Prime - Moby d*ck

Norman_Conquest

Norman_Conquest

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I love Herman Melville's story of Moby d*ck and saw this advertised recently on Prime and thought I would give it a watch. This adaption closely follows the book and some of the actor's lines are exactly how Melville had written them in the book.

If you like In the Heart of the Sea about the true story of The Exeter which Melville based Moby d*ck on, then you will like this two part film.

Worth a watch.

Thirsty revenge takes to the high seas in this adaptation of the well-known classic. On board is a stellar crew, including Ethan Hawke, Donald Sutherland and Gillian Anderson. In his quest for a whaling voyage Ishmael joins Captain Ahab and the crew of the Pequod. Soon the true motive of their expedition is revealed - to kill the gigantic sperm whale who caused the Captain to lose his leg. Epic!
 
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I've just bought David Grann's book on The Wager and are looking forward to it. It is a story of a shipwreck, murder and mutiny. I have read another book on this event in naval history but it was very short. I am hoping this goes into more detail about the events that took place when they got shipwrecked and marooned.

Taken from Amazon: On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon, the Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The crew, marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2,500 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.

Then, six months later, another, even more decrepit, craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways and they had a very different story to tell. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. The first group responded with counter-charges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous captain and his henchmen. While stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death—for whomever the court found guilty could hang.
 
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I too am a fan of moby d*ck Norman, which is odd for me, I am not generally a fan of the classics. Charles Dickes bores me stiff. To be fair, Dickens was half a century before Moby d*ck, so it may be that writing styles changed in that period. I dunno.
 
It’s a book I haven’t read, and I have gone well out of my way to read most of the well known ones. Some great. Some I didn’t like at all, but gave them a proper read. (3 months garden leave got me started)

I probably should read this.
 
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