Comparing the Movies A Time to Kill, by John Grisham and To Kill a Mock

The movie based on throne Grishams A Time to fine-tune is a Hollywoodized, advanced(a)-day version of To execute a scoffer. Both movies employ many of the same themes and plot elements moreover the former movie is one-dimensional and predictable while the latter is sophisticated and purposeful. The movie version of harpist Lees novel To vote down a Mockingbird is considered a classic film, whereas John Grisham?s adapted novel is only if another example of the money making efforts of Hollywood. Some of the movies more grown themes are the same. Both focus on the family, particularly the role of the father. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Attacus, who is based on the father of author Harper Lee, is an upstanding parent. Not only is he an excellent role mould for his children, but he takes time to talk to his children. He respects them as growing individuals, allowing them to call him Attacus, and explains important issues rather than discounting them. Jake cherishes his daught er more than of all time when he compares her hypothetically to his client?s victimized daughter Tonya. The indicator of the family institution is reiterated when Carl takes revenge upon the offenders who raped Tonya. These ties drive an otherwise socially conform man into violating the sanctity of human life in cold line of credit with come on regret. Another motivation that inspires his action is the personal degradation he must have experienced as a black man in a racist community that includes backwoods deviants, who look down upon the blacks in the community. Hate crimes appear in both movies, including hate-fueled riots, attempted lynchings, and the reappearance of the Ku Klux Klan. early(a) manifestations of racism were realized as well, such as injustice in the court system and the school system, where, in both movies, the protagonists? children are continually taunted for being the progeny of a ?nigger lover.? The classic figure of the gunman is at the foref ront of the plot in each movie. Both lawyers flummox their lives on the line for the liberty of a client without expecting compensation. Attacus does so because he believes in justice and knows it?s the right thing to do, whereas Jake simply empathizes with his client, peculiarly by projecting his daughter into Tonya?s experience. Either way, these men break themselves for the sake of others, a defining characteristic of heroes. Attacus especially is... ...e intriguing. Most modern movies fail to explore issues that are controversial or simply thought-provoking. racial discrimination was a very serious problem in the South when To Kill a Mockingbird was written. Many people tried to ignore or forget about this problem rather than face it, but the concord boldly confronts it and provokes the viewer to do the same. Since A Time to Kill came out after society as a whole stopped tolerating racism for the most part, this issue is almost a clich, certainly no long-lived eye-ope ning. The closest this movie comes to an evoke thought is when Carl announces Jake in prison that they cannot be friends because Jake looks at him and sees a black man, rather than just a man. This is an interesting aspect of racism which asserts that as long as whites view blacks as the other, they can never connect on the same level. Unfortunately, this idea is left(p) completely undeveloped. Jake does bring it up at the end, but only to tell Carl that he was totally wrong about him. A Time to Kill does have a few intense and touching scenes, but in the end it is only another money-making cheap entertainment movie, whereas To Kill a Mockingbird is an immortal classic.