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Any connection to the old children's story 'Little black Sambo'?

posted 14 years ago by silverr8c
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Here is a quote from the story about spinning to butter

And the Tigers were very, very angry, but still they would not
let go of each other's tails. And they were so angry, that
they ran round the tree, trying to eat each other up, and they
ran faster and faster, till they were whirling round so fast
that you couldn't see their legs at all.

And they still ran faster and faster and faster, till they all
just melted away, and there was nothing left but a great big
pool of melted butter (or "ghi," as it is called in India)
round the foot of the tree.

And here is a link to the entire story

http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Story-of-Little-Black-Sambo.html

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[–] Go_Blue_99 14 years ago

Yes, this story is definitely part of the movie.

[–] Daverat 14 years ago

one other odd thing that the film gets wrong is that Sambo is not African. Little Black Sambo is about an Indian boy in India. The link above gives you the proper text of the story and not the wrongly remembered text that the film spits out.

Knowing that Little Black Sambo is not an African changes the entire ending of the film and makes the character who did it look like either a fool, a dumbass or both.

[–] marbleann 14 years ago

A student mentions that in the beginning of the movie. Something about how does a story about a Indian and the person cuts him off. I just think because in the book the writer calls the parents and their son black, Which English people called the Esat Indians when they were a colony. Now of course now they want to call them white and not Asian like they really. And the pictures of character evolved it into a African person when the story was released in this country. The American version of the book had a different illustrator, an American. So Little Black Sambo was Americanized. Instead of him being a sign of racism in colonial India/England he became a symbol of racism here.

Gee I was surprised they didn't have him eating watermelons and being chased by gators in the American version and the Gator churning themselves into vat of gin. Opposed to him eating Pancakes and chased by Tigers and the tigers churning themselves into butter like Little Black Sambo in the Bannermans's story does in India. I guess we can be thankful for small favors.

See I am not falling for the story that it was suppose to be a innocent children story knowing how oppressive are racist British Colonialism was in India.

[–] FridayOnElmStreet 8 years ago

Its a part of the film, yes.