Seriously, would you show this to your kid?
LOL, what the hell? I’m an adult and I need a shot of whiskey after seeing that crap. I had no idea Mark Twain had such a dark side.
I love it. I’ve got Will Vinton’s The Adventures of Mark Twain on both VHS and DVD, and I’m sorry it didn’t get wider distribution. It would expose people to more of Twain’s stuff. (If you find this too dark, watch the “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” section. Twain may have had his dark times in his later years, but he named his last house “Stormfield”
The “Mysterious Strager” section is very liberally adapted from Twain’s book. It’s true that it’s one of his last published works, but he’d been working on it for years. It’s not just the matter of “dark” Twain had ben wrestling with the concept of “knowledge of good and evil” and “innocence” for years, and this is one of his interpretations of a being (an angel) who utterly lacks knowledge of good and evil and Moral Sense. One might argue that it’s similar to a lack of empathy, which would make the angel a psychopath, which fits in well with the film. Twain’s Lucifer 9who looks like an ordinary human in the story) does indeed create and destroy such miniature life. Being innocent of the Moral Sense, he’s not guilty of doing wrong by destroying them. Interesting theology.
There isn’ one single version of the story, by the way. There exist at least three complete and differering versions. One published edition includes all three, but most of them only print the most popular version.
Man, I do not get why people think that segment is so all-fire scary.
I watched it as a kid. Multiple times. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve seen that movie, The Mysterious Stranger included. (Contrary to what half the YouTube videos of it claim, it wasn’t ‘banned’.) I was a wimpy little kid, even.
Yeah, it was kinda creepy, but not nearly as nightmare-inducing as people claim…
(What strikes me NOW is how much Huck looks like Christopher Mintz-Plasse.)