Tom Sawyer lives with his
Aunt Polly and his half-brother
Sid. He skips school to swim and is made to whitewash the fence the next day as punishment. He cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for the privilege of doing his work. He then trades the treasures for Sunday School tickets which one normally receives for memorizing verses consistently, redeeming them for a Bible, much to the surprise and bewilderment of the superintendent who thought "it was simply preposterous that this boy had warehoused two thousand sheaves of Scriptural wisdom on his premises—a dozen would strain his capacity, without a doubt."
As Tom and Becky wander the extensive cave complex for the next few days, Becky gets extremely dehydrated and starved, so Tom's search for a way out gets even more determined. He accidentally encounters Injun Joe one day, but he is not seen by his nemesis. Eventually he finds a way out, and they are joyfully welcomed back by their community. As a preventive measure, Judge Thatcher has McDougal's Cave sealed off, but this traps Injun Joe inside. When Tom hears of the sealing several days later and directs a posse to the cave, they find Injun Joe's corpse just inside the sealed entrance, starved to death.
A week later, having deduced from Injun Joe's presence at McDougal's Cave that the villain must have hidden the stolen gold inside, Tom takes Huck to the cave and they find the box of gold, the proceeds of which are invested for them. The Widow Douglas adopts Huck, and when he attempts to escape civilized life, Tom tricks him into thinking that he can join Tom's robber band if he returns to the widow. Reluctantly, he agrees and goes back to her.
Works Cited （参考文献）
wikipedia
II. Versions of the Novel in the Mass Media
H. C. Potter originally was signed to direct but was fired and replaced by Taurog after
George Cukor declined the assignment.
[3] Cukor directed some scenes, but received no on-screen credit for his contributions.
Tommy Kelly, a
Bronx fireman's son, was selected for the title role through a national campaign waged by
producer David O. Selznick, who later would conduct a similar search for an actress to portray
Scarlett O'Hara in
Gone with the Wind. According to a 1937 memo he sent to story editor Katharine Brown, he originally hoped to cast an orphan as Tom, feeling such a stunt would receive "tremendous attention and arouse such a warm public feeling that it would add enormously to the gross of the picture."
[4] Kelly failed to achieve the star status of fellow child actor
Freddie Bartholomew, and after an inconsequential career he retired and later became a school teacher.
[5]
After reading the comment cards completed by an audience at a
sneak preview of the film, Selznick sent director Taurog a memo expressing concern about the climactic scene in the cave, which many viewers had described as "too horrible for children." He advised Taurog "this worried me, because we certainly want the picture to be for a family audience," and as a result he was cutting a close-up of Becky, in which her hysteria was "perhaps a shade too much that of a very ill woman, rather than that of a little girl," "with regrets."
[6]
On the strength of the designs for the cave sequence executed by
William Cameron Menzies, Selznick hired him for
Gone with the Wind.
[7]
Some exterior scenes were filmed at
Big Bear Lake, Lake Malibu,
Paramount Ranch in
Agoura, California, and
RKO's Encino
movie ranch. Other scenes were filmed on recycled sets left over from
A Star is Born (1937), such as the Boldgett family home interior (kitchen, living room, & bedroom), and a silhouette of a wolf howling at the moon. Mississippi River long shots from
Tom Saywer would later be reused in
MGMs 1951 musical
Showboat.
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Works Cited （参考文献）
wikipedia
III. About the Author
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film)
Twain was raised in
Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for
Tom Sawyer and
Huckleberry Finn. After an apprenticeship with a printer, Twain worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to the newspaper of his older brother,
Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the
Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the
Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.
[4] In 1865, his humorous story "
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, based on a story he heard at
Angels Hotel in
Angels Camp, California, where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, and was even translated into classic Greek.
[5] His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the
Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks, he filed for protection from his creditors via bankruptcy, and with the help of
Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal responsibility to do so.
Twain was born shortly after a visit by
Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it", too. He died the day after the comet returned. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age",
[6] and
William Faulkner called Twain "the father of
American literature".
[7]
IV. My Reaction
定義 :the time, place and/or situation in which a story takes place
例 :Not specified, but probably around 1845. The fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri (which resembles Twain’s hometown of Hannibal)
略 :Because Nakanoshima of a cave and the river of works was the place that existed, I wanted to really look.
B. Reaction Point - theme
定義 :the central message or moral of a story
例 :Moral and social maturation; society’s hypocrisy; freedom through social exclusion; superstition in an uncertain world
略 :A didactic factor is included.
定義 :the persons or things that are the focus of the plot
例 :Tom Sawyer Aunt Polly Huckleberry Finn Becky Thatcher Joe Harper
略 :I felt that there were many characters of the man.
D. My General Opinion
I knew the adventure of the Tom so shop in Disney, but it was good to become known this time because it did not know the detailed contents very much. I want to watch the movie.
