'S FORMULA': demonize and sell-out your own people, then trot up to Yankeeland, and claim your reward (otherwise, your career will never go anywhere).

Until recently, I hadn't known that Harper Lee and Truman Capote were longtime friends. Apparently, the two got excellent coaching, on how to make-it-big. But Capote seems not to have stooped to using "The Formula".

@3:40 PM
You nailed it!
From To Kill A Mockingbird to The Help, they all follow the formula. Of course the midwits find it brave and profound. Which also explains why Sid Salter can't even eulogize Jerry Lee Lewis without mentioning a totally unrelated murder!

And somehow the irony of current state of every urban metro in this nation doesn't even trigger their cognitive dissonance!

"@3:40 PM
You nailed it!
From To Kill A Mockingbird to The Help, they all follow the formula.
Of course the midwits find it brave and profound. Which also
explains why Sid Salter can't even eulogize Jerry Lee Lewis without
mentioning a totally unrelated murder!"

Very True.

But lets not forget that John Grisham & Greg Iles have also used
this same old tired formula to achieve Satan's capitalistic wealth
(while virtue signaling) on every national "news" outlet that
will pay em' for an interview.

3:40 Get serious. After the civil war and for MOST of the 20th century the "formula" was to present the South as a haven of chivalry and noble loyalty to the "lost cause". Popular westerns and Hollywood period pieces always presented ante-bellum and post-civil war life in the most favorable light for the "Southern Way of Life". "Birth of a Nation", Gone with the Wind", and the many western dramas gave a white-washed version of the brutal reality of life in the south for half the people living there. If anything, the popularity of To Kill a Mockingbird came because it ran against the usual "formula". History shows it was probably a more realistic portrayal of that period of life in a small southern town than usually presented.

1:08 You are joking of course.

Star Trek fans will recognize Brock Peters from his roles as a Star Fleet Brass the late 80s and early 1990’s Star Trek movies, and later is Commander Benjamin Sisko’s father in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

" I hadn't known that Harper Lee and Truman Capote were longtime
friends "

I knew those two were close, but that fact only adds to the mystery.
Obviously they were not "a couple"
... but why did Capote routinely
venture into rural Alabama ?

I doubt those interested in the book/movie will ever know.

None of my business, but since Harper Lee and Truman Capote are international literary icons, the rest of the planet can ask questions.

It is is one of the finest books ever written, and the movie is also one of the best. The story tells the unadulterated truth about what the South was like at that time, and unfortunately, not much has changed.

Hope you don't watch They Won't Forget. That was based on a true story.

KF I also saw the old movie They Won't Forget and found it to be quite interesting. Since it was based on a true circumstance that happened in the South I guess some people think it should never have been made.

Yup. It's a little more raw. I've got the DVD. Not available for streaming but you can buy the DVD on Amazon.

@Kingfish
The movie is over 70 years old and in the public domain now. Rip it with handbrake and upload it to Archive.org.

@10:45, KF, I’d never heard of They Won’t Forget. Thanks for the tip.

Leo Frank was, of course you know, guilty as hell. But it’s true, they never do forget, do they?