It's 1958, and Jimmy Stewart is dizzy and way out of his league.

The movie?

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Hello everybody and welcome to Unspooled.

I am Amy Nicholson and this is the podcast where me and my wonderful fantastic co-host go through the movies on the AFI top 100 list and we have now reached 50 movies.

This is our 50th movie.

Oh my god.

Paul will be here in just a moment, but before he is, let's talk about last week's movie to Kill a Mockingbird.

A movie that we both really, really, really, really, really loved.

And so did you guys, including Melanie Manning, who tweeted to us,

hot take to Kill a Mockingbird is the movie is better than the book.

You know, she says at least as far as adaptations go, it says very close to the book, but that is not bad when you have actors and filmmakers breathing life into these characters with excellent filmmaking.

She says that to Kill a Mockingbird is what an adaptation should be.

Slack Babith, who is at law monster 13, noted that, you know, when we started to raise the issue here in the episode about like was Tom Robinson actually murdered by the cops when they say that he ran away and they shot him.

He reminded us that in the book, it was way, way, way worse that they specify that as Tom Robinson was quote unquote running away from the cops, he was shot 17 times in the back.

Over at the Facebook group, there were a ton of interesting conversations.

One of the ones that really stuck out was a conversation kind of looking at the different angles of is Atticus Finch White Savior, which is something that Harper really kind of rolled back a bit in her sort of follow a book about it.

Go set a watchman. I pulled this quote from Todd Lawrence because I thought I kind of summed up all the different angles of all the different debates Todd Lawrence wrote.

I think the white Savior complaint is a fine lens to be aware of, but I don't think it Mars this film at its core to Kill a Mockingbird is about learning to see we watch Scouts understanding of Atticus and we're hardly evolved and then we watch Atticus's faith in the law evolve.

So it's more than a little poetic and beautiful that our understanding of to Kill a Mockingbird should also evolve.

It was written by a white daughter of the deep south who is struggling to see truth despite her social conditioning.

Does the nobility of Harper Lee's intentions make her just another white Savior herself?

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