"To Kill a Mockingbird" has a perfect film father in Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch

It’s kind of a perfect film.

Gregory Peck is perfection personified.

I love Gregory Peck, too

Gregory Peck was one of the classiest men.

I’ve always thought Scout looks like David Keith.

Stand up. Your father’s passing.

Did Scout ever marry?

Gregory Peck on Desert Island Discs (1980)

He discusses his childhood, being a model, being a janitor, his film career, Moby Dick, wine, opera, and Abraham Lincoln.

Gregory Peck with author Harper Lee. Not only did they become friends, so did Peck with Mary Badham and Brock Peters, who spoke at Greg's funeral.

I detest message movies with perfectly moral protagonists.

With Betty Bacall on the set of Designing Women

R10. Wow. You're a real barrel of laughs, I bet.

This is why I dislike the movie. Perfect white savior. Blech.

All my scenes were cut..

I loved everything about To Kill a Mockingbird when I first saw it,...except the little girl, Scout, played by Mary Badham. She was annoying, homely and I didn't care about her. I found Dill adorable.

Scout made me think of Lily Tomlin's Edith-Ann character

The movie is good. The novel is near perfect.

We had to read the novel in school. 9th grade I think. I loved it.

He didn't save anyone, r13. Are you sure you're familiar with the story? He was supposed to be a decent person who tired and failed to stop injustice. Not perfect.

Shucks, R15! You're adorable too.

With the publication of Harper's original concept for the story, "Go Set a Watchman," I started to wonder how much of TKAM was Lee's and how much of TKAM was the editors Harper lived with in NYC.

Those books are so different and so is the Atticus character.

I love TKAM - have enjoyed the novel (and its many additional stories) and the film is a great distilation of the story to Tom Robinson.

No, I think Scout was perfectly cast.

My class also read it in 9th grade English. We read a lot of books and mostly hated them (“Death Be Not Proud” anyone?) but everyone loved reading Mockingbird.

I once (re)watched the movie with a bunch of surfer/doper bros, it was on past midnight. I expected there to be some razzing but no, could’ve heard a pin drop.

Today they'd name him Gregory Pecker and he'd have an OF.

One ☝️ f the greatest books and films of the 20th Century. Can’t believe fucking MAGA school districts ban it.

Did anyone see Jeff Daniels as Atticus on Broadway? Just thinking about it makes me want to vomit.

One of my favorite movies, but once you've seen Amy Sedaris as Jerri Blank it's near-impossible not to hear Mayella Ewell's speech in Jerri's voice:

[quote] I got somethin' to say! And then I ain't gonna say no more! He took advantage of me! An' if you fine, fancy gentlemen ain't gonna do nothin' about it, then you're just a bunch of lousy, yella, stinkin' cowards, the whole bunchaya! And your fancy airs don't come to nothin,' your Ma'amin' and your Miss Mayellarin' — it don't come to NOTHIN' MISTAH FINCH!

R15- I find Parsley 🌿 adorable.

Wasn't Dill supposed to be Truman Capote in real life?

R28 Yes.

The child actor who played Dill was Connie Stevens' brother and died of AIDS.

R25 that’s your loss. The original Broadway production was lovely to see, with excellent performances from Daniels and the three actors playing the children.

I’ve read the book ten times over and seen the film a dozen times more than that. I was prepared to be totally disappointed with Sorkin’s stage play. Instead, walked out the theater more than satisfied. it was different from the book and the film in certain ways, of course, but done with nuance and great respect for both Lee’s and Foote’s earlier work.

I think this is the worst "hot take" ever!

I kid OP!

Of course, I totally agree:

Peck was perfect. The film was perfect. The book is perfect.