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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 04 May, 1984 DVD Release : 21 November, 2000 |
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The Bounty description Director Roger Donaldson (Thirteen Days) has breathed vibrant new life into the classic story of the mutiny on the Bounty. With a dream cast--Mel Gibson, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Laurence Olivier, Liam Neeson, and Daniel Day-Lewis--and a script by Robert Bolt (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia), The Bounty takes a revisionist tack through the well-charted waters of an oft-told tale. Hopkins's Captain Bligh is no raving sadist in the Charles Laughton mode. (Laughton played Bligh in the first Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935.) Instead, Sir Anthony plays Bligh as a hard-nosed imperialist explorer simply trying to get the job done in the time-honored manner: on the backs of the poor gobs under his command. Still, when Bligh's suppressed powder keg of rage finally blows, Hopkins is formidable indeed. Mel Gibson gives one of the most soulful performances of his career as mutiny leader Fletcher Christian. He's also at the height of his blue-eyed, buff good looks, and his romance with Tahitian maiden Mauatua (lovely Tevaite Vernette) is decidedly erotic. Liam Neeson is a veritable force of nature as the scrappy seaman Charles Churchill, and Daniel Day-Lewis is sublimely hateful as Master John Fryer, a pompous toady. With special effects to rival those of The Perfect Storm, the alluring eye candy of a tall-masted schooner under full sail, lush tropical greenery, and bevies of bodacious South Sea Islands babes, plus a gripping story line, The Bounty deserves a rescue from undeserved obscurity. --Laura Mirsky |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | I AM THE COMMANDER, BY LAW, G**DAMN YOUR HIDE!! |
| This is perhaps the best version of the Mutiny of the Bounty, that will ever be made. The first two versions had many glaring errors of the story, but of the events aboard ship, of the mutiny itself will never be known.
This film does not escape, however, Hollywood's penchant for distorting the truth. Anthony Hopkin's version of William Bligh is a bit too evil, as the real Bligh was not a madman. Mel Gibson's Fletcher Christian was too self-assured. Still, the chemistry between these two lent to the tension seen onscreen. The death of the surgeon, Huggan, was accurate, as was the disaffection of the crew to leave Tahiti. The 3,000+ mile open-boat voyage of Bligh, after the mutiny, is still in the history books. It has not yet been (thankfully) bested. Of the mutineers that were returned to England, only three escaped the gallows. Bligh was at first, hailed as a hero, then had to defend his name, when Fletcher Christian's brother Edward began a campaign to return honor to HIS family name. This version of the mutiny was taken from the book written by Richard Hough, most probably the best record of the known events to this sad chapter of England's history. The music by Vangelis lends at once, a light feel to the going's on, then becomes dark, for those scenes between Bligh and Christian. Excellent!! A great film. |
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