The opening credits and first ten minutes of the film to kill a mockingbird.

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The opening credits and first ten minutes of the film to kill a mockingbird.

I am going to be analyzing about the first ten minutes of the film to kill a mockingbird and I will also be analyzing about the opening credits. This story is about the situation in America Macomb in the early 1900s were there are racial segregations among the black and white people with some innocent victims trying to stop racism. This film was made in 1962 in America and it was directed by Robert Mulligan. This film was from the book, “To kill a mockingbird”, and the book was written by Harper Lee. It was set a long time ago at around 1961, and this also show by the quality of pictures it has [black & white].

When the film starts there is a child singing like a mockingbird and this illustrate innocence among people, as well as at the same occasion the child was drawing a mocking bird to express its feelings because the mockingbird represents the idea of innocence. The mocking bird also represents Tom Robinson because he was destroyed by evilness but he was innocent. In the opening credits there is also a marble which explain the black and white people being united together because the marble was black and white around. There was a pocket watch which was ticking to show that time was running out for the racial segregation, and in other terms racisms was going to end in the future. On the first few minutes the child rubs the word to kill a mockingbird which means there is going to be death and the death will be death of innocence. The word to kill resembles death so it illustrates that there would be death.

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The music in the opening of the credits was to show depression among the people in the story and about what film it would be like. The music reminds of the incident that occurred in the story when a black innocent soul was killed and all the black people in pain and sorrow. In the beginning of the film  the girl tears paper through the drawing of the bird and dramatically showing the separation of two sides and I think this was the separation between the black and white people through racism. It also resembles the tearing apart of ...

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