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...kids. Two are from abroad: Gianni Amelio's Italian drama Il Ladro di Bambini (Stolen Children) and Jean-Claude Lauzon's Leolo, from Quebec. Three are from Disney: Duwayne Dunham's Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, Mikael Salomon's A Far Off Place and Stephen Sommers' The Adventures of Huck Finn...
Blame it all on Mark Twain. His novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn established not only the quest theme for 20th century American literature but also the matter and manner of kids' movies. Sommers' brisk, pretty version of Huck's wayward youth gets most of Twain's words right, even if the music sounds like a TV jingle. Huck (plucky Elijah Wood) eludes his troglodyte father (Ron Perlman, doing an uncanny Tom Waits impression) for an eventful honeymoon on a raft with Nigger Jim (just plain Jim here, in a nicely balanced performance by Courtney B. Vance). Huck...
...subplots and disgraces. The narratives that Americans need may be somewhat more advertent, and morally organized. People invent stories to explore their own behavior and to imagine their own possibilities. Few moments in America's moral life have surpassed the soliloquy, product of Mark Twain's imagination, in which Huck Finn agonizes over what to do about turning over the runaway slave Jim to the white authorities. Huck ends by accepting the consequences of his decision not to do so: "All right, then, I'll go to hell...
...Huckleberry Finn anyway? The most celebrated hobo hero in American literature took on a new dimension when Shelley Fisher Fishkin, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, unveiled the research that went into her forthcoming book, Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices...
Twain said Huckleberry Finn, the young narrator of his most famous book, was based on Tom Blankenship, a poor white boy in Hannibal, Mo. But Fishkin argues that Huck's voice was in part inspired by Jimmy, a 10-year-old black servant. Twain described this boy in an 1874 article in the New York Times as "the most artless, sociable and exhaustless talker I ever came across." Added Twain: "He did not tell me a single remarkable thing, or one that was worth remembering. And yet he was himself so interested in his small marvels, and they flowed...