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David Fincher
"To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in the
fictional small town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s and delves deep
into themes that are still relevant today. Written by award-winning
screenwriter David Fincher, it was adapted from Harper Lee's 1960 novel
and features characters based on people in their own lives, from Scout
Finch (based on Lee himself) to Scout's father (a lawyer who depends on
her father) to Scout and Finch's mother (both based on Lee and himself).
Tellingly, Atticus Finch's liberalism is
not against him, but on the side of the black man accused of raping a
young white woman. Sorkin's "Maycomb" looks exactly the same, but some
passages of his screenplay sound about the same as in the novel and
film. As a lawyer, he is supposed to defend an innocent white man
accused of raping an innocent black man.
Atticus imagined this racism in "Go Set
Watchman," which was released in 2015 with great hype and controversy.
The play is one of Lee's most popular works of literature and also a
large part of his work.
In 1933, Atticus, a black figure,
remained a symbol of hope and hope for the future of black people in the
United States. In the prejudice-tainted Trump administration, he was
portrayed as a villain in a white man's world.
Ed Harris as Atticus Finch plays the
enigmatic Man in Black and will reprise the role in the upcoming third
season. Set in Alabama in 1934, "Atticus" revolves around a small-town
lawyer, Attici Finch, played by Harris. Harris made his feature film
debut in 1933 and received an Oscar nomination for "Best Actor" for his
portrayal of the title role.
He also directed "Appaloosa," starring
Viggo Mortensen, as well as the sequel to "The Man in Black" and the
sequel to "Atticus Finch," "Atticus's Revenge."
Harper Lee's debut novel was published
in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Tickets for "To Kill a
Mockingbird," starring Ed Harris, are on sale now at the Shubert Theatre
on Broadway. " Killing a Mocking Bird, "directed by Tony winner
Bartlett Sher, opens on November 1, followed by previews on November 1
and a full production on December 1.
To date, more than 50 million copies
have been printed and published in over 40 different languages, with
more than 1.5 billion copies worldwide.
Kill a Mockingbird has been hugely
popular since its publication in 1960, and the novel won the Pulitzer
Prize for the first time in its first year of publication. In the book,
Jean Louise Finch, nicknamed Scout, describes the circumstances of her
widowed father Atticus and his trial of a local black man falsely
accused of raping a white woman, and recalls her experience as a
six-year-old from an adult's perspective. During the three years
surrounding the trial, Scout and her older brother Jem witnessed the
unjust consequences of prejudice and hatred and witnessed the values of
courage and integrity.
Kill a Mockingbird was published during
the civil rights movement and celebrated as a revelation of Southern
racist society. Kill aMocking Bird is set in the small rural town of
Maycomb, Alabama, in the early 1930s and is published by HarperCollins, a
subsidiary of Harper Collins, the publishing arm of Penguin Books.
The character of Atticus Finch, Scout's
father, is based on an Alabama liberal lawyer and statesman who defended
African Americans against the racially biased Southern legal system.
Scout and her brother Jem are raised by their mother, an
African-American housekeeper who works for the family.
Scout and Jem meet seven-year-old Dill
Harris, a boy who has come to Maycomb to spend the summer with his aunt.
The two usually do their best to spend the long summer days with their
mother, but the two fight, as they usually do, in the backyard.
Scout and Jem live peacefully and safely
with their mother, a respected lawyer, and their father, a lawyer,
Scout's father.
But beneath the calm surface of her
life, a rumble of thunder is brewing, and it is the sound of a
thunderstorm on the horizon.
Turning Harper Lee's 1960 novel into a
play in 2018 is no easy task, but it's worth the effort. As
schoolchildren know, the hero of the story is Atticus Finch, a lawyer in
rural Alabama in the early 1930s who bravely defends his wife and two
young children against false rape allegations. Kill a Mockingbird, "the
defense was never arrested for the murder of one of his clients.
Atticus is slow in anger and reluctant
in judgment, but he understands the person: "You walk in your skin, he
says, and you climb under it, you understand.
More important is the Boo Radley game,
played by Scout (the lively Celia Keenan-Bolger), who is dying to catch a
glimpse of the reclusive bogeyman neighbor. At the heart of the story
is the case of Tom, a black man accused of raping a poor white woman.
Sorkin leaps to his client's defense, believing he is an innocent victim
of a "Tinderbox" case in which he is accused. Scout, vivid in her
portrayal, retains a lawyer who agrees to defend Tom in a case that we
know will have dangerous consequences for all involved.
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