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So I received my copy of "Mark Twain Journal" today and there on the
cover was an image from a recent film of Tom and Huck in current day
mofty. My wife has a client that pays for her Netflix account so I
asked her to tune it in. I had never heard of this movie until the
journal showed up but if it was deemed good enough to find mention I
would watch it. Sorry, but I was not impressed. I could see where the
writers/directors found inspiration from the Blues Brothers and from
Raising Arizona but I could not see Huck. Granted, Tom was a dreamer
caught up in trying to live fantasy scenarios, but poor Huck was merely
a barely recognizable cipher tagging along through the plot.
Injun Joe was given a brief moment of character development, but for
naught. He ended up just a white bad guy firing his shot gun, running
around in a fringed jacket. I think what bothered me the most was Huck
was introduced as someone being release from prison. That's not an
image of Huck I've ever had.
I have not, as yet, read the interview published in the journal, and
perhaps the absinthe obscured my viewing, but my feelings are that
again Twain in cinema falls short.
--
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of
in your philosophy.
http://bscottholmes.com
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