Imagine, if you will, that for whatever reason, no cinematic or television adaptation of Harper Lee’s great work had ever been made, or even greenlighted. Imagine further that someone has recently acquired the rights to the story of Atticus Finch; filming began, say, a month ago, and the movie’s scheduled for a December 2011 release. It’s a major, big-studio release, with name actors in every significant role.
Would you expect the movie to be fucked up? If yes, what do you expect would be done badly?
Angelina Jolie would play a reclusive but not scary neighbor (instead of Boo Radley), who Scout and Jem would scheme to fix up with their dad. It would work after Jolie’s character ends up saving the kids from Bob Ewell by pulling a gun on him, and Atticus would refer to her as the nightingale.
Boo Radley wouldn’t be in it because you still have to teach kids that weird people will molest them, and they aren’t to be trusted. :rolleyes:
I’ll agree with this. Depp is a gifted actor (though I agree he seems wrong for Atticus).
Of course, if Deep were starring, Tim Burton might well be directing. And if Burton were directing, it’s certain that Helena Bonham Carter would be shoehorned in somehow. And in that case …
Scout would show her boobs and smoke dope, and Atticus would become the stereotypical “idiot dad”. Someone, possibly Boo Bradley, would be gay. And all the accents would be horribly done.
They’d probably animate it…with animals…who talk and it would have a sappy and/or feel goody song by Randy Newman sung by a mockingbird Atticus Finch titled, “Guilty of being right”
