"The Adventures of Mark Twain"
[Youtube] Claymation Excerpt
shield young viewers from "offensive" material. In "Our Mysterious Stranger," a 2010 Newsweek article written by Malcolm Jones, Jones calls Vinton's brilliant claymation "the worst crime ever committed against children in the name of Twain." This portion of the film may indeed have frightened children, but that doesn't mean there isn't much to learn from it. In the dawn of modern society we switched from the very real early nineteenth-century fairy tales of The Brothers Grimm to Walt Disney's twisted ideological renditions of these children's stories. Getting a shot of Satan's words every now and then would leave 'em better off if you ask me! Sheltered lifestyles deal heavy blows to independence. |
This short video clip is a scene from Will Vinton's 1985 claymation movie The Adventures of Mark Twain. Various sources state that this portion of the film, in which Twain and his three young companions
--Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huckleberry Finn--visit the mysterious stranger, a character based off of young Satan in Twain's novel, was censored out when broadcasted on live television in an act to "I find you humans quite interesting, even though you are a worthless, greedy lot." |