http://www.imdb.com/list/4DYZK11DjhY/
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TO WHICH I ADD:
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY by Frank Lloyd and Lewis Milestone;
WHITE SQUALL by Ridley Scott; MOBY DICK by John Huston;
THE LONG VOYAGE HOME by mssrs Ford, O'Neill and Toland;
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS by Victor Fleming;
VICTORY AT SEA by Mssrs Adams, Hanser and Salomon ...
'(Apologies for this following hack to to Christine Spines)
There are hero stories and then there are epic, true tales of death and life eponymously deified under the Divine Umbrella. In The Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick’s winningly researched account of the sinking of the nineteenth-century whale ship Essex falls squarely and singularly into the latter. It’s a riveting case study of Providence in action, as it plays out among the crew members of the Essex, which sank in the South Pacific after being rammed, Moby Dick-like, by a sperm whale. Not just ANY sperm whale, it turns out... this ramming may well, along with other stories of MOCHA DICK have inspired Melville’s novel, which only became a masterpiece after all the whaling hoopla, slaughter and oily losses died down at the beginning of the 20th Century ...
The story of the ESSEX was a disaster on an Acts 27 scale:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+27&version=KJV
Relatively little was known in our century until Philbrick netted enough original source material to assemble his 2001 National Book Nonfiction Award winner.
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NOW we MAY get a movie, or a Ron Howard con?
... will it best Thor Heyerdahl's classic, KON TIKI?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUnmjQJHRP4
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS by Victor Fleming;
VICTORY AT SEA by Mssrs Adams, Hanser and Salomon ...
'(Apologies for this following hack to to Christine Spines)
There are hero stories and then there are epic, true tales of death and life eponymously deified under the Divine Umbrella. In The Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick’s winningly researched account of the sinking of the nineteenth-century whale ship Essex falls squarely and singularly into the latter. It’s a riveting case study of Providence in action, as it plays out among the crew members of the Essex, which sank in the South Pacific after being rammed, Moby Dick-like, by a sperm whale. Not just ANY sperm whale, it turns out... this ramming may well, along with other stories of MOCHA DICK have inspired Melville’s novel, which only became a masterpiece after all the whaling hoopla, slaughter and oily losses died down at the beginning of the 20th Century ...
The story of the ESSEX was a disaster on an Acts 27 scale:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+27&version=KJV
Relatively little was known in our century until Philbrick netted enough original source material to assemble his 2001 National Book Nonfiction Award winner.
'
NOW we MAY get a movie, or a Ron Howard con?
... will it best Thor Heyerdahl's classic, KON TIKI?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUnmjQJHRP4
OH, we will get a movie! But will it best DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS?
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