The Adventures of Huck Finn

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I have read the novel Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and now watched the move Huck Finn by Elijah Wood. I feel that this is a great movie for a younger child who likes adventure novels and whose parents are willing to watch the movie with them to help them interpret key parts. It teaches many values of life, and one of the most important told by Jim the slave himself was to not always think that something is always right just because other people tell you it is. It is a good movie and I would recommend it to young children and adults alike especially after reading the novel. The novel by Mark Twain shows the relationship between a young white uncivilized white boy and a black runaway slave named Jim. Huck is living with a Widow and he likes to go on adventures and play pretend games with his friends especially his one friend Tom who has quite the imagination. Huck's harsh "Pap" comes to get him because Judge Thatches has a large lump sum of money that is supposed to be Huck's someday and he is after the money. He takes him to a secluded log cabin in the middle of the woods and Huck has to live with his alcoholic dad for all this time and he treats Huck Finn poorly. Eventually Huck finds a way to escape and he takes a boat and gets to an island where people seldom visit. He finds Jim who is the slave of the widow where Huck was previously residing. Jim tells him the secret that he ran away because he didn't want to be sold into slavery into the South he is on a hunt for freedom and wants to buy back his family. So Huck agrees to help Jim on his journey to Cairo and then go back up the river to the free states and earn money to buy his family back from slavery. In this novel Huck learns that just because the majority of people are doing something that it doesn't mean that it is the right thing to do. He learns that African Americans are people too and the color of their skin doesn't change that. He learns that Jim has feelings for his family and he sees just how much Jim cares for him when he shows how excited he is to see Huck. The movie shows all of the main scenes with some twists to keep the viewers attention and understanding, but it still portrays the same feelings and morals. Overall this is a great novel and movie and I recommend both to anyone.

Well done version of Mark Twain's classic about a carefree boy and his misadventures during the 19th century. I enjoyed the updated style used in this rendition and the flawless performances. The crooked antics of the 2 con men stole the show as far as I'm concerned.

Disney's 1993 adaptation of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is a fun-spirited adventure. Elijah Wood stars as the title character, and his charm and charisma serves the film well, as it did the other good films of his youth ("North", "Radio Flyer" and others). Courtney Vance does a fine job as Huck's friend Jim, the runaway slave. Stephen Sommers ("The Mummy", "The Mummy Returns") wrote the screenplay and directed this version, and he does a good job at capturing the spirit of the South. The cinematography is first-rate, too, as it is in "Tom and Huck." It's slightly too long (as is Twain's novel), and as a result loses a bit of steam in the final act, but there is enough power and charm to keep you engaged and caring for these colorful characters. Two years later, Disney would adapt Twain's "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in "Tom and Huck" and that was an all-around classy production. Many of Tom and Huck's good qualities are present here in this movie, including powerful performances, wonderful photography and music, and plenty of spirit and charm.

I think that Elijah Wood is one of the best young actors out there, but he just isn't Huck Finn. Another actor would have been better in this role and the movie suffers for this. The 1960 version is much better in part because of the casting.

In this 1993 version by Walt Disney Pictures of Mark Twain's classic boyhood story, Elijah Wood takes on the role of the story's hero, the mischievious and adventurous Huck Finn and in the end, his performance meets with so so results. Most of the film's best scenes come from Courtney B. Vance as Jim, Huck's runaway slave friend. Why couldn't the film have been more about him instead? Still, it's a good attempt even though Wood's performance in the title role is mostly wooden. Two years later, Walt Disney Pictures filmed the story again (with different actors) as "Tom And Huck" but that film featured a miscast Brad Renfro as Huck. See this Elijah Wood version instead.

Nineteenth century Mississippi River boy Elijah Wood (as Huckleberry "Huck" Finn) may be tiny, but he has a lot of spunk. In the opening sequence, he beats up a bigger boy and bloodies his nose. This may be filmmakers' way of drawing a connection to young Wood's own abuse, as we quickly learn he is being beaten by his father. The opening fight ends when Wood sees the distinctive footprint of his abusive father Ron Perlman (as "Pap"). Wood escapes the madman's clutches and joins forces with runaway slave Courtney B. Vance (as Jim). They have several adventures together, and learn about freedom... This adaptation of Mark Twain's superior novel is probably going to be most successful with young primary or elementary school children; most others will find it insufferable. It can invite discussion of - and comparison with - the original work. Letting youngsters know "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is a banned novel they should not read can also promote reading. This film has bright, colorful locations. The part where Wood plays "Huck" as Charles Dickens' "The Artful Dodger" is telegraphed before he assumes the British accent. "Tom Sawyer" is given no opportunity to steal scenes. *** The Adventures of Huck Finn (4/2/93) Stephen Sommers ~ Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Robards

True, Elijah Wood may not match the look and feel of the character Twain had in mind, but in this movie he works well as a young boy learning that friendship, love, and human rights mean more than tradition. Jim, a wise but uneducated runaway slave longs to find freedom so he can earn enough money to buy his family. Huck, a street-smart kid running away from his abusive father, is torn between breaking the law or betraying a freind. Which is the greater crime? Wood's age is put to good use in allowing more immaturity in the character. He can't understand why he can't bring himself to turn Jim in, even though he knows it's the right thing to do. In a heart-wrenching scene in which Huck's selfishness causes Jim to be whipped by a cruel overseer, Huck tries to convince himself that it wasn't his fault, only to realize how much he and Jim actually love and need each other. All of this takes us full-speed into an emotional climax that is quite honestly the best ending of any movie I have ever seen. Huck Finn is perfect.

A movie is a movie and a book is a book and nowhere is this more apparent than in Disney's adaptation of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Anyone who is looking for Mark Twain's story to hit the big screen as Mark Twain envisioned it is likely to be disappointed by this film. If, however, one recognizes the vastly different context of Twain's writing and Disney's production, the movie can be enjoyable. Twain wrote circa 1884. His world was not concerned with the politically correct. Though it may have been self-aware, it was certainly not self-obsessed. The idea of consciously shaping America's "social conscience" through literature in the specific or media in the general, wasn't. Twain didn't blush at Huck's use of the word "nigger". It simply was Huck's language. Today, our social conscience deems that word among the most loathsome and its utterance is forbidden. Twain also didn't blush when he borrowed the popular, black minstrelsy image of "coloreds" to create--and then differentiate--Jim. Today, we recognize Twain's source material, the blackface minstrelsy, as an abhorrent perpetuation of negative stereotype. I point this out only to provide context and how much this nation has changed (outwardly, at least). Enter Disney and its 1993 production. More than anything, the film seeks to reform Twain's story to fit contemporary social conscience. That is, you will not hear the "n" word because it is antithetical to the purpose of the film. Where Twain's Jim once participated as an uneducated, unsophisticated dupe in minstrelesque exchanges with Huck, Disney's Jim "best's" Huck's interlocution through sustained argument. In Disney's film we do not see Jim grow because we cannot be allowed to.... If we do, if we see Jim as possessing at any time any less dignity than that of a contemporary African-American, then Disney fails. For Disney, Jim is not a man but an incarnation of American Guilt and Apology. Jim is moralpatiencevirtueinnocenceperfection, sent to earth from above to instruct. In short, Disney's version is as revisionist as it comes, for better or for worse.