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In Reply to: Re: "The Bounty" posted by jamesgarvin on May 6, 2005 at 08:14:58:
I think not Now I may be reacting because of the Bligh portrayals in the two earlier films (particularly Charles Laughton) but I thought that in "The Bounty" he was portrayed by Hopkins as a very rounded and sometimes sympathetic human being.
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It has been some time in which I have seen the film straight through. But there was the incident with Christian eating the Captain's breadfruit(?), or someother food, and Bligh going ballistic. The other time when Bligh wanted the deck cleaned, the men cleaned it spotless (at least as seen through the camera) and Bligh insisted the decks were filthy. His response, combined with the music that was almost lifted from Psycho, led me to believe that the film was taking a position that Bligh was possessed into "working" the debauchery from the men's bodies. Simply because there was a reason behind his madness does not mean that there was no madness. I believe that scene immediately precedes Christian's eating of the breadfruit or other food.Reading between the lines, I suspect that the makers were suggesting that Bligh was very normal, sane, and a competent captain when the trip began. Historians seem to suggest that he was a competent captain, but nothing more than average, and Cook's accomplishments were a source of him feeling like his career was not what it should be. But for some reason, after leaving Tahiti, as a result of a trip in his wiring, or his being insanely angry about his crew's behavior, or his being possessed at working his crew back into shape, at the risk of their morale, he lost his mental faculties. Certainly, his behavior in the beginning of the film was markedly different that his behavior after the ship left Tahiti.
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