I did a quick scan and I don't think there's a scene like that. I did a search for the word "boy" and nothing comes up. That doesn't mean it isn't in there, I just don't have time to look.
I think it's a Hollywood trope rather than a stolen scene, per se. It's a shorthand way of saying "look at how these savages do things, so primitive and backward from us" when in fact it's really an example of the opposite. (Not that I'm saying prostituting children is an advanced way of thinking, mind you.)
Clearly I haven't spoken to Chamberlain but my guess is that's how he was reading the scene -- similarly when his Western self is appalled by the idea of BATHING. Like, OMG, do NOT put water and SOAP on me, I'll catch my death. That's much more played out in the book than in the miniseries.
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Date: 2008-01-08 09:03 pm (UTC)The book's here:
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I did a quick scan and I don't think there's a scene like that. I did a search for the word "boy" and nothing comes up. That doesn't mean it isn't in there, I just don't have time to look.
I think it's a Hollywood trope rather than a stolen scene, per se. It's a shorthand way of saying "look at how these savages do things, so primitive and backward from us" when in fact it's really an example of the opposite. (Not that I'm saying prostituting children is an advanced way of thinking, mind you.)
Clearly I haven't spoken to Chamberlain but my guess is that's how he was reading the scene -- similarly when his Western self is appalled by the idea of BATHING. Like, OMG, do NOT put water and SOAP on me, I'll catch my death. That's much more played out in the book than in the miniseries.