I saw it and really enjoyed the Twain connections. I'm not sure why the reviews don't mention them. You'd think it would've made a good selling point. Cindy ________________________________________ From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Larry Howe <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 11:39 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Mud--homage to Twain Forum-- I'm wondering if anyone else has seen the film _Mud_ (2013) one of the = latest films in the recuperation of Matthew McConaughey's career. I = mention it here because it bears multiple Twain connections.=20 Namely, it features a couple of boys (not too far removed from Huck and = Tom) who befriend a fugitive on an island in the Mississippi near = Arkansas. The fugitive, the eponymous Mud (McConaughey), subscribes to = all kinds of superstitious beliefs including warding off evil sprits = with a cross in his boot heel. Like Twain's Jim, Mud spouts lore about = snakebites and near the climax risks his own exposure to the authorities = to save one of the wounded boys, who, like Huck in the = Grangerford-Shepherdson sequence, served as Mud's go-between to the = woman he loves. If these correspondences weren't sufficient, the Twain = connection is clinched by the introduction of a loner character named = Tom Blankenship (Sam Shepard). =20 I'd seen a few reviews of this film, none of which mentioned the = connections to _HF_. Anyone else seen it or know anymore about it?