![]() And, sure enough, the scene is not in the book. This seems unlikely on its face-slaves are valuable, and the sailor is not the owner. The sailor unhesitatingly stabs and kills him. A sailor enters the hold and is about to rape one of the slave women when a male slave intervenes. For instance, in the film version, shortly after Northup is kidnapped, he is on a ship bound south. This embellishment is by no means an isolated case in the film. But it creates that psychological truth by interpolating an incident that isn’t factually true. Director Steve McQueen has said that he included the sexual encounter to show “a bit of tenderness … Then after she climaxes, she’s back … in hell.” The sequence is an effort to present nuance and psychological depth-to make the film’s depiction of slavery seem more real. It appears nowhere in Northup’s autobiography, and it’s likely he would be horrified at the suggestion that he was anything less than absolutely faithful to his wife. GrossĪnd yet, for all its verisimilitude, the encounter never happened. The Mystery of the Hardy Boys and the Invisible Authors Daniel A. ![]()
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