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Some scenes that were left out were: Christmas at Uncle Jack's, Jem reading to Miss Dubose, Aunt Alexandra's tea party, Dill running away from his dad, Scout's first day at school inside the classroom, Mr Dolphus Raymond giving Dill a drink to settle him down and the black church. There's a lot more but I don't want to go on and on. .
However the film didn't just take out scenes, it put some in. An example is in the film Atticus is offered the job defending Tom Robinson by the judge, in the book Atticus just tells Scout and Jem that he's defending Tom. We couldn't see this in the book because its told in Scouts view and Scout couldn't of saw that herself. I believe that turning To Kill a Mockingbird into a film was a good idea but when the director changed it so significantly I knew that it would be nothing but disappointing.
The only other book that I've read that has become a film is Deadly Unna by Phillip Gwynne. This book tells the story of a young man called Gary Black who lives in a poor town. This is probably the best book I have ever read. I think it's because I can relate a lot to the main character because he's the same age as me and has the same interests (football).
I told mum a bit about the book and she said to me that she had seen a movie called Australian Rules that had the same characters in it, Blacky, Dumby Red, and Arks. I soon found out that it was a movie based on Deadly Unna. Once I had watched it I found out that it had changed quite a lot. The characters for one thing were different, in the book they were 14 and in the film they had all been put up in age and were now 17. This changed my feeling about the story a bit because they were no longer my age. Events also changed, for example in the book a kid named Carol, who played for Blacky's footy team was taken of the team because he was over the age limit. In the film he was taken of the team because he was in trouble with the police.
