Mutiny on the Bounty follows the lives of the hardworking sailors aboard the HMS Bounty, a British cargo ship from the late 1700s destined for Tahiti to pick up a load of breadfruit. Please forgive me.ĮDIT (added in after finishing): This post isn’t brief. So this brief post will be a review of what I have in my notes and what I can actually dredge up from the depths of my memory. The only way I’ll remember is to go back and rewatch, which I don’t want to do, just because I want to keep moving on. I have notes that say, “Laughton is brilliant,” and, “Roger Byam is such a great character–so conflicted!” So I know there was something I wanted to say, but I just can’t recall. Part of this is because I’m having the hardest time remembering it. Then I watched Mutiny on the Bounty, and everything fell apart. Every week, I would watch a film and write about last week’s movie. I had good momentum going in early October. But I’ve struggled so hard to write about this film. The subject matter was interesting and the cinematography was beautiful. It’s not a bad film–the acting in particular is superb enough to have kept me engaged the whole movie. You're sending me to my doom, eh? Well, you're wrong, Christian! I'll take this boat, as she floats, to England if I must.I don’t know what it is about Mutiny on the Bounty, but it’s been my own personal road block. Into the boat! Bligh: Casting me adrift thirty five hundred miles from a port of call. Christian: Your ship? The King's ship, you mean. I've got a wife, a baby! Bligh: I asked your name, not the history of your misfortunes.īligh: But you're taking my ship. That's all.ĭialogue Bligh: What's your name? Seaman Ellison: Thomas Ellison, sir. If he called his men to their duty not by flaying their backs, but by lifting their hearts, their. If one man among you believe that - one man - he could command the fleets of England.
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If they could speak to you they'd say, 'Let us choose to do our duty willingly, not the choice of a slave, but the choice of free Englishmen.' They ask only the freedom that England expects for every man. I speak in their names, in Fletcher Christian's name, for all men at sea. I don't speak here for myself alone or for these men you condemn. No finer man ever lived.' I don't try to justify his crime, his mutiny, but I condemn the tyranny that drove him to it. God knows he's judged himself more harshly than you could judge him. That's why you hate him, hate his friends.
One man, my lord, would not endure such tyranny. A story of greed and tyranny, and of anger against it, of what it cost. A story of a man who robbed his seamen, cursed them, flogged them, not to punish but to break their spirit. But there's another story, Captain Bligh, of ten cocoanuts and two cheeses. Captain Bligh, you've told your story of mutiny on the Bounty, how men plotted against you, seized your ship, cast you adrift in an open boat, a great venture in science brought to nothing, two British ships lost. Since I first sailed on the Bounty over four years ago, I've known how men can be made to suffer worse things than death, cruelly, beyond duty, beyond necessity.
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