"Do you want to see a guillotine in Piccadilly?!" Yeah, actually

@RememberShuffle

Жыл бұрын

Lmao. yeah, rooting for the British empire over the French revolution is awkward position for the story--and that's with them changing the enemy from the books

top tier ship posting

@RememberShuffle

Жыл бұрын

lmao, hell yeah. Captain. Aubrey would love it ^

This movie is so damn good. Blows my mind that something this well made was left to the back burner of cultural influence. In another timeline, this movie did well at the box office, setting up Director Peter Weir with the financial backing from studios to make a few more ambitious epics before his retirement about a decade later.

@RememberShuffle

Жыл бұрын

they already the Gimbal built! it's a crime they didn't make more. I can see why it was hard to market though

One of my favorite movies and it’s been that way since I saw it in theaters way back when. Peter Weir is like the white Ang Lee - creating one amazing film after the other in a wide range of genres and moods. The movie is full of so many amazing performances around the margins. James D’Arcy is great as the first officer; my favorite now and then was Max Perkis as the young kid who loses and arm. Shoutouts to him, for real. He gave a great and memorable performance as a young kid and credibly shared screen time with Russel Crowe, the biggest star in the world at the time.

@RememberShuffle

Жыл бұрын

yeah true. We didn't talk enough about the young midshipman, but he is really a great compliment to this movie. Especially knowing that there really were kids on boats like that. Looking at this filmography now, and damn yeah, he is like the director equivalent of the "so what kind of music do you listen to?" question

Matt, Mike, Everett. All my favourite dorks.

@RememberShuffle

10 ай бұрын

That was the plan--"what are our favorite dudes that we could get on the show?" A few more dudes in the pipeline, hopefully

Absolute stand-out movie. It rules so hard and it's a goddamn shame we never got another.

@RememberShuffle

Жыл бұрын

Yup. If only a $200M grossing movie was profitable enough for a sequel...

@ArtifexBarbarus

8 ай бұрын

They cherry-picked elements, scenes, characters, and stories from across the entire series of books - It's almost like they only ever intended to make one movie and wanted it to represent the whole of the series to the best of their ability. Sure, there was enough excellent source material that they could have run through a blender several more times without running out, but still - It's doubtful that any of them planned to spend as much of their lives at sea as the characters they portrayed ;-)

I know I'm kind of in the minority here, but I kind of like that no further films were made. Just the one perfect movie, like a little jewel. In the era of endless, brainless remakes, reboots, sequels, reimaginings, just churning everything once special into the most repetitive crap, having a good, singular movie is almost miraculous.

@RememberShuffle

Жыл бұрын

I do agree with the sentiment, but I think that because Master and Commander is about the vibe, it's uniquely suited to telling more story. Most franchises start with the heroes saving the world, so there is sort of a "what now" element to sequels. Very little plot actually progresses in M&C, so I feel like they could just inhabit the world more--maybe we could see a port or two, or explore merchant shipping or something--it had a lot more source material to draw from.

@Oceanmachine27

Жыл бұрын

@RememberShuffle oh, no doubt. I've read a few of the source novels-- there's a huge, huge amount of material there that could be drawn from. But that's another consolation. You can always read the O'Brien novels and imagine Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany if you want to join your ocean-going friends once more.

Your best episodes are when you have an historian on

@RememberShuffle

10 ай бұрын

nice--glad those are working for you. I think we have them on as guests most often because those are the podcasts we listen to the most.

That was cool

@RememberShuffle

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, best guest for Napoleonic era movie

If i play the lottery and win my big thing would be bankrolling a miniseries adaptation of black jacobins

@RememberShuffle

11 ай бұрын

Hell yeah, dude. That book rocks. I read it a few years back and it always blew my mind that, since the book is from the 1930s, CLR James assumes a very high baseline knowledge of French revolutionary history of his readers. Maybe I'm a Phillistine, but it was definitely a book I read with wikipedia open to look up some 18th century French comptes names.

@alexanderjmihalich8525

11 ай бұрын

@RememberShuffle the thing that struck me about it was how not only are both dessalines and napoleon great personal foils to the character of toussaint but they stand in for a great conversation about idealism and individualism, and those were themes I thought would translate really well to a more narrative format. Throw in a couple composite polish volunteer characters for comic relief and positive white representation and I think the results would be both fun viewing and effective propaganda