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Originally Posted by Boomer
But you just cannot stop there! Oh my! You did not mention symbolism and foreshadowing.......
Like in one of my favorite movies Body Heat. (1981) It's set in Florida. And it is hot. Kathleen Turner is setting up William Hurt to murder her rich husband Richard Crenna. There is a scene early in the movie where a clown drives by in a car. William Hurt has no idea the clown is symbolizing him and is foreshadowing what he's in for. (But for a lot of the movie, ya know....he did not seem to care anyway.)
But I digress....I do not think Body Heat won the Academy Award which is the topic here I guess. But all these years later, I cannot hear wind chimes without thinking about that movie. It had a real 1940's feel to it, too, which I like.
Oh well, enough digressing.....for now. Next thing you know I will be making everybody sing "Happy Birthday" to the best-written book ever -- To Kill a Mockingbird which turned 50 on July 11. And then I will go on and on about how the movie version was every bit as perfect as the book. The only time that has ever happened -- in my opinion.
Boomer Lee
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I actually taught To Kill A Mockingbird, soooo many times and I never got tired of it, and Russ I know it didn't win the Academy Award but it should have; I taught it to my American Lit classes and as a movie to my Film as Lit classes, so much symbolism, incredible book and movie, it actually was the first book I ever bought on my own as a paperback, saw it, read it, loved it
The trial it was based on, The Scotsboro Trial is now on Broadway; most people don't realize that Dill is Truman Capote, he was Harper Lee's childhood friend, okay I'll stop again, NOW I am SCARING myself I sound like an English teacher, where did I put those tap shoes again, lol