Hi Rappers,
Some great messages, and it's exciting to see people grapple with the perils
of technology to get more out of a book.
Lioke everyone else we've been flat out with exams and reports and that's
made it hard to get comments together, but hopefully things are a bit more
settled.
With the film, two things you might care to comment on:
1) Look at the opening scene, with Scout's box. It looks a bit like a Cubist
painting, and in a way it is, because it has items that really tell the
story through objects. As it is at the start, its main point is to intrigue
us, but it also tells the story before the story gets told. Do you think
it's effective?
Note: Cubists broke away from the usual way of painting an object by
attempting top show the whole of an object at once, which can make their
paintings a bit odd at first until you understand them. You might like to
look at some paintings from this period by Picasso and Braque. They started
painting this way just when cinema was starting, as though in part they felt
painting had to do something new, because photos and film showed realistic
pictures better than painting could.
2) In the film Atticus tells the story that his father told him to 'shoot
all the bluejays you want, but it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' In the
book it's Scout recording these words as being told to Jem by Atticus What
difference do you think this makes? Does it alter the perspective from book
to film?
These are just some thoughts as you watch the film.
Also, how do you all find the black and white? Does it make the picture seem
more dated? A lot of people feel it makes the film seem 'timeless', rather
like the book. What's your feeling?
Looking forward to your responses
David Nethercote Ambarvale High
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