"Experience the true encounter that inspired the myth Moby Dick."
Directed by Ron Howard
Produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Will Ward, Joe Roth, Paula Weinstein
Screenplay by Charles Leavitt
Story by Charles Leavitt, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver
Based on "In the Heart of the Sea" by Nathaniel Philbrick
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson
Music by Roque Baños
Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle
Edited by Dan Hanley, Mike Hill
Production company: Village Roadshow Pictures, Roth Films, Imagine Entertainment
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: 11 December 2015 (United States)
Running time: 122 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $100 million
Box office: $90.4 million
"In the Heart of the Sea" is a biographical action adventure film directed by Ron Howard, written by Charles Leavitt, based on Nathaniel Philbrick's non-fiction book of the same name. The story is about a whaling ship which is preyed upon by a sperm whale, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days, thousands of miles from home.
Cast
- Chris Hemsworth as Owen Chase
- Benjamin Walker as Captain George Pollard, Jr.
- Cillian Murphy as Matthew Joy
- Tom Holland as young Thomas Nickerson, the cabin boy
- Ben Whishaw as Herman Melville
- Brendan Gleeson as old Thomas Nickerson
The best word to describe the film is indistinct. Yes, indistinct, strangely enough. I've been waiting for an actually good picture about Moby Dick but what I get? The film with not very spectacular visual effects and a obscure plot. However it doesn't mean that I totally don't like it.
Acting turns out the main advantage of the whole picture: splendid Chris Hemsworth as brave Owen Chase, Cillian Murphy as foolhardy Matthew Joy, Ben Whishaw as sharp Herman Melville. This way the work of actors is truly captivating.
My verdict is: as the film "In the Heart of the Sea" seems quite good, as an epic - too "drawn".
Advantages
- Chris Hemsworth as Owen Chase
- Cillian Murphy as Matthew Joy
- Tom Holland as young Thomas Nickerson, the cabin boy
- Ben Whishaw as Herman Melville
- Music
Disadvantages
- Visual effects
"Strangenesses"
- The main line between Owen Chase and Moby Dick isn't shown properly
Clue Moments
- 1820
- Essex
- Farmer
- Cannibalism
- The shipwreck
- Moby Dick
People have always thought that they're the hub of the universe - Ens Supremum. But is it right? Even if nobody wants to admit it, the answer stays the same: no, it isn't. Natural element is much more powerful and a human will never subdue it. So probably sometimes it's better to think wisely than to rely on pride and vanity?
Moby Dick is the fictional white whale for which Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is titled. Although an integral part of the novel, Moby Dick appears in just the final three of the 135 chapters.
Ishmael describes Moby Dick as having prominent white areas around “a peculiar snow-white wrinkled forehead, and a high, pyramidical white hump,” the rest of his body being of stripes and patches between white and gray. The animal's exact dimensions are never given, but the novel claims that the largest sperm whales can reach a length of ninety feet (larger than any officially recorded sperm whale) and that Moby Dick is possibly the largest sperm whale that ever lived. Ahab tells the crew that the White Whale can be told because it has an unusual spout, a deformed jaw, three punctures in his right fluke and several harpoons embedded in his side from unsuccessful hunts. Yet Ishmael insists that what invested the whale with “natural terror” was that “unexampled, intelligent malignity” which he had shown in his assaults. When he fled before “exalting pursuers,” giving every symptom of alarm, he would suddenly turn round and stave their boats to splinters or drive them back to their ship. What seemed the White Whale's “infernal aforethought of ferocity” that every dismembering or death that he caused was not wholly regarded as that of an " unintelligent agent." He bit off Ahab's leg, leaving Ahab to swear “wild vindictiveness” on him. Ishmael, however, is haunted by a "nameless horror" so "mystical and well nigh ineffable" that he could hardly express: It was "the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me."
Soundtracks
- Roque Baños - Arriving Nickerson's Lair
- Roque Baños - Chase Walking Nantucket
- Roque Baños - Farewell
- Roque Baños - Young Nickerson
- Roque Baños - Essex Leaving Harbor
- Roque Baños - The Knockdown
- Roque Baños - Blows
- Roque Baños - A Thousand Leagues Out
- Roque Baños - Lower Away
- Roque Baños - The Attack
- Roque Baños - Abandon Ship
- Roque Baños - Separations
- Roque Baños - Stand Off
- Roque Baños - Homecoming
- Roque Baños - The Story Is Told
- Roque Baños - The White Whale Chant
- Roque Baños - Meeting Old NickersonBonus Track
- Roque Baños - The Second Attack
- Roque Baños - Lost at Sea
- Roque Baños - Desert Island
- Roque Baños - Finding The Dead
- Roque Baños - End Credits
Quotations
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Old Thomas Nickerson: The tragedy of the Essex is the story of men. And a Demon.
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Owen Coffin: [points his pistol at Owen] Say it! Say it! Say you're scared!Owen Chase: I will not.
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Old Thomas Nickerson: We were headed for the edge of sanity... like we were aberrations, phantoms. Trust gave way to doubt. Hope to superstition.
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You may see the trailer here.
Plot: 7/10
Entertainment: 7/10
Acting: 8/10
Originality: 8/10
Music and Sound: 7/10
7/10
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