2. Well, the current leftist, SJW-type explanation would be that I’ve just excavated a truth from the shameful depths of Hollywood’s racism. I, like a good Foucauldian, am tracing the shadow history of the powerless & oppressed.
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3. I’m bringing to light what was obscured by straight, white male power. Hollywood has conspired to convince you that 18th century England was an entirely white European country, erasing characters like Silver’s wife in an act of white supremacy (she lives in Bristol, England).
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4. But is it so? Notice what Squire Trelawney—the letter’s writer— says about Silver’s wife. It is not complimentary, and, in fact, it recapitulates ideas that would be called “racist” today. This is probably the reason why Silver’s wife is portrayed as white on the screen.
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5. In other words, the erasure of a black character from the screen was, in fact, an early act of political correctness, because that character was not described in a complimentary fashion in the original work—a case of an earlier iteration of leftism against a later version.
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6. Incidentally, it’s worth noting that Trelawney, the letter writer, is a buffoon and terrible judge of character in the novel (he thinks Silver is a good man and is completely taken in). So his negative verdict on Silver’s wife should be taken, in context, with suspicion.
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