Posted on 10/23/2009 8:45:36 AM PDT by Borges
HIGHLANDS, N.C. – Actress Collin Wilcox-Paxton, who portrayed the false accuser in the movie classic "To Kill a Mockingbird," died of brain cancer just months after the diagnosis. She was 74.
Her husband, Scott Paxton, confirmed Thursday that she died Oct. 14 in Highlands in the southwest part of the state. No funeral was held. Instead, the family held a service before her death.
"It's pretty special being at your own memorial," said her husband of more than 30 years.
She was diagnosed Aug. 11 with three brain tumors, he said.
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This movie is where race based propaganda films all got their start.
yes...I know many freepers love this film same as they love Dr King..
whatever..
well done film though
I’m one who loves this movie and have tried to grow up to become Atticus Finch. I just have to get the growing up part down and I am halfway there.
Poor Mae Ella. I have a short story floating around in the back of my head about her that one day I am going to put down. Who knows when that will be.
when I watched this as a kid I loved it and felt for the victims and all like the film hoped for
later at 40 or so watching it again I went “yech”, this was a very political flick
this movie is a mustsee for those who loved Mississippi Burning or Betrayed or Time to a Kill
I hear you.
I agree with you. Still my favorite book and movie.
Good movie. Better book.
HIGLANDS NC is very very nice enclave.
Wouldn't that be D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation"?
The rabid dog still scares me and I know what happens!!
Yes, and, in hindsight, it's instructive to go back and look at the players involved.
STAR: Gregory Peck, ultraliberal, would cut television commercials against the Robert Bork nominationPRODUCER: Alan J. Pakula, ultraliberal, would direct Robert Redford in All the President's Men [based on leaks by disgruntled FBI employee, William Mark Felt], would produce and direct John Grisham's The Pelican Brief about evil Republicans murdering Supreme Court justices, etc etc etc
MUSIC: Elmer Bernstein, known communist
etc etc etc
There were plenty of films about Racism before it. And it was a very close adaptation of Alabama native Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
RIP.
Really?? The guy who composed the music for both The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape?!! Say it ain't so!
Doesn’t change the fact that back in those days it was
certainly within the realm of possibility that a black man would be framed, or lynched, or beaten in the old South.
As for Elmer Bernstein, I would not have voted for him
for office but as a writer of film scores he was almost without peer. Magnificent 7 - greatest film score ever!
He also did "Animal House". I remember when I first saw his name in the credits, I thought the name was a joke, as a play on "Leonard Bernstein."
and The Ten Commandments!
Um......
But the question is whether an INNOCENT black man would be framed or lynched or beaten.
TKAM is pure, unadulterated political propaganda.
If you can't see that, then you need to grow up and recognize the world for what it is.
Do you think Harper Lee set out with propagandistic intent?
Yes, it could and did happen back then. If you can't see that the 1930's America treated people of color with remarkable racism, then you need to go back and read some history and recognize the world for what it was, and for what still lingers today.
Also do you think writers like Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor were propandists?
I would need to research her life, although, knowing nothing about the matter beforehand, I'd be very surprised if, after researching it, I would come to the conclusion that she did NOT set out with a propagandistic intent.
Almost everything that you read in books & magazines & newspapers, or hear on the radio, or see in the movies, or watch on television, is just propaganda [and disinformation] in one form or another.
The more you learn about how the world really works, the more cynical you become.
It's ALL propaganda.
Totally unrelated to the subject, but wifey and I drove up to and through Highlands, NC this past spring.....stunningly beautiful town which surrounds a gorgeous mountain lake. Real Estate verrrry pricey.
If it’s all propaganda than there’s no reason to distinquish between anything. All Art is propaganda to some degree. It’s one person’s view of the world.
That attitude is a very new phenomenon, coinciding with the solidification of nihilism as the dominant intellectual position of the 20th Century.
It didn't used to be like that - artists used to make art for beauty's sake, not for nihilism's sake.
And seriously, you people need to come to your senses and realize how your emotions are being played by these propagandists.
If you're an [ostensible] adult, and this stuff isn't abundantly obvious to you, then you need to grow up, take off the blinders, and see the world for what it really is.
Robert Duvall as Boo
Who in their right mind would leave his pre-teen daughter with a disturbed recluse like Boo? Think about it.
So you're saying that no innocent man was ever lynched?
Also, TKAM is not necessarily in and of itself a work of nihilism; it's the deliberate use of TKAM as a piece of propaganda to serve a hidden political [& economic] agenda which transforms the whole enterprise into an act of nihilism.
Again, you people really need to wake up and realize how you are being manipulated.
Can I ask you one question? Did you live in the Deep South in the 30’s?
lol
sure NS, we are really wallowing in pro Klan movies today?
can hardly keep up with them....meanwhile back on this planet white oppressor/poor black victim movies now number in the 100s
but that will never be enough for some folks
hmmm...I can think of Pinky, not sure I'd say plenty but you are the expert i will grant that...TKAMB really takes a cue from High Noon in way
I have been most struck personally by how sympathetic I was to this movie as a kid....I even did an oral report on it in 1970..8th grade
and how now I view it very differently
I could say that about other movies too...my blinders now being off and all...Easy Rider, Woodstock, Platoon, etc..
Highlands -Cashiers is more southern even in high season
I inherited a family home at Hound Ears in Blowing Rock-Grandfather area...much more Florida Jewish in summer
but plenty of hillbillies too
what kills me is how the Left and especially Lesbicans rule Asheville
1950’s ‘No Way Out’ comes to mind. ‘The Defiant Ones’ was campy but it still predates TKAM. Various Sam Fuller films from the 50s as well.
TKAM really only depicts that one redneck and his daughter as stereotypes. The rest of the Southerners in it are generally admirable. Certainly Atticus is. It’s not like she had the entire South as a Racist Hell Hole and had some patronising Yankee come in to save the day. The novel was written in the late 1950s based on the authors childhood experiences so I’m not sure where ‘High Noon’ comes in.
Are you denying that it was the first of the race-baiting genre?
can hardly keep up with them....meanwhile back on this planet white oppressor/poor black victim movies now number in the 100s
Truth hurts, does it?
but that will never be enough for some folks
And apparently one will be too much for other folks.
glad to see you are venturing out though your crusade on behalf of the the poor black man never quite ends does it?
so many white devils to be dealt with and all that
And all due to "To Kill a Mockingbird" ?
Hated the book as well.
He goes too far, I think. Gladwell wasn't around at the time and judges people back then too harshly, but he does put his finger on some of the reasons why many people today are uncomfortable with the book and the film.
The stuff with the kids is the best. It constructs a world from their point of view. That’s why Atticus is seen as such a towering heroic figure. It’s the way a yuong girl would see her father. The courtoom stuff is stiff.
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