His performance even won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Characters can deliver their lines with facial expressions, hand gestures, and postures that Harper Lee may not have written about. For example, when Bob Ewell was being interviewed. There was never any mention of Mayella Ewell's facial expressions, but in the film you can see a look of fear on her face. The film gives the characters much more depth than the book can provide. Although the film brings greater depth to the characters, it can also do the opposite. For example, the actress who plays Miss Maudie is thinner, much younger, and more conventional than Scout portrays in the book, which takes away from a character. The book is always better than the