However, for those more familiar with his style, humor, and stories, this movie is a clever presentation of what Twain was about, and why his stories live on. For those new to Twain, this film might be a bit overwhelming. While Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are featured prominently, their actual stories are given very little time in this movie. Picture of life in a Missouri town and the adventures of an amateur. The movie is more of an advanced discussion of Mark Twain's life and work than a simple introduction to Twain. The Extraordinary Mark Twain (according to Susy). Much of the story is focused on relatively lesser-known stories like "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "The Diary of Adam and Eve" as Twain fearlessly pilots his airship to Halley's Comet while the movie fearlessly discusses weighty matters of life, death, and the afterlife. It's unafraid to present a more complete portrait of Twain's stories, quips, and characters - cynicism, cigar smoking, and all. Now, 175 years after Twain's birth, NPR's Tom Vitale makes a pilgrimage to the author's grave in Elmira's. THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN is more intelligent than many of the more sanitized and sugarcoated renderings of the great author and his stories. For 20 summers, Mark Twain wrote novels in a small cottage on Quarry Farm in Elmira, N.Y.
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