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UPDATE: 17-year-old arrested for making threat related to Shorewood H.S.'s 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
CBS58 ^ | Oct. 17, 2018 | Lindsey Branwall

Posted on 10/17/2018 2:32:20 PM PDT by Brown Deer

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1 posted on 10/17/2018 2:32:20 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: Brown Deer

What are the odds it is one on their side doing this?....pretty dang good.


2 posted on 10/17/2018 2:36:18 PM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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“...One of the year’s best pictures — a movie not to be missed. Take your children.” ~~ Good Housekeeping Magazine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR7loA_oziY


3 posted on 10/17/2018 2:39:11 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Brown Deer; All

“It’s hard for me to hear it and to say it, but I know that we have to relive what we’ve all gone through as a society and it’s ugly, but the ugly has to be told,” said Roder.

THANK YOU for posting this. Effing SNOWFLAKES and idiots who want to erase History. How can we LEARN from it, when our youth are not EDUCATED as to what is Right and what is Wrong?

Don’t even get me started on erasing History via pulling down Civil War statues and flags, taking God out of the Public Sector & Schools, etc.

We were FOUNDED as a Christian Nation - warts and all!

Socialists WANT to destroy and re-write and whitewash History. It’s what they do. *SPIT*

TKAM is the most moving novel you’ll ever read. TKAM is the most engrossing and thought-provoking movie you will ever see.


4 posted on 10/17/2018 2:39:47 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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Harper Lee is being awarded America’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for her outstanding contribution to literature. Her only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and is ranked by the Guinness Book of World Records as the top selling novel of all time. The novel has sold more than 30 million copies.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/14666-harper-lee-wins-presidential-medal-of-freedom.html


5 posted on 10/17/2018 2:42:17 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: ColdOne

I wouldn’t be surprised. Being in theater, I’ve noticed that black actors have a real disdain for the theater versions of To Kill a Mockingbird and often mock Tom Robinson’s portrayal. I wouldn’t be surprised it that attitude was common in the African-American community. We’ll see.


6 posted on 10/17/2018 2:43:07 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Brown Deer

Harper Lee, et al, released, ‘Come Set A Watchman’ a number of years ago. Also good - but not a Classic. ;)


7 posted on 10/17/2018 2:48:17 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Awards

Academy Awards, USA 1963

Winner
Oscar
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Gregory Peck
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Horton Foote

Horton Foote was not present at the awards ceremony. Alan J. Pakula, the film's producer, accepted ...

Horton Foote was not present at the awards ceremony. Alan J. Pakula, the film's producer, accepted the award on his behalf.

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White
Alexander Golitzen
Henry Bumstead
Oliver Emert
Nominee
Oscar
Best Picture
Alan J. Pakula
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Mary Badham
Best Director
Robert Mulligan
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
Russell Harlan
Best Music, Score - Substantially Original
Elmer Bernstein

Golden Globes, USA 1963

Winner
Golden Globe
Best Actor - Drama
Gregory Peck
Best Original Score
Elmer Bernstein
Best Film Promoting International Understanding
Nominee
Golden Globe
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Best Director
Robert Mulligan

BAFTA Awards 1964

Nominee
BAFTA Film Award
Best Film from any Source
USA.
Best Foreign Actor
Gregory Peck
USA.

American Cinema Editors, USA 1963

Nominee
Eddie
Best Edited Feature Film
Aaron Stell

Cannes Film Festival 1963

Winner
Gary Cooper Award
Robert Mulligan
Nominee
Palme d'Or
Robert Mulligan

David di Donatello Awards 1963

Winner
David
Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero)
Gregory Peck

Directors Guild of America, USA 1963

Nominee
DGA Award
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
Robert Mulligan

Laurel Awards 1963

Winner
Golden Laurel
Top General Entertainment
Nominee
Golden Laurel
Top Male Dramatic Performance
Gregory Peck
Top Female Supporting Performance
Mary Badham

National Film Preservation Board, USA 1995

Winner
National Film Registry

New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1963

Nominee
NYFCC Award
Best Film
Tied with The Birds (1963) and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963).
Best Screenplay
Horton Foote

Online Film & Television Association 2003

Winner
OFTA Film Hall of Fame
Motion Picture

PGA Awards 1999

Winner
PGA Hall of Fame - Motion Pictures
Alan J. Pakula

Writers Guild of America, USA 1963

Winner
WGA Award (Screen)
Best Written American Drama
Horton Foote


8 posted on 10/17/2018 2:51:46 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Brown Deer

My #1 all-time favorite movie of all time (but I repeat myself).

I am so very sick of people who want to impose today’s (typically left-wing) views on historical figures, events, books and movies.


9 posted on 10/17/2018 2:53:16 PM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (If I had a dollar for every gender, I'd have two dollars. And a bunch of counterfeit ones.)
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To: Brown Deer

...and down the memory hole it goes.


10 posted on 10/17/2018 2:58:53 PM PDT by hanamizu
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Um - wasn’t the book, movie, play PRO black people?!

Just like in Huck Finn (or was it Tom Sawyer? probably both??) Twain uses the term “nigger” - but the story is about friendship, and helping an escaped slave. It’s so stupid that some old-fashioned, derogatory term overwhelms the entire message.

I read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to my son before he could read. When it came to the word nigger, I read it to him as is - and then told him that it was commonly used back then, but that it is considered sort of a “swear word” today (and perhaps even back then?), and is really derogatory today. I recall giving him the option of should I use that old word, or replace it with “black man”, or perhaps it was “slave” or something else. He picked something other than nigger.

So I guess with this play - I could go either way. Use the word nigger to drive home the point of the play (racism), or replace the word so the “show can go on”. (I didn’t read where that was even considered.)


11 posted on 10/17/2018 3:06:01 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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BTW, for all TKAM fans, there is opening very soon the B’way production of the book starring Jeff Daniels as Atticus (wouldn’t be my first choice, but what do they care?) It is directed by Bartlett Sher who is a very traditional director who would not mess with the original material.


12 posted on 10/17/2018 3:06:26 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Brown Deer

Shame on Atticus Finch for representing an accused rapist, he should have believed the woman.


13 posted on 10/17/2018 3:08:45 PM PDT by Stevenc131
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#Atticus Finch


14 posted on 10/17/2018 4:06:56 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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It was changed with extensive editing, from a relatively common, mildly racist novel, into the highly successful propaganda novel against the South.

It promoted the leftist stereotypes at the time.

Now it is deemed too "racist".

No consistency on the left.

No principles.

Whatever will gain us power in the moment.

15 posted on 10/17/2018 4:32:22 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

Never saw it. Never read it.


16 posted on 10/17/2018 4:52:11 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: Brown Deer

Is he an avian rights activist?


17 posted on 10/17/2018 5:07:29 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: All

This is why we can’t have nice things...


18 posted on 10/17/2018 5:17:48 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Brown Deer
All these folks is....


RACIST!!


19 posted on 10/18/2018 5:22:29 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: 21twelve
I'd sure hate for a bunch of students to decide they've been bullied enough and start chanting the

DREADED!!!

n-word enmass!!


When YOU guys quit using it among yourselves; THEN come back to us!


20 posted on 10/18/2018 5:26:20 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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