"Jean Louise. Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing."

[WCGreen]

I don't care how many times I see To Kill A Mockingbird, that line always, always chokes me up....


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[SeattleGirl]

1. Me too. That is such a great movie, and that is one of my

favorite parts.

[Jean Louise Finch]

2. My father is passing?

**Sigh.**

It is indeed glorious. There are so many scenes in that movie (and even more in the book) that make me tingle and tear up and shake.

I am on a serious To Kill a Mockingbird kick as my own father just sent me a copy of "Mockingbird", the new biography of Harper Lee. I never knew that Harper Lee's real first name was Nelle. She was Nelle Harper Lee. I've only started the biography but can't wait to learn more.

[OzarkDem]

5. Have you seen Capote?

Nelle is there, too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379725/

[Jean Louise Finch]

7. I haven't managed to yet!

It was only out here for about a week and I was away, but I have the DVD and am just waiting for the perfect evening. I have such high expectations for it, I don't know if it can possibly live up!

[cmkramer]

6. I love that scene too.

I read the Harper Lee biography a couple months ago. It's really good.

[Jean Louise Finch]

8. Oh delightful

I can't wait to read more. I kept my partner up last night with the light on as I was just getting into it.

[unsavedtrash]

3. does that to me too

That movie is one of my all time favorites and that part always moves me.

[OzarkDem]

4. You are correct, Mr. Green

Excellent scene. Will have to watch the movie again with the Ozark Dem boys during Thanksgiving. Thanks for the reminder.

[NNadir]

9. That definitely is one of the most powerful moments in a powerful film.

There is no finer evocation of the ideal of fatherhood in film in my view.

I always weep at that moment too.

[MysticalChicken]

10. I liked the book better.

Not that's it's not a great movie, I just usually prefer any book that has been made into a movie, better than the movie. If that makes sense.

[MassLiberal]

11. the book is incredible

But Gregory Peck *is* Atticus Finch. :loveya:

[cmkramer]

27. ITA

on both counts.

Gregory Peck, however, was not the first choice to play Atticus. Believe it or not, it was Rock Hudson.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

14. I agree with you completely.

I'll concede that Mockingbird made a good movie, but most of my favorite parts from the book were left out, so I really felt cheated.

[mitchum]

12. "Hey Boo" is the one that does it for me

[MysticalChicken]

21. Every. Time. ...

... I read that part in the book, I always cry.

[ronnykmarshall]

29. Me too.

I love that movie.

[Chorophyll]

13. Me too!

And god, I love me some Gregory Peck. Sigh.

[u4ic]

18. One of the sexiest characters, ever,

Peck as Atticus Finch. :loveya:

[Scout]

15. love that line, love that movie, love that book. n/t

[texanwitch]

16. I just love the book.

I borrowed a copy of it on tape and listened to it driving from Houston to Florida, that book made the trip go faster.

[WCGreen]

17. It was on Sundance tonight....

I could only watch about an hour of it as I was really tired and worn down...

I saw that part, posted and then went to sleep...

It is a special movie, a true blue print of what it means to be a real man...

[u4ic]

19. My all time favourite

American film.

[hickman]

20. I loved the part at the end.

Something about how Atticus would be there all night, and when Jem woke up. What a Dad!

[buddhamama]

22. me too, WCGreen

me too! :)

[yellowdogintexas]

23. Gregory Peck was BORN to play Atticus Finch. Period.

I knew he should be Atticus when I read the book and I was only 12. I knew he would win the Oscar when he was nominated. If not something was seriously wrong out there.

His only Oscar, but surely the one he deserved most. ...

Need to read that book again, actually.

[sinkingfeeling]

24. One of the greatest movies of all time.....and the book as well.

[RetroLounge]

25. Embarrassing Admission

I am 45 yrs old, spent much of my childhood summers in the public library, took AP english in High School, have a masters degree in creative writing, have published stories and poems, am writing a novel, own an on-line bookstore with 32,000 books, love to hang out in bookstores, love reading, love writing, love to talk about books, and yet I have never read To Kill a Mockingbird.

I also have a new TV and DVD player yet I have never seen the movie ever.

How can this be?

:shrug:

RL

[cmkramer]

26. You owe it to yourself to do both

Seriously.

[MnFats]

30. do it now. drop whatever you're doing and head for the book store or library

...do not let the sun set on you one more time without having read it.
its that good.
we read it in junior high. it was life-changing.
in the pearly white upper midwest farm towns, we had no idea of the reality of racism.
Then we did.
Peck is astonishing.
I like the rabid dog scene in addition to those already mentioned here.
a few basic elements, peck taking off his glasses, you've got one of the most dramatic scenes ever filmed.

[ronnykmarshall]

28. I just saw that yesterday.

That part always gets my waterworks going.