The Adventures of Huck Finn

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ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>For more screencaps from this movie: </B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.frodolivesin.us/nonlotr/id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.frodolivesin.us/nonlotr/id47."><U><B>Huck Finn: Fishing Scene</B></U></A><B>  and  </B><A HREF="http://www.frodolivesin.us/nonlotr/id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.frodolivesin.us/nonlotr/id46."><U><B>"One-Take Scene" from Huck Finn</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Overall movie: <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Arial" ><B>****</B></FONT></div> <div> EJW content: Must-see for fans; he never lets you forget this is <I>his </I>movie.</div> <bR> <div> This is the only Elijah Wood movie I'd "consciously" seen before he was cast in <I>LotR </I>(for "unconsciously," see <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Avalon"><U><I>Avalon</I></U></A>). I'd even bought this one on video, mostly because of Elijah, who plays Huck. The two things that struck me about him immediately were that he could show amazingly nuanced emotions for an actor his age, and that (except for not having curly hair) he was the spitting image of how I'd always pictured Frodo at the age he was when his parents died. I had a bit of a "<I>Twilight Zone</I> moment" when I heard this same actor had actually been cast in the role. </div> <bR> <div> For the record, I still think he looks absolutely right for the part (thanks to the curly wig)--although I've had to explain to a few <I>LotR </I>readers who skipped the book's prologue what "Fallohide" means and why Frodo <I>shouldn't</I> be played by someone "stocky."</div> <bR> <div> This is a Disney film, and it's definitely a "Disneyfied" version of the story.  The changes from the book to the movie (discussed in <A HREF="http://www.frodolivesin.us/id187.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.frodolivesin.us/id187.htm"><U>this essay</U></A>) seem to have two major purposes: to make it more acceptable/accessible for younger children, and to turn the story line into a plot (Twain's original is basically episodic, without any real dramatic buildup).</div> <bR> <div> I'd pick this as the earliest movie in which Elijah shows himself to be a master of understatement; what he does with a glance, or a little shrug, still amazes me whenever I watch it. On the other end of the "intensity spectrum," the addition of a plot to Twain's story means there's a climax, which calls for some major emotion. When I replayed this scene several times in succession it seemed overacted, but when seen in the context of the story I believe the emotion's appropriate: Huck is in great physical pain and he and Jim are caught in a life-or-death situation neither of them is capable of doing anything about.</div> <bR> <div> This is probably the movie that supplied the most practical preparation for <I>LotR</I>. (I'm kind of joking here, but still...) Huck is an orphan for most of the movie, grows up along a river, smokes a pipe, practices sword-fighting, makes up a story to cover his disappearance, travels under a false name, comes to respect and care deeply about someone society considers "beneath" him (while the two travel together), and wakes up after lying unconscious for days because of being seriously wounded; when he opens his eyes in the middle of a big, white bed, I almost expect him to ask, "Where am I and what is the time?"  [<I>Later edit</I>: Regarding the <I>LotR-FotR</I> movie, guess we can scratch making up a story to cover his disappearance, and "...what is the time?", but the spirit remains.]</div> <bR> <div> <I> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="505" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="121"><div> <I><B>Buy DVD</B></I></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="121"><div> <I><B>Buy VHS</B></I></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="121"><div> <I><B>Book by Mark Twain</B></I></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="121"><div> <I><B>Unabridged Audio Book</B></I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 75 ><NOBR><div>  <iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" width="120" height="240" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?o=1&l=as1&f=ifr&t=afewworabo-20&dev-t=D68HUNXKLHS4J&p=8&asins=B00005TPMM&IS2=1&bg1=ffffff&fc1=000000&lc1=6373B5&IS2=1&lt1=_blank"><MAP NAME="boxmap-p8"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="14, 200, 103, 207" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/afewworabo-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"></iframe>  </div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div>  <iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" width="120" height="240" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?o=1&l=as1&f=ifr&t=afewworabo-20&dev-t=D68HUNXKLHS4J&p=8&asins=6302945127&IS2=1&bg1=ffffff&fc1=000000&lc1=6373B5&IS2=1&lt1=_blank"><MAP NAME="boxmap-p8"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="14, 200, 103, 207" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/afewworabo-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"></iframe>  </div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div>  <iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" width="120" height="240" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?o=1&l=as1&f=ifr&t=afewworabo-20&dev-t=D68HUNXKLHS4J&p=8&asins=0142437174&IS2=1&bg1=ffffff&fc1=000000&lc1=6373B5&IS2=1&lt1=_blank"><MAP NAME="boxmap-p8"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="14, 200, 103, 207" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/afewworabo-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"></iframe>  </div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div>  <iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" width="120" height="240" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?o=1&l=as1&f=ifr&t=afewworabo-20&dev-t=D68HUNXKLHS4J&p=8&asins=1572701110&IS2=1&bg1=ffffff&fc1=000000&lc1=6373B5&IS2=1&lt1=_blank"><MAP NAME="boxmap-p8"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="14, 200, 103, 207" HREF="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1" ><AREA COORDS="0,0,10000,10000" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/afewworabo-20" ></MAP><img src="http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x240.gif" width="120" height="240" border="0" usemap="#boxmap-p8" alt="Shop at Amazon.com"></iframe>  </div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id17_m.htm" TITLE="The Adventures of Huck Finn"><U><B><IMG SRC="1647d3c0.jpg" border=0 width="125" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>