Atticus Finch which they became lawyers. Freedman argued that Atticus Finch is dishonest, unethical, sexist, and inherently racist, and that he did nothing to challenge the racist status quo in Maycomb. Freedman's article sparked furious controversy, with one legal scholar opining, "What Monroe really wants is for Atticus to be working on the front lines for the NAACP in the 1930s, and, if he's not, he's disqualified from being any kind of hero; Monroe has this vision of lawyer as prophet. Atticus has a vision of lawyer not only as prophet but as parish priest". In 1997 the Alabama State Bar erected
My Father the Hero (1991 film) My Father the Hero (1991 film) My Father the Hero (original French title: "Mon père, ce héros") is a 1991 French film directed by Gérard Lauzier. An English language remake of the movie was made in 1994 . The name of the film comes from a famous poem by the French poet Victor Hugo, ""Mon père, ce héros"," published in 1859. The story introduces André (Gérard Depardieu), a Frenchman who is divorced from his wife. He takes his beautiful teenage daughter, Véronique (Marie Gillain), on vacation to a paradise island with him. She is desperate to appear as a woman