To Kill A Mockingbird Film Analysis

In 1962, Robert Mulligan directed a movie based on Harper Lee’s best-selling novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The film served the audience productively with an outstanding storyline. In contrast, the film had a certain limitation within its time. Meanwhile, the novel is more expanded with no sense of limitation. Although, the film has not described the social class of Maycomb, so viewers weren’t essentially notified that the Ewells are addressed as trash. Similarly, both of the film and the novel shared a common discriminative treatment towards Atticus. Therefore, Robert Mulligan’s film produced a phenomenal visual form of Harper Lee’s written novel.

Most films face certain limitations when depicting a best-selling text. Gender was seen as a predominant theme in the text. However, the director Robert Mulligan made several adjustments in regards cast changes. For example, he discarded the existence of Alexandra and Jack Finch, Atticus’s siblings and Scout’s aunt and uncle, due to the fact that the film has a certain limitation of portraying the main plot. Therefore, a
A major theme, such as social class was not covered within the film, perhaps it was because of the limitation that Robert Mulligan had adapted, or possibly the director was not planning to dig deep with such an explicit theme. However, abandoning this theme exiled the viewers from witnessing how the Ewells are addressed with a common term, which is trash. Unlike the book, the social class was heavily implied in Maycomb. The readers were experiencing how the Ewells are addressed as trash because of their uneducated values. “Poor white trash” (Chapter 17, page...). Consequently, the social class theme had a major importance within the text. Unlike the film, the theme was secluded from its existence and prevented the audience from witnessing the social class of