isn't there a crazy (sexist) rumor that Capote actually wrote To Kill a Mockinbird?
― Modern French Music from Failure to Boulez (askance johnson), Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
yes, but i prefer the rumor that lee actually wrote "in cold blood."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
it's a pretty persistent rumor.
has anyone done that statistical prose analysis on the book. obviously that sort of thing is far from definitive, since even if some dominant similarities were to be found, lee could have been influenced by capote... or if few similarities could be found, capote could have been consciously trying to write in a different style. but it'd be interesting, perhaps.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:41 (nine years ago) link
xpost
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
I've only seen the movie once, in sections, while at school and didn't enjoy it
^^ for me too, though it may also have been the old VHS tape which meant Scout's high-pitched voice was blurred into incomprehensibility that didn't help
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Friday, 6 February 2015 00:58 (nine years ago) link
Once, in sections, at school, on VHS seems like the worst way to watch anything.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 February 2015 01:09 (nine years ago) link
Add in teachers unable to work out how to switch TVs onto the VCR-in channel, so each segment was preceded by 10 minutes of loud white noise and snow
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Friday, 6 February 2015 01:53 (nine years ago) link
all movies are unsalvageable at school, most books too tbh
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 6 February 2015 01:57 (nine years ago) link
(so jd otm that tkam has something going for it)
I've never read To Kill the Mockingbird.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 February 2015 01:59 (nine years ago) link
What about the Romeo buttocks movie?
― Hollinger Escape Plan (Leee), Friday, 6 February 2015 01:59 (nine years ago) link
had forgotten about olivia. powerful point.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 6 February 2015 02:01 (nine years ago) link
We had to fast forward through a breastfeeding scene in "Clash of the Titans," iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 February 2015 02:16 (nine years ago) link
we had a cardboard box held over the screen during a sex scene in the fishburne othello. (irene jacob!) smothering's fine tho obv.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 6 February 2015 02:21 (nine years ago) link
can't remember what we did and didn't watch during the 400 class periods we spent on apocalypse now but even if we saw every second of the redux bunnies i still want my life back
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 6 February 2015 02:22 (nine years ago) link
wtf crazy schools are these where you watch ray harryhausen movies and apocalypse now
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 6 February 2015 02:23 (nine years ago) link
we were doing conrad, see
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 6 February 2015 02:24 (nine years ago) link
we didn't see clash of the titans :( BUT we did see jason+the argonauts, in the same ancient greece unit where we also watched spartacus because the teacher thought it was about the spartans. (in his defense he was a substitute and this was a summer makeup class i had to take cuz i failed freshman history.)
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 6 February 2015 02:28 (nine years ago) link
in fairness i did have a science class where we watched day of the triffids, earthquake, soylent green, and star trek IV
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 6 February 2015 02:31 (nine years ago) link
i think my teacher had a pretty good defense for the scientific relevance of all of them except the last one
our school opted for a new & exciting "local author" program the year we were supposed to read To Kill A Mockingbird
>:(
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 February 2015 02:32 (nine years ago) link
assumed last one was marine biology unit xp
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 6 February 2015 02:33 (nine years ago) link
Time travel unit, probably.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 February 2015 02:33 (nine years ago) link
We watched Threads, which was pretty soul-destroying
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Friday, 6 February 2015 02:36 (nine years ago) link
We watched Goodbye Lenin in French class for some weird reason.
― Frederik B, Friday, 6 February 2015 02:51 (nine years ago) link
french class was a cool grab bag because basically anything went as long as it had been dubbed into french
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 6 February 2015 02:53 (nine years ago) link
like kissing?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 February 2015 02:53 (nine years ago) link
totally played footsie during la petite sirene
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 6 February 2015 02:56 (nine years ago) link
in my driver's ed class we were shown the car crash parts of FACES OF DEATH
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 6 February 2015 03:04 (nine years ago) link
sometimes our Latin teacher fast-forwarded through the longest sex scenes in I CLAVDIVS
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Friday, 6 February 2015 03:10 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure eventually Capote wrote a line of dialogue as hamfisted as "Stand up, your daddy is passing by," but I haven't read it.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 February 2015 03:52 (nine years ago) link
we saw Mockingbird in high school... and The Pawnbroker, with BREASTS
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 February 2015 03:53 (nine years ago) link
I thought Rod Steiger's problem was bad accents.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 February 2015 03:55 (nine years ago) link
No it wouldn't. Why would someone do such thing on the basis of those idiotic rumours?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 February 2015 10:20 (nine years ago) link
There is this piece on the book:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/feb/06/to-kill-mockingbird-harper-lee-overrated-sequel-go-set-watchman
I haven't read since school. Too long and its not the kind of thing I'd pick up again.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 February 2015 11:22 (nine years ago) link
Its been too long for me to recall my impressions of it, is what I meant.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 February 2015 11:23 (nine years ago) link
sometimes our Latin teacher fast-forwarded through the longest sex scenes in I CLAVDIVS― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Friday, 6 February 2015 03:10 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Friday, 6 February 2015 03:10 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That's just gonna skew the kids' future expectations!
― Mark G, Friday, 6 February 2015 12:10 (nine years ago) link
Is Dr. Manhattan going to be in this Watchman book y/n?
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 6 February 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link
more likely cool fan fiction about what The Comedian did between Korea and 'Nam.
― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 6 February 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
wasn't really looking forward to any of the inevitable thinkpieces that try to blow your mind by arguing that a beloved classic is actually, wait for it, overrated!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 6 February 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link
there was an interview on NPR the other day with one of Lee's close friends who visits her in her assisted living facility and he said she has no diminished mental facility, but she is almost blind. But he doubted that she could be manipulated into signing anything. Who knows.
― akm, Friday, 6 February 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
The Guardian's arts coverage has gotten so random lately (for inst "reviewer" of Scientology doc decides that victimization by C of S=comedy), that I'm taking indefinite leave from their thoughtful clickbait.
― dow, Friday, 6 February 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Sarah C doesn't overdo on her opinion and says she is looking forward to the bk anyway so considering this is The Guardian it wasn't too bad.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 February 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
Thanks! I'm sure they'll lure me back to clickpieces one of these days.
― dow, Friday, 6 February 2015 23:50 (nine years ago) link
in my driver's ed class we were shown the car crash parts of FACES OF DEATH― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, February 6, 2015 3:04 AM
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 February 2015 00:02 (nine years ago) link
that sounds kinda screwed up! but i've never seen that movie myself
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 February 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
it's like the worst benny hill episode ever
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 7 February 2015 01:53 (nine years ago) link
Better than DEATH OF FACES---worst Behind The Music-based TV movie ever.
― dow, Saturday, 7 February 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
Harper Lee to nosey journalist: "Go away!"
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/05/harper-lee-journalist-go-away-to-kill-a-mockingbird-sequel-go-set-a-watchman?CMP=fb_us
― akm, Thursday, 5 March 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
at least he got an autograph
― akm, Thursday, 5 March 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
wait really?
aw man :(
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
RIP
― bored at work (snoball), Friday, 19 February 2016 18:53 (eight years ago) link
:(
rip harper
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 19 February 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link
what a fiasco with go set a watchman. such a blemish, horrible to see her be taken advantage of like that
― flappy bird, Friday, 19 February 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link
my son's 7th grade English class just did a whole multi-week segment on To Kill A Mockingbird and connections to the civil rights movement.
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Friday, 19 February 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link