I was actually pleasantly surprised by "Band of Robbers"; it was far better than I was expecting. Especially when compared to the last Twain movie I saw, Val Kilmer's godawful fiasco. - B. Clay Shannon

      From: Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]>
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 Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 11:04 PM
 Subject: Band of Robbers
   
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.
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