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As Thomas said, people are often simply surprised that Tom Robinson's trial - which is a commanding part of the film - takes up only a few chapters towards the end of the book. He said for many, Atticus remains an ideal of truth, justice and fatherly wisdom.īut if they re-read the novel as adults, DiPiero said, people may find Atticus and Mockingbird more complex than they remember. Thomas DiPiero is dean of Southern Methodist University's Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences and an expert on To Kill a Mockingbird. In this context, even Sorkin's "humanizing" changes may seem like they're diminishing a beloved hero. They don't like it to look bad."īroadwayDallas Richard Thomas as Atticus Finch in the courtroom in the Broadway tour of "To Kill a Mockingbird" Or, as Thomas summed up: On the left, "people say, 'We don't want another white savior story.'" And "from the right, people don't like to be reminded of Jim Crow. Meanwhile, the school board challenges have been over the book's repeated use of racial slurs - and the character of Atticus Finch. One of the best known was in Virginia in 1966 - Mockingbird was charged with being "immoral." According to Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird by Claudia Durst Johnson, the majority of such early attempts to keep the novel out of schools were in the South - because of the book's topic of rape, its coarse language and the implications of interracial sex.īut more recently, some legal scholars have questioned Finch's entire approach to race and the law or his particular tactics. Objections against the book began soon after it was published. One reason Mockingbird remains so familiar to Americans is that it's a fixture on school reading lists - even as some boards and libraries try to remove the novel from their shelves. "Aaron has made Atticus a wonderfully human character," Thomas said, one who's "flawed, has a great sense of humor." And he's frustrated, struggling to raise kids - with the help of the Finch family housekeeper, Calpurnia. But Sorkin felt, to work as a stage drama, it needed some changes, including making Atticus not so perfectly noble. Mockingbird involves an innocent Black man being accused of raping a white woman.
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Sorkin is known for his quippish, provocative and theatrical dialogue in such TV shows as The West Wing and films like The Trial of the Chicago 7. Richard Thomas in the tour of "To Kill a Mockingbird"īut Hollywood writer-producer Aaron Sorkin wrote this adaptation, which ran for more than two years on Broadway. "Icons are unplayable, essentially," Thomas said. "I've had so many lawyers and judges come up," he said, "and say how Atticus was such an inspiration to them."īasically, Atticus Finch has become an American icon.Īnd that can present difficulties - for an actor.
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In the current tour of Mockingbird opening in Dallas, Richard Thomas - the Emmy-winning actor famous from such TV series as The Americans and The Waltons - plays Atticus.
And in the the legal profession, Lee's country lawyer has become a "folk hero." Casey Cep, author of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, has said that for most Americans, Mockingbird has become a piece of "secular scripture."Īs for Atticus, he's even had a biography written about him. Lee's novel about childhood in Alabama during the Depression won the Pulitzer Prize and has sold more than 30 million copies. Foote's personal papers happen to be at Southern Methodist University - including his annotated copy of Mockingbird. Peck won an Oscar for his performance, and Texas playwright Horton Foote received one for his screen adaptation of Harper Lee's 1960 novel. It is, of course, Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch (along with co-stars Mary Badham and Phillip Alford) in the film To Kill a Mockingbird.
To Kill a Mockingbird was adapted into a film in 1962, starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, Mary Badham as Scout and Phillip Alford as Jem.
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