I'm so amused by the fact that we both write these huge, long reviews, and then we leave huge, long comments on each others' reviews, and then respond with more huge, long comments... We'll have books of commentary when we're though!
Hee! Indeed. I feel I could talk about this movie forever.
Oh I did, I really did. It's a beautiful film. And while I love the books, they're not exactly light reading. It takes me ages to read each volume, and I'm usually a quick reader. But it's just so easy to wallow in them.
Most definitely. I just reread Master and Commander and Post Captain, but only skimmed them. I wanted to focus on character rather than detail, and that way, it only took me a few days. It's amazing how much I'd forgotten.
Well, the Jonah part was the same. Jack took him on because he felt sorry for him. But in the book there were some wives onboard, and he had an affair with one of them (I forget who she was married to). She ended up pregnant, had Higgins perform an abortion (Stephen refused) and almost died of infection but didn't. But then her husband murdered both her and Hollom. So I actually like the movie version slightly more, as a general portrait of the costs of being (or having) an officer who isn't suited for it. If this is the only O'Brian movie we get, I'd rather have a failed officer driven to despair than a love triangle gone wrong.
Hm, interesting. I agree, it sounds like movie Hollom was a better choice. Less dramatic and soap opera-ish.
That's it exactly! I always think of him as tall, but he isn't really. Just average. But with that forceful personality (and good posture *g*), it doesn't matter.
Yes, I agree. I remember him in Mystery, Alaska, and he looked so massive. Short, but compact. Stocky, that's the word.
He was a riot in A Knight's Tale (which I love unashamedly. Bring on the jousting to Queen!), right from his very striking entrance. He was also a thoroughly reprehensible William of Orange in Sharpe's... um... Waterloo? I'm too lazy to go check. But he was supposed to be thoroughly reprehensible. I should rent A Beautiful Mind- I've only seen it in pieces, and he was good, but that's no way to watch a movie.
Ooh, now I'm going to have to go and rent all of those. And A Beautiful Mind is about the guy who came up with Game Theory, so the biologist in me should certainly go see it.
Right, exactly! I didn't see anything in his portrayal that would have made any of book!Stephen's qualities or quirks seem off if they'd been added. It's a lovely performance.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2003-11-24 02:30 am (UTC)Hee! Indeed. I feel I could talk about this movie forever.
Oh I did, I really did. It's a beautiful film. And while I love the books, they're not exactly light reading. It takes me ages to read each volume, and I'm usually a quick reader. But it's just so easy to wallow in them.
Most definitely. I just reread Master and Commander and Post Captain, but only skimmed them. I wanted to focus on character rather than detail, and that way, it only took me a few days. It's amazing how much I'd forgotten.
Well, the Jonah part was the same. Jack took him on because he felt sorry for him. But in the book there were some wives onboard, and he had an affair with one of them (I forget who she was married to). She ended up pregnant, had Higgins perform an abortion (Stephen refused) and almost died of infection but didn't. But then her husband murdered both her and Hollom. So I actually like the movie version slightly more, as a general portrait of the costs of being (or having) an officer who isn't suited for it. If this is the only O'Brian movie we get, I'd rather have a failed officer driven to despair than a love triangle gone wrong.
Hm, interesting. I agree, it sounds like movie Hollom was a better choice. Less dramatic and soap opera-ish.
That's it exactly! I always think of him as tall, but he isn't really. Just average. But with that forceful personality (and good posture *g*), it doesn't matter.
Yes, I agree. I remember him in Mystery, Alaska, and he looked so massive. Short, but compact. Stocky, that's the word.
He was a riot in A Knight's Tale (which I love unashamedly. Bring on the jousting to Queen!), right from his very striking entrance. He was also a thoroughly reprehensible William of Orange in Sharpe's... um... Waterloo? I'm too lazy to go check. But he was supposed to be thoroughly reprehensible. I should rent A Beautiful Mind- I've only seen it in pieces, and he was good, but that's no way to watch a movie.
Ooh, now I'm going to have to go and rent all of those. And A Beautiful Mind is about the guy who came up with Game Theory, so the biologist in me should certainly go see it.
Right, exactly! I didn't see anything in his portrayal that would have made any of book!Stephen's qualities or quirks seem off if they'd been added. It's a lovely performance.
Yup. *nods and sighs dreamily*