#The Adventures of Mark Twain

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Revenge of the Underrated

18. The Adventures of Mark Twain vs A Troll in Central Park

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The Adventures of Mark Twain

Weird claymation film that showcases various Mark Twain stories and quotations, including some of his more obscure/nihilistic works

A Troll in Central Park

It's so hard to pick a favorite Don bluth film, But I am very partial to this one. I love the rules, I love all the growing of plants, I love all the trolls, it emotionally felt really real to me as a kid. Loved it.

it's cute and odd and has fun music, it deserves some love

#Revenge of the Underrated #The Adventures of Mark Twain #A Troll in Central Park #best animated movie #round 1

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How we see the Princess: Yes! Behold, the perfect woman!

How the Narrator sees the Princess:

And the thing is, we are both right.

She creates life and then destroys it.

The Narrator thinks his world is about to end. Like clay people falling down a crack that closes on them. Then they are gone and forgotten.

Why would the Narrator care that she will make new worlds? He thinks his world is about to end and everyone he has ever known and loved will be gone forever. He willingly died to try and save everyone else.

Weather he was right about the immediate end of his world is unknown but he thought it was coming

#slay the princess #slay the princess spoilers #spoilers #the mysterious stranger #the adventures of mark twain #video #stp narrator #stp princess #the shifting mound #As much as people clown on the Narrator #He’s not entirely wrong in what he thinks #Youtube

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The Adventures of Mark Twain

(1985)

#fav media #the adventures of mark twain #mark twain #claymation

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TV Shows & Movies I need to watch: -1966 Batman -All Harry Potter Movies -Saikano (I remember watching the anime as a kid but I don't remember almost any of it) -Edward Scissorhands (again, watched this as a kid but don't remember) -Thunderbirds -Alf -The Adventures Of Mark Twain -Labyrinth (It has David Bowie on it, ofc I need to watch it) -Watership Down 1978 -The Animals Of Farthing Wood -The Moomins -The Plague Dogs -The Brave Little Toaster ( I think I did watch this as a child? not sure)

#can you tell i like creepy kids movies #things i need to watch #batman 1966 #harry potter movies #saikano #edward scissorhands #thunderbirds 1965 #alf #the adventures of mark twain #labyrinth #watership down 1978 #the animals of farthing wood #the moomins #the plague dogs #the brave little toaster

[rotteneldritchhorror]

Mystrangeric / Youngsatanic

A gender related to The Mysterious Stranger/Young Satan from the movie Adventure of Mark Twain.

May also be related to the inherent genderqueer nature of deities, vocal distortion, claymation, Greek theatre masks, mortality/immortality, the fragility of humans and life itself, a detachment from humanity, an annoyance or hatred of humanity, and/or the idea of Satan and god or angels and devils being one in the same, only framed by human perception.

[specifically coined because of this scene:]

{ Photo ID help?: @liom-archive @radiomogai @mogaidescribed }

DNI: bigots, radinclus, radexclus, pro-endo, if you’re going to try and argue with me on any of these points, if you demonise mental illness, pro-transid (eg; transabled, transage, transrace, etc), proshippers/anti-anti, MAPS/NOMAPS/necro/zoo

#mark twain #the adventures of mark twain #the mysterious stranger #young satan #🪐 gender #mogai gender #gender flag #gender coining #new gender #xeno coining #coining post #mogai coining #xenogender coining #flag coining #identity coining #term coining #coining #xenogenders #xenogender flag #xenogender #xenogender safe #xenogender positivity #xeno flag #mogai flag #mogai term #mogai label #mogai identity #new mogai term #mogai post #mogai pride

[mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves]

The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985, Will Vinton, USA)

#the adventures of mark twain #will vinton

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The Devils I Know - Number 10

Welcome to “The Devils I Know!” For this spooky time of year, from now till Halloween, I’ll be counting down My Top 31 Depictions of the Devil, from movies, television, video games, and more! Today we’ve reached the Top 10, and this Devil is a uniquely animated evil. Number 10 is…The Mysterious Stranger, from The Adventures of Mark Twain.

“The Adventures of Mark Twain” is a rather bizarre movie from 1985. It was the product of Will Vinton, the master of “Claymation” stop-motion animation, and has become a cult classic for its surreal tone and aesthetic style. The movie essentially tells the story of Mark Twain’s life through the eyes of his characters, as Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher go on a series of unusual and colorful adventures all based on different stories from Twain’s life and works. Arguably the single strangest scene in the film (and that’s saying a lot), and undeniably the scariest and most infamous part of the film, is the encounter with this character, inspired by the unfinished Twain novel by the same name: The Mysterious Stranger.

About halfway through the movie, Twain brings the children to a strange, dark void to meet the titular character. The Mysterious Stranger is a bizarre, ghostly figure, and right from the word go, we get the distinct feeling he’s…off. He introduces himself first as an angel, but when the children ask the angel’s name, he replies with a growl: “Satan.” That’s probably enough to send most people fleeing, but the Stranger behaves so kindly after that point, the children are happy to follow him into his own little world. The Stranger lives on a small island in the void, where he makes clay figures and buildings and all sorts of other things out of the earth around him, then brings them to life. At first, it all seems sweet and fun and charming…but things change when the living dolls begin to fight with each other, behaving with greed and arrogance. Satan sees this as annoying, and promptly squashes two of the figures flat beneath his hand, then summons an earthquake and storm, smiting the rest of them in its wake, before rendering the entire little world to dust. With all life erased, he proclaims: “I can do no wrong, for I do not know what it is.” That’s scary enough, but things get worse when the children protest all this in fear, at which point Satan says, in a soothing tone: “Never mind them. People are of no value. We can make more sometime…if we need them.” It's the cold, callous, deeply unsettling way Satan does all this that makes the character so eerie and unnerving. He never expresses intense anger, in fact often sounding rather pleasant and even gentle…but the horror of his actions speak for themselves. This is reflected in the character’s design, as his mask-like face, which becomes increasingly more demonic the angrier he becomes, and turns into a skull near the end of the sequence. Now, apparently, Twain’s unfinished novel was actually about the SON of Satan, who went by the same name (Satan Jr., if you will), but even there, it’s implied he’s less a hellspawn and more just a continuation of the same, if that makes sense. He’s referred to as “Number 44,” indicating he’s the 44th Satan in line, and the fact he identifies himself as an angel, and behaves in the way he does, makes it possible he may just be the 44th incarnation of the same being. Of course, to anyone who doesn’t know about the incomplete book, all we see is the Devil in general. However you look at it, it’s the ambiguous and creepy nature of this character, who does such terrible things yet seems so gentle and even playful, that makes him such a deeply troubling character. The scene with the Mysterious Stranger is honestly more famous than the movie it’s from, and has been hailed as one of the most disturbing and yet expertly handled pieces of animation ever made. This is a very different kind of Devil…but that’s exactly what makes this particularly nightmarish, haunting scene so breathtaking and intriguing.

Tomorrow, the countdown continues with Number 9! HINT: He’s a particularly mysterious malefactor. (Pauses) Yeah, that hint is terrible, I know, just cut me some slack. :P

#the devils i know #top 31 devils #countdown #list #best #favorites #fiction #movies #films #animation #stop-motion animation #stop-motion #will vinton #the adventures of mark twain #satan #the mysterious stranger #number 10 #halloween advent calendar #october special

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#Claymation #Animation #Movie Clips #Horror #Tom Sawyer #Huckleberry Finn #Injun Joe #The Adventures of Mark Twain

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Inktober Day 16: Angel

The Mysterious Stranger from The Adventures of Mark Twain

#art #inktober 2023 #inktober #kritaart #digital art #inkdrawing #krita illustration #made with krita #fanart #mark twain #mysterious stranger #the mysterious stranger #the adventures of mark twain

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sometimes I think about how in Adventures of Mark Twain, the little clay guys are made by Satan and the kids and brought to life with forces beyond their comprehension, brought to life by larger beings also made of clay brought to life by humans via forces beyond their comprehension. Little clay blobs brought to life by more sophisticated clay blobs brought to life by us, the most sophisticated clay blobs of all. And above us, who knows? And that gets across anything Twain intended far more than the dialogue chosen for the adaptation. Something out there that has just as much indifference us as we over them, and them over the smaller ones.

#the mysterious stranger #the adventures of mark twain #will Vinton #no44 the mysterious stranger

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Becky Thatcher from Will Vinton's "The Adventures of Mark Twain". I love her so much...

#the adventures of mark twain #will vinton #claymation #becky thatcher

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Today on “Things That Remind Me of Other Things”:

Ulysses from ENA, the music video for Tally Hall’s “Ruler of Everything”, and the “Mysterious Stranger” sequence from The Adventures of Mark Twain.

#Youtube #ena #temptation stairway #ena ulysses #tally hall #roll the bones #the adventures of mark twain #things that remind me of other things

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✨¿Qué es la que hay 2023?✨

🎞️ 3. The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)

Dir. Will Winton

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#the adventures of mark twain #1985 #claymation #will vinton #animation #2023 #film

[tortoisebear]

From "the Adventures of Mark Twain"

#stop motion #Satan #The Adventures of Mark Twain

[just-illegal]

love being weirdly argumentative while discussing movies/ shows/ etc. not in a discousey way, ive been yelling at the air after rewatching a kids movie from the 80s ab death about how all the characters and scenes are an extention of the titular one rather than their own thing and how funny it is that he speaks only in quotes that do not fit the situation and how the satan scene feels jarring but makes perfect sense and how funny it is when 80s movies write the year in roman numerals. like they really lived in the simpsons alcohol decade didn’t they

#being incoherent again #the adventures of mark twain #<- the movie