Hollywood from the beginning has kept most anyone glued to the movie screens since the beginning of motion pictures. If we think about it, most of what we see on the big screen comes from books, Broadway theater, vaudeville acts, comedy tours. We typically think of Old Hollywood before we were able to hear actors/actresses in character relying on silent caption writing and attempting to master lip reading if we were able to do so. Music accompaniment was played on early piano's by someone sitting off to the side. Sing a long's were encouraged when lyrics were provided during the film or after. We traditionally think of black and white. We think of the easy free travels. We think mostly as well as the Hollywood signs we see. Old Hollywood was more than those things. We can't discount their part in how profitable Hollywood has become. Above are cars traveling dirt roads, in the beginning of Hollywood, these cars were modeled from the early 1900 hundred to maybe 1930'
Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch To Kill A Mockingbird (Image from Pinterest) This post will shift to looking at Atticus as the man, maybe a figure no one really sees. He is a lawyer, he is an a neighbor, friend. He is the kind of person we want to know. His seriousness, his solemnness. His charms. We see how time has transformed him. He faced adversity in a small town slow to accept people of color(black). In a previous post about To Kill A Mockingbird, it emphasized the role of Atticus Finch as the father and what it meant to his children Scout and Jem. He had a vast effect on his children and their livelihood as we saw. I could write more on that role at another time but for now I would like to write about Atticus as the man, not discounting his role as a father or any other roles he played. Gregory Peck and his effect to etch the image of an aging man brought the film version of To Kill A Mockingbird to life. We can see no other male play the role as he did back in the ear