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chezmax1935: Mutiny On The Bounty
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I watched this several weeks ago, and put off writing about it. This is in a heat with Cimmaron for the weakest Best Picture so far. However, as this movie is based on a true story, it is neat from a historical perspective.
It is indeed about a mutiny that occurs on the ship The Bounty in the late 18th century. A ship is sent to Tahiti (shown to be a wondrous paradise) to retrieve breadfruit trees to be planted in the Carribean, to be fed to slaves, apparently. The Captain, William Bligh, is shown to be unjust and cruel, and on the way back Fletcher Christian (played by Clark Gable) leads a mutiny against him, and he is sent floating in a life boat far away from any Port of Call. The mutineers can't go home (they'll be killed), so they settle in Tahiti.
Miraculously, Captain Bligh survives and makes it back to England, and leads an expedition back to Tahiti to capture the mutineers. They see him coming, and hightail it out of there in the night, and end up scuttling their boat and settling on the remote and nearly inaccessible Pitcairn Island.
The neat thing is that the mutineers descendants still live on Pitcairn Island, and because of it's remoteness, they are somewhat inbred, have a unique language, and tourism is nearly nonexistent (there are no airports, and there is no sea port either, goods are brought in by longboat).
So, the story is interesting historically, although the events portrayed in the film are highly fictionalized, the basic events (trip to tahiti for trees, mutiny, settling of pitcairn island) are real.
I found the story does drag on somewhat in the interests of characterization and development, but that's true of a lot of the 30s films, which are richer (but slower) than many current films are.
Again, the film is good, but I would not say excellent, and interesting historically, but still I wouldn't recommend running out of one's way to go see it,
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I watched this several weeks ago, and put off writing about it. This is in a heat with Cimmaron for the weakest Best Picture so far. However, as this movie is based on a true story, it is neat from a historical perspective.
It is indeed about a mutiny that occurs on the ship The Bounty in the late 18th century. A ship is sent to Tahiti (shown to be a wondrous paradise) to retrieve breadfruit trees to be planted in the Carribean, to be fed to slaves, apparently. The Captain, William Bligh, is shown to be unjust and cruel, and on the way back Fletcher Christian (played by Clark Gable) leads a mutiny against him, and he is sent floating in a life boat far away from any Port of Call. The mutineers can't go home (they'll be killed), so they settle in Tahiti.
Miraculously, Captain Bligh survives and makes it back to England, and leads an expedition back to Tahiti to capture the mutineers. They see him coming, and hightail it out of there in the night, and end up scuttling their boat and settling on the remote and nearly inaccessible Pitcairn Island.
The neat thing is that the mutineers descendants still live on Pitcairn Island, and because of it's remoteness, they are somewhat inbred, have a unique language, and tourism is nearly nonexistent (there are no airports, and there is no sea port either, goods are brought in by longboat).
So, the story is interesting historically, although the events portrayed in the film are highly fictionalized, the basic events (trip to tahiti for trees, mutiny, settling of pitcairn island) are real.
I found the story does drag on somewhat in the interests of characterization and development, but that's true of a lot of the 30s films, which are richer (but slower) than many current films are.
Again, the film is good, but I would not say excellent, and interesting historically, but still I wouldn't recommend running out of one's way to go see it,