Classic Cinema

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

When you think of people that are Missionaries, certain images come to mind about these people and their works. We sometimes fail to realize in their humanity to care for other people, they exposed themselves to illness, failures, and all kinds of hurts, in the end they become recognized, sometimes their works don't hit headlines at all and are discovered in other ways, through other people sometimes. Sometimes Missionaries also are labelled as Ambassadors through causes and charities. When it comes to films, these people show us that through the most difficult of times and situations we can over come feats we never thought, they even show us that people in the world still care about us and what we think about, how we feel and what is close to us. The stars often put themselves on the line to bring out the best in biographical versions of people who made a difference in real life and people that just wanted to reach out and help. In real life they sometimes continued good works,

Most of us who love old movies, and collect, get to see the stars alive on the screen and it means different things to us, gives us different feelings. It is hard to image that the stars we adored and still do through their work, would age gracefully or sometimes terribly, it is hard to sometimes understand they experience much in their lives, sacrificing time with their families and loved ones to entertain us on the big and small screen. It is often heart breaking to realize that they may have been dealing with illness themselves and making films was a temporary escape from whatever problems they were dealing with. We remain to have a few stars with us to continue entertaining us in the modern and changing age. The truth is we aren't going to live forever and neither will they, some passed away before their time and some passed away even in old age. We immortalize them in film and gracing covers of magazines and other forms of media, the society pages of the rich and famous,

Atticus, Scout and Jem (Images used from Pinterest)