![]() ![]() ![]() It seems like most versions focus on the adventures and the basic anti-slavery race message and leave out the misanthropic tones of Twain when he comments on religion, how fake people can be, fighting, family honor, mob mentality and so on. The CastTHE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN screen play by James Lee, from the novel by Mark Twain. There's many dark scenes in the book Huck being abused by his father, Jim being dressed up as the Arab, the thieves potential drowning in the steamship, and Huck finding the dead body of a good friend. In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect the extremest form of the backwoods South-Western dialect the ordinary 'Pike-County' dialect and four modified varieties of this last. Explain that this is but entertainment a plush one. I'm going to watch the 1960 version here soon, but my impression is that all the films of the story are family oriented, which means they leave out a lot of the cruelty of the novel. It really needs to be redone as accurately as possible, maybe with Soderbergh or Alfonso Cuaron directing.Agreed. The 1930s version isn't as good as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer made at almost the same time. The best thing about the 1960 version is the Jerome Moross score. ![]()
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