To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Atticus (Gregory Peck) and Scout (Mary Badham)
pencil and watercolor on moleskine watercolor paper
This film is an incredible adaptation of the book, of the same title, by Harper Lee. It's rare for a movie to accurately adapt a book, every reader envisions stories in their own way. But, the astounding cast gives a performance that's so grand and perfect that the author has for many years denied further performance in television or on stage for the production. And, it's no wonder, Gregory Peck is an amazing Atticus and the children seem cut from the pages from which their characters were created.
To Kill a Mockingbird is actually my favorite book (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith sometimes rivals it and I've often said that I think it was Lee's inspiration). Over the summer, a good friend took me to see a very good stage production of it in Stratford, Ontario where we wept with great love and sadness in our balcony seats.
Though I loved it and this film, I think I'd very much like to see a newer version brought to screen... and in my wildest dreams, I'd love to do a graphic novel adaption.
Tom Robinson (Brock Peters) and Boo Radley (Robert Duval)
watercolor and sumi brushpen on sketchpaper
Cal (Estelle Stevens), Jem (Philip Alford), and Scout (Mary Badham)
grey marker and watercolor on sketchpaper
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posted by Christine Norrie @ 9:41 PM
12 Comments:
"Miss Jean Louise, stand up...Your father's passin'."
fan-flipping-tastic.
great work!
You know, the copyrights to the film have expired which means it's now in the realm of "public domain." I'm no lawyer, but I imagine you could get around the "having to pay royalties" route and do a graphic novel adaptation if you wanted to.
(I bring this up because there was recently a video game based on The Darkness comics that had "real" working TVs on certain levels. You could watch old Popeye cartoons, and movies such as To Kill A Mockingbird because their copyrights expired.)
...um, what?
oh. my.
You know, I started to think about this more and realized that even though THIS film's rights have expired, I bet someone somewhere has all ready secured future rights... and I'm pretty sure that most publishing rights (which is where I fall) are still in place, because as far as I know, most post-1930s books are protected by copyright laws.
I tried to google this, but to no avail. I may pursue this information down the road, if anyone knows of anything tho, please share or email: studio[at]christinenorrie[dot]com.
Thanks much for the info and thinking tho!
xoxo.
My understanding is that copyright on books expire no sooner than 50 years after the death of the author - and Harper Lee is still alive.
Gary
Yeah, but you could do a "film adaptation" graphic novel of the movie...instead of of the book. :)
Here's what I found on a quick search on Google: http://www.desertislandfilms.com/
And unless you want to go through the 95 PAGES (?!) of classic movies that are currently in public domain, here's a direct link to page 89: http://www.desertislandfilms.com/cgi-bin/dif.pl?Category=Drama/Comedy&pagenum=89&cgifunction=Search
You could also do an adaptation of Birth of a Nation while you're at it! (kidding)
really good watercolors!!
i think that this book is overly good i read about it all the time and sketch thoughts In my mind on what the pictures should look like yeah that is about it i think this is a really interesting book and i love sharing it with all of you and i think that
Apparently the movie was remade in 1997--I can't find anything about it, however except for this, which is not much:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0149266/
Those are beautiful -- i don't know how i made it to your page, but i'd love to know if you sell your art.
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