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To Kill A Mockingbird: Comparing Literature And Film

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When a book turns into a movie, the movie tends to change and cut things out from the book. In the movie To Kill a Mockingbird directed by Robert Mulligan; they tended to change and cut very important scenes. The movie took away great characters that made the book better. The book might of had many unneeded parts, but those scenes expressed the characters. Director Robert Mulligan and screenwriter Horton Foote did a terrible job making this movie, and these are a few reasons why.

First of all, you took out the best scenes in the book. In the movie, you guys did not include Finch’s landing. Finch’s landing had a great scene with a mean boy named Francis that gets Scout really mad. They also talk a lot about the trial, and Maycomb's racism. In the book they go more into Mrs.Dubose, and why she is the way she is. The movie made …show more content…

In the movie they didn’t add Aunt Alexandra thus, making Scout less of a lady. Aunt Alexandra brought drama and some tension in the book. Along with Aunt Alexandra, you forgot Francis and Uncle Jack. Uncle Jack was a funny character that would have played a good part in the movie with Christmas gift of airsoft guns, and yelling to Miss Maudie. Francis would have made an annoying character that would be made fun of, and that nobody would like, but would have some purpose.

Finally, racism in Maycomb didn't seem terrible until the trial. In the book, there is a lot of negatives things that are said about the trial before it starts, but the movie didn't add it in. In the movie, Calpurnia is treated poorly by Aunt Alexandra and doesn’t like her around because she is black. Aunt Alexandra is not in the movie, therefore Calpurnia is treated normally. The movie didn’t have the church scene, so you don’t know how the churches are separated from whites and blacks. Francis, Cecil Jacobs, and Mrs.Dubose are barley, or not at all in the movie, giving the movie less

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The most important similarity between the book and the movie is that the plot is very much the same. Quite often in book-to-movie adaptations, the movie has the same characters and some similar plot elements, but it seems that very few movies are a solid visual representation of what the book actually is. To Kill a Mockingbird, the movie, is a very good representation of the book in many ways: the actors accurately portray their characters, all the major plot points are shown, and the setting is the same. However, the way in which the movie and the book portray certain emotions or depict different scenes is, what I would consider, the greatest difference. In the book, the only way to describe scenes and characters and emotions is through words.

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