"and humanist John Lovejoy Elliot. He notes that the book, ""A Ministry to Man"", was published in 1959, a year before ""Mockingbird."" Atticus Finch Atticus Finch is a fictional character in Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1960, ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". A preliminary version of the character also appears in the novel ""Go Set a Watchman"", written in the mid 1950s but not published until 2015. Atticus is a lawyer and resident of the fictional Maycomb County, Alabama, and the father of Jeremy ""Jem"" Finch and Jean Louise ""Scout"" Finch. Lee based the character on her own father, Amasa"
"100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900"" names Finch as the seventh best fictional character of 20th-century literature. In 2003 the American Film Institute voted Atticus Finch, as portrayed in an Academy Award-winning performance by Gregory Peck in the 1962 film adaptation, as the greatest hero of all American cinema. In the 2018 Broadway stage play adapted by Aaron Sorkin, Finch is portrayed by Jeff Daniels. Claudia Durst Johnson has commented about critiques of the novel, saying, ""A greater volume of critical readings has been amassed by two legal scholars in law journals than by all the literary scholars in"
"eight, including Best Picture. In 1995, the film was listed in the National Film Registry. In 2003, the American Film Institute named Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th century. In 2007 the film ranked twenty-fifth on the AFI's 10th anniversary list of the greatest American movies of all time. In 2005, the British Film Institute included it in their list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14. The film was restored and released on Blu-ray and DVD in 2012 as part of the 100th anniversary of Universal Pictures. The film's young protagonists,"
"father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. Historian, J Crespino explains, ""In the twentieth century, ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism."" As a Southern Gothic and ""Bildungsroman"" novel, the primary themes of ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence. Scholars have noted that Lee also addresses issues of class, courage, compassion, and gender roles in the American Deep South."
"Atticus Finch. The film's producer, Alan J. Pakula, remembered Universal Pictures executives questioning him about a potential script: ""They said, 'What story do you plan to tell for the film?' I said, 'Have you read the book?' They said, 'Yes.' I said, 'That's the story.'"" The movie was a hit at the box office, quickly grossing more than $20 million from a $2-million budget. It won three Oscars: Best Actor for Gregory Peck, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White, and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium for Horton Foote. It was nominated for five more Oscars including Best"
"novel by Harper Lee. Mulligan accepted the offer despite the awareness that ""the other studios didn't want it because what's it about? It's about a middle-aged lawyer with two kids. There's no romance, no violence (except off-screen). There's no action. What is there? Where's the story?"" With the help of a screenplay by Horton Foote as well as the pivotal casting of Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch, the film became a huge hit, and Mulligan was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. Mulligan and Pakula followed ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" with five more films: ""Love"
"Gregory Peck Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor. He is one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. Peck received five Academy Award for Best Actor nominations and won once for his performance as Atticus Finch in the 1962 drama film ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". Peck also received Oscar nominations for his roles in ""The Keys of the Kingdom"" (1944), ""The Yearling"" (1946), ""Gentleman's Agreement"" (1947) and ""Twelve O'Clock High"" (1949). Other notable films in which he appeared include ""Spellbound"" (1945), ""The Gunfighter"" (1950), ""Roman Holiday"" (1953),"
"nice to think so. Walt Disney requested the film be privately screened in his house. At the film's conclusion, Disney sadly stated, ""That was one hell of a picture. That's the kind of film I wish I could make."" Gregory Peck's performance became synonymous with the role and character of Atticus Finch. Producer Alan J. Pakula remembered hearing from Peck when he was first approached with the role: ""He called back immediately. No maybes. […] I must say the man and the character he played were not unalike"". Peck later said in an interview that he was drawn to the"
"list of 500 greatest movies of all time. The American Film Institute, ranked it as the 5th greatest and most influential thriller film of all time while the characters Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter were ranked as the greatest film heroine and villain respectively. The film is considered ""culturally, historically or aesthetically"" significant by the U.S. Library of Congress and was selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry in 2011. A sequel titled ""Hannibal"" was released in 2001, in which Hopkins reprised his role. It was followed by two prequels: ""Red Dragon"" (2002) and ""Hannibal Rising"" (2007). FBI"
"film as #79 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies, #30 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, and #53 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition). The film ranks 467th in the ""Empire"" magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time, noting: Cimino's bold, powerful 'Nam epic goes from blue-collar macho rituals to a fiery, South East Asian hell and back to a ragged singalong of America the Beautiful[sic]. De Niro holds it together, but Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep and John Savage are unforgettable. Jan Scruggs, a Vietnam veteran who became a counselor with the U.S. Department of Labor,"
"to journey without weapons, and being saved from failure by his earlier decision to spare the life of the creature Gollum. Conor Cruise O'Brien wrote that Albert Camus was the writer most representative of the Western consciousness and conscience in its relation to the non-Western world. Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird portrays Atticus Finch (played by Gregory Peck in the classic film from the book (see To Kill a Mockingbird (film))) as a lawyer true to his conscience who sets an example to his children and community. The Robert Bolt play ""A Man For All Seasons"" focuses on the"
"on ""100 Years... 100 Movies"". The line ""It's alive! It's alive!"" was ranked as the 49th greatest movie quote in American cinema. The film was on the ballot for several of AFI's ""100 series"" lists, including AFI's ""10 Top 10"" for the sci-fi category, ""100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)"", and twice on ""100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains"" for both Dr. Henry Frankenstein and the Monster in the villains category. The film was ranked number 56 on AFI's ""100 Years... 100 Thrills"", a list of America's most heart-pounding movies. It was also ranked number 27 on Bravo's ""100"
"and popular viewpoint: Roger Ebert listed it as one of his ""Great Movies"". The American Film Institute named Juror 8, played by Henry Fonda, 28th in a list of the 50 greatest movie heroes of the 20th century. AFI also named ""12 Angry Men"" the 42nd most inspiring film, the 88th most heart-pounding film and the 87th best film of the past hundred years. The film was also nominated for the 100 movies list in 1998. , the film holds a 100% approval rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes. In 2011, the film was the second most screened"
"show, described the performance as """"... an amazing song, I thought. [The song is] very much a Buddy Holly 1950s kind of sound""."" A studio version of that song is included on ""Grand Theft Audio"", the latest album by Atticus which includes the Green Apple Splatters' ""Southeast Exports"" interview. Atticus (band) Atticus (formed in 1995 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is a rock band noted for progressive compositions, complex harmonies, innovative cover art, and a small but loyally devoted fan base. The band is named after the Atticus Finch character of ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", a novel by Harper Lee which won"
"film, and details the character's early years. Numerous other books, comics, and video games have also been produced. In 1998, the American Film Institute placed the film at number 60 on its top 100 films of the first century of cinema. In 2007, AFI updated the list and placed it at number 66. They also named it as the 10th most thrilling film, and named Indiana Jones as the second greatest hero. In 1999, the film was deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" by the U.S. Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Indiana Jones"
"struggle, and the demise of the new frontier. AFI's 10 Top 10 AFI's 10 Top 10 honors the ten greatest US films in ten classic film genres. Presented by the American Film Institute (AFI), the lists were unveiled on a television special broadcast by CBS on June 17, 2008. In the special, various actors and directors, among them Clint Eastwood, Quentin Tarantino, Kirk Douglas, Harrison Ford, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Roman Polanski, and Jane Fonda, discussed their admiration for and personal contributions to the films cited. The entire list of 500 nominated films is available on the American"
"American Film Institute named Hannibal Lecter (as portrayed by Hopkins) the number one film villain of all time and Clarice Starling (as portrayed by Foster) the sixth-greatest film hero of all time. In 2011, ABC aired a prime-time special, """", that counted down the best films chosen by fans based on results of a poll conducted by ABC and ""People"" magazine. ""The Silence of the Lambs"" was selected as the 1 Best Suspense/Thriller and Dr. Hannibal Lecter was selected as the 4 Greatest Film Character. The film and its characters have appeared in the following AFI ""100 Years"" lists: In"
"""The Terminator"" has received recognition from the American Film Institute. The film ranked 42nd on AFI's ""100 Years... 100 Thrills"", a list of America's most heart-pounding films. The character of the Terminator was selected as the 22nd-greatest movie villain on AFI's ""100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains"". Arnold's catch phrase ""I'll be back"" was voted the 37th-greatest movie quote by the AFI. In 2005, ""Total Film"" named ""The Terminator"" the 72nd-best film ever made. In 2008, ""Empire"" magazine selected ""The Terminator"" as one of ""The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time"". ""Empire"" also placed the T-800 14th on their list"
"several ""best of"" lists generated by the American Film Institute, an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1967. The ""AFI 100 Years... series"" were created by juries consisting of over 1,500 artists, scholars, critics, and historians, with movies selected based on the film's popularity over time, historical significance, and cultural impact. ""Ben-Hur"" appeared at #72 on the 100 Movies, #49 on the 100 Thrills, #21 on the Film Scores, #56 on the 100 Cheers and #2 on the AFI's 10 Top 10 Epic film lists. In 2004, the National Film Preservation Board selected ""Ben-Hur"""
"motion film industry, including the increasing importance of opening weekend box office receipts; the narrowing window between a film's debut and its video release that caused the demise of second-run movie theaters; the accelerated acquisition of pre-existing, pre-sold properties for film adaptations that can be readily leveraged for merchandizing tie-ins; the primacy of the MPAA PG-13 as the target rating for film producers; and more off-beat, non-traditional casting opportunities for genre films. The American Film Institute anointed Batman the 46th greatest movie hero and the Joker the 45th greatest movie villain on ""AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains"". ""Batman"" has"
"American Hero (film) American Hero is a 2015 American-British superhero comedy-drama film written and directed by Nick Love. It stars Stephen Dorff as a hard-partying alcoholic with telekinetic powers who, after a life-changing event, resolves to follow a more heroic lifestyle. Screen Media Films released it in the US on December 11, 2015. Lucille, a crippled man who is in a wheelchair from injuries sustained in the Gulf War, searches New Orleans for his friend Melvin so a documentary crew can follow Melvin. They find him passed out on the street. Melvin, an alcoholic and drug abuser, is in a"
"Superman in the first film as the 26th greatest hero of all time in their AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains list. ""Business Insider"" placed Reeve's Superman as the fourth greatest superhero film performance out of twenty while ""Hollywood Reporter"" placed number three out of fifty in top performances in superhero film. In 2009, ""Entertainment Weekly"" placed Superman as the third of the coolest heroes in pop culture.Mark Hughes of ""Forbes"" felt that Reeve portrays both Superman and Clark Kent like two different people that it felt like watching two different actors in screen.Ben Kuchera of ""Polygon"" opined that the"
"the American Film Institute's (AFI) top movie lists. The film was listed at #46 in the 1998 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies, at #70 in the 2007 second listing. ""Alex DeLarge"" is listed 12th in the villains section of the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains. In 2008, the AFI's 10 Top 10 rated ""A Clockwork Orange"" as the 4th greatest science-fiction movie to date. The film was also placed 21st in the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills In the British Film Institute's 2012 ""Sight & Sound"" polls of the world's greatest films, ""A Clockwork Orange"" was ranked 75th"
"in search of a more successful criminal career. In 2003, the film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."" The American Film Institute ranked ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" as the 73rd-greatest American film on its ""AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)"" list. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were ranked 20th greatest heroes on ""AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains"". In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever, talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion"
"is ranked as the second-greatest villain on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 film heroes and villains, behind Hannibal Lecter and before Darth Vader. His line ""A boy's best friend is his mother"" also ranks as number 56 on the institute's list of the 100 greatest movie quotes. In 2008, Norman Bates was selected by ""Empire Magazine"" as one of ""The 100 Greatest Movie Characters"". Bates also ranked number 4 on ""Premiere"" magazine's list of ""The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time"". Norman Bates Norman Bates is a fictional character created by American author Robert Bloch"
"served in World War II as a surgical ward officer in the Affiliated Unit of the University of Pennsylvania, the 20th General Hospital, stationed in the China-Burma-India Theatre. Fitts' maternal grandfather, Joseph H. Willits, Ph.D., LL.D., was a professor and dean of the Wharton School. Michael Fitts and his wife, Renée J. Sobel, Esq., have two daughters and are best friends with Nick Bader. Fitts earned a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard College in 1975. Inspired by To Kill a Mockingbird and its heroic protagonist Atticus Finch, he attended Yale Law School. Fitts was editor of the Yale Law"
"""a flaccid bromantic comedy"". American Hero (film) American Hero is a 2015 American-British superhero comedy-drama film written and directed by Nick Love. It stars Stephen Dorff as a hard-partying alcoholic with telekinetic powers who, after a life-changing event, resolves to follow a more heroic lifestyle. Screen Media Films released it in the US on December 11, 2015. Lucille, a crippled man who is in a wheelchair from injuries sustained in the Gulf War, searches New Orleans for his friend Melvin so a documentary crew can follow Melvin. They find him passed out on the street. Melvin, an alcoholic and drug"
"into the Utah Cowboy and Western Heritage Hall of Fame. The American Film Institute (AFI) ranked Cooper eleventh on its list of the 25 male stars of classic Hollywood. Three of his characters—Will Kane, Lou Gehrig, and Sergeant York—made AFI's list of the one hundred greatest heroes and villains, all of them as heroes. His Lou Gehrig line, ""Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."", is ranked by AFI as the thirty-eighth greatest movie quote of all time. More than a half century after his death, Cooper's enduring legacy, according to biographer Jeffrey Meyers,"
"AFI's 10 Top 10 AFI's 10 Top 10 honors the ten greatest US films in ten classic film genres. Presented by the American Film Institute (AFI), the lists were unveiled on a television special broadcast by CBS on June 17, 2008. In the special, various actors and directors, among them Clint Eastwood, Quentin Tarantino, Kirk Douglas, Harrison Ford, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Roman Polanski, and Jane Fonda, discussed their admiration for and personal contributions to the films cited. The entire list of 500 nominated films is available on the American Film Institute website. To date, this is the"
"AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores is a list of the top 25 film scores in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute in 2005. John Williams has the most scores in the top 25, with three: ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"", ""Jaws"", and the top choice, ""Star Wars"". Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Herrmann, and Max Steiner each have two scores listed. The most scores by one composer nominated for the top 25 was 11; seven composers accomplished this: Max Steiner, Elmer Bernstein, Alfred"
"Atticus (band) Atticus (formed in 1995 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is a rock band noted for progressive compositions, complex harmonies, innovative cover art, and a small but loyally devoted fan base. The band is named after the Atticus Finch character of ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", a novel by Harper Lee which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961, and commonly picturized in posters and T-shirts developed by various print companies and Express clothing line. Atticus reunited with former Atticus guitarist Nick Swan for a special reunion show at the New City Cafe in Knoxville's Old City on July 16, 2005."
"""Aliens"" was ranked 35th on Bravo's ""100 Scariest Movie Moments"" for the scene in which Ripley and Newt are attacked by facehuggers; the original ""Alien"" was ranked second for the chestburster scene. IGN ranked it third in its ""Top 25 Action Films of All Time"", stating that ""there won't be an ""Alien"" movie as scary—or exciting—as this one made ever again."" Empire voted it the 'Greatest Film Sequel Of All Time'. The film is also recognized by American Film Institute in the 2003 list AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains: Ellen Ripley as the #8 hero. Philosopher Stephen Mulhall has"
"or innovation. The earliest film on the list dates from 1913, the latest from 1983. The 1930s is the most represented decade with 24 entries, followed by the 1920s (16) and the 1940s (14). Maurice Elvey, with four films on the list, is the most represented director. The first film on the list is Alfred Hitchcock's 1926 feature ""The Mountain Eagle"", described as ""the Holy Grail of film historians"". Since 2012, the BFI has revealed that a number of the films on the list have been found. As of 2017, 18 of the 75 films have been found in their"