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I love this film. One of my five favorites over a long lifetime. The others: Chinatown, Nashville, A Man For All Seasons, and Almost Famous.
So, when I say I'd like to see TKAM remade as a mini-series it is not because the film can be bettered--IT CAN'T-- but for these reasons:
1) Every generation produces a new actor playing Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Hamlet, Elizabeth Bennett, and so on. Why can't we have a new Atticus Finch. (Or Horace Rumpole, for that matter). No actor has a monopoly on a character (unless we're talking about Richard Ayoade as Maurice Moss).
2) It would be in color, it would be more episodic, and have more of the book in it.
3) It would reach a new audience, which in turn might encourage more people to read the book and see the original film.
4) While my expectations do not allow the possibility that this new production would reach the heights of the original, it might--just might--turn out do be a damn good series.
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Mar 31, 2019 - 11:19 PM
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Dana Wilcox
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Hey Dana, I just went on line to read about 5 reviews of the play. All the reviews raved about Daniels as Atticus and about the play. The kids are played by adults because Sorkin change some of the novel's perspectives. The novel and movie showed us everything through the naïve eyes of two children. The play really revolves around Atticus and his perspectives. It is hard for me to explain why adults play Jem and Scout, but the reviews clarify those issues. Also Tom and Calpurnia are given larger parts. I wish I could see it.
Thanks, Joan, I'll check those out. Who knows, maybe it'll go on the road at some point...
I thought villagegardens553 made some good points above about the virtues of doing TKAM as a mini-series for a new generation to appreciate, in a format visually more in tune with the times and to include some of those subplots in the book that didn't make it to the screen in the movie version. I haven't been too impressed with remakes in general, but a good cast could pull this off I think. Nothing will ever detract from my love for this movie and its score, but I think there is more than enough there to support a sensitively-written and directed (and scored) reboot -- put it up on Netflix or Amazon Prime for everybody to see. (I'd pick Bruce Broughton, Marc Shaiman or James Newton Howard to do the music. Anybody have any thoughts about that?)
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For the score: Rachel Portman.
With Sam Rockwell as Boo.
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Apr 1, 2019 - 8:41 AM
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joan hue
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Yes Dana, Villagardens553 ideas for a remake do make sense, and a remake would not diminish my love for the original.
However, I would not want a remake to be a mini-series. This story is, of course, about racial injustice. However, this story has a HUGE heart. It is equally about LOVE. There is so much love between Atticus and his children. To watch an hour on TV one week and then wait another week until the next hour and so forth, I believe would diminish or sever the “wear-your-heart-on-your-sleeve” connections. (One reviewer of the current Broadway play even mentioned the audience had tears.) I would rather see a movie in a theater. Make it longer than the original and add those scenes we have talked about. Just my opinion.
The music would be easy. I’d do what Scorsese did in his remake of Cape Fear. He hired Elmer Bernstein to rerecord Herrmann’s classic score from the original movie. (Didn’t Elfman do the same thing for the remake of Psycho?)
I would hire Bear McCreary to maybe reimagine and record Elmer’s original score for this remake. Bear wrote a gorgeous homage to Bernstein after his death. Bear knew Elmer and admired him, and I think he’d do a great job honoring Bernstein's gorgeous score.
Rockwell for Boo? (Oh yes, especially after seeing him in Three Billboards.)
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