To Kill A Mockingbird corrections

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To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) - 4 corrections

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When Atticus is in the courtroom, he asks Mr. Ewell to write his name. Two mistakes here: Mr. Ewell wasn't writing letters, just a bunch of random scribbles. But the second is, he's not writing at all. You can see the pencil is about half an inch from the paper. [He is barely literate and is scrawling his name on the paper as a child might do, with a series of lines and curves to make the letters. I have watched the film many times and he appears to be touching the paper with the pencil. He even pushes down hard enough to bend the paper at one point.] Corrected by MovieGuy

If Tom Robinson had a problem with the strength of his left arm, he certainly had enough power and strength to strangle Ms. Mayella. [I think it was more a case of having no control over his left arm, so how could he hold her down, strangle her, and rape her all at the same time with only 1 arm.]

When the children and Atticus see the mad dog running up the street, throughout the scene there are shots looking down the street towards the dog. During these shots, you can see what looks like a mountain in the background. The story takes place in Alabama, but there are no mountains in Alabama. [The southern foothills of the Appalachian Mountain range are in Northern Alabama.]

When Jem and Scout are talking to each other from their beds at night, Jem tells Scout that he was six when their mother died and she was two. That was four years ago which would make Jem ten years old now. After Mr. Ewell is killed and Atticus suspects Jem killed him, he tells the sheriff that he can't remember if Jem is twelve or thirteen. [The film takes place over at least a year or two, according to the book.]