Rewriting Twain, John Seelye delivered a raucous R-rated adaptation in The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1970), notably discarding Twain’s comical ending for a more tragic conclusion depicting a manacled Jim drowning in a last-ditch swim for freedom.

The original ending of Huck Finn is one of the best endings of all time, with an emancipatory and rebellious message of anti-racist solidarity. Huck is being pressured to give up Jim or burn in hell for all eternity and go to jail for aiding in the escape of a fugitive slave. Huck's response is "Alright I'll go to hell". It's perfection -just a couple words encapsulating solidarity and rebellion against racist religious authority- and these fucking grimdarkslop author thought they would 'improve' it by making it yet another tragic black-death and taking away one of the most inspiring endings in fiction to make it generic sad gritty bullshit