Posted on 04/03/2012 12:27:12 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
President Barack Obama will provide a special introduction to USA Network’s airing of the 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Saturday at 8 p.m.
“I’m deeply honored that President Obama will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of To Kill A Mockingbird by introducing it to a national audience,” Pulitzer prize winner and famously media-shy Lee says. “I believe it remains the best translation of a book to film ever made and I'm proud to know that Gregory Peck's portrayal of Atticus Finch lives on — in a world that needs him now more than ever.”
The film stars Peck as a lawyer in a small Alabama town who takes the tough case of a black man accused of raping a white woman. Told from the point of view of the attorney's daughter, the novel is heralded as one of the first to portray America’s race issues frankly and remains on many schools’ mandatory reading lists.
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“To Kill a Mocking Bird” was the first movie that Robert Duval was in.
He was in the last five minutes and didn’t say a word.
In to Kill a Mockingbird unlike George Zimmerman there was a trial.
ENOUGH about race already! Yes, this movie included! I know a lot of people think this story is a classic and it might well be, but I am sick to death of everything portraying blacks as the victim and whites as the evil victimIZER, especially if they’re Southern. This just does not come at a particularly good time.
Notice how Obama is forcing himself into everything that has to do with race, including this movie. He’s doing his best to divide the country and stir up his base so they’ll come out for him in November. Look for him to continue to gin them up.
Yep. He’s everywhere. He was on at half time in last night’s championship game. His wife was on the Nicholodean awards show. It’s ridiculous the way the networks prop him up.
Presidents should be in the background, out of sight and out of the spotlight.
Along with Congress.
Obamugabe, introducing the movie: “You know, if I had parents, they’d look just like Mayella and Tom.”
Obama is making everything about race. His is the “Race Presidency”.
hear, hear!
Yep. The theory goes that the two were close friends, that Lee never wrote another novel, and that the little neighbor boy in the film was actually Capote.
But Duval’s appearance is one of the film’s most powerful moments.
Yet another practice of dictators — interjecting oneself into every aspect of life.
LOL
No matter what channel, somehow Obama lands on it. GTFO of my face, dammit!
If I want to watch To Kill a Mockingbird I’ll just put in the DVD copy I have. Then I don’t have to watch the punk assed purple lipped mac daddy force himself into my living room.
If you can time it to when the actual movie starts and li’l barky will be done with his meaningless spiel. Of course, he might do an Elvira and show up on commercial breaks.
To use this man to introduce it only cheapens it -- like serving Thunderbird before Beef Wellington.
I'm appalled.
I’ve always enjoyed that movie.
His face right before it, in fact just reading about him doing that, taints it for me forever.
Harper Lee wrote the book. Ironically, she was indeed the personal secretary for Truman Capote.
If you've spent any time in rural Alabama -- Monroeville, Union Springs, Fitzgerald, Hayneville -- you'll recognize the settings. And the author's affinity for them.
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