HORNBLOWER-5-Mutiny Part4

[bravocmdr]

The thing I love about this show, is the impending massive karma train heading for those who deserve it...

The stupid captains death will be glorious :D

[hartleymartin]

Captain Sawyer here is exhibiting classic paranoid schizophnrenia. This sort of thing can be brought on by the stresses of battle, use of opium (commonly used as an anathestic and painkiller back then), etc.

[BattyKellen]

What happened to Oldroyd? I kind of miss him... :(



[SCE2AUX]

Sawyer needs his strawberries.

[Zichiable]

Sawyer's a very ill man. He is obviously schizophrenic. Medicine back then was borderline and unable to diagnose correctly.

[AngelBiLove]

The actor who plays captain sawyer... im gonna punch him in the face for acting so well! D:<

[TheNikzaw]

@AngelBiLove yes he is absolutely fantastic... although not my favourite 2 episodes this and retri are deffo up there and the acting from everyone is fantastic... these 2 episodes probs make the series tbh!

[vardiss22]

Malcom Mcdowell would also have made a good "Sawyer"....but David Warner is always good in just about everything he plays....this is a guy who played Reinhard Heydrich TWICE ..good at playing characters either fictional or non fictional that you truly dislike (Gul Madred from STNG was a AWESOME preformance under tons of make up)

[PatDan]

Why did he say George II? Is that when that act was passed, or was that just a major screw up?

[PatDan]

@PatDan I have found the answer if anyone cares to know, the articles of war for the royal navy were established in 1757, just three years before George II's death. George III is king during these events.

[Songsmirth]

So, he can cane a man to death for no apparent reason and that's Ok with most because a Captain's word is law? What if they are a psycopath like this man who enjoys seeing a young man beaten? Ships are almost on them. He doesn't trust his officers to give orders so he's made it law that he has to be consulted first. He's willing to risk the whole ship just to watch this boy get caned on a back that already is bloody. You notice how close he's standing? He wants to enjoy it all. Sick, sick man.

[Songsmirth]

I think he's drugged. Laudeum perhaps.  Of course it usually made people mellow.. . He's being treated for something and only the doctor knows. humm

[GaryAnyanka]

Classic paranoia, seeing 'traitors' and conspiracies everywhere. It's most terrifying when it appears in people with power.

[ab1cdefghijklmnop]

they should just shoot him and say that he died in combat...

[Evilmike42]

What is sad is that Sawyer was a great fighting captain, and for the most part cared for his men, but he liked to pick scapegoats and play favorites.

As this episode shows, his bad habits and mental instablity eventually caused a mutiny.

[ssostufveatch]

DAVID WARNER IS BRILLIANT

[dcnolan1995]

lol get the lubber over board

of my quarterdeck

[FlippinBooks]

Wow. Having Wellard caned just for doing his duty was bad enough, but now the captain is wantonly tormenting the boy, like a cat toying with a mouse. He really is insane.

I disliked Sawyer intensely when I read the book, but now I REALLY hate him! I suppose that's a credit to David Warner's talents as an actor. lol

[madmanninc]

When did he get transferred to this ship did I miss an ep?

[littlematchgirl1]

Thank you so much for this upload. The Dutch Girl rules!!!!

[AragornofRedwall]

Insane or not, the Captain was being unjust. That is inexcusable. Discipline is necessary, unjust cruelty is damnable.

[Darthbelal]

You know, if Captain Sawyer lived during our time, I could imagine him showing up on one of those "To Catch a Predator" stings with Chris Hansen. There he'd be, with his rattan cane looking for some 15 year old to "discipline."

[BienvenuJDC]

I believe that Captain Sawyer (once a hero) is losing his mind. I don't think that his ill behavior is his fault. He is becoming paranoid and delusional. The evil one in this movie is his surgeon who doesn't have the guts to declare him unfit.

[williamskidfears]

King George II?! That was a hundred years before Hornblower is set!

[darkandunatural]

@williamskidfears not quite.. King George III is king during this time.. Sawyer whether as a good or not mentioned his father... George II

[Albukhshi]

@darkandunatural

grandfather, not father.

and he was referring to the laws set by George the second in the 1740's. George III stayed out of the Navy for the most part.

so yeah, naval discipline in 1802 hadn't changed in 60-odd years.

[Albukhshi]

@darkandunatural

cont.

but I'm sure you know the latter, based on the comment.

[PatDan]

@williamskidfears  the articles of war for the royal navy were established in 1757, just three years before George II's death. He was the one who established the rules of conduct.

[chapsticklolz]

WHAT A BASTARD!!!!!!!

[Wikipediot]

rum for kids beer for baby

[notAbba]

The 1st Lieutenant is one of the best, if not the best, acting jobs in this series. He is one of the few complexly played characters. The rest of these actors including the one playing Horatio lack nearly everthing.

[hermione838]

2:26. Whoa, he totally freaked me out there. Creepy guy.

[lulle103]

He's a bit too old...

[bkire2009]

David Warner (Cpt. Sawyer) also played the photographer Jennings in The Omen (1976), St. John Talbot on Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Chancellor Gorkon on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and Gul Madred on Star Trek: The Next Generation's 'Chain of Command' episode — close to 200 film credits to his name. A veteran actor!

[ltflak]

I just don't understand the Captain, he'll whip you for saving the ship, and kill ya for letting it go to pieces...what does he hope to accoplish?

[Unit403]

he's a looney!

[mabhekaphansi]

I have watched the slow degeneration of the mind of a good friend of mine, a fellow of Johns (Cambridge); a once great mind slowly dies in front of me every day, and a once kindly, affable man has become an illogical tyrant. He is only 71.

[richardcadbury]

If Sawyer stuck his nose in my face, I'd bite it off.

Hanging would be worth it.

[redfish888]

I dunno, I only repeated on the above posts. :)

[gavt303]

you should read thomas cochrane... all this hornblower stuff is based on him.

[redfish888]

I didn't know Hornblower was based on a real person! Who was Thomas Cochrane?

[nooo8oooo]

i thought that Jack Aubrey was based on Tom Cochrane?

[CJL1194]

the film is basesd on the books

[BVargas78]

captain sawyer should be keelhauled

[chrismc410]

Flogging him would be better. Show him what it feels like. But not with the cane, but with the cat o nine tails like everyone else. Five or more dozen ought to do it

[BVargas78]

Yeah, i think i was being a bit extreme, possibly :)

[chrismc410]

There is one worse than keelhauling: A

flogging through the fleet. At least with keelhauling its all over relatively quick in comparison. With a flogging through the fleet, each ship in port brings a whole new torment.

[chopinandliszt]

isn't it the "gauntlet" you're talking about? Flogging through the fleet?

[chrismc410]

I thought if you stole on board, you got the gauntlet. If you struck an officer, you were either hanged or flogged through the fleet

[chrismc410]

No, flogging through the fleet is where you are tied to a grating on a ship's launch and flogged in view of each ship in port, usually for hundreds of lashes. Reserved for very serious crimes, not quite warranting a hanging at the yardarm. In some cases, one was given the choice of the yardarm or to be flogged through the fleet

[chopinandliszt]

who would have enlisted in the Royal Navy, if the punishments were so harsh?

[chrismc410]

Many didn't enlist willingly, which was why there were press gangs from the Impress Service.

[chrismc410]

Also, life on land back then wasn't much better. What one would be flogged for onboard ship one could be sent to prison or hanged for on land. Secondly, some convicted of minor crimes back then were given the choice of prison or the Navy, prisons were much worse than any ship at the time.

[soulharvest2012]

I've always heard that the Royal Navy was a brutal affair. This gives me a taste of it, but I suspect the real life trials and tribulations were far worse than this fictional account.

[nooo8oooo]

insome cases things in the navy were better then for civilions, not with munishments, but with food wise and money wise

[frederickbabyyeah]

jesus. the wellard abuse o.O

[agent57]

Does this captain have the crazy syphilis or what?

[rbfishcss]

simpson, then hunter, colonel, now the captain.. fantastic

[gdbalck]

tie that captain in irons and feed him to the sharks! Mutiny!

[crocodilevvv]

so you pretend to be busy to hide your face because of the GUILT that is writen upon it... lol

[NarnianQueen89]

Captian Sawyer in parnoid!

[LARPfan]

haha You think? XD

[LeChatBlanche]

Ooooh I want to kill that capatain! What is worng with him! Picking on a young innocent boy just coz he can! God I really hate him at the moment!

[ARCCommanderA1Solok]

One have to admit that David Warner is a great actor.

[penwielder]

Ugh! I know!

[honkbonk84]

@LeChatBlanche just like the church... xD

[baroquemusician1]

@LeChatBlanche uhh, that Captain Sawyer is - CRAZY! that's what wrong with him. I totally agree with you view!

[williamskidfears]

@LeChatBlanche It's called the Royal Navy of the 19th century. Sorry, but captains were like that back in the day.

[Khan004]

@LeChatBlanche A great actor though. Must be a lot harder to act Sawyers part than to act a more sympathetic character

[dxwallace]

Not only is Sawyer a bastard, but he is having a bad hair day........

[SLuMberMoOn7]

@dxwallace no wonder the fools acting that way

[mexicanendric]

Captain Sawyer is a fucking bastard.

[sarahnlaura1993]

aye aye

[tumadoireacht]

buckland is a wonderful study in weakness, superior to the book even. the captain is a crafty loolah,. there is a kind of billy budd type latent homosexual sadism from the captain to mr. welland.

[parfitt21]

if buckland would grow some balls mabey he could have actually helped out the lower officers that Sawyer always screws with.

bush i kind of an asshole until later on.

[TroupeDeMarine]

The Captain is a lunatic!

[parfitt21]

he really actually is crazy. he suffers from shcizonfrenia paronoia.

[TroupeDeMarine]

... Thanks ...

[paphos71]

Awesome acting by David Warner as the captain.

[hmasmelbourne]

Hey, did he say c-u-n-t at 3:41, anyway great one, love hornblower...

[rebahsol]

I thought he said "cur",?

[janejordan85]

Concentrate on the task in hand, it'll help to keep your mind off pain.

[penwielder]

Another brilliant archie moment...

[penwielder]

I think this video has most of my reasons why I like Archie (aside from the looks).

[Lapsanglover]

That captain should DIE!!!! What a bastard!

[penwielder]

And he does...